City transfer thread

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Bret Dilkington said:
Aren't parachute payments supposed to cover that to an extent? Either way, we've reduced our wage bill since being relegated by releasing and selling players. I think it's pretty obvious the Allam's aren't going to splash the cash because they've have their ridiculous name change rejected for a second time but replacing our players with inferior ones on the cheap won't get us back to the Premier League.

I still don't understand why we released Rosenior only to replace him with an injury-plagued liability like Taylor.
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Yeah, some of it, but we only get that in monthly increments, we don't get it in a lump sum. Forget the parachhute payments, they have nothing to do with front of house stuff like playing staff, it mostly goes into stablising the accounts.

We've reduced the wage bill a bit, but we still have big earners like Thudd, Livermore, Dawson, Davies, Jelavic, Hernandez and N'Doye on the books. We need to balance this out by selling. I don't know what you're expecting in terms of player quality; Ryan Taylor is, at least in terms of ability, better than Rosenior and we haven't seen anything of Clucas yet. Last time we went down it took 3 years and a hell of a lot of rebuilding to get back, you might have to be a little patient.

We we released Rosenior because he wanted a three year deal and we didn't want to give him one. Brighton did, that's why he went there.
 
mistermc said:
Going to throw this one in...not sure if its been mentioned.

Its going to be a long battle to get out the championship....so what about Joey Barton...available....no current premier league interest. would enable Tom H to push further foward which is were I think he would be far more effective.

I know this will probably get hammered but think we could do a lot worse right now.
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This seems to have been ignored but I've often thought this! Wouldn't mind having Barton sitting deeper with huddlestone venturing forward.
Only thing is I believe Barton may want too much money to consider us
 
Sterling Archer said:
Yeah, some of it, but we only get that in monthly increments, we don't get it in a lump sum. Forget the parachhute payments, they have nothing to do with front of house stuff like playing staff, it mostly goes into stablising the accounts.

We've reduced the wage bill a bit, but we still have big earners like Thudd, Livermore, Dawson, Davies, Jelavic, Hernandez and N'Doye on the books. We need to balance this out by selling. I don't know what you're expecting in terms of player quality; Ryan Taylor is, at least in terms of ability, better than Rosenior and we haven't seen anything of Clucas yet. Last time we went down it took 3 years and a hell of a lot of rebuilding to get back, you might have to be a little patient.

We we released Rosenior because he wanted a three year deal and we didn't want to give him one. Brighton did, that's why he went there.
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Yeah, and I'm saying it was a mistake. Bar Snodgrass and Fer, Norwich kept most of their Premier League squad, made some additions and went straight back up. I'm not annoyed that we've lost Brady and Chester but with the money we're getting for them I hope we invest it in quality players and not getting crap players like Palacios.
 
Bret Dilkington said:
Yeah, and I'm saying it was a mistake. Bar Snodgrass and Fer, Norwich kept most of their Premier League squad, made some additions and went straight back up. I'm not annoyed that we've lost Brady and Chester but with the money we're getting for them I hope we invest it in quality players and not getting crap players like Palacios.
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I asked you the other day and you said Allam should get his money back and **** off. Cant have it both ways
 
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Bret Dilkington said:
Yeah, and I'm saying it was a mistake. Bar Snodgrass and Fer, Norwich kept most of their Premier League squad, made some additions and went straight back up. I'm not annoyed that we've lost Brady and Chester but with the money we're getting for them I hope we invest it in quality players and not getting crap players like Palacios.
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Bruce quoted on city website that he expects 4 or 5 more signings
 
Chazz Rheinhold said:
I asked you the other day and you said Allam should get his money back and **** off. Cant have it both ways
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I didn't say he should; I said it's his money. He's got us in more debt since he bought the club because he doesn't invest in it. I do hope he sells the club.
 
BillyBlysPaperboy said:
I'm not a big Allam fan, but he has invested in the Academy to the tune of 6 million.
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The club from top to bottom is in a much better state now then when he took over! he might be nutty as a squirrels **** but you cant deny hes been good for the overall make up of the club when it comes to facilities etc...
 
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ellewoods said:
I'd prefer Chester go to WBA than Lecister but it doesn't matter to much if they have both put in bids of 8 mill. People on Facebook are saying the 8 mill bids have been accepted, have we had any confirmation of that?
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Is AA trying to get £8m from each club before anybody realises?
 
Bret Dilkington said:
Aren't parachute payments supposed to cover that to an extent? Either way, we've reduced our wage bill since being relegated by releasing and selling players. I think it's pretty obvious the Allam's aren't going to splash the cash because they've have their ridiculous name change rejected for a second time but replacing our players with inferior ones on the cheap won't get us back to the Premier League.

I still don't understand why we released Rosenior only to replace him with an injury-plagued liability like Taylor.
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Maybe it's something to do with the relative wages? I'm not saying I agree with the logic but that could be the reason.
 
Sterling Archer said:
Yeah, some of it, but we only get that in monthly increments, we don't get it in a lump sum. Forget the parachhute payments, they have nothing to do with front of house stuff like playing staff, it mostly goes into stablising the accounts.

We've reduced the wage bill a bit, but we still have big earners like Thudd, Livermore, Dawson, Davies, Jelavic, Hernandez and N'Doye on the books. We need to balance this out by selling. I don't know what you're expecting in terms of player quality; Ryan Taylor is, at least in terms of ability, better than Rosenior and we haven't seen anything of Clucas yet. Last time we went down it took 3 years and a hell of a lot of rebuilding to get back, you might have to be a little patient.

We we released Rosenior because he wanted a three year deal and we didn't want to give him one. Brighton did, that's why he went there.
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So the relegation clauses didn't have much effect?
 
petersaxton said:
Maybe it's something to do with the relative wages? I'm not saying I agree with the logic but that could be the reason.
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Sure, but I just think Rosenior would have been the more reliable option.

I still think we need a defensive midfielder, two wingers, two strikers and a new goalkeeper.
 
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