by wolsey »
13 Aug 2009 16:45
FiNeRaIn Royalee FiNeRaIn Asset stripping continues- when bikey goes, that will be 11 mill outgoing sales or so this summer- 2 million spent. Madejski having the time of his life for a second season in a row. He should write coppell a thank you card.
Let me get this straight - Madejski wants to sell the club for as high a price as he can soon ish, so he decides to strip it of all its best assets to make it worth as little as possible? You sir, are a genius.
No, actually royalee you are the biggest moron on here. Let me put it in simple terms. We've sold our best players. Doyle, kitson, shorey, sonko, hunt, are trying to offload harper and bikey and we've spent a whopping 3 million in two seasons. Where is the money going? Its sure as hell not going into the bank for the next regime to come in and spend on players is it? With 3 years of parachute payments, that much outgoing on players in two years, tv money and two seasons in the prem-- now the fact our wage bill must be minimal as we have a squad full of kids and people are suggesting we have made losses and are on a tight budget, LOL please. Honestly, please.
Seems that we (again) are on a mission to acheive the maximum with the minimum outlay whilst getting rid of the saleable assets asap. Whilst I don't agree the the spend,spend, spend mentality of the likes of Hull, Bolton, Wigan etc., I don't understand how the likes of Hunt/Harper/Bikey et al are now deemed surplus to requirements when Premier League Clubs are willing to pay decents sums for them.
Rodgers is benefitting from having the best crop of youngsters (carefully tended by the previous regime) and is basing our hopes on these players, but where's the back up?
Are we going to buy promising players from lower league teams? Or rely on older, established, no re-sale vale players?
What is the quality of the younger Academy players? (Based on the FA Youth Cup tie against Preston I'd suggest it's not has strong as it has been)
Will we rely on long term loan players? (Short term gain and all that)
What's the Patience period demanded by several posters here? - One, two, three years? (Royalee won't be happy because he's predicting promotion this year)
Me, I don't have a clue on any of the above - can hope, but can't help but have the feeling of the "Emperor's New Clothes" about the new regime.