I can't believe we'd bring hendo back, especially after what he did to hoddy hoddy hodson at the Vic last season
1/3? Oh dear. Until I read that I wasn't all that worried. Now, on the other hand, I'm expecting Bazzini to be wading through job applications from the usual suspects in the managerial merry-go-round any time soon. Iain Dowie, anyone...?!@*&$!?
And now Forest as well, the difference being that they aren't in financial problems and don't have a squad which is falling apart everyday. A little more attractive. He's 7/1 for that job, but I'm sure if McLaren doesn't get it then the odds will be a lot worse.
TBH if he wants to go then we should let him go, the attitude at watford is that you are only there if you really want to be, that is how we do as well as we do, I think MM career will go down the pan if he leaves, if he does then Bassini could become a hero if he makes Graham Taylor manager again
I don't think GT would manage again, I could see him being a Director of Football with a (even) young (-er) coach doing everything on the training ground, but you have to consider that he had Elton's dosh when he was the gaffer.
goldenboy--don't be silly--Taylor's role will be to help appoint the next manager (and then leave.). Yes the newspaper report did make the Cardiff job sound unappealing, with absentee owners and a denuded squad. But the bookies odds and Cardiff fan gossip seem alarmingly certain. Has Malky actually had an interview at Cardiff? It would not be disloyal if he had. As I keep saying, the tone of his recent WO interview was valedictory, and we all know that he is ready for the next stage of his career.The improved contract he got recently was as much to up the compensation we would get if he was poached as to keep him here. If he is to go this summer it is better he goes early, so that a new manager can oversee the recruitment/loan process. Malky was a big factor in getting good loanees. It will be harder without him. Mr B is finding out that being a football club owner is more complicated than he thought. More complicated than running an hotel, restaurant , strip club or whatever--oh forgot, he cocked up there didn't he....
Remember all that stuff that holly and others used to post as if they were insiders and it came to nothing...... I think deep breaths time..... not looking promising all round is it... well at least GT isn't thinking of going... is he?
I have said this before and I say it again! MM will not go to Baadiff!! They can not have spoken to him as he is away on holiday and you just don't do that!! Also watford fc could offer him a safer job with more control to do what he wants with the team he builds. Also we are on the road to recovery with new owners and cash coming in to stablise the club whereas Cardiff don't have that.
babyhornet---"new owners and cash coming in"...! Good grief! New owners and cash going OUT! Under the terms of the takeover we will see £10M leave the club in the next few years. Do try to keep up.
I have kept up, there is cash from the sales, granted only 5-6mill but its money all the same. Dont forget Bassinni is also investing money for the pitch and stands and PA system and he is also paying off the debts. Of course money has to leave the club but he is doing this for the club. I dont see anyone paying off Cardiff's debts any time soon.
After Carlisle and Rochdale have taken their shares, our total received is actually around £3.7m, I think (I'm sure I heard that somewhere). And even then, I'm not sure we receive it in one go, as payment by instalments is commonplace in football. Besides, it's got to be doubtful that Mackay (or another manager, should he leave) will be able to spend more than £1-1.5m of that. That is, of course, just an estimate, but I was under the impression that we were selling off players to pay off Ashcroft and obtain working capital, not to go on any sort of spending spree ourselves. Replacing players of the calibre of Graham and Buckley with so little money will be difficult. The silver lining, however, is that we may have a ready-made replacement for Buckley (I'm hoping one, or a combination, of Whichelow, Bryan and Murray will step up) and that, now that Ellington and Sadler have gone, our wage budget looks much healthier. It's not 100% doom and gloom, at least.
babydan--Mr B is not paying off the debts. It is the player sales that are paying off the debts. I am afraid you have NOT been paying attention!
Roger how else do you propose the debt is paid off? Bassini isn't going to pay it out of his own pocket and no one else was lining up to swallow a £10m debt. Even if they were they would have taken the money back out of the club another way. At least if it is from player sales the club is clearing its debt without just restructuring/transferring them and at a time when we have a good crop of young players coming through to ease the some of the burden. Until you come up with a viable alternative plan please can you stop your moaning.
As a private company its the same thing but you can be sure the overall funding will come from within the club. The first two instalments (£2.5m) have been paid by new money, bearing in mind we were 3 1/2 million light in the last six months I think we'll need some of the player trading money to balance the books especially if its true the playing budget is going up 30%. Only 40m minutes to is it going to be miserable or marvelous Monday? Hope Malky hasn't talked outside his contract, my faith in human nature and judgement I would question....
So basically Bassini is going to pay off the debt one way or another either through his own money, a loan or profits from sales or the like. Am i right?
