Imagine you are Warnock and given 5 million for new players - Who would you target (realistically) and would you need to spend the full amount?
Simple... Don't buy stick to Bosman's... DMF - Paul Scharner - 16k a week CMF - Ryan Donaldson - 8k a week CB - Jonathan Woodgate - 22k a week AMF - Gai Assulin - 18k a week RB - Grétar Steinsson - 12k a week (Employ his wife as "face of the club") CF - Sergei Kornilenko - 12k a week Total 4.5 million over 12 months
£1.5 million Jason Shackell - Derby 6' 4" defender - Already three bids turned down for him highest rumoured to be Cardiff 1 million £300k Lee Peltier - Bargain for a right back of his quality Free Tony McMahon - Another right back out of contract with Boro With Pearce, Drury, Lees and White that is my defence sorted and plenty of change for midfield and maybe a striker.
If we're going to play Football Manager with our squad, you at least have to tell us the overall budget for wages, transfers and agent fees. By all accounts, that's how it works in practice anyway - managers don't just get 5m to spend on new players' transfer fees and have no other considerations to make. Over the course of last season, we allegedly spent 13m on transfers and wages, so you can probably assume from that, if you deduct transfer fees paid, agent fees paid, and the wages paid to loanees and players who've since left, that we are now left with a group of players who'll earn 10m over the course of next season. And of course, some of them might still leave as well. So whatever "Neil's pot" is, money-wise, you have to immediately deduct 10m from it. If Bates stays, he might only get 13m overall (so 3m to burn). If we get taken over, he might get up to 20m overall (so 10m to burn). Settle for inbetween and he gets 16m. The pertinent now questions are: A) Which players should still leave? B) How much would that free up? C) What do you do with the remainder, bearing in mind you have the aforementioned three types of fees to play when signing someone?
Remember you can not buy this league just look at Leicester and Cardiff... You need solid foundations, a surprise player and a good start.
Depends how much money we have! But seriously, if there is good money involved in this deal, then we could do a QPR and make 2 or 3 marquee signings and then build a solid, hard working team around them and Snoddy etc.
I would go for Andrews before Bolton get him Hamill on the flank played really well in this division and seems surplus at Wolves Bates free from Boro would be a good aquistion we know Kenny is coming and Probaly Peltier too but wuth McCormack about to leave along with Billy who turned down a contract that paid him 500k for every goal he scored but nothing if he didnt said he would sooner starve! Lets forget about Beckford he will not leave Leicester whilst hes on that moneyso lets scout the country looking for good young players in the lower reaches the Lamberts and the Holts they are there just need to use your imagination
I am really hoping for that surprise player, the one we sign that makes you wonder how did we get him...
Not that much of a surprise, I remember the day we signed Gordon Strachan and Gary McCallister, Gordon was the greater immediate joy, we need one of those again.
Hes out for 18months, will never be the same again. and do you really want another man with that name in our club
Offer the existing players who are soon to be out of contract, £3,000 per week and only £1.500 per week if they don't play. Then when they turn it down, use the £5m offered for players to build a hotel and casino, so that I can own the top floor of each and be a pain in the neck to everyone connected to the club for years to come. Signed: K. Bates. (where the **** is my Knighthood?)
