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Chazz Rheinhold said:
We got **** all for kuciak, therefore proving Brucey transfers were ****e.
Thank **** for Ehab, Charon and obi.
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Our wage bill last season was £30 million. The players we sold helped pay their wages. The accounts show that without that money from their sale we would have to have gone deeper in debt.

I would have thought after Bartlett the last thing supporters wanted to have our parachute payments mortgaged to a bank and owing them £20 or £30 million.
 
originallambrettaman said:
That’s why my list of the fourteen first team players we had only had 13 names on it...

You forgot to acknowledge that your comment was ridiculous?
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Wasn't Michael Dawson a first team player? Didn't he play that season?

Apologies it was an inadvertent omission on your part.
 
Obadiah said:
Our wage bill last season was £30 million. The players we sold helped pay their wages. The accounts show that without that money from their sale we would have to have gone deeper in debt.

I would have thought after Bartlett the last thing supporters wanted to have our parachute payments mortgaged to a bank and owing them £20 or £30 million.
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This is just ridiculous.
Do you not understand players wages go up when you go into the premier league. Is that not sinking in?
They will only accept a small reduction when dropping back into the championship.

Ehab hated bruce. Because he's insecure. He hated his popularity. He thought we had too many injuries under Bruce. How we doing now with injuries. Worse?
He thought he could do better. He couldn't cos he's ****ing useless.
As soon as Brucey left the place went to ****.
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
This is just ridiculous.
Do you not understand players wages go up when you go into the premier league. Is that not sinking in?
They will only accept a small reduction when dropping back into the championship.

Ehab hated bruce. Because he's insecure. He hated his popularity. He thought we had too many injuries under Bruce. How we doing now with injuries. Worse?
He thought he could do better. He couldn't cos he's ****ing useless.
As soon as Brucey left the place went to ****.
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It is ridiculous we have to sell our best players to pay the wages of the players we didn't sell.
 
Obadiah said:
Here's some figures, which includes the admin staff:

Wages including tax

Year ending 2016 £30 million
Year Ending 2017 £61 million
Year ending 2018, the year after we were relegated, £31 million (despite the relegation clauses)

Our thread bare squad cost us the best part of £31 million in wages and tax last season.
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So it’s Steve Bruce’s fault that we paid Premier League wages while in the Premier League. While noting that he wasn’t our manager by then.

You’re just throwing **** at a wall now and hoping it sticks. That’s makes me sad, you are better than this.
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
This is just ridiculous.
Do you not understand players wages go up when you go into the premier league. Is that not sinking in?
They will only accept a small reduction when dropping back into the championship.

Ehab hated bruce. Because he's insecure. He hated his popularity. He thought we had too many injuries under Bruce. How we doing now with injuries. Worse?
He thought he could do better. He couldn't cos he's ****ing useless.
As soon as Brucey left the place went to ****.
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Actually, he did. Just too late. Marco Silva was a vast improvement over Steve Bruce.
 
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AlRawdah said:
So it’s Steve Bruce’s fault that we paid Premier League wages while in the Premier League. While noting that he wasn’t our manager by then.

You’re just throwing **** at a wall now and hoping it sticks. That’s makes me sad, you are better than this.
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We had a first team squad of 14 players when Bruce was sacked. A quarter of the £100 million Premier League money was owed to the bank. That left £80 million to pay the wages of the squad we had, buy 5 or 6 new players and pay their wages plus any loans. That would still have left us with squad places unfilled. How much do you think 5 or 6 Premier League quality players would have cost us, £30 0r £40 million in transfer fees? £10 million in wages? Add in any reinforcements needed during the January transfer window to stay in the division and our debt to the bank may well have doubled under Bruce. A Relegation with a £40 million bank overdraft would have seen us in administration or very close to it. To avoid administration we'd have needed a bigger fire sale than the one we had last season.

Do you really think that is the best way to build a successful football club?
 
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