(08-08-2018 11:54 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(08-08-2018 11:43 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(08-08-2018 11:39 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Good god, Swansea's Transfer window is insane. We've offloaded 8 players to this point, but the club is insisting that it needs to offload another 5-6 players by Noon ET tomorrow (Transfer window closes) in order to be able to make it financially.

Apparently the ownership refuses to spend a dime until the club can make up well over the 50 million it is losing in TV revenue in transfers and wage reductions. So far we've gained 35 million in transfer fees and spent 3 million. So at least 18 million need to be cleared out tomorrow. If all happens, we would be left with 14 available Senior players on our roster for Saturday.

So, what you're saying is it's looking like it's going to be a prolonged stay in the Championship.

To give you an idea, when Graham Potter took the manager's job and was given complete control of recruitment, he initially said it would take a few years for us to get back to the Premier League because our recruiting was so screwed up, and we were left with large numbers of Senior players who indicated they had no desire to play here.

Not that spending money wins in the Championship. There are numerous examples of demoted clubs spending money and still not getting promoted, and doing that puts you in jeopardy of breaching Financial Fair Play and getting stuck with a transfer ban, which is what has happened to both QPR and Birmingham City this year.

The most important thing this year for Swansea is not getting promoted. Its repairing the downright hostile relationship between the Supporters and the Club. If that fails, than the only way we can be saved is if the Supporters Trust buys Levien and Kaplan out.

QPR's transfer ban is essentially a result of the work of Mark Hughes and Harry Redknapp (shocker). We had a very inexperienced owner that essentially gave those 2 full reigns as manager here and they had some ridiculous contracts out. Julio Cesar, Rob Green, Shaun Wright-Phillips to name a few. Once relegated, these guys were still on multi-year, high wage deals and there was no way to offload them because nobody would take those contracts on. QPR was a championship side with hundreds of thousands of dollars just rotting away on the bench while still aimlessly making signings to try and compete for promotion.

They should finally be exciting to watch again this year. Les Ferdinand is the Director of Football and he's completely changed the philosophy and academy system so the roster is full of exciting young talent this year. Steve mcClaren was the perfect hire with his history of developing/playing the young guys.