Completely agree with that; city will have to spend well in excess of £20 million to compete next season



Newcastle squad's transfer value was £140 million + which shows how much of a big team they are and how much of a disaster it is for them to go down



City's squad being around £20 million highlights how fantastic it is just to compete at this level: in theory City should have been worse than Derby

Sorry but this expert IS talking BOLLOCKS. The figure for extra local (local been inside the city NOT outside) economy spend would be in the figure of £4M - £6M per year

I would like to see how the figure of £40M was come by.



Say the difference in fans between been in the Champ. to the Prem is 6000. Of this 1/10 of this number (as away fans) stay in a room & spend on average £100 each incl room/food/beers the rest are non stayers spending an average of £35 each (beers/food), we do not include match tickets as part of the local economy nor any food/beer bought in the stadium as this goes straight to the club/Duffen/shareholders. Nor any extra money from SKY, sponsers etc.

Multiply this by 19 games and you have a ball park figure of £4.5M so to say £40M is utter rubbish unless the expectation is that every single fan that doesn't come if in the championship spends on average £350 on a match day!!



And yes I've got a few letters after my name as well as real world financial analysis experience too..

But they paid over the odds for those players as they are not worth it.



Stoke spent nothing in comparrison and stayed up in comfort. By your reckoning they should have gone down as they not 'a big team' like Newcastle

Thank you

is very very poor). But well done as they had a remarkable start to the season, going to be an interesting summer as I don't think the City of Hull will attract decent football players and neither will Phil Brown imo who has looked out of his depth since Liverpool away.

Cant believe that shower of $hit stayed up now we have duffen saying we wont be able to sit in our part of the stadium while they increase

the capacity



i hope they go down next year



I watched the game and my god i was bored if thats what you call entertainment i for one am glad i arent a fan!!!





Maybe next year

Is there a link to this? Is the building going ahead?

Which part of the stadium is our part of the stadium?





Any link to this BTW?

Where did Duffen say this?

In Coach's head by the sounds of it.

and that is exactly what City fans would be saying about us if any of them watched us against Warrington



i bet you hate city more than rovers; its quite sad really

I'll always hate Rovers just a little more than City