The problem is with all of this nonsense, is the actual stuff you guys say is nonsense and put across in a ridiculous manner which then means your point of views lose a lot of credibility.
Point being, you'd probably have more people on your side if you didn't make stuff up and didn't speculate nonsense all the time as the point of a bigger and better football club is 100% the right view.
Crying constantly on here about it is going to achieve absolutely nothing. Zilch.
This type of comment was the typical 'norm' pretty much 3 years ago to where we are now. 95% against a small minority. The small minority were bang on then.
Im not having a go mate, far from it. But it does surprise me that our history doesn't make more people just a tad cynical.
This thread is about budgets. Because it doesn't hit the agenda of some, they diss the source. And even when those who question it (I actually did!) but find no surprise to the numbers for the reasons explained, they are just talking crap…apparently!
Its not hard to find articles discussing the average wages of players in different leagues. Last season at times we were paying over 30. And its a fair assumption to make that many of those players would have been earning far more than the average. Hence why we had a top third in the division budget. On that list, the likes of Blackburn and Wigan are at the top…again no surprise. The clubs at the bottom, again its pretty obvious. MK Dons…it was well reported that when they went up from this division 3 years ago they had a 4.5million circa budget…about the biggest at the time. They have been in the championship since then, so no surprise they have an even bigger budget than ourselves. All the numbers on the list do make sense although I doubt they are entirely accurately but as a general basis…pretty much correct Id say.
Much of our budget was spent on the back of Chinese 'investment'. Again its a FACT when its pointed out that our main shareholder who sold his shares to the Chinese, then gained them back after the deal went 'wong' (sorry!!!) - has had to cover a very sizeable short fall since.
Is he prepared to continue funding the club given we've got roughly 24 contracted players, definitely need a handful more etc, for another season at a lower league and with lower overall income? Theres no point asking him, he's not contactable for the likes of you and me. And even if he was, would the answer be accurate both now, in 6 months time, 12 months time? KT isn't going to open up on the matter, would you if you were him?
Of course he could gain some of that back, or indeed all of it, by flogging some players. Crookes, 250K plus a big saving on wages? Lets say total 400k. VV - possibly another 300k all in. Then all of a sudden its sustainable again.
Most of the stuff on this website is speculation, opinion, much of it subjective. I think its fair to say though that the football club has not been well run at all during the last 12 months (relegation aside), whether that will change any time soon under the current ownership will much depend on their commitment and time they are prepared to put in. One is based in Dubai, the other in the States (half the time). In my opinion they certainly need to be far more hands on, but thats from me looking from the outside in and I accept I may be totally wrong with that. But theres some serious questions that need to be answered and ones that no body can get them to answer with anywhere near transparency.
I've used the fruit machine analogy on here before but not for some time. I just get the hunch that they know that it isn't going to pay anytime soon, they are down to their last 10er, and their mates have all gone to the next pub without them!
