Some Good News Thread..

Well at least Pearson is trying to tie the better players to longer contracts. Not that contracts could stop a player from leaving if he wants to.

But i'm very interested in exactly how you can keep players who want to better themselves financially and professionally and then claim that they have been sold from beneath the manager? in todays football it is inevitable that players wield all the power when it comes to transfers and in every way, the only time that contracts are worth the paper they are written on is when an unwanted player decides to see his contract out, whether playing or not and when signing a 2nd contract players can have all sorts clauses written like a fee at which could trigger that players transfer and of course that opens up agents to telling interested clubs exactly what that fee is, like Matty Taylor for instance.

Of course it doesn't help to keep the better players that your club is in a promotion place in January you sign 2 kids and a no mark French striker. It hardly shows ambition.

 

Ambition and intent by the club and the manager if you want to achieve success.. I'd say in a position/club such as ours, the manager would only have a year, two at the most to form/gel a decent enough team to challenge for promotion with our top players to have incentive to stay, after that, it's probably reasonable, for those, if inform top players would prefer to go on and become successful up the ladder.
To disrupt the build in becoming successful, by selling your best players, replacing with lesser quality IMO is showing no ambition or intent whatsoever..
If the club's intent is to just maintain status in the current league, then I believe a club such as ours will continue with mediocre players and hopeful youngsters from the academy hoping to become better, but then sold on for profit if the season looks to be fizzling out to balance the books.
I've still no idea, what ambition this club has, but I'm hoping déjà vu is not repeated with Nige as we saw when LJ was in charge!

 

From the BBC Football Gossip page



https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-leicester-city-and-southampton-in-hunt-to-sign-massengo/

 

I still say that the defining moment was the January window of 2018, it was our best chance, we had everything going for us, we were flying high, we had money from a great cup run, we were playing well and we had a high profile nationally and the signing of a quality striker + a couple of midfielders, would have shown ambition and MAY have gotten us into the play off's. Instead we won 1 out of 4 games in January and then won just 3 games for the rest of the season.

No wonder Flint, Reid, Bryan and Magnusson left and who could blame them? That will always sum up our ambition for me it was unforgivable and there has to be a reason why it was so poor, either LJ decided that we were strong enough or Ashton decided that we were strong enough or SL decided he wasn't going to release money.

We are in a different scenario now, back in 2018 we had the cash and the playing assets. Now we have bigger debt but luckily the assets of 3 players that have really emerged in a very poor season on the pitch, i'm not sure anyone else in the squad would attract a fee. Selling in 2018 was because of the then mantra of sell them at the height of their form with us and reinvest the money wisely, something sadly that from 2019 onwards we pretty much got wrong, as the talent started to dry up ending with the sale of Brownhill. Our options now are clear out the big wage earners and keep the 3 stars (if Massengo does commit) and hope there is still enough room in the budget to improve the squad or sell and use the money to cover debt and wages of the higher earners who don't want to move on.

 

Hopefully one of the announcements will be that they are getting shedloads of cash for the naming rights of the stadium, I have always thought the fans are far too precious over the name of their clubs stadium.
Whatever they choose to call it it will always be Ashton Gate to me.

 

I wonder how the revenue structure from this deal will be split across the 5 teams....?

 

I wonder if SL owns shares in this company? and is another way to inject money to help out for the next 3 year run of FFP?

 

an upcoming Amazon STYLE company. there are hundreds of these all over UK! Some may deal specifically with just a hundred or so different, some maybe a thousand Huboo has expanded to multi thousands!.......

 

That’s what I thought as well.

 

in reply to ...?

 

Read the thread and you will see I was relying to someone’s comment.

If you’ve blocked Jiffie that’s up to you, but you asked a question without understanding you’ve got half the comments. So sometimes it’s best to wonder and say nothing than to jump in with your wellies on.

 

Well said, we all have the odd difference of opinion, but blocking somebody is pathetic IMHO.

 

Who’s been blocked ?

 

I did say “IF” but it does seem weird that he questioned something I wrote, which was clearly a reply to Jiffie’s comment.

 

not necessarily #28 & #30 could both be applicable! thats why there is "reply"button!

 

Bollox, it shows exactly what post he was replying to.

Just like this one.

But of course you won't see it.