Transfer Embargo

And yet Shelvey who may not be the player he once was but would still be a good old head to put in most of the championship teams has chosen to come and train with us, a club who is prohibited from buying players and paying late the players we do have.

 

Agree. But, it's some 'supporters' who are fuelling the "speculation and nonsense"! (and some parts of the media for their clicks)

 

He started training before the fee restriction was announced. Also, he’s ****e and nobody else would have him.

 

I guess he's a free agent so he could have said **** this I'm off.
I bet he ends up playing for someone next season.

 

The fans kicked off something chronic because Acun wanted Emre, a semi successful manager in Turkey who got done for racism big time, as our gaffer.

Shelvey, while still reasonably talented and unarguably experienced, also got done for racism toward Roman Saiss.

So, no thanks. Shelve Shelvey. John Swift and Enis Bardhi are both available on free transfers, both are younger and more mobile. Oh, and neither have been done for being a racist ****.

 

Just in case anyone is wondering what it's all about.

After appealing the initial charge in November, Shelvey was found guilty by an Independent Regulatory Commission; he called the Moroccan player a “smelly Arab”. He’s also been slapped with a £100,000 fine and ordered to attend an educational course on diversity.

Shelvey’s ban is longer than the one handed to former England captain John Terry, who was banned for four matches after an FA inquiry in 2012 found him guilty of calling Anton Ferdinand a “black c**t” –

 

Don’t get my hopes up.

 

You ask ' are we ****ed?' I'd say if we cannot pay a transfer fee for a player until January 2027, then the answer is yes. That we do know. If Acun didn't know we were not paying bills and owed money when he chaired the Q@A session last Monday then something is drastically wrong at the club or he was lying. I'd guess the phone call he took half way through, just after a member of the audience had said 'The Athletic 'had announced we had signed Louie Barry, was someone telling him about the EFL transfer embargo. It is gross mismanagement on behalf of the club. The warning signs were switched on some time ago for me simply because I have seen them several times at City and the outcome is never good. We need clarification and we need it quickly. Also the truth might help too.

 

I am not saying anything not already said...but its really really poor management from the club to allow this to happen.

Let's say to finances are fine, and acun has a pot of gold like scrooge mcduck to dive into...Why are we running our football club finances with IOUs with your mate at another club.

Its poor to think this would fly (with the EFL or whoever), and why does the club not know this or have someone who should know this.

 

You've left out my fact that he rides motorcycles without a helmet. I feel quite upset.

 

And maybe its a fault of the system that allows a club, any club to pay on tick... its hard to comprehend the a Premrier league team can buy someone form a lesser team on the never never.

 

It isn't just football clubs we owe money to. If there is a full audit, then it will show money owed to local removal companies that are months unpaid, or even a late/unpaid payment for the heat lamps for the pitch. It is more than just transfer fees

 

So actually, despite people defending him, we are not so very far from a Sheffield Wednesday or Reading situation. The difference being that when they lurched into crisis, these two clubs owned their own grounds. What assets do we actually have, other than several overpaid and not very good players who can't even muster a goal in a friendly against Lincoln City?

 

Fire sale coming ?

 

How do you know this to be the case?
Simple question.

 

You could help stop all this frantic speculation if you provided proof. Otherwise why should we believe you?

 

I was all for Shelvey coming here, i've said it on this thread and on the boards in the past. The only thing wrong is, I didn't know he was a racist **** so he can **** right off.

 

I'd hazard a guess that you alone account for around 30% of the posts in this thread, which tells me you're either a glutton for punishment or things are as i think they are... And to be specific, I think you want Acun to fail, not the club, but unfortunately though they go hand in hand.

 

If this is true, and it sounds a bit specific to be just rumours, then I'd guess that it wouldn't be part of the EFL case since isn't that just going to be debts that are specifically football related i.e. to other clubs/players? Doesn't mean it's not bad, stiffing small local companies is the action of a tosspot. Anyway, jury is still out in the absence of concrete evidence, at the moment all we know is they've been guilty of gross incompetence.

 

Yeah, if true I’ll be very very annoyed.

The club should be helping local companies not hindering them. That’s a bigger issue than stiffing someone like Villa for me.