Mills to Leicester 5 Million

[URZZ]

No fan of Mills am I - he is a thug and a clown of a footballer - but this says all you need to know about the club's ambition to get abck into the Premier League, selling their captain to a (supposed) promotion rival in the same division.

A bit more to it than that I think Floyd.

Mills insisted that he was allowed to talk to Leicester.

Clearly they have turned his head with a pot of gold and all we could really do was get as much as we possibly could for him.

I'm with floyd here. Familiar of the phrase, "whatever he's giving you, I'll double it."?

If we had enough ambition, we would do anything to keep a player who essentially could give us PL football, although not single handedly obviously.

Bring on the "Madejski is tight and he wouldn't" posts... I stand by this though, we do lack ambition, well said floyd.

[floyd__streete]

So is the insinuation there that we start each summer which a transfer budget of say -£5m, therefore in order to have £2m to spend we need to recoup £7m.

Pretty depressing!

'Well-run club'.

[Wycombe Royal]

Tim Dellor has said on BBC Berks (he is at the training ground and has spoken to McD) that the money will not be made available to buy players as it is already ear-marked to fill this seasons black hole in the finances.

So is the insinuation there that we start each summer which a transfer budget of say -£5m, therefore in order to have £2m to spend we need to recoup £7m.

Pretty depressing!

Probably, but I guess the simple depressing fact is that every season our revenues are lower than our costs and therefore the priority each summer is to first fill that gap. At least we have done it early in July this year rather than at the end of August.

[Wycombe Royal]

So is the insinuation there that we start each summer which a transfer budget of say -£5m, therefore in order to have £2m to spend we need to recoup £7m.

Pretty depressing!

'Well-run club'.

I know you are being sarcastic, but you are actually spot on. It is well run in a business sense, but unfortunately that infuriates fans.

[URZZ]

So is the insinuation there that we start each summer which a transfer budget of say -£5m, therefore in order to have £2m to spend we need to recoup £7m.

Pretty depressing!

'Well-run club'.

I know you are being sarcastic, but you are actually spot on. It is well run in a business sense, but unfortunately that infuriates fans.

We are as tight as a duck's ass, so to speak, yes.

[specialjon]

Tim Dellor has said on BBC Berks (he is at the training ground and has spoken to McD) that the money will not be made available to buy players as it is already ear-marked to fill this seasons black hole in the finances.

Wum?

Me or Tim Dellor? I am just the messenger here writing what I heard on the radio about 15 minutes ago.

Mc D. Surely he isn't stupid enough to come out and say we've got shed loads of cash now, so any club that has a half decent center back, you can name your price.

[leicsRoyal]

No fan of Mills am I - he is a thug and a clown of a footballer - but this says all you need to know about the club's ambition to get abck into the Premier League, selling their captain to a (supposed) promotion rival in the same division.

A bit more to it than that I think Floyd.

Mills insisted that he was allowed to talk to Leicester.

Clearly they have turned his head with a pot of gold and all we could really do was get as much as we possibly could for him.

I'm with floyd here. Familiar of the phrase, "whatever he's giving you, I'll double it."?

If we had enough ambition, we would do anything to keep a player who essentially could give us PL football, although not single handedly obviously.

Bring on the "Madejski is tight and he wouldn't" posts... I stand by this though, we do lack ambition, well said floyd.

Complete tosh!

A player wants to leave, so we turn round to him and say 'forget the £500k signing on fee you'll get we'll give you a million to stay?' oh and while we're at it how about doubling you're wages?

Over a barrel springs to mind!

[Forbury Lion]

I really, really hope we spend at least £2m of this on new players.

There's no reason why we shouldn't spend every penny.

We might hold some back and keep Shane Long instead of selling him.

[URZZ]

Complete tosh!

A player wants to leave, so we turn round to him and say 'forget the £500k signing on fee you'll get we'll give you a million to stay?' oh and while we're at it how about doubling you're wages?

Not quite what I was getting at, it was a figure of speech. I would never suggest Mills should earn a third more than he already earns, let alone double.

However, an ambitious club would still do everything in their power to keep a player.

[URZZ]

I really, really hope we spend at least £2m of this on new players.

There's no reason why we shouldn't spend every penny.

We might hold some back and keep Shane Long instead of selling him.

And the use in having a good striker with no defenders is?

[Wycombe Royal]

Wum?

Me or Tim Dellor? I am just the messenger here writing what I heard on the radio about 15 minutes ago.

Mc D. Surely he isn't stupid enough to come out and say we've got shed loads of cash now, so any club that has a half decent center back, you can name your price.

Oh OK, however Dellor didn't say whether it was his opinion or a quote from someone he spoke to.

[floyd__streete]

We might hold some back and keep Shane Long instead of selling him.

Touching, if naive, faith in RFC's ambition there. If the price is right he's out of here.

[leicsRoyal]

Complete tosh!

A player wants to leave, so we turn round to him and say 'forget the £500k signing on fee you'll get we'll give you a million to stay?' oh and while we're at it how about doubling you're wages?

Not quite what I was getting at, it was a figure of speech. I would never suggest Mills should earn a third more than he already earns, let alone double.

However, an ambitious club would still do everything in their power to keep a player.

Yes but then we have put ourselves at the end of a gun for every other player that says 'I'm thinking of leaving' It's all very well if you have limitless funds.

