by RoyalBlue »
22 Aug 2011 15:56
Spirit of Elm Park Surely, all anyone needs to understand is that with our attendances the money coming in is not sufficient to keep the club in the black once the wages, running costs etc have been taken out. Therefore we need to sell to fill in the void. If there is an amount left over then it will go toward the next years void, which 'will' happen. Its all quite simple. All these people who don't 'understand' are either plainly daft, or are searching for the footballing equivalent of the holy grail.
I still think our little well run club is as saleable as any other, especially in the well run financial shape that it is. I mean, once the leicester owners/Man Citeh owners get bored, whose going to be able to buy them? There just are not the potential owners around.
No, the people who are daft are those who swallow every single justification/account/excuse/waffle that comes out of Madejski's mouth. His 'statement' was the work of a skilled politician in that, for all the words, he did b*gger all to answer the questions with straight forward facts. And as for claiming that he doesn't know whether the club is breaking even...... well if true, that alone is reason for him to go now.
Those people accepting the void argument/justification have clearly lost track of all of the voids that have already been used to justify past player sales. What's the betting the same thing happens next summer and it is to fill the voids that you guys claim the Long and Mills money is being used to fill.
All these voids and a wage bill that has Madejski whinging about it fly completely in the face of the well run business and sensible wage structure arguments that we have been fed for years to justify our lack of investment in the squad.
And our club (with its repeated voids) will only be as saleable as any other if the Chairman is asking a sensible price and is not imposing sale conditions such as keeping his name on the stadium.