Where are the riches?

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Oldsandy

Oldsandy

Well-Known Member
Oct 19, 2020
1,129
3,219
113
89
LJ has said that next season he will be operating with a reduced budget and some players we can’t afford to keep. Is this just bluff for the benefit of other clubs or is KLD going careful with the cash, preferring to concentrate on producing players through the academy?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Makemstine Roger
Perhaps he's just being cautious with what he says in regards to budget, don't want to be priced out of things I guess.

I suppose the reduced budget could also be like he had his eyes on a Championship budget, but now has to make do with a league one budget p
 
  • Like
Reactions: Makemstine Roger
every other team down here seems to think we are just going to throw good money at any random player thanks to donalds negotiating tecnique so putting it out early that he will not have 'mega millions' to throw around, despite the new owner is probably the best course of action.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bank of England 2, Makemstine Roger and JC91
If we offload Mcgeady then our budget will reduce by a canny margin so he is probably right in what he says.

Is it down to the financial regs that we can't 'afford' to keep them as there was only a years grace wasn't there? (I may be wrong on that tho)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Makemstine Roger
Oldsandy said:
LJ has said that next season he will be operating with a reduced budget and some players we can’t afford to keep. Is this just bluff for the benefit of other clubs or is KLD going careful with the cash, preferring to concentrate on producing players through the academy?
Click to expand...


Maybe a bit of both.
I'll bet KLD has plenty of connections to bring in some young foreign talent.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Random lad and Makemstine Roger
O'conner flood said:
just chooses not to play them ie Maguire then ? why didn't someone overrule him then
Click to expand...

I don't know.
But then I'm not there, I'm not the manager, I don't see what goes on day to day.
Neither do you ;)
I know one thing.
In the 5 months he's been here we made a good fist of it considering injuries.
He brought mcgeady back and he got Wyke up to top scorer.
I could go on etc etc but hey ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Blyth_bucaneer, Mick Sterbs, samwise_new and 7 others
Nacho said:
I'm not sure exactly why Johnson said that, but do I think Dreyfus is cool with risking staying in league one indefinitely by not spending money to quickly build a quality side? No I do not. He'll be targeting promotion and penny pinching isn't the way to do it.
Click to expand...


If KLD is a realist he probably hoped for promotion but has a plan for either scenario.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bank of England 2, Makemstine Roger and Nacho
Oldsandy said:
LJ has said that next season he will be operating with a reduced budget and some players we can’t afford to keep. Is this just bluff for the benefit of other clubs or is KLD going careful with the cash, preferring to concentrate on producing players through the academy?
Click to expand...
Honestly I’d rather we spent frugally but well. We’ve never done that. Also LJ is t going to say we’ve got a massive budget as everyone’s price just goes up.

id rather we used data to identify the correct players for an identified way of playing. Teams have got out of this league with smaller budgets so why can’t we?

KLD should keep his powder dry until we hit the championship but even then I don’t us to be splashing cash unless we really have to.

put the proper infrastructure in place to ensure our recruitment is informed and not the slap dash ****e we’ve had over the last 10 years.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bigmackem, samwise_new, clockstander and 1 other person
Bear in mind we are about to start contract negotiations with players - some of them already at the club. By saying we may not be able to keep some he’s giving credibility to any offers we make that agents perceive as low. Should help in negotiations if agents know we won’t just pay what they want
 
  • Like
Reactions: clockstander, DH4, Bank of England 2 and 1 other person
Happy Mackem said:
Perhaps he's just being cautious with what he says in regards to budget, don't want to be priced out of things I guess.

I suppose the reduced budget could also be like he had his eyes on a Championship budget, but now has to make do with a league one budget p
Click to expand...
Good point. Still got money to buy but not as much as if we’d been promoted. I hadn’t thought of that. I’m becoming thick in old age. Or should I say thicker.
 
  • Like
Reactions: cumbrianmackem
Nig said:
I don't know.
But then I'm not there, I'm not the manager, I don't see what goes on day to day.
Neither do you ;)
I know one thing.
In the 5 months he's been here we made a good fist of it considering injuries.
He brought mcgeady back and he got Wyke up to top scorer.
I could go on etc etc but hey ;)
Click to expand...
Yeah, who’d a thought it about Wyke at around Xmas time. Top scorer with 31 goals... good man-management.
 
  • Like
Reactions: cumbrianmackem, Nig and Makemstine Roger
O'conner flood said:
I wouldn't give Johnson 20 quid to spend he's clueless so if kld sticks with him wr won't be going up anytime soon
Click to expand...


Yet, oddly, only a couple of months ago while we were on a long unbeaten run, he was a genius.

So the 'Sack the Manager' brigade are at it again then.
After all it's been so successful for us in the past.
Hasn't it?????????:emoticon-0120-doh:

And the answer to the question posed by this thread, 'where's the riches', is--

In the Stands.
Us Fans.
Because owners come and go, but we remain and support our Club.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Jarca, Blyth_bucaneer, The Berk and 1 other person
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back