with the struggle to remove the likes of olifinjana, mcshane, kilbane, ghilas off the wage bill and recent reports suggesting he could only get 4k of a 16k weekly wage paid for in ghilas's case , as well as recent reports that he sanctioned jay simpson on 11k a week and adebola on 9k? was he doing his job effectivley? also how much was he earning as a consultant?
WTF! Adebola was on 9 grand a week? Please tell me you're joking!! Altough saying that, I'm sure I heard the deal in total cost us £750k! FFS!!
i could be wrong, i saw something about the wage he was on and thought it was way over the top, ive got 9k a week in my head for some reason, i best go check before i get ripped to shreds haha
If that is true I bet Adebola couldn't believe his luck! It'd be interesting to know and compare what he'll be getting at his next club - if he gets another club. Does anyone know if Notts County planning to take him on beyond the loan? (sorry if I've missed this elsewhere!)
Just think alot think adam walks on water, yes he did a great job saving us all those years ago, exactly what the allams have done recently, but also has made mistakes, when it came out adebola and simpson earned 20k a week combined that smacks of duffen like madness. the thing that put me off about him was his quote "im leaving the club in good hands" when sold to bartlett and duffen could this be translated to "ive made a tidy sum thank you im off" just dont think hes as god like as many make out, an opportunist businessman more like.
A wage £9 a week equates to £468k per year. If as you say Boothferry the total cost of the deal was £750k then there is a differance of £280k. Were has that £282k gone? Has it gone to an agent or what?
Adebola was offered to City for 3k a week but signed him on £8k a week allegedly. Both Pearsons messed this one up but for different reasons. FACT. There have been some suggestions that Adam P. was not earning his corn shall we say. But to what levels AP kudos had dropped may never be known. I would suggest that as both the Adebola and Simpson deals were on Adams watch he may well have lost the plot somewhat. But to be fair even SAF has made some bad and costly signings.
Adam hasnt been fully focussed on us since buying Eff Cee, simple as. He's seen his role at City as a way to pick up an easy salary whilst concentrating on where he has invested his own money. And this isnt a criticism btw, I'd be exactly the same and if he could get away with it for that long then fair play to him!
Adebola on big money,huge chunks going to agents... it's wrong yes,but it's no huge surprise. That's football these days.
Just for the record, it wasn't Adam Pearson's decision to sell to Russell Bartlett, he only owned 10% of the club, the decision to sell was made by the bloke who actually owned the club.
I reckon we have wasted about £5Million on players wages over the last season - look at this list: Olli - 25k per week Mcshane 13k per week Ghilas 12K per week Simpson 11k per week Adebola 9K per week. That's 70k per week = about £3.5 Million, plus did we pay any of Gardner's wages + whatever we paid JB before his case was settled. No wonder the Allams want a new manager to wheel and deal in the transfer market!
He hadn't grown tired of football, he wanted out so he could bid against Bates for control of Leeds(the club he actually supports).
Have a read of this. Posted by me on behalf of Flying Tiger a while ago. If you take Barmby out of the equation (as he is a different issue) I think the views on AP are begining to ring true. The Thread is headed A fresh view on CityGate in case you want to look it up, Forwarded by Flying Tiger - He's at work and can't post, so here it is verbatim:- I think, from reports this morning that I’m beginning to get a flavour of what happened. The Allams did offer to fund a striker for the half season after Jan transfer window but Barmby (and Pearson) didn’t want to “upset the dressing room” (you can read this on Not606 posts – HDM interview with Allams) Comments: 1. I guess if you had offered to fund a new striker in Jan, then you would be pissed off if someone then turned round and gave you a lecture on the need to bring players in, to boost the squad in the summer. 2. This would be doubled (at least) when you had spent the second half of the season watching your side (and I use the term “your” with full meaning), failing to score and consequently missing the play-off’s. One would feel, with some justification I think, that the manager was only protecting his mate’s interests, and that’s not what a manager is there for. 3. You may feel that this situation would continue over the summer with NB only replacing the players that wanted to (and did) leave. The shape of the side thus being driven by individual players wishes and the vagaries of the transfer market. 4. NB was therefore suspended due to 1 above but it was only the straw that broke the camels back 5. NB is, of course popular in the dressing room – he would be wouldn’t he, if he gave every player his unconditional support, no matter how they performed? 6. AP I have never rated, he is too focused on the money (and remember this comes from an accountant). He has, to my knowledge never been responsible for taking a club up to the Premiership and may have been in post for more relegations than promotions. He may actually not want City in the Premiership as it could affect Hull FCs position at the KC, and may have a serious conflict of interest. The oldest trick in the book is to come in to a place and say “ooh this is even worse that I thought – but don’t worry I’ll sort it out for you – I’m the big hero”. After all what did he do when we went down? He sold as many players as he could and reduced the wage bill – not exactly rocket science is it? And he failed to get rid of JB – something that the Allams did within a few weeks of arriving. 7. In other words AP is expensive (I have no doubt about that), and is actually standing in the way of the club advancing. 8. There’s a lot of talk about the Allams not knowing about football on the chat rooms, and this is, I think a bit unfair. Brain surgery and quantum physics are complicated – football isn’t. You simply appoint a manager with the background and ambition to get to the top league and one who is not best mates with everyone in the dressing room. Football can’t be that complex – there appear to be 37 thousand people on the chat room who know just how to run a football club! Anyway, rant over. Be interesting to see what the Allams do next. Billy Davis or Mick McCarthy with NB as Assistant Manager till he learns the ropes?
