The Model Works


If being a 2nd flight development club is the model working... then it's not up to standard. This season marks the longest spell the club has ever had out of the top flight. That's the longest spell EVER.

We're looking up to the likes of Southampton. Clubs with limited or no history.

If I wanted to support a financial model I'd spend Saturday afternoons standing at natwest, but instead I choose to watch sunderland play football!
Key word there is history. This is modern football and current day business. We can still progress, it just will take time and patience. We want to be where Brighton are and beyond in the long run but we have no more entitlement to be there than Southampton or any other club do for that matter. We’re building, it takes time. The story of the three little pigs comes to mind!
 
Baffled at some of the responses.

Selling your players and not replacing them is not the model working.

We have nobody sufficient to come in and replace them ffs.

Our four best attacking players last year; Stewart, Amad, Roberts, Clarke and potentially losing three of them. You think Jack Clarke will hang around when all the talented lads are being sold?

All we needed to do this summer was make a couple of shrewd signings in addition to a quality forward and hang on to our best players. That would have allowed us to push on.

But no, they’re running the club like a f***ing boys club driven by ideology. They can get to fuck.
Key word there is history. This is modern football and current day business. We can still progress, it just will take time and patience. We want to be where Brighton are and beyond in the long run but we have no more entitlement to be there than Southampton or any other club do for that matter. We’re building, it takes time. The story of the three little pigs comes to mind!

You don’t build by getting rid of your best workers.
 
Made £9m+ on Stewart
Might make £5m on Roberts

Neither were in the squad at the weekend and we got a draw against a team how’ve spent huge and are expected to be top 6 minimum.

Will make future profits on Clarke, Hume, Ballard, Cirkin, Bellingham, Ekwah, Patterson, Rigg, Neil etc.

Still time for some additions and a more than capable manager at the helm.

Might not be the quick fire progress some are looking for but it’s a healthy way to run a club and a business.
Wooohoo a draw.

Ffs.
 
Baffled at some of the responses.

Selling your players and not replacing them is not the model working.

We have nobody sufficient to come in and replace them ffs.

Our four best attacking players last year; Stewart, Amad, Roberts, Clarke and potentially losing three of them. You think Jack Clarke will hang around when all the talented lads are being sold?

All we needed to do this summer was make a couple of shrewd signings in addition to a quality forward and hang on to our best players. That would have allowed us to push on.

But no, they’re running the club like a f***ing boys club driven by ideology. They can get to fuck.


You don’t build by getting rid of your best workers.
No, you sign your youngest, brightest prospects to long term deals, offer deals to your older best workers and if they don’t like them you don’t bend to their demands you cash in on big profits for the benefit of the clubs long term future.
Wooohoo a draw.

Ffs.
Could’ve gone either way but my point was we’re competing at that level without them. Sarcasm and cursing unnecessary.
 
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Made £9m+ on Stewart
Might make £5m on Roberts

Neither were in the squad at the weekend and we got a draw against a team how’ve spent huge and are expected to be top 6 minimum.

Will make future profits on Clarke, Hume, Ballard, Cirkin, Bellingham, Ekwah, Patterson, Rigg, Neil etc.

Still time for some additions and a more than capable manager at the helm.

Might not be the quick fire progress some are looking for but it’s a healthy way to run a club and a business.
The same model as relegated Southampton, hopefully we sell the whole squad tommorow to show how class we are.
 
Made £9m+ on Stewart
Might make £5m on Roberts

Neither were in the squad at the weekend and we got a draw against a team how’ve spent huge and are expected to be top 6 minimum.

Will make future profits on Clarke, Hume, Ballard, Cirkin, Bellingham, Ekwah, Patterson, Rigg, Neil etc.

Still time for some additions and a more than capable manager at the helm.

Might not be the quick fire progress some are looking for but it’s a healthy way to run a club and a business.
Only fully works if we replace and replace well….which means improving on performances and results from last season
 
No, you sign your youngest, brightest prospects to long term deals, offer deals to your older best workers and if they don’t like them you don’t bend to their demands you cash in on big profits for the benefit of the clubs long term future.

So you think if we sell Roberts and Stewart we have adequate cover in the squad? And you think we will have any chance of replacing them with genuine quality by the time the window shuts.

