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Donald on our January budget

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CissesUnderpants19 said:
However both weren't running the club and team in the correct way, and our back to back relegation's proves that.
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Very true. My jury is out on the current mob. Far too early to judge. Their efforts so far have been decent. They know how to play to the crowd however.
 

andy78 said:
He did also say...

"We’ve got to get ourselves into a position whereby if Jack needs something in January we are in a position to do it. There is going to be some work needed in January to make sure that happens."

Some of the legacy payments are ridiculous, he mentions having to write a cheque to Everton recently for Darron Gibson.
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Gibson was a pittance surely. Every transfer is paid over several years. He protests a little too much me thinks.
 
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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 7 newstill 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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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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