15 goals in 39 games for Motherwell and 6 assists, which was his last club. If NJ has seen him, and thinks he can do a job in the team he wants to build then I'm happy enough. But as with any signing, I'll wait until I see him before forming a judgment. Carlo didn't score too many but he did a job for Curbs.
@lardiman Can we close this thread. Apparently it’s pointless to speculate until we know what “talent” (such an anorak’s word) other clubs are willing to sell. #Hawtrey
Us negative fans are such a bunch of self-entitled chumps Actually expecting the Club to go out and actively seek to sign the players we want, rather than just sit in the background and wait until other Clubs decide who they don't want anymore, then sift through the dregs. Sod whether other Clubs want to sell them. Get in there. Ruffle some feathers. Turn a few heads. Market the Club and make players want to come here. Is that too much to f**king ask? That's the way all the Clubs who won promotion last season operate. Some just do it more discreetly than others. When are we going to show some aggression in the transfer windows, rather than hold out the same old begging bowl?
When we have owners who’s aim is to buy the best players, rather than owners who’s aim is to reduce losses.
Ipswich showed some ambition and lo and behold they blasted out of this poxy league very quickly I find the low energy bean counters amusing, although tbf the three most egregious examples, Hawtrey, Mundell & Kings Hill, all indulge in 3 way bouts of confirmation bias on one forum. It’s hilarious how what 99.9% of normal fans would think of as ambition, the three Amigos regard as entitlement. It’s as if they enjoy watching meaningless low quality League One games in West Stand solitude
I read recently that League 1 clubs can spend what they like as there are no penalties on what you spend to turnover, like there is in the Championship. If this is the case and the Yanks have ambition then surely they should throw the kitchen sink at things this summer. In that case we should be buying Championship standard players so not needing to spend so much IF we were to go up.
Precisely what Ipswich did and is the only way to currently have a chance of going from L1 to the Prem. However, to be able to spend above the revenue percentage under the SCMP rules which apply in L1, an owner has to put in cash, which is NOT repayable, does not attract interest payments and does not put any future liability on the club. And our owners have said that they will not do that. Which is fine of course, as it’s their money, but it means that we basically can’t compete in L1 against other teams who are prepared to do that. Unless NJ can somehow produce top two form from mid-table players (and his record so far says that he can’t) then we will not be getting promoted.
Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP) is the Financial Fair Play rules for all League One and League Two Clubs. The SCMP requirement is whereby a Club’s Player-Related Expenditure shall not exceed the sum of 60% or 50% of the Club’s Relevant Turnover for League One and League Two Clubs respectively. The Reporting Period in respect of which a Club is assessed for the purpose of the SCMP Requirement is the 12 month period recorded in the Club’s Annual Accounts. The full SCMP regulations can be found here
Just to slightly clarify DP - ‘Financial Fair Play’ is a completely inaccurate term. The SCMP rules have a ’get out clause’ by allowing owners to make donations as I highlighted above. Therefore the rules are anything but ‘financial fair play’ as they allow themselves to be circumvented. And the percentages are not just assessed once (or twice) per year, they are subject to ‘live’ scrutiny, which is why the three stooges had to go cap in hand to the rich owners last season when they overspent during the season.
Tottenham willing to pay £800,000 for Thierry Small as a squad player next season. Thats him gone, if true (bring reported by the Football Insider acc). I am surprised Charlie Porkie’s spinners in the fanbase were not advanced warned about this ?
NJ's first lesson in how things work at Charlton. Millwall are also after him....... Unless we find out that the owners have had a rethink on strategy.
Realistically, if the reported £800,000 is on the table, Small will be gone faster than Charlie can e mail Dubai Addick.
