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Donald on our January budget

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oddbod said:
Here we go...............come january oviado,cattermole ,mcgreedy,ndong,papa and any other fekka who does not fit dons austerity model will be offloaded(watmore)...its going to be a long hard rocky road ahead folks and if folk must see the the tonal change in the above piece from the enthusiasm of the first few weeks ...........who remembers the funds don has in case of trouble and doesnt st santi has millions to give us! who remembers "we can afford to keep anybody thet ross wants"(bollocks that was).............................nee wonder they are trying to sell of the kids..were in one fekking mess and only hard graft and ross's acumen is going to get us out of it.
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Ucumen is the best word of today.
 
oddbod said:
Here we go...............come january oviado,cattermole ,mcgreedy,ndong,papa and any other fekka who does not fit dons austerity model will be offloaded(watmore)...its going to be a long hard rocky road ahead folks and if folk must see the the tonal change in the above piece from the enthusiasm of the first few weeks ...........who remembers the funds don has in case of trouble and doesnt st santi has millions to give us! who remembers "we can afford to keep anybody thet ross wants"(bollocks that was).............................nee wonder they are trying to sell of the kids..were in one fekking mess and only hard graft and ross's acumen is going to get us out of it.
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You are talking bollocks funds wise to be fair
 
The worst thing about these two is they have done nothing to show that they should be playing at a higher level, yet here they are refusing to lift a f***ing finger cause they are better than us and where we are.

Papy came out with how he was a premier league player after the first relegation, when has he done anything to prove that? His shite time with us? Maybe that was all down to his team mates and Moyes, he must have had a good run in the league with his last club? No mate ya had f***ing 8 minutes or summit.

Fuck off and when ya get there fuck off some more. Who sanctioned his transfer fee and wages? Got this fantastic player he is the level we need a shop at 8 million. Great what's his experience like at this level? He played 8 minutes in this league with Chelsea! Chelsea you say? Must be a good player heres a cheque.
 
Mary Hinge said:
Errrr the Don pleading Fookin poverty....

We have a £20 Fookin budget....in this shit Fookin pub league....
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I don’t think we need a lot more just 2/3 real quality players that will make the difference. We might have enough as it is over the season, but the defence has looked vulnerable in just about every game so far.
 
Botchie said:
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When we came in, we basically did a budget that said we’d have £10m in wages and we’d probably have to spend £4m tidying up contracts, the Jack Rodwells, etc. The reality is that we actually spent zero tidying up contracts but that money is worse than that because we haven’t been able to get rid of Ndong, Djilobodji and a couple of others. So we are way, way over that. That’s bad news.

We’ll see where we go with Papy and Ndong but the rest of the squad with the players that we’ve got, I think we’ve got the wage bill down from £20m odd, excluding those two, the existing squad is down to £11m. We’ve managed to halve it and the new squad has cost about £3m to put together.

That tells you the challenge that we have because in this league £3m-4m is a decent wage and a £5m-6m budget and you’re at the top. We’ve spent that on players, the £3m-4m, but we’ve still got £11m in the existing squad, although we don’t have £11m worth of value probably.

With League One revenues, even with 30,000 fans, that’s not sustainable. We’ve had one window, so over the next couple of windows we are going to have to try and improve that but the problem is that it has left us with almost no wiggle room.

January is going to be a challenge for us because of what we’ve got in our squad.
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They could just put their own money in

They got it get debt free and paid virtually fuck all for it

As long as we get promoted all is good, but if we don’t it’s a fuckin disaster
 
janey said:
What has Arsenal and Charlton got to do with it
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merely stating the guy is "rumoured" to be after charlton...IF true he will get them for £30-40 million and have a pound or two left to strenghten,at present we are only 4 points ahead of them,if they started spending £20-30 million on 3 or 4 players i would expect them to get top 2 for sure,arsenal have fuck all to do with it,
 
It’s not the players in I am worried about as I think we will have enough in the squad to see us through. It’s the lack of funds for new deals for players coming to the end of a contract. We could lose some for nowt if we can’t compete with other deals on the table.
 
The Rat said:
They could just put their own money in

They got it get debt free and paid virtually fuck all for it

As long as we get promoted all is good, but if we don’t it’s a fuckin disaster
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You're right getting promoted is the main aim, regardless of how it happens. Apparently a few legacy payments have crawled out of the woodwork since. It will be interesting to hear the full interview in yhe morning. Fact is Short disowned the club while here and those left to run it left us in this situation. Supposedly we have had to write an unexpected cheque to Everton for Darron Gibson.
 
bomber said:
merely stating the guy is "rumoured" to be after charlton...IF true he will get them for £30-40 million and have a pound or two left to strenghten,at present we are only 4 points ahead of them,if they started spending £20-30 million on 3 or 4 players i would expect them to get top 2 for sure,arsenal have fuck all to do with it,
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I might have stopped reading at guy, but I’m still not sure about the link to Charlton, bizarre, or to Arsenal.Strange post
 
Next time Donald is questioned ask him when they budgeted for this season what was the attendance figure they used to estimate gate revenue this season.
I reckon they will have been in the low 20's rather than the current 30's.
Extra 10,000 on the gate is a minimum of £100,000 per game - 23 home games £2.3m extra revenue.
 
We should be at least close to promotion with what we have.
I would be interested to know the plan going forward though, promotion from championship is likely to be costly.
 
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