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[Chewit]

I agree with this mind. Donald has saved a lot of money - so stabilised is in that way- but there has been the inevitable huge decline in quality at all levels of football alongside. It’s why I retain some sympathy for Ross. It’s easy to trot out the ‘spent more than any other side in the division’ narrative but ‘reducing outgoings more than any other club in history’ is probably as close to the truth - you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. This takeover and investment is timely because footballing wise we’re stretched. We think our squad is the best but fans are blinkered and longer term the good players are off to better run clubs. Hopefully our potential will pull us back some credibility because financial survival and investment readiness has made us crap at football from the school aged up to the adults.

Only way out of this for me is to buy championship quality players, that’s if the financial restrictions will let us.

 

[chelt_mackem]

No. The control is purely on player costs, ie salary, NI, bonuses and signing on fees.

So does that mean that there are fewer restrictions on them if they wanted to pour money in by doing some kind of sponsorship scheme while we're in League 1 than there would be if we were in the Championship or Prem?

 

[Freddie the Greek]

Not me mate. I've grafted with you so I know how f***ing clueless you are...

So what do you know then?? Apart from stuff??

We've both worked with him, and we both know he knows fuck all

You've both just blown your chance of an ITK PM, helmets

 

[wash]

Hello mate

Are you footballer or a prostitute?

Pay them enough and they'll put on a replica kit and be your fantasy

 

[Sleepy]

Yes, I know stuff, who would have thought that

Good stuff hopefully!

 

[Junior Birdman]

You've both just blown your chance of an ITK PM, helmets

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[deleted user 785]

Pay them enough and they'll put on a replica kit and be your fantasy

Cattermole
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[stevie-wonder]

Not even sure we'd do that either tbh.

Me neither, when Bruce had us 6th with Bent banging them in for fun we wasnt hitting 40k.

Im sure that was the start of Short hitting the breaks a bit with spending.
Quinny no doubt sold him the line if we get 40k at the bottom just imagine what we could get if we are top 6.
In actual fact there wasnt much difference in crowd size which really, proves how loyal the support is winning or losing.

 

[Upthere]

A general question that I hope @Grumpy Old Man could answer. Under the league 1 FFP type constraints, are we limited in regards to how much money can be injected to our scouting network and the academy?

Anything.

 

[deleted user 785]

You've both just blown your chance of an ITK PM, helmets

Theyre not worth it Freddie, you're better than them

 

[young2077]

So does that mean that there are fewer restrictions on them if they wanted to pour money in by doing some kind of sponsorship scheme while we're in League 1 than there would be if we were in the Championship or Prem?

Cant they gift he club money in this league which they cant in the leagues above. They should take the opportunity to chuck the money into the clubs bank account for the next 10 years.

 

[Junior Birdman]

You've both just blown your chance of an ITK PM, helmets

I'm logging off for a bit soon. Drop me a text if you hear out marra.

 

[Freddie the Greek]

Good stuff hopefully!

Most of it has all been covered on here tbh.

 

[Sleepy]

Most of it has all been covered on here tbh.

Everyone is like a kid waiting for xmas. It's class!

Very similar to xmas actually, most people over the moon and happy then the scrooges kicking around with their baaa humbugs

 

[Roker Mackem]

Having seen some of the estates there, I’d take issue with the idea that it would only look like Chernobyl in the future.

Nailed it

 

[The Legendary Tongue]

Despite Reiver saying he was done ....

1. They'll approve spend, but will be monitoring it closely. Apparently they know Daniel Levy, so the agents might find the gravy train is stuck in the station. That level of control might make certain managers have second thoughts.
2. New signings will be sold the future, not the present.
3. They're still hoping to get the announcement done this week.

There's more, but well outside my pay grade.

I’ll chip in for your wages marra. Now spill the beans.

 

[Phil_Harmonic]

If the link to the Mugs was true, I think I'd rather mention of the ridiculous behaviour of their support base being the reason they moved on rather than Mike Ashley's money grabbing.

 

[Hull_Mackem]

Well, rough figures but if you're already pulling in a crowd of say 50k and expanding the stadium by 10k is going to cost you £10m (if you're lucky and Sir Bob built you an expandable stadium rather than have to rebuild completely). Unless you're already killing it at the top of the league, you use that capacity about half the time and need the tickets to be quite competitively priced to do it. That's maybe £2m a year additional revenue.

That £10m could have been invested in business development deals that dwarf that kind of revenue. With a bit of a top up of the wage and transfer budget thrown in. You could be making £5m a year more on sponsorship and other business deals, and making £5m a year just for finishing 3 league positions higher than you did before, and £8m for getting 5 more live games on the sports channels than you did before. And the stadium's already full.

Ah right cool, misunderstood you meaning. Thought you meant if you already have the capacity, rather than factoring in the cost of expansion.

 

[WhoDrankAllTheBovril]

What could be causing the hold up?

Fax machine malfunction again?

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

So does that mean that there are fewer restrictions on them if they wanted to pour money in by doing some kind of sponsorship scheme while we're in League 1 than there would be if we were in the Championship or Prem?

They'd probably disallow anything over arms length value as turnover, so the salary cap would still be limited to that.