by paddy20 » 21 Aug 2018 11:35
by Theroyalbox » 21 Aug 2018 11:37
by WoodleyRoyal » 21 Aug 2018 11:42
by paddy20 » 21 Aug 2018 12:20
WoodleyRoyal perhaps we have money to spend but the right player didn't turn up that we considered value for money. we all want a 15 to 20 goal a season striker, but they ain't cheap, probably looking at 10 to 15 mill. and would a striker of that caliber want to come to a club that avoided the drop by the skin of its teeth. Moore has publicly said the owners are extremely ambitious too.
by muirinho » 21 Aug 2018 12:33
paddy20 Like many I suspect I was disappointed by the level of spending on transfers this season. The cost of relegation to Div 1 I guess would be substantial in the long term.The question is therefore why wasn't more money made available to Clements to bring in a couple of good strikers including a decent target man?
Yes we all know that we need to run the club effectively but there has to be good investment to succeed. How much we spend should be relative to how much money we have
.
Last season Gourlay blamed 'Fair Play as the reason for lack of investment. Clearly thats nonsense. The rules state the you are allowed to lose up to £39m in the last 3 seasons before any penalties are made. We lost about £20m in that period. This season that loss for 2016/7/8 is about £8m.
So whats the real reason for our lack of investment? Yes they are putting money into the training ground but Is there political pressure on the Chinese not to spend anymore in Europe , or are our owners not quite as wealthy as we thought?
by WoodleyRoyal » 21 Aug 2018 13:09
paddy20WoodleyRoyal perhaps we have money to spend but the right player didn't turn up that we considered value for money. we all want a 15 to 20 goal a season striker, but they ain't cheap, probably looking at 10 to 15 mill. and would a striker of that caliber want to come to a club that avoided the drop by the skin of its teeth. Moore has publicly said the owners are extremely ambitious too.
True but the same would have to go for a creative midfielder which we also need. I'm sure if the money was there we could have signed at least two good players that are better than our present squad
by sandman » 21 Aug 2018 16:27
by Zip » 21 Aug 2018 17:02
by Stevie G » 21 Aug 2018 17:15
by paddy20 » 21 Aug 2018 17:25
muirinhopaddy20 Like many I suspect I was disappointed by the level of spending on transfers this season. The cost of relegation to Div 1 I guess would be substantial in the long term.The question is therefore why wasn't more money made available to Clements to bring in a couple of good strikers including a decent target man?
Yes we all know that we need to run the club effectively but there has to be good investment to succeed. How much we spend should be relative to how much money we have
.
Last season Gourlay blamed 'Fair Play as the reason for lack of investment. Clearly thats nonsense. The rules state the you are allowed to lose up to £39m in the last 3 seasons before any penalties are made. We lost about £20m in that period. This season that loss for 2016/7/8 is about £8m.
So whats the real reason for our lack of investment? Yes they are putting money into the training ground but Is there political pressure on the Chinese not to spend anymore in Europe , or are our owners not quite as wealthy as we thought?
Worth pointing out that it's not £39million for the "last three seasons", it's the last two seasons plus the current one
So we only have a single year of the figures, as we don't have last year's figures yet, and obviously know nothing about this year's.
If you don't have the data, you can't call it nonsense, as you don't have anything to back that up.
Our income will have been considerably less last season as we had poor attendance, no decent cup-run, and no play-offs.
It will be even less this season as we've got no parachute payments.
Worth noting from last years accounts (2016/2017 season)- matchday income was £9.7mill in our "near promotion" season, but £5.2mill the season before. Doubt if it broke £5mill last season.
Meanwhile our wage bill was £28million odd.
It would take an awful lot of commercial agreements, transfer profit (ha ha) and media revenue to bridge that gap.
It would be very very easy to lose £13 million average a season over three seasons, without conspiracy theories coming into play.
by Snowflake Royal » 21 Aug 2018 18:16
by Hound » 21 Aug 2018 18:17
Zip The owners forked out a lot of money during 2017 with the signings of Aluko, Ilori, Mannone, Edwards, Bodvarsson, Barrow etc and we have had very little back in terms of player sales. So no complaints from me about player investment. The money has not been wisely spent and that’s not their fault.
by Gunny Fishcake » 21 Aug 2018 18:42
muirinho Meanwhile our wage bill was £28million odd.
by AthleticoSpizz » 21 Aug 2018 18:56
by Oilroyal » 21 Aug 2018 19:05
by Linden Jones' Tash » 21 Aug 2018 19:59
by TiagoIlori » 22 Aug 2018 06:59
by Augem » 22 Aug 2018 08:23
AthleticoSpizz ^ Alledgedly, Sandro Weiser (who he?) was on £15k pw.
by WAZZOCK » 22 Aug 2018 08:32
muirinhopaddy20 Like many I suspect I was disappointed by the level of spending on transfers this season. The cost of relegation to Div 1 I guess would be substantial in the long term.The question is therefore why wasn't more money made available to Clements to bring in a couple of good strikers including a decent target man?
Yes we all know that we need to run the club effectively but there has to be good investment to succeed. How much we spend should be relative to how much money we have
.
Last season Gourlay blamed 'Fair Play as the reason for lack of investment. Clearly thats nonsense. The rules state the you are allowed to lose up to £39m in the last 3 seasons before any penalties are made. We lost about £20m in that period. This season that loss for 2016/7/8 is about £8m.
So whats the real reason for our lack of investment? Yes they are putting money into the training ground but Is there political pressure on the Chinese not to spend anymore in Europe , or are our owners not quite as wealthy as we thought?
Worth pointing out that it's not £39million for the "last three seasons", it's the last two seasons plus the current one.
So we only have a single year of the figures, as we don't have last year's figures yet, and obviously know nothing about this year's.
If you don't have the data, you can't call it nonsense, as you don't have anything to back that up.
Our income will have been considerably less last season as we had poor attendance, no decent cup-run, and no play-offs.
It will be even less this season as we've got no parachute payments.
Worth noting from last years accounts (2016/2017 season)- matchday income was £9.7mill in our "near promotion" season, but £5.2mill the season before. Doubt if it broke £5mill last season.
Meanwhile our wage bill was £28million odd.
It would take an awful lot of commercial agreements, transfer profit (ha ha) and media revenue to bridge that gap.
It would be very very easy to lose £13 million average a season over three seasons, without conspiracy theories coming into play.
by Rollerbob » 22 Aug 2018 13:42
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