On present evidence of replacing players, it shouldn’t be viewed as good until we see who they get. Smallwood and KLP both weren’t replaced well last year.
Obviously most would prefer to keep Greaves and Oscar and sign quality additions on top as it's a risk selling our better players, but as Tan has said - we have to be smart with our signings due to FFP. If we sell Oscar for say, £10m and Greaves for £10m (plus add ons), which allows us to bring in; Dieng/Darlow, Manning, Bird, Kahveci/Twine, De La Fuente/Philogene & Haji Wright/Maxi Gomez ...I think most would also accept that risk.
It’s a nonsense to be honest, we have to sell two of our most valuable players to finance incomings due to FFP yet the parachute clubs can go absolutely mad and vastly increase their squad strength meanwhile with this approach we can only slightly strengthen year on year whilst having to hang on to a lot of players without any value to make up the numbers. Our owner actively wants to invest and can’t.
Agreed. It depends on the quality of players we're bringing in. I don't think it's a surprise that Oscar is leaving given the rumours of him moving last season. It would of course be nice to have seen Greaves develop here further but I guess to keep hold of bright prospects we need to be a prem club ourselves and developing talent for profit is essential to most championship clubs without parachute payments.
We have to be smart with the money this year because we were extremely dumb last year. And whose fault was it?
Club accounts are certainly going to make for interesting viewing. By the sounds of it, the sales of Greaves/Oscar wouldn’t lead to decent fees being spent and more just ticking the club over again. Oscar leaving in particular would be a concern. Greaves is good but more replaceable.
Some mistakes were certainly made last summer, but to suggest the club is being badly run after the changes we’ve seen in the past year, is utterly ridiculous.
No but spending 3-4m quid plus wages because one of your players wants his best mate on the team is bad business. especially when that player produces diddly squat
That’s just the impression I’ve got from what I’ve read. Happy to be told if there’s been any suggestion otherwise.
That's what needs clarifying. Is it a case of we want player X but the fee is sizeable and we need to sell or are we doing this to keep it ticking over
I’m pretty sure they thought he’d be a useful addition and didn’t pay millions just to buy someone a housemate.
That and overall recruitment resulted in us finishing 10th in the form table over the latter 28 games despite the injuries as opposed to benefitting from points deductions to avoid a relegation scrap the season before. Sounds like some toys are being chucked out of the pram.
Football wise it has been and that will eventually impact on the fan side of things Selling two of our best players and replacing them with inferior cheaper players but hopefully improving is a risky game With a fickle fan base Selling cheap passes etc is very good but. Run of poor results and it means people aren’t so arsed about going anyway
When you have Tan suggesting the owner is subsidising the playing budget then it suggests to me were not doing it just to tick over like in the Ehab years.
