What are your hopes for the next five years?

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by Elmer Park » 23 May 2014 09:27

The club to be bought by someone who has similar principles to SJM but with a lot more money who is able to take things one step further. I think SJM took over a club who belonged in the third tier of English football and has turned it into one which belongs in the second tier. He also helped us get a stadium which can hold crowds of around 20000 instead of nearer 10000.

I'd like a new owner who could expand our stadium to hold around 30000 and turn us into an established top flight club like Stoke. I think the stadium expansion is vital as we lose a lot of potential revenue in some matches when we're in the Premier League but of course before doing it's vital this fantasy owner can somehow safely finance it without burdening the club with unsustainable debt.

What I wouldn't want is an owner who talks about spending millions to turn us into a top five club like the Leicester owner has. Fair play to him if he does it and he may well be rich enough to do so but what happens if he does an Anton ?

So, literally a boring and familiar brick by brick approach but with a new owner who is richer than Sir John, equally trustworthy and understands he won't make any money personally. I really think our club has the potential to be a regular mid-table to bottom half Premier League club who can do well in the cup competitions. I understand why some people prefer the more open Championship but our success over the last ten years and the little taste of the Premier League, the first season in particular, has made me want a bit more.

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by JIM » 23 May 2014 10:28

see all non european,imported players leave the country when their contracts expire from the club that initially applied for workers permit. :|

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by seahawk10 » 23 May 2014 23:31

The ability to watch more RFC games live no matter what division we are in.

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by Lower West » 26 May 2014 19:25

With the money that the relegated clubs in the Premiership now receive. The Championship will fragment like the Premiership into the haves and have nots. Money is ruining everything that made English football what it was. Days of clubs like Wigan rising from now where are gone. As the money required just to fund a playing seasons wages are obscene. QPR's wage bill is larger than Atletico's Madrids. Sheer madness.

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by SydenhamRoyal » 26 May 2014 21:05

Lower West With the money that the relegated clubs in the Premiership now receive. The Championship will fragment like the Premiership into the haves and have nots. Money is ruining everything that made English football what it was. Days of clubs like Wigan rising from now where are gone. As the money required just to fund a playing seasons wages are obscene. QPR's wage bill is larger than Atletico's Madrids. Sheer madness.


Your timing is impeccable (tho I do agree with your point). Fleetwood now up to league 1. Rotherham, who almost went under just a few years ago, now up to the Championship.


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by Reading4eva » 26 May 2014 21:06

Lower West With the money that the relegated clubs in the Premiership now receive. The Championship will fragment like the Premiership into the haves and have nots. Money is ruining everything that made English football what it was. Days of clubs like Wigan rising from now where are gone. As the money required just to fund a playing seasons wages are obscene. QPR's wage bill is larger than Atletico's Madrids. Sheer madness.


Surely that post contradicts itself Lower West. QPR as you say have a larger wage bill than Athletico Madrid, however they have performed far worse whilst you are saying money is ruining football. I can't see QPR finishing anywhere but the bottom 3 next season without breaking all-sorts of FFP rules. Likewise I wonder where our wages are in relation to the Champs League runners up. I'd say a max of 20k difference a week at the very most

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by Reading4eva » 26 May 2014 21:08

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Lower West With the money that the relegated clubs in the Premiership now receive. The Championship will fragment like the Premiership into the haves and have nots. Money is ruining everything that made English football what it was. Days of clubs like Wigan rising from now where are gone. As the money required just to fund a playing seasons wages are obscene. QPR's wage bill is larger than Atletico's Madrids. Sheer madness.


Your timing is impeccable (tho I do agree with your point). Fleetwood now up to league 1. Rotherham, who almost went under just a few years ago, now up to the Championship.


Rotherham will go straight back down, I think Bournemouth are a better example of this... But they too have an owner throwing cash at a club which couldn't sustain Premier League football

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by AthleticoSpizz » 26 May 2014 21:14

Totally against the grain (and this is just my own personal preferrence TBM...not factual nor an opinion)....( :wink: just in case)

I hope (if our reported financial plight is anything to go by)....that we bomb down the leagues.

Never been happier than our seasons of turning the corner and "looking up"

The Premier (as I have reminded my Leicester City Head Office work colleagues........ isn't aint all that)...and kiss goodbye to your sustainability under 'arry Qpers

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by Whatevs » 27 May 2014 17:37

Pepe the Horseman Whatever happened to the likes of Arch, Sarah Star and Red?


Red sounds like a complete pcunt ....etc


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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by Whatevs » 27 May 2014 17:40

Jesus, you lads get straight down to business and into the football. No catching up on times past (i.e. rem when Brendywendy used to post, he said some krazy things etc)

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Re: What are your hopes for the next five years?

by leon » 27 May 2014 18:08

Whatever

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