If we sell them and go down is that good business? Or do you hang on to your best players and build a squad around them? The club should have sorted their contracts out months and months ago. They’ve done this to themselves. That’s not the model working.

Some people will literally defend this and think it’s a good thing. Why the fuck are people bothered about us being sustainable. It’s absolutely laughable. It’s not our money. Do people take pride in being sustainable and being stuck in this division? :lol:
 
No, you sign your youngest, brightest prospects to long term deals, offer deals to your older best workers and if they don’t like them you don’t bend to their demands you cash in on big profits for the benefit of the clubs long term future.

Could’ve gone either way but my point was we’re competing at that level without them. Sarcasm and cursing unnecessary.
We got through one game against a toothless Coventry whilst never really looking like scoring ourselves. It's hardly competing at the top of the table stuff.
 
The model is supposed to work by having players ready to move seemlessly into the place of the player sold. Who is seemlessly moving into Ross’s place , who would replace Roberts if he left ? The players who we brought in to do this have not been good enough or are nowhere near ready .
This will be ignored but you’ve nailed it.
 
I totally get panic if we don’t replace them. I’ll be doing the same if we sell and don’t replace come 11:00pm tomorrow.

What I don’t get is, we aren’t a top tier team. I really really rate Roberts, Stewart & Clarke, but is there better players out there, of course there is. It’s up to the club to find them, if they do, why wouldn’t we sell up and upgrade if the opportunity arose? That’s how teams move forward, right?

Obviously I’m saying this, with the expectancy that the club/the model has planned ahead for this scenario, I might be being naive mind :lol:

IF we sold all 3, ideally (judging by links) it’ll be -
Stewart replaced with Cannon
Roberts replaced with Virginihius(SP?)
Gooch replaced with Dagba
+ a holding midfielder.
I’d argue we’d still be in a strong position then - I realise it’s a big ask for all that to fall into place mind!
 
Made £9m+ on Stewart
Might make £5m on Roberts

Neither were in the squad at the weekend and we got a draw against a team how’ve spent huge and are expected to be top 6 minimum.

Will make future profits on Clarke, Hume, Ballard, Cirkin, Bellingham, Ekwah, Patterson, Rigg, Neil etc.

Still time for some additions and a more than capable manager at the helm.

Might not be the quick fire progress some are looking for but it’s a healthy way to run a club and a business.
Stewart wasn't bought as part of this model like. At that time he was bought purely because he was available and at a decent price. That said its decent money.
The model hasn't worked at all with players signed from the continent, and they should concentrate on UK based players and be more flexible to buying players over 25
 
Get in! This is why I love the model. The football is mostly incidental for me - I am so glad that KLD is getting rich of player sales so late in the window. The transfer window, specifically the last two days, are why I follow Sunderland. It's great to see the club turn a profit. Balance sheet is looking excellent. Long may we buy cheap, sell high. These are the results that matter, trading players :cool:
Super, smashing, great.
 
We got through one game against a toothless Coventry whilst never really looking like scoring ourselves. It's hardly competing at the top of the table stuff.
4 games in and you’ve written us off?
So you think if we sell Roberts and Stewart we have adequate cover in the squad? And you think we will have any chance of replacing them with genuine quality by the time the window shuts.

If we sell them and go down is that good business? Or do you hang on to your best players and build a squad around them? The club should have sorted their contracts out months and months ago. They’ve done this to themselves. That’s not the model working.

Some people will literally defend this and think it’s a good thing. Why the fuck are people bothered about us being sustainable. It’s absolutely laughable. It’s not our money. Do people take pride in being sustainable and being stuck in this division? :lol:
So many ifs and buts to form an argument and project an opinion onto others. Oh and you laugh at your own jokes / comments?

Why are people so quick to dismiss and reject sustainability? Is it because you don’t want to wait to charge your car for the bigger picture benefits of the planet?
Stewart wasn't bought as part of this model like. At that time he was bought purely because he was available and at a decent price. That said its decent money.
The model hasn't worked at all with players signed from the continent, and they should concentrate on UK based players and be more flexible to buying players over 25
He is part of the model. He’s at the club.
 
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