I'd rather have Clough than McDermott but I don't want him. The problem is now Derby are in for a new manager and they could get someone who would be good for us.
Its the cash that's needed. Seems that the back office structure and academy are in a better place. Doubt a new manager is the key. Have to keep faith in Brian, just need GFH to get the investment but performing like that on Al Jazeera won't help the Middle East investment push. If GFH can't sort the cash they need to move on.
Morning Elland. I've refrained from posting till this morning to let my temper settle. I have to say mate, while I agree normally with a lot of your opinions, this is a load of claptrap. A bunch of ifs, buts and maybes, basically highlighting if one goal had gone in or not gone in, whe'd have more points. The table doesn't lie mate. Almost quarter of a season gone and were dire and consistently so. OK many believe we're only two players short. We've been that way a long time now. So what's the remedy. MCD and gfh need go out and get them. Won't happen though because they want cheap options. Always the cheap option. I suppose it's only a matter of time before the inevitable comments that there's no need to worry about losing to the wallies because they'll be right up there with all the others we've lost to so far. And is still see the top six being mentioned here and there. We would need a further sixty points from a little over thirty games. At this point in time I check on Saturday evenings to see how many points the team third from bottom has and not the team sixth from top. I suggest a few more might need to do the same
Having been at all four of those games it isn't that we lost(apart from yesterday) we were playing teams I probably expected to lose against. There is no point banging on about the lack of width, we have the squad we have. What is really beginning to bother me is the negative way BMcD is setting the team up. We don't go out and attack teams, we are not playing hoofball, infect we are barely playing football at all. We need to stop being so defensive minded. If and when we concede we are stuffed.
Picking up on the two players short - For me that is minimum and for me that was before the season started. Even if we had started the season with two quality players it would have been a battle, now even if we brought some quality in we are going to be playing catch up football. Murphy has potential but should he be in the starting 11? I guess so if you paid £1m for him.. Hunt, Varney, Norris, Tonge, Green I wouldn't care if they never played another game for us, they are not good enough
Agreed. Yesterday we didn't do anything at all really, we weren't set up to defend, soak up pressure and hit them on the break. Neither did we go all out attack (God forbid we'd ever do that!) It was as if the players themselves didn't know what the game plan was, and it was the same at Reading. No swarming forward, just a few sideways passes around midfield then a hopeful pass down the flanks hoping an ever willing but very average Varney would latch onto. Nor was there any hunting in packs and pressuring opposing players when we lost possession, which we did all too frequently, Austin being the main culprit. Huff and puff he may do but quality he ain't. Tonge seems devoid of ideas when in possession and he's supposed to be creative! The only positive from yesterday was the performance of Mowatt, obviously he's not the finished product but he's a class act. All in all, not McDermott's finest hour, poor tactics, poor team selection, poor substitutions when the team was crying out for pace and guile Poleon and Diouf were left on the bench in favour of Smith and Green Lets see some flair and fight from now on, enough of this sterile, boring crap, continue to use Mowatt, get Byram right side of midfield instead of Tonge, get White in at LB for his pace instead of the ageing Warnock, and use Poleon and Diouf from the start. At least it will give us a chance of winning, or at least of scoring. I'd even give Brown a start ahead of Austin
We don't have the forwards to do the attacking. Take McCormack out of the equation, our best striker is either Varney (who would struggle to hold down a regular place in a Championship team) or Poleon (who struggles to come off the bench). Then we have Diouf and Hunt. THAT IS IT.... It sounds simple, BUT we need someone that can partner McCormack. Question, did we let Morison go too quickly? We did pay circa 2m for him...
No offence taken fella. I like that fact that McDermott won't just bring anyone in!!! I'd much rather he did that and bought the right player in, when they become available. Until then, I would like to see more of Diouf. He's an intelligent player, will hold the ball up, and let McCormack get into more dangerous positions. I'm as disappointed as you with recent results, but we are not seeing 5-0 anymore...
