If Fer is in the squad for tomorrow it looks like Sky were wide of the mark when they said an £8M fee had been agreed with Koo-pee-aar. Not saying he will stay obviously, but it would appear nothing has been sorted re his future as yet.
sky, getting something wrong??? unheard of! of course, they wouldn't just make something up in order to make a killing on skybet... nooooooooo ps. fer will still leave, i'm almost certain.
Cueller would be a good appointment but he is getting on a bit ,also i seem to remember him playing for Rangers a few years back so he may no Whittacker and Lafferty.
Apparently some have as much as 50% relegation clauses, but not all of them. So if our entire wage bill was £50m (which looks about right based on the accounts) plus £10m operating expenses, I suspect the most we would save on wage bill is about 25-30%, or £10-15m, which does not nearly make up for the £45m drop in income.
Apparently Stoke City have confirmed Cameron Jerome sale has been agreed with us for £1.5m. He has to agree personal terms and pass a medical.
So if we don`t go up this year we are in deep **** and will probably be forced to sell pretty much anyone left of any value just to stay afloat?
We are steadily collecting strikers ,like Supers said i hope that doesn`t mean Hooper is going to be sold we haven`t seen his full potential yet.
not sure where this snippet has come from but its absolute nonsense rob. nobody has had their wages cut by more than 20%. its still a big saving across the board!
That's what I thought, but someone posted that on here before and was absolutely adamant. My best estimate for our saving on wage bill under the previous numbers we looked at is £10m overall (it's really irrelevant how much each specific player has a cut, more just the overall saving) - that is a bit better than par for relegated teams because I'm positive we will have managed it well, but not much.
its not a difficult concept. if you blow your parachute payments and fail to go up then of course you would need to sell all the family silver. we aren't doing that. if we fail to go up we'll probably need one or two sales (which isn't unusual) but to suggest we'd need to sell everyone is untrue.
That's why all the rubbish about Redknapp being a wheeler dealer and picking up players for peanuts is nonsense. Yes, he may not have paid big transfer fees over his careers, but my God did he convince chairman to depart with silly money for signing on fees and wages, and that's why pretty much every club he has managed has virtually gone to the wall. John Utaka and David Nugent were both on 60k a week at Pompey about seven years ago, no wonder they went bust.
I have wondered whether it would have been worth trying to become really good mates with the Redknapps. Doesn't matter how rubbish you were at football, it would have guaranteed you serious wedge...
Not sure about Cameron Jerome? Bit of a journey man who's never set the world alight any where. I personally can't see where he's any better than what we've already got, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong if he bangs a couple in against the binners.
