That was exactly what the window of a club with parachute pmnts SHOULD look like

Parachute payments were designed (by the Premier League!) to allow clubs to spend while in the Premier League, and cover the contracts of those purchases, NOT to allow them to spend while in the Championship.
Their limited period (in our case two years) is deemed sufficient to cover the contracts of prior seasons' purchases (i.e. the Premier League ones) but not any new ones we might now sign.
Any players we sign NOW would most likely want a minimum of a three year contract, which would problematically take us into a season when we potentially have zero parachute payments and cannot afford the £30k a week contracts a £12m+ player would probably demand.
This may be one reason for our problem getting deals over the line.
So keeping the quality players we already have (who have less contract time remaining) might be by far a more realistic approach to maintaining squad quality than selling them to buy similar quality replacements, whose contracts may ruin you in a couple of years?

Posted By: mr carra, Sep 1, 13:03:11