What happens if Mr Power King decides, I'm bored of Leicester now in a couple of years time and they've got a multi million pound wage bill. They go the same way as many other clubs have.

I'm glad we take the calculated route and not the let's stick it all on red route.

[floyd__streete]

What happens if Mr Power King decides, I'm bored of Leicester now in a couple of years time and they've got a multi million pound wage bill. They go the same way as many other clubs have.

I'm glad we take the calculated route and not the let's stick it all on red route.

No, what will happen is their creditors will be forced to take a tiny percentage of what they are owed and the club will be allowed to continue and compete on equal terms with frugal clubs like Reading. Just like Pompey did last season and, oooh, Leicester themselves did nearly a decade ago.

FootbaLOLLOL. Crooked sport, run by incompetents, owned by crooks, played by brats.

[leicsRoyal]

What happens if Mr Power King decides, I'm bored of Leicester now in a couple of years time and they've got a multi million pound wage bill. They go the same way as many other clubs have.

I'm glad we take the calculated route and not the let's stick it all on red route.

No, what will happen is their creditors will be forced to take a tiny percentage of what they are owed and the club will be allowed to continue and compete on equal terms with frugal clubs like Reading. Just like Pompey did last season and, oooh, Leicester themselves did nearly a decade ago.

FootbaLOLLOL. Crooked sport, run by incompetents, owned by crooks, played by brats.

[Agent Balti]

We might hold some back and keep Shane Long instead of selling him.

Touching, if naive, faith in RFC's ambition there. If the price is right he's out of here.

No different than any club, anywhere, for any player.

[Turns8]

Complete tosh!

A player wants to leave, so we turn round to him and say 'forget the £500k signing on fee you'll get we'll give you a million to stay?' oh and while we're at it how about doubling you're wages?

Not quite what I was getting at, it was a figure of speech. I would never suggest Mills should earn a third more than he already earns, let alone double.

However, an ambitious club would still do everything in their power to keep a player.

McD had a meeting with Mills last week....I'm sure he would have put the 'best offer' to Mills, within the club's well documented wage structure...if another team have come in matched the club's valuation for Mills and then spoken to him about what he could earn there isn't much we can do...It says alot about how much 'silly' money is going about at Leicester though...having signed St LOLedge and now MiLOLLOLs pretty much sums them up...both hot headed money grabbers...be easy enough to play against them next season as it doesn't take much to wind ether of them up...

[Barry the bird boggler]

Tim Dellor has said on BBC Berks (he is at the training ground and has spoken to McD) that the money will not be made available to buy players as it is already ear-marked to fill this seasons black hole in the finances.

Told you, we have to sell a player every summer for 4m or more before we can even begin to think about bringing new signings in.....

[Woodcote Royal]

But all our successful signings have been cheapish ones where we've spotted the potential and built on it.

All our crap signings have been expensive ones where we thought we were getting a "finished product" and got a liability instead.

So long may value buys continue.

This is true and the club has done spectacularly well in buying cheap players that have progressed into quality players. However, in the long term the house always wins, you cannot defy gravity and you cannot keep selling players for millions and replacing them with players for thousands without it having a long term drag on performance.

I'd rather we sought to keep the players we've made into the finished article rather than buy the finished article elsewhere.

In an ideal world so would I, but this isn't an ideal world. The financial muscle of Reading FC is so slight that we can't keep the players we've improved - whilst the same is true of just about every club in the world, it seems to hurt us more because we're so good at finding and improving players.

I'd put this another way. The rank stupidity within our fan base just beggars belief and clearly stretches well into middle age and beyond.

If we had a financial hole in our accounts, it's now gone up in smoke and whilst their are clubs who are willing to engage vastly over rated managers like SGE, who must be one of the biggest money pits the game is has ever known, there's no reason why clubs like RFC can't continue to make millions out of buying and selling the likes Doyle, Kitson, Long and (amazingly) Matt Mills.

Furthermore, I would take issue regarding our financial clout. Where did Leicester finish last season? Where were they a few seasons ago? In division 1. I'm a Mills fan but if he's worth £5 million it's time to flog my old wellies on EBAY and take a month off Everytime this happens we get richer and they will probably end up the poorer.

We should all be doing cartwheels for the rest of today and our serial wrist slitters (rather than crying into their beer because we will, quite rightly, be spending fraction of the proceeds on a replacement) should ponder the fact that it appears we TURNED DOWN £3.75m for Mills before accepting a higher offer. How does this equate with the percieved money grapping qualities of our Chairman and how many financially weak clubs could contemplate such financial
brinkmanship? If anyone still thinks we're busting a gut to sell Long for anything other than the very best price Nick Hammond can squeeze out of potential suitors, it's time to give your self up to someone wearing a white coat.

From this day forward, Squeeky walks on water and Brian should have the very capable Ian Harte, along with those vital free kicks, pencilled in for central defence and I'd be amazed if our search for an accomplished left back hasn't been under way for weeks...............................the net result being that both our defence and current account should start the new campaign in better shape than they finished the last whilst there's more chance of hell freezing over than the same applying to Leicester.

QED

[RobRoyal]

No fan of Mills am I - he is a thug and a clown of a footballer - but this says all you need to know about the club's ambition to get abck into the Premier League, selling their captain to a (supposed) promotion rival in the same division.

Right, and if we rejected the £5m from Leicester and accepted same from Wolves, that would show our ambition.

Who's the clown, Floyd?