McCabe has to go

[maidmarion]

If we are to get anywhere in the next few years McCabe has to sell up along with the fake sheikh.

This window was the perfect opportunity to show a bit of ambition. Nothing crazy just the opportunity to back wilder and see what he can do with a bit of sensible investment. Considering we've received 6/7 million in sales.

And we have spent nothing we've made a profit of 4/5 million. McCabe please leave

Cannot be bothered to track through all the other comments so someone may have said is already.
McCabe for all his faults is a Blade. He has also stuck with us through thick and thin and we now have a manager , stadium and team that is on the up.
Do you really want to trade him in for foreign owner, with no affinity to this club other than the status he thinks it may bring him having 'owner of Sheffield United' on his CV.
There are so many clubs now with foreign owners, throwing money around as if it's going out of fashion and quite frankly getting nowhere.

I'd rather the devil we know......

 

[Sean Thornton]

How do you know this?

Perhaps financial backing was available and Wilder tried to use it, but for whatever reason he couldn't land his targets.

Wilder does not strike me as the type of manager who will sign someone just for the sake of it when he can't get his original targets. I think he is more likely to wait until he can get someone he really wants. He has built a team and it seems to me that any player coming in has to be able to fit into the team. Team strengthening is likely to be well thought out and gradual. I doubt that you will see Wilder indulging in any very high profile purchases, as that could easily upset the very strong team spirit that we finally seem to have regained.

Should put an end to the "didn't try for Cole" and "last minute panic buy Donaldson" comments. But it probably won't.

 

[UnitedBlade]

Good job Wilder rang 'Arry, the Donaldson deal would have gone tits up otherwise.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Good job Wilder rang 'Arry, the Donaldson deal would have gone tits up otherwise.

From hated dodgy cockney bastard to Good Old 'Arry, as popular as the Old Queen Mum was. Gertcha!

 

[snootyfenooty]

The "wisew" in his user name is a truncated version of wise owl. He's taking the piss, why are we even humouring this guy.

 

[stringer]

FFP is about restricting cumulative losses

Paying off losses before spending extra on players is usually a decent start

 

[Tyler Durden]

I would suggest that those of an anti-McCabe persuasion start walking the talk and forming your own group to coherently challenge the man and his practices. Rather than wibbling ad nauseum on here.

And then I would suggest that any such campaign would be doomed to miserable failure, because the fact is there is little appetite for such action among the wider fanbase.
Many would like to portray McCabe as some Oyston/Duchatelet figure at best, or imply that he is defrauding the club in some vague, never fully specified manner at worst. Fucking idiotic in both instances.

Kevin McCabe, unlike many football club owners has publicly faced the supporters in the form of fans forums almost every year for at least a decade. I've personally raised certain issues of the day with him three or four times. I've been answered honestly and unambiguously every time.

I find it very telling that for all their hot air and bluster on various media, the anti-McCabe brigade rarely ever turn out to air their grievences to him directly despite the opportunity frequently arising. The few detractors that do so, make themselves look very silly indeed pretty quickly.

 

[Hodgyman]

This has been posted before but is well worth the read and explain exactly what happened, when, who were involved and the culprits etc. It will also kill any attempts by wind-up merchants to have their fun. It's a shame that. They can't get much fun watching the dolphin killers either.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ed-boss-chris-wilder-on-transfer-deadline-day

 

[TCsLoveChild]

If we are to get anywhere in the next few years McCabe has to sell up along with the fake sheikh.

This window was the perfect opportunity to show a bit of ambition. Nothing crazy just the opportunity to back wilder and see what he can do with a bit of sensible investment. Considering we've received 6/7 million in sales.

And we have spent nothing we've made a profit of 4/5 million. McCabe please leave

I smell Pork

 

[3-GBlade]

The "wisew" in his user name is a truncated version of wise owl. He's taking the piss, why are we even humouring this guy.

or Wisewood Owl

 

[alcoblade]

Agreed, the Board's one and only job was to set the budget. Three players didn't arrive for other reasons.

I'm not disagreeing as such, but if the board sets the budget "ten times" higher, then those deals would have sailed through. It's all interlinked.

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

I would suggest that those of an anti-McCabe persuasion start walking the talk and forming your own group to coherently challenge the man and his practices. Rather than wibbling ad nauseum on here.

And then I would suggest that any such campaign would be doomed to miserable failure, because the fact is there is little appetite for such action among the wider fanbase.
Many would like to portray McCabe as some Oyston/Duchatelet figure at best, or imply that he is defrauding the club in some vague, never fully specified manner at worst. Fucking idiotic in both instances.

Kevin McCabe, unlike many football club owners has publicly faced the supporters in the form of fans forums almost every year for at least a decade. I've personally raised certain issues of the day with him three or four times. I've been answered honestly and unambiguously every time.

I find it very telling that for all their hot air and bluster on various media, the anti-McCabe brigade rarely ever turn out to air their grievences to him directly despite the opportunity frequently arising. The few detractors that do so, make themselves look very silly indeed pretty quickly.

