useless Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) Yeovils and Milwall's fixtures looking tough so they may be safe for now. But a couple of bad results for them against Bourmouth and Doncaster and you never know. Edited March 26, 2014 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Sorry if this has been posted already. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/football-bill-could-relegate-birmingham-6874167 Seems unlikely if that happened we might never play them ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Though it would obviously be nice to see them go down, the biggest thing this season was them not coming up. With the parachute payments now gone, their finances in tatters and the TV money now increased for PL clubs, the future does not look bright in terms of being competitive. Hopefully cup games will be the only time we ever play these cretins again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted March 26, 2014 Moderator Share Posted March 26, 2014 They have one more year of payments I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Isn't it three years? So covers 11/12, 12/13 and this season. Their wage bill will come down this summer as comically Zigic is finally out of contract (shame there's no clause saying he gets a new 5 year deal when he makes 30 appearences) and Burke aswell who's a good player but yeah looking bleak to me if they had to continue to rely on loans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Saw Zigic coming down the escalators in Selfridges. He is huge.As for Small Heath, that 8 point cushion is enough for them to be safe...just. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 It's 4 years. 2 years of 16 and 2 years of 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andykeenan Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Carson Yeung set to appeal against conviction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted March 27, 2014 Moderator Share Posted March 27, 2014 It's 4 years. 2 years of 16 and 2 years of 8. Correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rjw63 Posted March 27, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2014 It's 4 years. 2 years of 16 and 2 years of 8. Correct. £48 million for being shit. No wonder the game is ****. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I stand corrected on the parachute payments. I stand by my opinion though that given their off field problems that promotion was a must for them this season. I still hope they go down of course but either way i can only see things worse for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted March 27, 2014 Moderator Share Posted March 27, 2014 Oddly they will likely be in a better financial position next season than they have been this season. They have 26 players out contract this summer including loan players, 20 I think it is excluding them. In among those out of contract are all their remaining high earners such as Zigic and Burke while they also have removed during the course of this year high earners such as King. So its likely that their wage bill will be far less next season against relatively the same income (although probably less ST sales) which should mean they are slightly better off. Obviously though non of this takes into account the completely unpredictable Carson Yeung situation because who knows what drain he is on their finances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Oddly they will likely be in a better financial position next season than they have been this season. They have 26 players out contract this summer including loan players, 20 I think it is excluding them. In among those out of contract are all their remaining high earners such as Zigic and Burke while they also have removed during the course of this year high earners such as King. So its likely that their wage bill will be far less next season against relatively the same income (although probably less ST sales) which should mean they are slightly better off. Obviously though non of this takes into account the completely unpredictable Carson Yeung situation because who knows what drain he is on their finances. On those loans, i think I read somewhere that they had not actually brought a player for about 3yrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted March 27, 2014 Moderator Share Posted March 27, 2014 The last player they signed for money rather than a Twix and old dusty pictures of Karen Brady naked on Sullivan's desk was Darren Ambrose in July 2012 for circa £250k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 wow, clark deserves credit for keeping them up on those conditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted March 27, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 27, 2014 Yup, but Clarke must be on the radar of other teams. Surely they are due a shite manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 28, 2014 Birmingham City should be prevented from playing in England’s top eight divisions if they fail to publicly reveal their owners Redundant clause deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 3-0 down already ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 They can't help but out-do us in the shit-stakes can they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 1-4 now. They're so **** lucky there are 3 teams worse than them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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