Akpom and Rogers last season, Spence and Tavernier the year before.
Not as drastic as Coventry but basically the same theory.
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Not as drastic as Coventry but basically the same theory.
So who have they sold this season to keep spending?
Their one man band owner, hasn't got pockets anywhere near as deep as our lot, yet continually bankrolls HIS club and has done for many years.
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DoctorMick
Striker
You do realise you don’t have to spent the money in the same window you sell a player don’t you? In fact, the money will often come in a lot later. They made about £25m in transfer profit the previous 2 seasons.
There is no rule about when you spend the money you make. Norwich have just sold Sara for £20-odd million, don't be surprised if they use that money outside of this window.
Mvilla has gone to Caen
They'll spend over 10m this window, I'm sure they've spent that the season before as well as paying higher wages for players with a high transfer fee plus they'll have outgoings for older transfer fees.
They've got an owner who tries his best to get them challenging, ours don't. You really can't say otherwise when we fucked last season off and yet to have at leat one first team striker with the league kicking off in a few days. Completely unacceptable.
DoctorMick
Striker
I’m not going to deny Gibson puts a lot of cash in, he always has done but where do you expect that difference in transfer income to come from? We’re at a net loss over the last 2 seasons where as they have +£25m so it makes sense that they’d have more capacity to spend.
RGZ
Central Defender
Interesting
LondonMackem
Striker
Bring back the king… JOZY
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Think you'll find most clubs run at a loss fella, Boro included. What they don't do is moan about it. Gibson could quite easily keep that cash made on transfers in the clubs pocket and say use the sustainability card, but the bloke would rather put money in and have a go.
There's unlikely to be a club in this league who are ran at a profit.
They sold Spence and Tavernier the season before last season for big money and the signings they made wouldn't have been close to the money they brought in for those two.
Last season they sold Akpom and Rogers for big money.
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That's a good sign
No Big deal we have wasted over half the transfer window waiting for this player with clearly no plan b. We are going into the season with Mayenda as our number 9. It’s a huge deal imo! Again the owners and sporting director have let us down.
Disco_Pants93
Striker
Is there a thread left that’s talking about the actual subject rather than not having a striker, or speakman or the same couple of posters arguing? 
sick
Striker
He's downed tools, so they have to do something. If the reason for the delay was genuinely to try and persuade him to stay, but the fee had previously been agreed, then it probably is a good sign.That's a good sign
If on the other hand we are still miles apart on fee (most likely imo) it might not change much.
The only place I've read that a fee has been agreed is one poster on here (I know that apparently he's got some things right but any itk on here should be taken with a pinch of salt because they all get things wrong / say things have changed/ start guessing/ lying eventually) I've read elsewhere that we haven't agreed a fee and the club had leaked that a deal wasn't as close as social media was suggesting, albeit this was a while ago now.
roppa
Striker
Then they can stay I assume
Baz
Striker
No they haven't.
DoctorMick
Striker
I never mentioned sustainably but Boro have brought in more than £25m more than we have in the last 2 years which, regardless of owner investment, gives them more money to spend. Where do you expect that gap to come from? Straight out of KLDs back pocket?
It’d be interesting to knows who’s owners have had to put more cash into the clubs over the last few years, I haven’t checked but I’d put money on it being ours.
