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[Mistryman]

The feeling is that the road to getting back into the PL becomes steeper if you don't do it immediately.

Just looking at the Championship, still languishing are the following that fairly recently graced the PL:

WBA
Swansea
Watford
Norwich
Hull
Stoke
Birmingham
Huddersfield
Cardiff

 

[ClaphamFox]

Your prerogative of course.

I have no doubt that we could throw a lot of money at this and perhaps bounce back but without a real restructuring we would be in the same mess we are in now. I am not suggesting that we make no attempt at promotion, throw away a season in effect, but not at the expense of the rebuild that is so obviously needed.

Some teams bounce back straight away; others fade into decades of obscurity. I'm not aware of a magic formula for ensuring that your club is one of the former group, but Burnley did it this year while overhauling their squad completely and spending very little. In their case, an inspired managerial appointment combined with some excellent scouting seems to have done the trick. I hope our owners have taken note.

 

[WiggyFox]

Some teams bounce back straight away; others fade into decades of obscurity. I'm not aware of a magic formula for ensuring that your club is one of the former group, but Burnley did it this year while overhauling their squad completely and spending very little. In their case, an inspired managerial appointment combined with some excellent scouting seems to have done the trick. I hope our owners have taken note.

look at Stoke, and their owners are filthy rich. it will be a decade before LCFC are back as there is too much to sort out and they will just throw money at it to begin with [ex Sven]. it wont work and then it will be back to drawing board.

 

[AFCDorset]

Hi Clapham.
Burnley have done exceptionally well this season but are something of an exception.

I believe that the club in pretty good shape when they were relegated so the turnover of players was pretty seemless and good quality. Kompany has been superb, it will be tough finding anyone near that good.

The 'Magic formula' will be to throw money at the team, bringing in players, possibly short term, to get us immediate promotion. That would be a possibility and may work but would simply put us back into a league where we do not have the structure, the staff or the players to sustain.

Trying to buy our way to the upper reaches of the Prem will always be difficult, the BCCs in London and the north west will always get the best picks and can pay more wages. We need to return to the model of bringing in young, developing players, improve them and selling them on when we have to.

We might find some good players and the occasional gem, maybe a decent 'crop' resulting in a really good season or two.

 

[DagenhamFox]

Some teams bounce back straight away; others fade into decades of obscurity. I'm not aware of a magic formula for ensuring that your club is one of the former group, but Burnley did it this year while overhauling their squad completely and spending very little. In their case, an inspired managerial appointment combined with some excellent scouting seems to have done the trick. I hope our owners have taken note.

It was an excellent manager appointment but it was also a risky one.