Not arf pal. The likes of Crawley,Exeter and Stevenage won’t know what’s hit ‘em when some of our lot start posting comments. Up the F’kin Tigers.
Yes,I wasn't putting forward the sell on fee in relation to the point made about the Club losing £200/£400 k a week.The article was highlighting wages v revenue.
I’m confident we won’t be going down, now we’ve got rid of Walter & replaced him with someone who appears competent but there's some attractive looking away days if we do,
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/spo...hull-city-accounts-reveal-picture-9080557.amp “All this means the club are losing a massive £396,000 per week and are therefore hugely reliant on the help of Ilicali, as they were in the previous period.”
The only way to cover those losses last February is to sell your best players in the summer for mega bucks. Hang on a minute....
It would appear the football needs to realign its finances towards player salaries. Get tougher with the greedy bastard agents who started this rot by getting their underwhelming players way more than they are worth then putting their utterly ridiculous fee on top. Clubs can not afford this anymore. It’s time to challenge the salaries somehow.
Careful. I suggested we'd have about 50m of debt as at the end of last season because the wage bill would likely be even higher and got told you can't make assumptions like that without seeing it in black and white Chazz.
That horse has bolted. The PFA would have a meltdown at the prospect of industry-wide pay cuts and salary caps. We have some players on close to £30,000-a-week. Some clubs in the Championship have players on more than that. There’s just no way the Premier League and EFL would collectively sanction salary caps for the top four divisions.
The issue with a domestic salary cap is that England would be less competitive against clubs in European competitions so they would never go for it.
I appreciate what you say Kalman. Where does it end. It would be clubs going under and not the smaller ones. It’s more the quality of the players and their salaries that pisses me off. I’m falling out of love with football at the moment due to the fat cats. Game gone from the average punter now.
I’m in full agreement with you. ****s me off I go to watch City and some of them are on five figures a week for kicking a ball around, badly. But player power and agent power is like Pandora’s box. There’s no going back now. In an ideal world, nurses and firefighters would get paid more than some of City’s players but it is what it is.
Acun doesn’t have the first clue how to run a football club, all but one transfer windows under his tenure have been poor, with some being terrible. He’s been through 4 managers, sacking the good ones when he shouldn’t and keeping the poor ones for longer than he should. He needs to step back and let someone run it for him, nothing about his time in charge leads me to believe he can turn it around.
It's not totally true that he "doesn't have the first clue how to run a football club". There's a lot that he's got right .... albeit mostly off field stuff. The appointment of Selles feels right. Maybe he now realises he needs to step back more, and / or maybe he realises he hasn't had the right people running it for him previously, which may be why Dublin, who joined us as 'Head of Recruitment' has been given the role of 'Sporting Director'? His intentions and efforts deserve better than what's resulted so far. Hopefully those 2 calls (Selles and Dublin) prove to be great calls. As ever... only TWT.
It’s certainly turned into the stereotypical basket case everyone expects when a flashy foreigner desides to get involved in English football. Plenty of opportunity to turn it around yet though.
