Quite glad Acun eased expectations for the season when he said the aim is top half in his interview. Very rare a team with such high turnover will do well quickly, that doesn’t even factor in whether Shota is the man or not.
Didn't know where to put this so mods if you can place it in a appropriate thread please. Signed City shirt being auctioned on the Bradley Lowery site. Hull 2021-22 Team Signed Football Shirt - Bradley Lowery Foundation
I know we're hitting the European market a lot but I'd like us to try and nick Harrison Burrows and Ronnie Edwards from P'boro. They wouldn't be cheap but Harrison had a decent season, he got 3 goals and 7 assists despite playing out of position at wing back and Edwards has just won the u19 Euros and looked mightily impressive after a full season in the Championship They wouldn't be cheap but it'd be a good way to spend some of the KLP money. They probably cost a combined £6-8m though
Dear Mr Excel, I am trying to create a formula to make sure my team Hull City spend the KLP money wisely. I have two names (Harrison Burrows) and (Ronnie Edwards) Currently the formula looks like this: =IFERROR(&LEFT(A5,FIND(" ",A5,1)-1)&" "&RIGHT(A5,LEN(A5)-FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A5," ","*",LEN(A5)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A5," ",""))))),"-") resulting in: 6 to 8 million. I need it to read 5 million so we can put a few million towards the training ground. Any feedback/help will be appreciated.
I really don't see why it's a bad suggestion at all. They're 19 and 20 and have both had a full season playing in the Championship. I wanted Burrows after his L1 season too. He looks a real player
I said Acun is treating the club as a business, which some on here are very happy at the thought of because it's supposedly so easy to make money in the market, and the buying and selling of players is more exciting than the actual football for some. I merely said we complained that the Allams treated the club like a business but don't mind it now. I had nothing to say on their actual transfer strategies or the quality of players bought. Yes, 2m with add ons if we are promoted. It's been widely reported, but people are happy to embellish because it makes for a better story.
There's been a few different numbers pushed around and The Athletic called it a 'nominal' initial fee. It seems like a great deal for us either way. £4m seemed fair, £2m would be fantastic
I don't think 4m would be described as nominal, and would be more inclined to believe the reports from Baz and a few others that indicated it was 2m + add ons if we're promoted.
In the world of the PL I'd say 1-2m is reasonably nominal. As Tufan was playing in the PL last season I suspect he's being measured against those metrics. It's a fixation on a single word which is ultimately rather meaningless though. Honeyman and Moncur were both described as nominal but clearly would have been quite different. End of the day Baz has the sources and Baz said it was 2+2.
He got raped that day but his head didn't drop. He's still got a lot to learn. Prospect, yes. Raw as **** still. Let's not get carried away.
That's the metric. Are we stronger or weaker on September the 1st. Everyone who gets into football knows it's a business. Or at least should. If they're not a child. Problem with the Allams was they were taking every penny out of the club they could, whilst attempting to maintain it an asset. Except they ****ed up really badly in 19/20 targeting L1 talent and expecting championship revenue. Which disappeared when they sold all the quality they had left that January. They ran a tight balance sheet but that would have had a lot more leeway should they not have alienated 50% of the of their home support base in the process. It was a self-determining downward spiral for a couple of years prior also.
Supporters don't support a business they support a football club. Owners are in the game to make money (usually) but that doesn't mean supporters should be accepting of decisions made to balance the balance sheet. Otherwise they'd go sit in their local supermarket cheering every sale. What a stupid comment to make much less suggest any grown up 'knows this' as a fact. If football is purely a business and we should support business outcomes, the Allams were some of the best owners in the EFL, running one of the only sustainable clubs with a wage bill The shift in narrative was the point of my original frustration. When the Allams were selling players to balance the books or not playing a player because it would cost them more, people were angry that they were treating the club as a business and the supporters as customers, and not treating it as a football club. Now it's a case of "well of course it's a business don't be naive of course we need to be prepared to sell fan favourites". Of course I'm not suggesting that the transfer strategies of Acun or the Allams is remotely the same, the notion of the club as being a business was the issue. Tan made similar comments the other day and it's disheartening when they're marketing the club as a 'family' but their actions are saying otherwise (lowballing Honeyman and potentially Greaves' contract offers and listening to offers for them). Now it may well be that over the next few weeks we see players come in for big fees (not that I particularly want that) and we see a huge improvement in the squad compared to the outgoings, but as I said originally, we'll have to wait and see. All we can do at the moment is comment and judge on the business that has been done and the comments that have been made.
This could be a problem as their window closes a week after ours, so our business will have already been completed.
A bit off topic, but Derby aren’t hanging about, 3 signings & it seems Davies is about to extend his contract too!
