http://www.thisishullandeastriding....-TIGERS-CUTS/story-12772490-detail/story.html This, if correct, indicates just how business-like the Allams are. While not being good news for those whose jobs are to be axed, it looks to be good news for the club. However, things are not so good in the area of signings:
Playing Budgets will have been set well before the end of the season, Glad we are sticking to them. agents try every trick in the book to get there clients a better deal.
Yep, you're right. Much as we'd like to sign all the players we want, financial discipline is paramount. Look where the Gruesome Twosome put us and left us!
Sign of good management is been efficient and cost effective. How can a football club need 30 company cars? On the players front I am glad we are sticking to budgets and not paying over the odds, look where that got us before. Much rather the players we sign want to play for the club before a huge pay day. Good to see the Mail been there usual positive self "Nigel Pearson's hopes to bring in as many as seven new players may need to be reined in", Really? We are looking at free agents and free transfers, so long as they fit in the wage structure for players we will get them.
I think this is good for the long term financial stability of the club and just goes to show that we have proper businessmen running the club now. With the Allams and their business nous together with Adam Pearson's knowledge of football and its workings, this will hopefully ensure that we will not be put in the same position again with financial mismanagement. I am gutted that it looks as though we may miss out on Danns as I would have been well chuffed if we got him. However, I get the feeling that we may hold a press conference at the start of July and unveil quite a few signings all at once as that seems to be the way that Nigel does business i.e. we don't really know what's happening until it's done.
I think it's time the club revealed the full extent of the Bartlett/Duffen Regime's spending to the fans to give us a greater understanding of the situation. i for one would like to know why this season parachute payments are spoken for.
It's a real shame that it's come to this. The HDM comments are typically stupid. "Why get rid of the tea lady when she only earns in a year what Kamel Ghilas earns in a day", etc. This isn't the clubs fault, not the current incumbents anyway. We're stuck with old debt and players we don't want on contracts we can barely afford to honour. People going on about Allam's gift/loan to Rovers are dumb too. The guy has put £40m into Hull City. Forget his other business deals. He's put in a ****load of money and the club now has to run itself. I know a lot of people who work at the club, I hope they are unaffected.
I think a lot will change if we offload Bullard/Oli then a big chunk of wages are free to spend else where which means we can pay a little higher wages to the free agents. However I still maintain Bullard will certainly be owned by Hull City next season even if we have to loan him out to shed some wages but that will be a last day of the window job in panic. I do think Warnock will sign Oli however.
Just a thought but non playing staff are expected to travel to away games too you know, and are you suggesting they use their own cars for that? I imagine, off the top of my head, we would be looking at 20k miles a year JUST to travel to games on top of the regular, expected commute to the office. And then what about the full-time scouting network - are they supposed to use their own cars too? To be frank, Im stunned it's as low a number as 30.
ffs! I'm going to a funeral tomorrow, in the next village - with two mates and the landlord of my local. WE'RE SHARING A CAR! (Maybe it's like a Wembley trip for Tigers' staff - mum & daughter shopping; dad and son @ match. But I doubt it!) So there would undoubtedly be room for more than one employee in a car.
i think we will see fewer 'breaking news' style press cons in the immediate future. its just not NIgel Pearson's style.......
Are you serious? You think there should be more than thirty non playing staff attending away games and they should each go in a separate car? Jesus wept.
Yes, and I know for a fact that they do car share. Employees even hitch a ride with the HDM and RH on occasion to cut costs. Are you aware exactly how many non playing styaff have to go to an away game? I do love the way people on here and other messageboards are so quick to judge before a) knowing the FACTS and then b) engaging brain.
the trouble is, thanks to Gordon Taylor and his safety net, its impossible to get rid of the overpaid players. And thanks to (initially anyway) Thatcher and her crowd, it's easy to get rid of the tea lady!!!
Watford gap is a popular transfer point for many of the staff who attend away games. Matty Fryatt leaves his car there often I know. I even saw Nicky Barmby and Sean Rush get out of a chauffeur driven, personal number plated high range Merc on the way back from Bristol last year. Oh the sacrifices? Particularly when the team bus was right behind them
I think if you look at any corporate business you will see that company cars are a necessity and most have many many more than 30. This is a very small fraction of money and essential to the business people will very rarely be going to the same meetings etc. To attract your high corporate management to a business company cars are offered in many cases so we may struggle attract potential staff to take us forward if you had your way. Within the company I work for which employees over 27 000 people worldwide it is against company policy and makes all company insurance invalid if you are travelling for company purposes in a non company car. Meaning we have many many more than you suggest. Company cars in this case will also include things like coaches in the community getting around to training sessions which would be unfair to use their own cars using mileage and fuel for work purposes. I think this is the least of the clubs worries cutting the company cars would probably only save about one week of Mr Bullard. I think we should leave the financial stuff to the men in the corporate no and discuss footballing issues
The club do not take 30 non playing staff to away games. The non playing staff that travel with the squad travel on the team bus, you can see them getting off it(if you get their early enough), or back on it(if you get stuck outside the ground for a while). I can't believe anyone is trying to defend the club having 30 company cars, it's utterly ridiculous.
When did I say that? I didnt say all 30 company cars go to the away games, I used the staff that attend away games as an example. i also clearly stated that the scouting network use company cars and there would be a lot of use for them at a City game wouldnt there.... If you're going to argue with me at least dont put words in my mouth.
Its not just staff related to the first team you know. Community coaches, senior management of the backroom, scouts and directors (as with all large business the directors will get a company car) Insurance reasons will mean the club need this many company cars also if they are sending employees to a "site".
