If he was penny pinching and here just to make money he could've easily sold 5 first team players in the summer and made north of £70m. He's come with a 5 year plan and that plan is being sustainable. I think the buying young is so they grow with the team over them 5 years to become the experienced players people crave now and it would've been done without a massive outlay. With the view to being in the Premier league by then and able to compete. Yes players will be sold over time, as happens everywhere but he hasn't come here to make us a 'selling club' or to make money off us. Plus splashing money doesn't guarantee anything except massive debts!
For the simple reason mate, they want it now, they want are owner to plough millions into experienced PL players now, even though we have seen so many examples of it going wrong. That is only successful if your owner is prepared to lose millions every year, Short did it for a while just to keep us up, however even with his money there was always a time when he said enough is enough. We were leaking millions every month, even if we'd been finishing 8th or 9th every season we would still have been leaking millions. People need to look at Brentford as an example, but not what they are doing now but what they did at the start of the plan that's now reaping the rewards. They are now in a position to spend a bit if they want to, and yes their owners will have spent millions on the infrastructure at the start, the same ad our are doing. I've already heard complaints that some of the Ross Stewart money has gone on that, I'm quite happy if it has if it means in 5 years we are in a position like Brentford or Brighton. Yet some of our fans want that 10 million spent on a striker now, who knows what Rusyn or Mayenda will be like in 2 months time if given the chance. So many comments about if they were good enough they'd be playing, they've had their chance and were ****. Not one of us knows what's going on within the club and on the training pitch. I think still sitting in a play off place I'm our second season shows we are still moving in the right direction. How many teams are in the play off one year and mid table the next till we get out of this league you will always be fighting against 3 teams that are still basically Premier league teams for 2 automatic spots for me finishing 3rd,4th,5th, or 6th in this league is a he'll of an achievement.
Yeah, great result, hopefully followed up on Friday, which I am looking forward to attending with 6 more of my family. Solksjaer doesn't appeal to me but I like the other 2 but, and it's a big but, I don't think they would have wanted to come here.
It tends to come from poor information that has not been contextualised properly. For example average wage bills will show that Ipswich have something like the fifth highest in the league where we are something like 15th but they tend not to put that with the fact that Ipswich are running at 120 percent of income which is a huge gamble based on the 3 year rolling cycle and may well bite them on the arse if they do not achieve promotion and we are running somewhere closer to 65 percent which is excellent and sustainable The point being it makes us look cheap when the reality is far different as 65 percent of our revenue will be very close to the 120 percent of Ipswich revenue but fans have the opinion we are being cheap.
Completely agree mate, i just dont see what some cant.....it would be ridiculous to go all out for promotion spending big.....can people not see the financial mess we have just been through, yes we will make mistakes, i'm disappointed the 4 strikers we have brought in have yet to work, doesnt mean the 3 we own wont be a success, its not easy going & finding that proven striker to take you up.....wages are the biggest problem & if that signing doesnt work.....were stuck with them with no wiggle room in wage budget SD signed a 'proven' striker to get us out of L1, we then spent the rest of Griggs contract trying to get rid of him Southampton signed a good striker for decent money on decent wages, out for the season. Cracking deal for us, in the time period after we might have been going to spend that money.....nobody knows, the right player didnt come along so we didnt waste it & hopefully were identifying the right player for january. Although im expecting him not to be the finished article with still room for growth With KLDs plan rather than the many clubs who tried & failed,now in financial trouble or promoted & still heading toward or close to financial trouble.......when we get promoted there should still be decent wiggle room in wage & transfer budget to give us a chance of staying up WITHOUT us risking the club & getting into FFP bother
https://x.com/sunderlandafc/status/1740311880177004585?s=46&t=lGmS7t3fhKmjcaf4pF4tQw A bit random but I like how Beale is out on the pitch watching the warm ups. Probably proves Beale is definitely more of a coach than a manager.
Beale wouldnt have been my first choice..... unfortunately Pep was already taken....who insidently had only managed for a year in 3rd tier of Spanish football before taking over at Barcelona a completely massive step up....a bigger step up than Beales 20 year coaching & assistant manager record at some huge clubs. Truth is we could have appointed a proven manager/coach like we have in the past & it could have failed like it has in the past....instead we have appointed an up & coming head coach with something to prove....it might work it might not...none of us know.....i do know it stands a hell of a better chance working with everyone behind Beale, like they were at Hull....if it fails, we go again until it works....i knew nowt about the foreign coaches mentioned, not a great deal about Beale, once @John 11:35 put his post up of his coaching career.....i couldnt see how any of those foreign coaches could be better suited....lets see, Hull result was massive, a win at Rotherham & we enter 2024 on a high.... anything could happen at that point
No, you didn't. He was doing as well as our previous coach. He just needed time to sort the problems in our squad out.
It's dodds. Has to be. No way we are doing anything risky and long term after this. I wanted Still at the time, still like the look of him but I would assume that will be business for the summer. But this is all idle speculation. **** knows.
We are higher up the leagues than we were when he came. Think that's pretty close to the definition of success.
Fair ****ing play to Speakman in acknowledging his own mistake and acting on it. whether we disagree with this decision or agree with it (I agree), you can’t argue that the decision makers don’t have balls to make big decisions
