The club can try to justify their decisions all they like but I don't believe a word of it. If they rated him, as we the fan base did, they would have offered a contract. If they didn't rate him why was it so crucial to keep him for the remainder of this season.
He's not even that any longer. He was never quite as good as the press made him out to be just like Kalvin Phillips. And frankly it doesn't say much for Pep's judgment that he swallowed the hype around them
We know nothing, I especially know nothing ..but my suspicion is. 1. We have offered him a contract but it is not good enough or long enough for what he/ his agents want. 2. We were ( probably correctly) fearful that without him we would be relegated. He kept us up ...and that probably has given us more money staying in the Championship...than the money we would have got for him if we had sold in January. I also suspect that Sheffield United did not go all out...as they would have been able to afford much better if they had been promoted ( I really don't think they would have been looking at him now if they had). But to shore up a position in which they only had a loan player...is now sensible. They can use the transfer money they saved to give him a better wage/ signing on fee etc
Jimmy will more than double his money, we can't compete. Any of our better players who run their contracts down would do similar...
He's had a contract offer on the table for ages. Club are damned if they do damned if they do with this fanbase.
Possibly but l think the general consensus with the members here, think the club spends less money every year, yet expects a better result. Yes, l know we have restrictions, seemly forever in a day but is it just us? Man City can spend a shedload, get busted, fight it and keep spending? Would it be that we spend the least amount of coin each year in the Championship? From a members point of view, whatever we could afford last season on players & manager, we must now spend less.
We actually spent quite a bit last season on Madsen & Celar in comparison to previous years. We are where we are due to the poor running of the club stemming back to the Fernandes takeover. Things are said about Briatore but he knew what he wanted and actually achieved it. Nowadays we don't even know who owns/runs what, nevermind how much we can afford to spend.
It's a classic 'be careful what you wish for'. Most wanted Briatore gone, but he did get us to the PL as per his stated plan.
That’s a generous description of a man convicted of fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion, also banned for life from F1 for cheating, who spent years living in the Virgin Islands to avoid prison time in Italy. Presumably there were no ‘fit and proper person’ checks when he bought into the club.
I don’t think the current owners want to spend any more money than they currently do. I don’t blame them for that but it does mean we are in this perpetual cycle of mediocrity.
Nobody could blame them to be fair. It's a club with no direction, no sellable assets and a running debt.
We're 66/1 to win the league, 20/1 for promotion, not realistic at all since Leicester shafted the bookies... https://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/championship
I knew someone from Australia who was a Leicester fan and every year put a bet on for them to win whichever league they were in. I don't know the amount, but it comfortably funded their year or so in the UK!
They aren’t allowed to spend more money unless it’s generated by the club - renaming the ground or benefitting from Eze’s sell on clause etc. and we should know that better than most, we got the £40 million fine! The only way to dodge the three year FFP cycle is to get promoted and stay up, thus thwarting the EFL accountants by being in the prem. The system is broken because even when clubs do get promoted, they can’t compete with the established prem clubs. That’s why there are ten clubs like us at the bottom of the championship, hoping their youth team will come good but unable to buy the players they need.
Seems Financial 'Fair' Play is designed to keep the plebs in their place while the glamorous bigger clubs feed at the trough of PL money. A broken system.