Agree our defeats this year not as bad as last year but there's as many and you get no league points for narrow defeats. Luckily we were playing one of the rubbish outfits yesterday or it could have been five. Hope McCormack doesn't miss many games through injury or drop in form or we won't have any threat. Can't understand hunt getting ten times the match time to diouf. Even smith has played more which is puzzling
But with ehd we have absolutely no pace. Hunt is a mystery to me. I don't see what he brings to our squad. Absolutely despise all the identikit Warnock players Tonge, Pearce, Drury, Brown, Green et al that are totally uninspiring. We want to win, but that won't always happen. We should expect to always be entertained.
If they wanted the cheap options we'd have signed even more dross. How much difference do you think 3.5 million would make? Massive is my answer. Then factor in whatever other "unknown costs" that have still yet to be cleared up because it takes time to do so.
Having spent several months on due diligence they would or should have been well aware of holes that needed to be plugged.interestingly these very shortfalls were highlighted by lust a year or so ago in the accounts but for various reason, personal bias etc many chose to disbelieve it. If the lust guys and others could spot the shortfalls, gfh accountants also did. Convenient excuse now to explain why they're not putt ng anything substantial in
Oh I didn't realise knowing about it means that it magically disappears the moment they take charge... The only thing that changes in knowing about it is that they can decide whether it's still worth taking on the project or if they'd be better off walking away. People keep saying "well they spent long enough on due diligence, they should be well aware of it" but that doesn't change the fact that it's there and has to be dealt with. It doesn't change the fact that dealing with it takes time. I do honestly hate insulting people because it makes me feel condescending and it makes me feel horrible but you have to be a ****ing idiot to not be able to understand that it takes time to plug the holes the sizes we're talking about unless you're a billionaire who can pay it all off at a rate over the odds just to get it seen to asap, regardless of whether you know about them or not. I said on another thread that if you consider the season ticket mortgage, rent, the transfer fees paid out this summer and the wage bill then you've accounted for 23 million of our turnover already, and that's before you even consider the unknown costs that don't vanish overnight because there'll be contractual obligations to fulfil, regardless of how dodgy those contracts are. Financial Fair Play is a rule. It can't just be ignored unless you like transfer embargos, but if we got one of those you'd just piss and moan at the owners for spending too much money even though you were moaning for that before you realised that this is actually a thing.
True, but its also a fig leaf. I believe you are still allowed to make moderate losses if you so choose. GFH have so chosen not to.
How do you know that? Our last turnover was £30 million, including player sales over £4 million. So if you assume a projected turnover of £25 million, you can have £5 million additional outside investment and £3 million "overdraft" as it were, losses you're allowed to make without imposing a transfer embargo. That means we have £33 million to play with. With just the figures I have mentioned we've already spent £23 million. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that the running of the club on top of that sum (wages, rent, ST mortgage and transfer fees) would run close to £10 million. You've got agent fees, policing costs, insurance, redundancy packages, loan repayments to consider. There'll be plenty of other costs I haven't even considered. There'll be many of kens "unknown costs" to factor in, as the club will be contractually obligated to pay out money in various dodgy deals. I imagine the legal fees for kens court adventures won't have been entirely paid for yet. I'd personally estimate that we'll have something in the region of about £3 million to play with, which would all be accounted for by the allowed losses, which I'm sure we can all agree we'd rather the club not be spending unless it absolutely has to - therefore not spending it on any old player who just happens to be available at whatever cost.
The owner is allowed to use £5m of his own money. When does this FFP actually kick in? Because QPR seem to be splashing out quite a bit, and they average about 14,000 at Loftus Road
http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/financial-fair-play-explained.php you can make an £8m loss if owners inject their own cash. Transfer fee's are not included in full, they are spread over the length of the contract. You can also sell a player for a loss and still record it as a profit, a good example is given on the link. Clubs with ambition will exploit ffp and get around it Clubs with little or no ambition will use ffp as an excuse
FFP has already kicked in, but clubs relegated from the Premier League have one free year where they don't have to abide by FFP rules. QPR are gambling on getting promoted and not having to worry about FFP after that.
