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Papa declared the bank of Allam shut many months, years ago. Selling players is the way they have decide to fund the club. Whatever monies are still to come in from those sales pays the wages of those that are left, and by removing high wage earners from the payroll, those pennies last a little longer.
As a result of this policy, we have plenty of leeway with the FFP rules. Hence the well run business they claim. They are running, a business, not a football club, **** innit?
But we didn't sell Lichaj and Irvine? They weren't high earners, they were signed on Championship contracts while we were still continuing to pay the PL wages of guys like Henriksen and Marshall, the former of which had their deal extended meaninglessly.
Please see above amendment.
If they're considered 'high earners' then we're in big trouble.
Please clean your tongue, it's getting a bit filthy.
In what way is my tongue getting filthy? Because I don't end my posts ****ofcuntwankerallambastardtwat?
More because you're attempting to defend a nonsensical policy which has seen us ditch reasonable earning players who would have made a significant difference on the pitch in the name of one month's worth of wages.
Sorry if I gave the impression I was defending it. I was trying to give a reason as to why.
As for the months extension. Yea, the rest of the players have really bust a gut to keep us in this league. Which possibly is as a result of binning those two. Papa built his business empire on his knowledge of the importance and control of cash flow. City, as one of his businesses is just the same.
There is no reason why, they extend Henriksen's contract then not play him, but then cut Lichaj's deal short despite his extension costing them significantly less.
They lowball Bowen and other's contract extensions then either see them leave for free or significantly less than they could have netted.
There is no sense.
Correct. There is no sense to any of this if you are running a football club. My epiphanous moment was the realisation that, to them, it is not a football club, it is a business. Separate the two and it does make sense.
Along with every other club in the football league.
As much as it pains, we are one of the best run football related businesses. That is a totally different concept to football club.
No, Brentford, Southampton, etc. are better run football businesses. We are doing better than most through sheer dumb luck based on the signings of one manager and one scout, of which the well has pretty much now run dry. That has zero to do with the owners, and they have lost a lot more money than they have made.
While that is true, the problem is that Ehab is really **** at running a business. Hence the current torrent of terrible decisions and consequent free fall.
No that’s not true. We are being really poorly run in business terms. Business is about more than short term cost cutting, and that is all Ehab is capable of.
Agreed syd and I have no idea
It was a terrible decision whatever the ins and outs
Depends what the like was for. (a) The fact that OLM posted an article I may never have seen otherwise, or (b) the content/opinions/conclusions of the author of the article ?