Williams will just go back to his parent club though, surely? Which is it these days -Barcelona?
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[Football] Sunderland Relegated
- Thread starter The Wookiee
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Williams will just go back to his parent club though, surely? Which is it these days -Barcelona?
I can't help thinking desperately clinging onto 4th from bottom, for all those years, is a major factor in what's happened today.
Weststander
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Yep, their mouthy fans luck run out. Karma, eventually gives them 2 relegations for the price of one.
Weststander
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A consultant was paid fortunes for creating coloured background shading instead.
No. Why should we? He's earned huge sums of money doing what most of us would have loved to do, never mind how much we got paid for it.
Oh, that's OK then - as long as no poor consultants were financially impoverished in the process!
So did Hitler in Germany in the 1930s.....the trouble was, in both cases the solution wasn't good (even if it may have been final)....Di Caneo was a gold plated ****womble.
AmexRuislip
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But still a former servant of the Albion, I wouldn't villify any other former players.
Oh wait, there was that Pepsi Cola prick
Murray 17
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Fair point, but I think that any relegated team loses at least one season trying to get back to that level. Try to stay up, then re-group for a season in the Championship, rather than League 1.
But still a former servant of the Albion, I wouldn't villify any other former players.
Oh wait, there was that Pepsi Cola prick
I'm not vilifying him. The lad did alright for himself - and will probably still earn amounts that would make most peoples' eyes water for a few years yet. What is there to feel sorry for him about?
seagulls4ever
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Two years left on their parachute payments, I believe (worth £64m over three years). It used to be the case that you get four years, but now it's changed to three (money is instead spread over three years instead, it's not that you lose as year). If a team promoted to the Premier League gets relegated in their first season, they only get two years of payments. So, a big advantage of us staying up this season would be that we have the insurance of some extra money if we go down in a subsequent season.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/02/parachute-payments-clubs-relegated-premier-league
AmexRuislip
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Perhaps villify was a tad strong, it was only a sentimental spare a thought.
I know these players get paid wads, but that's the way football has gone to these days, money being thrown at the players.
Stains. Narwich.
wakeytom
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He did but it was deferred for the first season. If he stays (which I am sure he will as no one will want him even on his reduced wages next season) his wages will drop at the end of this season as we have not been promoted back to the PL.
I do agree with the messages above that we are in a bad way however I will be there at Fulham Friday for the relegation party
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Year ago today we got fingered by the Norfolk bretheren.
Wardy's twin
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Can only think of Wolves recently
Blackburn & Wigan...although that took a bit of time.
Brighton Mackem
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Feel free to rub it in when me and fellow SAFC fans signed petitions and marched along the seafront when you were on your knees!
Fair point.
Last time you went down there, we came with you if I remember rightly. We both came straight back up, I think.
Get off ya high horse will ya. It's a relegation not your very existence as a club.
On the other hand i have no axe to grind with Mackem's or Geordies for that matter, both likable. Just Smoggies piss me off.
This is a brilliant and epic rant from about 7 minutes in, saying everything that's wrong with the club. The nadir is reached around 22 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWbP6qPiCYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWbP6qPiCYE