Doffs cap and tugs forelock for your indomitable optimism. I'd settle for fookin disastrous, catastrophic seems somewhat hopeful.
Can anyone here say, hands on hearts, that they are the tiniest bit surprised by this? I wouldn't be surprised if every single member of our squad was up for sale, and come September we'll be fielding a team of L2 hopefuls and U-23 players. If we're very lucky we'll get a loan or two from the Championship.
Not surprised no But that’s the plight of league one clubs. Reading the Sunderland board and that’s exactly what’s happening to them. We are in the ****
Hang on a second.. Aren't we, financially, the best run club in the country? Haven't we got £15m+ still to come from the Bowen deal to keep us comfortable for the next few seasons? Hasn't everyone employed by the club got relegation clauses in their contract that would see their wages reduce by almost 40%? If so, wtf do we have to have a fire sale for? Maybe because our owner's are full of ****, have zero ambition and quite possibly hoped for this eventual conclusion so they could do exactly this.
You know how the top 6 in the Premiership is more or less a given each season, with the occasional breakthrough (Leicester or even Wolves)... I think we've reached a point where the 20 in the Premiership and a similar top 6 in the Championship will be the only ones contesting those 20 places. I cannot see a team like Hull City or Swansea going through the divisions anymore or breaking that Prem monopoly. The disparity in cash and the ever increasing bank accounts of those 20 to 26 teams will IMO ring fence those places. By the end of next season many more clubs may have folded.
We don't have to have a fire sale, but every player that has a clause in their contract to reduce their wages, also has a clause that allows them to leave for an agreed price if their wages go down. This is standard practice for relegation clauses
Because with the relegation clause for salary reduction which protects the best run club in the country also comes the release clause that protects the player allowing them to leave the best run club in the country. They’d rather move to a new club than help put right the relegation that was as a result of their **** performances and utterly clueless manager. Que sera sera.
McKenzie released? Why? I know he was nothing special but an academy product and a decent squad filler. The rest I can sort of understand due to probably higher ages but McKenzie? I don’t get it.
He's creating his own master plan blues-print, based on previous management experience... The Donboroughull Cityroverunited Plan