Im not anti mcabe he has been a great chairman and owner , but to compete at this level and possibly the next investment is needed beyond his means

 

[UnitedBlade]

I'm not disagreeing as such, but if the board sets the budget "ten times" higher, then those deals would have sailed through. It's all interlinked.

Yes but a budget 10 times higher would have meant setting sights higher i.e. a different 3 players and those deals could easily have failed. Unless we find new investment or suitable rich new owners we'll be a lower budget club.

 

[Bladesway]

If we are to get anywhere in the next few years McCabe has to sell up along with the fake sheikh.

This window was the perfect opportunity to show a bit of ambition. Nothing crazy just the opportunity to back wilder and see what he can do with a bit of sensible investment. Considering we've received 6/7 million in sales.

And we have spent nothing we've made a profit of 4/5 million. McCabe please leave

I gave you the benefit of the doubt previously when you posted, now I regret to say I was wrong.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Paying off losses before spending extra on players is usually a decent start

For FFP purposes you can't "pay off" losses. You can only generate more allowable income to alleviate them. Owner investment doesn't count.

OI covers the cash shortfall obviously, but we're talking about FFP here.

That's why Ive said the sell on fee may have helped balance the budget this year so any further investment could go on the team, which in itself gives rise to additional expense in the form of wages loan fees and the amortisation of transfer fees.

 

[Isar]

Im not anti mcabe he has been a great chairman and owner , but to compete at this level and possibly the next investment is needed beyond his means

Without a shadow of doubt you are a pig fan. The pain you are suffering will just get worse as the season goes on. How is the £10 million striker doing?
Mind the gap.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Yes but a budget 10 times higher would have meant setting sights higher i.e. a different 3 players and those deals could easily have failed. Unless we find new investment or suitable rich new owners we'll be a lower budget club.

And would Wilder have paid £1.2m for Cole?

 

[UnitedBlade]

And would Wilder have paid £1.2m for Cole?

I hope not, we surely wouldn't have been looking at Cole? Maybe we'd be failing to land someone fast, foreign and black with a 1 in 2 goal record instead.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

From hated dodgy cockney bastard to Good Old 'Arry, as popular as the Old Queen Mum was. Gertcha!

I didn't like the Gin Soaked parasite

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

I gave you the benefit of the doubt previously when you posted, now I regret to say I was wrong.

How am i wrong we have got the sell ons say 6/7 million plus what a team promoted should be spending aalike to how wigan,bristol city have done in prvious years say 3/4 million

We have spent what 3 million at a guess , how am i wrong , are people happy that wilder has barely been backed ?

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

I hope not, we surely wouldn't have been looking at Cole? Maybe we'd be failing to land someone fast, foreign and black with a 1 in 2 goal record instead.

I would much rather take donaldson over cole so what hes 33

 

[UnitedBlade]

I would much rather take donaldson over cole so what hes 33

I agree but he was trying to land 2 strikers with Hanson then able to go to Scunthorpe. Cole is more likely to achieve something at Championship level. James helped us last season but is unlikely to be good enough. Hope he proves us wrong.

 

[1889]

And would Wilder have paid £1.2m for Cole?

I fucking hope not!

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

I agree but he was trying to land 2 strikers with Hanson then able to go to Scunthorpe. Cole is more likely to achieve something at Championship level. James helped us last season but is unlikely to be good enough. Hope he proves us wrong.

Dont reckon hanso will get a look in , and donaldson is much more proven. Coles is the right type of player though getting them before they have a breaktgrough season if he scores 20 this season hell be going for 5 millon or something daft

 

[georgebernardshaw]

I didn't like the Gin Soaked parasite

She didn't speak well of you either...

 

[UnitedBlade]

How am i wrong we have got the sell ons say 6/7 million plus what a team promoted should be spending aalike to how wigan,bristol city have done in prvious years say 3/4 million

We have spent what 3 million at a guess , how am i wrong , are people happy that wilder has barely been backed ?

Wigan had £9M parachute payments last season and Bristol City's owner is a billionaire. We don't have either of those advantages.

 

[1889]

How am i wrong we have got the sell ons say 6/7 million plus what a team promoted should be spending aalike to how wigan,bristol city have done in prvious years say 3/4 million

We have spent what 3 million at a guess , how am i wrong , are people happy that wilder has barely been backed ?

I don't think you really understand Chris Wilders ethos, do you?

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

are people happy that wilder has barely been backed ?

Tenth time of asking.
Can you provide a single quote to support this claim that Wilder hasn't been backed?
It was the manager who pulled the deals yesterday not the board.

 

[Isar]

If we are to get anywhere in the next few years McCabe has to sell up along with the fake sheikh.

This window was the perfect opportunity to show a bit of ambition. Nothing crazy just the opportunity to back wilder and see what he can do with a bit of sensible investment. Considering we've received 6/7 million in sales.

And we have spent nothing we've made a profit of 4/5 million. McCabe please leave

Shame on every Blade who liked this quote from a pig fan. So gullible all 4 of you.

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

Shame on every Blade who liked this quote from a pig fan. So gullible all 4 of you.

Haha I'm not a pig fan mate