But has he. As far as I can see we have always had to sell first since short took full control. I've often asked this question in hope a stato could confirm spends vs sales over recent years. This was the year we could not afford to miss and had to stay up so we did not miss out on the increased tv revenue yet it doesn't seem we have any budget. I like the fact we are going about our business in a better manner but until the bargains pay off we will need to still spend imo.
Always the problem with this kind of thread ....... people are just guessing tbh. Everyone wants to play 'Football Accountant' these days but, in my opinion, you either have to trust the people running the club or not. I was never sure of the 'Irish set up' but Short has shown that people like Quinn & Milliband can come and go and he just keeps going. I'd love us to get rid of the people soaking up money and end the days of lazy fat players. Hopefully that's what's happening now, but it takes time.
Thing is though, The figures published never take everything into account so there's always an element of guesswork. Ellis knows what he's doing with the books though so all will be sweet.
He's a bellend is Levy. He knows what he's doing. He'll leave it till the day before deadline until he sanctions the deal. Then spend deadline day with a big wad of cash, raiding desperate cash strapped Europe who are panicking as they need to sell, and he'll be holding them to ransom. Deadline day is going to be mental.
It could help everyone else in the Premiership grab bargains too. Difference is Levy has the cash injection.
Accountants or not. the net spend on Fee's maybe £4m. But it has been widely stated by the club that we have spent £30m this summer. Probably inclues the back room staff. Freebies will get a canny wedge just for signing. 11 players and 5/6 backroom staff will add up. Again it was stated that we could only increase our wages by £4m. If that's 10% then by my recconing our players wage bill was £40m last season. If we need a LB and a quality CM I doubt if we will get them for nothing so I hope there's a few quid at the bottom of the barrel.
We run at a loss of around £25m a year so Short is looking to trim that. He was one of the driving forces behind ffp so he'd be a massive hypocrit if we went and blew 30-40m on transfers. Its risky with our Premier League status though.
We are spending wisely and we definitely have a better, bigger and deeper squad then last season. Look at the midfield reserves with Marvis, BA and Klarrson, look at the centre of defence and the czech lad, and up front wickham may come good and we have fletcher back. All's well...we need a LB and an attacking midfielder... and all will be ticketyboo
How the heck can we justify keeping Vaughan???He's shi** and his wages are too much....we MUST get rid of him!!!
Didn't want to admit to being a "stato" but here you are: http://www.transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/transfer-league-table-last-five-seasons.html
£153 million over the 5 years and we were still ****. What makes it worse it was only £50 million less than Man U as well.
Just done a credit check on the club. The make-up of it is a bit convoluted but, essentially, the last accounts filed (July 2012) show a loss of £32million. Although the fans want instant success I think that, until Ellis Short gets the club on an even financial footing, his ambition is to do little more than survive in the Premiership. The appointment of MoN and now PDC (Who I think is brilliant, btw) is a way of trying to get the club to over perform to ensure Premiership survival. I don't go to the matches so don't normally comment on the footballing side of things, but, as a business owner, I think that for the long-term survival of the club we need to give this new regime time to get it right. Instant success would be great but we've still got a lot of catching up to do. That's my opinion, anyway.
if we got a quid from all the doom and gloom mongers and experts on here we would have a few mill to spend
