New owner confirmed…

[GLP]

I'll wager Mrs A has never cleaned her own bog in her life.

She has a marine generator for that.

 

[Mckechnie Orange]

Just because we made a profit doesn't mean our player trading has been good.

Depends how you define 'good' but they have developed talent for profit quite well, and added value to a few loan signings also.

 

[BrisbaneTiger]

She has

I'll wager Mrs A has never cleaned her own bog in her life.

She has certainly not managed to flush those two turds away yet.....

 

[GerryHatrick]

Ehab seems to have this idea in his head that we can just bring through players and sell them on at a profit - he appears to have missed two clear flaws in his plan:

1. We haven't sold anybody for a profit that was signed since Steve Bruce left - so what makes him think it will suddenly work now?
&
2. Ajax do it well, Brentford do it well... when selling their star players, both of these clubs sustain a good enough team to retain balance, team spirit and a squad capable of success, allowing potential stars to shine, which in turn brings in big bids - how do they do this?! They don't sell off everything that isn't nailed down all in one go and build a new team every single summer!

Ajax: sold De Ligt for £80m and De Jong for £68m - they retained the likes of Van De Beek, Neres, Tagliafico and Ziyech and added to the squad in the form of £15m Promes, £14m Alvarez, £11m Marin, £6m Martinez and £4.5m Pierie. They've made huge profits on players, retained a squad to compete and brought in players they see developing for the future.

Ehab's version is to get rejects from Bolton and Barnsley for absolute pennies and hope they come good to sell on, while everyone else around them leaves the club as they don't want to renew, because they're caught in the absolute sh*tshow he's created.

Ajax will sell the likes of Ziyech and Van De Beek in the summer for big money, and they will use some of that to buy 'the next Van De Beek' and 'the next Ziyech' as well as promoting for an excellent academy. The fees they use to buy their replacements won't be freebies and rejects from the division below.

Same can be applied for Brentford: Sold a number of players for a total of £37m, and replaced those players (and more for the squad), by spending £28m.
I bet not many people realise Brentford spent £28 million in the summer - retained most of their other best players, added to them and made a £9million profit.
Funny how they didn't sell £37m worth of talent and replace them with frees, loanees and rejects and expect it to not effect the team.

Good post.
There's ominous parallels between what daft lad is doing deliberately and what Bolton were forced to do.
Sell anything of value and recruit on the cheap i.e. young inexperienced or older perhaps injury prone players that are not up to Championship standards and results / position in table reflect that.
The club is being run as a League 1 outfit, on League 1 wages, with League 1 performances.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Good post.
There's ominous parallels between what daft lad is doing deliberately and what Bolton were forced to do.
Sell anything of value and recruit on the cheap i.e. young inexperienced or older perhaps injury prone players that are not up to Championship standards and results / position in table reflect that.
The club is being run as a League 1 outfit, on League 1 wages, with League 1 performances.

We have to stop putting this crap
Kevin stewRt isn’t on league one wages
Neither are the others ffs

 

[look_back_in_amber]

We have to stop putting this crap
Kevin stewRt isn’t on league one wages
Neither are the others ffs

Which is unfortunately why we’ll lose them for free at the end of their contract, and replace them with dobbins that will accept League One wages.

No one tells those idiots how to run their business, which is why it’s heading at full speed down the tubes.

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

We have to stop putting this crap
Kevin stewRt isn’t on league one wages
Neither are the others ffs

We pay League 1 wages, according to everyone who has insider knowledge of our wages department yet we are still paying £10k a week for someone to play for Bristol City ???
You can't have it both ways.

 

[originallambrettaman]

We pay League 1 wages, according to everyone who has insider knowledge of our wages department yet we are still paying £10k a week for someone to play for Bristol City ???
You can't have it both ways.

There's a difference between historic signings, that we're about to get out of (Henriksen, Kingsley, Stewart etc) and the signings we've made recently.

Even Scott, who's the only player we've signed for a decent fee recently, came from a club where the average wage is £1,135 a week.

 

[Kempton]

There's a difference between historic signings, that we're about to get out of (Henriksen, Kingsley, Stewart etc) and the signings we've made recently.

Even Scott, who's the only player we've signed for a decent fee recently, came from a club where the average wage is £1,135 a week.

Imagine that, eleven hundred a week. I wouldn't get out of bed for that

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

There's a difference between historic signings, that we're about to get out of (Henriksen, Kingsley, Stewart etc) and the signings we've made recently.

Even Scott, who's the only player we've signed for a decent fee recently, came from a club where the average wage is £1,135 a week.

Abd so what’s do you think our wage bill is? I imageine it’s 15-20 million
About average for the championship

 

[Newland Tiger]

I'd be genuinely interested to know what wages players like Eaves , Honeyman , Wilks , Magennis etc. are on.

 

[look_back_in_amber]

We pay League 1 wages, according to everyone who has insider knowledge of our wages department yet we are still paying £10k a week for someone to play for Bristol City ???
You can't have it both ways.

See the response from OLM, I would have thought you’d have realised that, clearly not.

 

[Howdentiger2]

There's a difference between historic signings, that we're about to get out of (Henriksen, Kingsley, Stewart etc) and the signings we've made recently.

Even Scott, who's the only player we've signed for a decent fee recently, came from a club where the average wage is £1,135 a week.

Grant is earning less with us then he was in his previous 2 roles.... Says it all

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

Grant is earning less with us then he was in his previous 2 roles.... Says it all

So your saying he left a safe job at Donny to take less money and a 12 month contract with us ?
Why would anyone do that ?

 

[cheshireles]

Grant is earning less with us then he was in his previous 2 roles.... Says it all

and on current results is not worth that!

 

[look_back_in_amber]

So your saying he left a safe job at Donny to take less money and a 12 month contract with us ?
Why would anyone do that ?

To attempt 4-3-3 and no plan B in the Championship?

 

[Howdentiger2]

So your saying he left a safe job at Donny to take less money and a 12 month contract with us ?
Why would anyone do that ?

He left for a stab at the championship and furthering his career as I'm sure many managers with ambition would.

 

[cheshireles]

Good post.
There's ominous parallels between what daft lad is doing deliberately and what Bolton were forced to do.
Sell anything of value and recruit on the cheap i.e. young inexperienced or older perhaps injury prone players that are not up to Championship standards and results / position in table reflect that.
The club is being run as a League 1 outfit, on League 1 wages, with League 1 performances.

Eddie Davies ploughed millions (c£179m) into Bolton, and when he switched off his funds, followed by his trust doing almost likewise, the club was unsustainable and basically collapsed.

Daft lad along with his daft dad have a created a club that now has c£50m worth of debt, some £30m more than when they acquired the club, and claim we are sustainable, unfortunately that won't be the case should we be relegated.

I disagree about League 1 performances, we've not been that good over the last couple of months, more like National Conference.

Unless we get some of the better players from from injuries, I fear the worst with Terrys management style and philosophy.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Grant is earning less with us then he was in his previous 2 roles.... Says it all

I think he’s being paid far more than he earns.

 

[M0WDS]

Imagine that, eleven hundred a week. I wouldn't get out of bed for that

What about Kingsley's wage? 17k a week