I expected a thread about expectations/targets for next season to appear pretty soon after it was confirmed that the 2019/20 season had been curtailed, and so it did on Sunday afternoon. When Danny and Nicky Cowley went to Huddersfield Town in September, I said a number of times on 100% Imps that people needed to press the reset button on their expectations. Some people didn’t do this and expected far too much. When we played Oxford United at home in September and away in December, I spoke to quite a few of their supporters and they said that Michael Appleton needs a few transfer windows to get things just as he would like them, so we have to be patient and realistic.
Anyway, more importantly, here’s what a couple of our members posted:
Chesterimp: “To be honest, it is way too early to make any sort of assessment.
Next season is going to be really hard to call, but there are some fundamentals – well run, sensibly funded clubs should do better than those who have bet the house, financially overstretched, and will suffer for the collapse of revenue, salary caps etc. In all likelihood, some clubs will not survive. Previous rules and hierarchies no longer apply.
The Imps seemed to be sensibly run and financed and the January window business now looks inspired. The squad as currently stands is young with promising talent, the Appleton template is in place, but there are significant gaps.
Once the dates for the new season are agreed and new players signed, it will be a buyers market and we have the fundamentals to make the best of that.
We are, potentially, better set up than many for the next season, but never will past form, structure, finances be as irrelevant as in the next 12 months.
It needs Mystic Meg for this one!”
Luke Imp: “Finances are going to be an issue but throughout the league so it’s probably more worrying for the likes of Accrington, Rochdale, Burton – clubs who probably didn’t really have much more than slightly higher than average L2 budget to start with.
As I said a few weeks ago, times like these are sometimes where you find opportunities and I still think we’ll find some, even with a reduced budget like everyone else.
The main opportunities, in my opinion, will come from clubs reducing their squad sizes. Your Portsmouth, Ipswich types will still pay the best wages, the Accrington and Wimbledon types at the lower end because everything remains relative and the food chain intact but running with smaller squads will see an additional squeeze on wages and availability on players and that’s where you might be able to pick up the two or three players who you’d ordinarily not be able to get.”
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