Our total match day revenue from 22/23 season was only £1.9m more than Boros. The size of our gate is pretty irrelevant compared to clubs selling players for big fees.
22/23: Djed Spence £14m Marcus Tavernier £11m 23/24: Chuba Akpom £12m Morgan Rogers £9m Martin Payero £3m (Approximate fees) Plus a few other lower fee sales.
Because they've sold more player for more money and haven't spent 4 seasons in L1 being asset stripped They sold £25m worth of talent last season. We didn't
it’s the kind of deal we did 24 months ago (like Cirkin) but seem to have stopped. Obviously this is a level up tho in terms of initial fee. Once we get a larger kitty I can see us returning to this type of deal
£3.5m seems a lot for a lad who has barely played a first team game. He may be decent but he may struggle.
As a club and as a fanbase we can't be scared of selling players. As long as we do it properly and extract as much money as possible from the buying club it becomes an opportunity to grow. I'm not advocating for selling everyone and going through a rebuild every summer, but nobody can tell me that this summer wouldn't have been a whole lot easier if we had sold someone and had money to play with. We are competing for the same players against teams with parachute payments and other teams with money in the bank from sales. It's like bringing a water pistol to a gunfight.
We have sold players on an ongoing basis problem is that most of them did not generate big fees , recent sale of Ross Stewart being an exception.
Agreed. It's now about quality over quantity. We have a good squad, but a large squad. Ideally we see one big sale each summer and 2 or 3 quality improvements as a result.
You aren’t in and around city’s first team if you’re ****e to be fair, this lad looks a real talent. I imagine they’ll get a year or two out of him and City will buy him back.
Unfortunately we haven’t had good enough players in recent years that other clubs would want never mind pay a lot of money for , thankfully the present squad looks quite valuable but most of us want to keep our band of brothers together. Realistically to develop the team we will have to part with someone but we need to be quite shrewd and have players lined up for when the money drops .
We haven’t actually sold many, most have been released at end of contract or sold at a substantial loss. Stewart and Lihadji are about tge only real profit making sales since we were relegated from the premier league.
