It's nice to see that someone outside of Leicester has noticed this, to everyone else we're still the big bad Leicester spending an obscene amount of money. Good post And I agree about QPR, surely lessons have been learnt from Portsmouths demise!?
Only bitter through leicester eyes. I have no problem with Pearson - he's a good manager, nor Fraizer Campbell, D.J. - beyond the fact the 2 most interesting transfer stories this window were greedy players royally burning their bridges by cravenly trying to engineer deals. I hate Nugent A) because he thinks he's bigger than he is - not a problem at leicester, seems to be endemic. B) The bastard always scores against us. Nothing bitter - nothing unhealthy there. If he played for us I'd probably love him. As he doesn't then he's a prick! Still think you as a club are a long way from being sustainable. We have more recent experience of the pit-falls trading in the red to get promotion than you might have. You've only just recovered really from your last push leaving you in the third tier however. I'm surprised you are not more cautious. Your investors will want a return though remember. Your staff will simply take their due cash and move on when the gravy train runs dry. And it will, for all clubs with owners with primarily a business interest in their club. You'll enjoy the ride but it will eventually end in a crash.
What do you mean he thinks he's bigger than he is? As for being sustainable, we're as far from that as you are.
Except we have primarily a philanthropic owner. That is a crucial difference. Yeah, he won't bankrupt himself, but similarly, he won't jepordise the future of the club in the name of cold hard profit either. There is a difference between someone wishing to maximise the potential of a club in cash terms and one who wants to maximise the sustainable potential of a football club as a cultural entity. For the benefit of the city and fans as opposed to the benefit of shareholder dividends.
Likewise. But don't stop kidding yourself about it, don't want your blinkered view of my football club to change
We do have a philanthropic owner but he has said that they do not intend on dumping money into us forever. It is not a gift that will just keep on giving.
If Bruce keeps wasting money on players like prozzy and camel jockeys then there will only be one car crash and it won't be at our place lol
I'd rather trust someone who's personal and business reputation is inextricably linked to the community he has invested in rather than someone who has come in from afar and promising the world. You, like us are a provincial club. Your guys are in it for the pot of premiership cash. Our lot are in it to maximise the sustainable potential of the club first and foremost. Very different business plans and I would say yours is higher risk than ours at the moment.
This is the difference between the mindsets of our clubs' fans. I would much rather be in the Premier League than this one just ticking off each season knowing that we'll be able to do the same next season, **** all. Our owners want to sustain us as a Premier League club and i'd rather they did that that stay in this league. Plus I wouldn't say we're in a risky position. We could sell on our assets for so much more than what we paid for them. I'd want 15m for Knockaert and Wood, we paid under 2.5m for the pair.
You might want that but you would never get 15m for the pair. Not in a million years. You are sounding like a Leeds fan there. They think Becchio should go for 10 million.
Problem is - no-one else has managed to do it in modern times, so why a bunch of foreign investors - especially when player wage demands mean tighter and tighter margins in the football marketplace?!!! There is such a thing as the business life-cycle. You should read up on it someday.
Knockhaert will get twatted once and never be the same again. If not in this league then the next. If that doesn't happen, he'll get sold and go to a bigger club. *Edit* for a lot less than your valuation.
Your board will pocket whatever cash they get from transfers once they feel you have reached your profit-making potential - IF they are successful. They will then seek to offload the club to the highest bidder and invest in a bigger club.
