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Do you think the wages for Championship players are free like?

Scowen and Wright are experienced Championship players on decent wedge. John is a Welsh international and Lafferty is a Northern Irish international so won’t be cheap.

Loan fees for Semenyo, John and Wright too.

Significant investment in League One doesn’t mean millions on fees.
Let’s ignore the outgoings then.
McGeough leaving, De Boeck leaving, McGeady leaving covers a large chunk of this.
We were told:

The owners had the money to take us to the Championship and be competitive there
We'd get a Dortmund Model
Oh, and a new hotel to generate revenue
100 points this season
Better than 50/50 chance of MSD completing a deal
Sartori was coming back to help take us forward
Significant investment in January
The club would be sold quickly

Pretty much everything these cunts have said since they got here has been a lie.

Our club has been outmanaged by a team that can't even hold on to their own ground.
I wouldn’t bother. We could be relegated to the Conference North and some people would still defend the owner.
Having pride in your club and expecting them to be competing at their natural level (on historical results) is considered a negative to some.
 
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No we weren't.

We were told there'd be "sufficient" investment.

"Significant" investment was going to happen before the fanzines told SD to get out of the club. AFterwards it became "sufficient". You can hardly expect SD to dig into his own bank account to fund us buying more players right after being told to leave the club, can you?
Do competent business people throw a huff and not bother due to customer feedback?
If you believe that then that’s a bigger insult to Stewart Donald than what most have said.
 
No we weren't.

We were told there'd be "sufficient" investment.

"Significant" investment was going to happen before the fanzines told SD to get out of the club. AFterwards it became "sufficient". You can hardly expect SD to dig into his own bank account to fund us buying more players right after being told to leave the club, can you?
He was in radio newcastle after the fanzines put out that statement saying our transfer window plans hadnt changed

mind i believe that as he had ne intention of spending anything imo
 
No we weren't.

We were told there'd be "sufficient" investment.

"Significant" investment was going to happen before the fanzines told SD to get out of the club. AFterwards it became "sufficient". You can hardly expect SD to dig into his own bank account to fund us buying more players right after being told to leave the club, can you?
It's hard to argue with that mind.
 
No we weren't.

We were told there'd be "sufficient" investment.

"Significant" investment was going to happen before the fanzines told SD to get out of the club. AFterwards it became "sufficient". You can hardly expect SD to dig into his own bank account to fund us buying more players right after being told to leave the club, can you?
He also told Parkinson that it would not affect the January transfer plans. “Significant investment” was also planned long after he was willing to sell the club in the summer. The fanzines had nothing to do with him wanting to sell the club nor him selling us short in January.
 
No we weren't.

We were told there'd be "sufficient" investment.

"Significant" investment was going to happen before the fanzines told SD to get out of the club. AFterwards it became "sufficient". You can hardly expect SD to dig into his own bank account to fund us buying more players right after being told to leave the club, can you?

You’d have to be a very gullible, or a total moron to believe Donald had any intention of spending any more in January than he did.
 
Course it is. He's got 10 million burning a hole as he hasn't touched a penny of it.
If you were about to sell the club, would you?
Not really hard like. Club of our size cherry pick best players in our league and move on. Chairman is a f***ing fraud
You mean like Wyke and Grigg were supposed to be. We also wanted Lyle Taylor last season, but he chose to go to Charlton.
 
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It's hard to argue with that mind.

No it's not. They might aswel have not brought anyone in in January, other than baily-Wright. The latter part of last year, when we in a horrible run, the general consensus between fans and club (I.e the cover-all reply to anyone daring to voice concern) was 'stay within reach of the playoffs till January' - then in january it was 'wait till the window is over before commenting' - then it was 'give the new lads time to bed in and get into the team' - now its simply 'we havent got any other options when the first 11 arent playing well' . And next it will be 'just get behind them till the end of the season, these are the players we have' - then after the end of the season it will be 'let's be patient and see what happens this summer' and so on and so forth... this cycle has been continuing for years, the desperation to accept mediocrity, incompetence, and any old shite at the club, instead of demanding professionalism and striving for constant improvement.
You’d have to be a very gullible, or a total moron to believe Donald had any intention of spending any more in January than he did.

It's not the money, or lack of it, or amount of it spent, its sheer incompetence of just about everyone at the club, in all departments, almost all of the time. If scowen, lafferty, john and semenyo weren't going to improve the starting 11, or at least offer the match day squad an alternative dimension, then what was the point? What have the club been doing for november, december and january ? The january window isnt just sprung upon us out of the blue. The club is a f***ing shambles from top to bottom and they have got away with it for years as no one calls them out on it. Even other fans attack anyone who tries to critically analyse what is going on. It's very similar to working class people, who are directly worse off because of them, going out and voting Tory. Its absolutely mental
 
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No it's not. They might aswel have not brought anyone in in January, other than baily-Wright. The latter part of last year, when we in a horrible run, the general consensus between fans and club (I.e the cover-all reply to anyone daring to voice concern) was 'stay within reach of the playoffs till January' - then in january it was 'wait till the window is over before commenting' - then it was 'give the new lads time to bed in and get into the team' - now its simply 'we havent got any other options when the first 11 arent playing well' . And next it will be 'just get behind them till the end of the season, these are the players we have' - then after the end of the season it will be 'let's be patient and see what happens this summer' and so on and so forth... this cycle has been continuing for years, the desperation to accept mediocrity, incompetence, and any old shite at the club, instead of demanding professionalism and striving for constant improvement.
I certainly don't think we haven't any other options if the first 11 aren't playing well. John, Scowen and Lafferty have all played a lot of games at a higher level - we haven't seen much of them yet because of Parkinson's reluctance to change a winning team.
 
He also told Parkinson that it would not affect the January transfer plans. “Significant investment” was also planned long after he was willing to sell the club in the summer. The fanzines had nothing to do with him wanting to sell the club nor him selling us short in January.

He also said that if the takeover didnt happen it would have no influence on January's spending.In a way he was right as we spent fuck all.
 
Surely any players brought in of any value would be added to the value of the club. Also going up would get him more for the club
Yeah but didn't he expect to sell the club before the end of the season, so he wouldn't have reaped the benefit.
Obviously it probably isn't going to happen now.
 
Yeah but didn't he expect to sell the club before the end of the season, so he wouldn't have reaped the benefit.
Obviously it probably isn't going to happen now.

It's a rubbish argument to be fair. If you were trying to sell a house, and it had a hole in roof that was going to lead to internal damage, it would be idiotic not to repair the roof
Surely any players brought in of any value would be added to the value of the club. Also going up would get him more for the club

Exactly. A club on top of the league, with a squad that could hold it's own in the championship, is clearly going to be more valuable than a one scraping around the playoffs of league 1
I certainly don't think we haven't any other options if the first 11 aren't playing well. John, Scowen and Lafferty have all played a lot of games at a higher level - we haven't seen much of them yet because of Parkinson's reluctance to change a winning team.

Well hopefully they all come in and start on Saturday, in place of Wyke, hume and dobson/power, and if our recruitment team have done thier homework properly then they should all be improvements on the dropped players.

That would beg the question though , why weren't they already starting? Could have had 6 points this week instead of 1 and be top of the league now
 
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