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Russell Martin has Ross Stewart as his main target **Transfer confirmed **


Zidane said:
I would imagine we have trawled Europe for strikers in the £3.5m bracket only to be quoted 6/7/8m.

But if we get £8m+ for Stewart then we can then go back in for one of them.
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Depends if we are trying to purchase under intrinsic value as opposed to purchasing for a league-related goal.
 
The Situation said:
We all want to be promoted. It's complete nonsense to suggest any fan on here doesn't want that, and it's complete nonsense to suggest the club doesn't want that either.

If we went up and came back down with 0 points, it would bring us on lightyears compared to our current position and status.

What some do disagree with however, is how to go about it.

Firing £5m at the likes of Jonson Clarke-Harris, which you have obsessed over for months, is one way of burning any progress we have made in recent seasons to the ground.

Yourself and MurtonMark as an example seem to think because we are "massive" we have a God given right to go up and that we can outbid teams like Southampton and Leicester for players who are after bringing in £175m and £100m+ for players this summer respectively as well as having 3 years of parachute payments to come, simply because we are in the same division.

If that logic worked, teams like Luton should be competing with the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City, by virtue of being in the same league.

The game has moved on significantly since the days of Drumaville and you are describing a completely different financial landscape.

The EFL is full of big clubs with great histories who also feel they should be back where they belong. The reality is modern day footballers couldn't give a shiney shite about how "massive" we are, how good our fans are or how many trophies we won in he 1800's.
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Very well put, the fact is alot of posters think they are playing Football Manager, it's actually scary some of the shite they come out with and how they don't understand the current process we are going through after years of mismanagement.
 
TravellingMackem said:
He said he’s offered the cap. He’s also said others are on the very same cap.

Player contract values can be calculated very easily from Amortisation figures within the club accounts and tax return figures from PLCs used by players to siphon payments.

I’m sure you can fill in the gaps
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Errr...no they can't. Most of the time you can't even separate out players wages from the rest of the staff.

Even with the 21/22 accounts, you will not be able to work out what any player was being paid at the time, never mind now.

Amortisation is writing off the initial cost of an asset over a period of time. Curious how you intend to use this to 'easily' predict player salaries.
 
This will probably give a good picture of how strong we are prepared to be in the market when selling players.

Pressure will be on from Southampton to get him for very little right at the end of a window we’ve struggled throughout getting in a striker ourselves.
 
rapscallion said:
13 times the latest season. Seems like a left forward.
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Marcus Rashford got put out wide for a while. Still a Centre Forward.

Rusyn has 23 goals and 9 assists from 4431 mins of senior football as a CF.

He played 894 mins as CF last season 4 goals and 2 assists. He played 1293 mins as LW or RW scoring 9 goals with 4 assists.

I mean all in all impressive stats playing in 3 different attacking positions.
 
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I know Southampton are minted and all that but I find it hard to believe they would bid £8m for a relatively unproven striker that could even potentially be permanently crocked.
 
wicketkeeper said:
The irony is that those of us concerned with the lack of investment are portrayed as negative when the opposite is true.
We recognise that this club is massive and with investment is capable of holding its own in the premier league. The clappers are happy to be "sustainable' and playing nice football in the championship for the next five years.



In January this 'negative' poster was saying we could get promoted: the 'positive' happy clappers were saying lets be happy with mid table cos we once bought Grigg and that turned out bad
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Brilliant post
 
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