I think Joselu is a centre forward in today's market worth £5M. You then just have to remember what Rafa said you had to pay for strikers and what you got for the money.
Slimani's not fit though. Thigh injuries can take months, if that's the injury he's carrying. All the loans I would call good business, but hugely short term options. I was at the game last night but I can't continue to boost the profits of Mike Ashley. That's me done until he sells up
By using those emojis in that way you are clearly picking on my quirky personalitiy trait ! **** you. I’ll worship mustard chinos and purple dildos whenever I want you ****ing bastard. You mags are thick as **** and are always in my pocket little bitches. Squeal, squeal, squeal you little piggie on the end of my roasting spit. Enjoy your life under the boot of these Nazis you mug. ****ing mags
He doesn't take anything though outside of the advertising. Indeed he's had to keep putting money in.
[QUOTE="Captain Spack from Jarrow, post: 11407210, member: 1009558"]For the long term health of a club, you'd want a progressive transfer policy buying younger players and developing them. You don't want to become reliant on loans as you just stagnate and sit around the same zone, a slave to the big boys. Sunderland were guilty of this for years. Welbeck, Rose, Alonso, Ki, Cisse, Evans etc. The only benefit over any period for good loan players is to the club doing the loaning. Sadly though beggars can't be choosers when you are in the mire, in your first year up, yet to experience the love of PL TV money. So yeah I'd have to say I couldn't give a flying **** if all we got is loans. We got 3 players our manager wanted. He now needs to his bit and keep us up so we can experience the warmth of PL TV money flowing into relentlessly into Mikes love pocket, I mean the clubs bank account.[/QUOTE] That's true - unless you're an owner trying to offload the club you own and don't want to saddle yourself with significant additional expenditure for which you're likely to see little or no return. The choice of loans suggests that possibly The sale of the club is still likely to happen Ashley is just a tight fisted ****er and nothing is happening
That's true - unless you're an owner trying to offload the club you own and don't want to saddle yourself with significant additional expenditure for which you're likely to see little or no return. The choice of loans suggests that possibly The sale of the club is still likely to happen Ashley is just a tight fisted ****er and nothing is happening [/QUOTE] Or both.
You're a spasticated pair aren't you? I'm not putting up with going back to that chap who couldn't quote posts correctly. It was really annoying. It is the same when someone has a bee in their bonnet and just uses every excuse under the sun to get at a particular player or manager. Its just tedious.
The loans were good business. Irks me to say it. Two starters and hopefully the GK is better than what we have. 5 or 6 out Rafa wouldn't play. Tidies it up, doesn't burden the club. We lament those clubs spending a lot of money, but we'll see in May what was wiser. Experts claiming the sale is very much on, just Mike's timing was impeccably bad as always; announces he's selling when the window shuts. It has been claimed 6 parties signed NDA, at least 1 is still in the "data room" and that PCP was probably all bluff and bluster after all.
Don't be surprised to hear that we have been sold in the summer. Ashley has been tight even by his standards, which considering the massive influx of cash we'll get from Sky at the end of the seasin is bizarre. That tells me that he has wrung his hands of us in all but an official capacity. Something is afoot. Btw - Joselu. I've had post curry turds with my penetration than that guy. He's up there with the worst strikers in club history. But, if you spend pennies, you end up with tat.
George Caulkin is still adamant she was legitimate. He’s given me no real reason over the years to doubt his opinion so I think I’ll stick that for now than some random Dr who’s views are curiously similar to what Ashley’s camp have been saying all along.
Not too sure on that to be honest. Think the current one is the worst for ages and doesn't know what he's talking about. NB Current one being the man one not the woman one. Not being sexist. Also for the benefit of Rafa's Fanboy @Captain Spack from Jarrow link to article on spending. http://www.toonbano.com/2018/02/mike-ashley-lies-damned-lies-and.html Remind me again as to how much Ashley has done to back the Manager and the team.
Typical black and white specs. So in two seasons who has spent the most? Lets have a look: Newcastle United: £104m Brighton: £73.35m Huddersfield: £61.2 Net Spend is too skewed by Newcastle coming down the previous season and coining in huge amounts. Huddersfield and Brighton have undoubtedly gambled more this year than us. They've spent their PL TV money before they have it. The difference? They have owners looking to remain. I think he announced this as early as maybe October? He'd have known he wanted to prior to the season.
Not sure whether he's selling or not should come in to it. Even if you are selling you commit to running a business "normally" so as not to prejudice the business in respect of anyone buying it. Therefore, he should have been doing what he "normally" would do...hang on, he was, not financially supporting the team and the manager to enable them to compete like Brighton did and Huddersfield did. Last years spend, credit to him for doing this, was to rebuild a relegated squad with players jumping ship and having to rectify the previous managers mistakes and build a squad to get immediate promotion. You may or may not have liked all or some of the players bought but ultimately Rafa achieved what he was expected to do. With twenty twenty hindsight vision you can quibble about how many he bought but you couldn't be sure who was going to stay fit, who would get suspended, who would play to form or underachieve. The bottom line was to get promotion and Rafa did it plus he got the title. This year he has had to build a squad to retain PL status. And to help him the Owner running his business "normally" has provided £11.5M to achieve this even with some Sky money in, people off wages books etc. AND we have someone defending him. You couldn't make it up.
The overall picture is our manager overspent to get out of the championship compared to his rivals. AND we have someone defending him. You couldn't make it up.
