Council block Blades redevelopment...again

[raul]

Isn't Realty £40m in debt anyway? And yet it appears some are advocating more borrowings. The football club is (from memory, and depending on whether we wish to appear well run or in difficulty) around £2m, and yet any suggestion of borrowing here is considered heresy.


Still, once the Hotel is paid for.....and Chengdu delivers players for free.....and the Student flats are all built and let.......free beer tomorrow, definately.

 

[alcoblade]

Well maybe we should just get used to cutting our wage bill back to the £6 Million a year we can afford due to our current income streams?

Or you risk short term investment on the hope of longer term gain as with the hotel.

Given all the wrist slitting on here about only bringing in loan players and free transfers what would you do to try and appease the fans?
We have a massive wage bill that we can't afford on our current revenue streams, do you cut everything or do you try and invest to generate additional revenue?

How about putting up ticket prices especially Season Tickets on a level with other comparable teams in our league?
What about making all kids pay full prices instead of a tenner?

My biggest issue with posters that like to knock the club or the board is they always know the problem but never offer a viable solution.

There's a school of thought that we're signing freebies BECAUSE of the external developments that we've already done. I'd rather see us sweating these a bit, before we expand further. I hope the application is just for permission if future, rather than a sign of a willingness to act right now. I don't want to see the club further in debt, so I'm personally not fussed about this rejection.

Also, I'm ok with the signings we've made so far, assuming we'll have 3 or so others for the start of the season.

UTB

 

[Blade]

some good points, i don't necessarily agree that the fans insist we spend more than we earn - some might but the way I feel is that it's all about the way we play and the players we've been signing/paying for the last year or so.

I don't want to see some of the overpaid and under talented players we have had on the books in this time - without naming names we can all think of at least 5 - 10 players I'm sure who we've paid good money too to be bit part players with no real hope they will come into the side and become valued. Add these players up and you're left with a lot of money wasted. They talk of quality over quantity but I think for the last 2 years we've had neither. I really don't think that where we're at now the fans would be up in arms to see us trying younger players like lowton or signing younger players as has been said above. I don't expect us to be signing iniesta but after knowing since January and even before then that we need fullbacks I really fail to see why we end up with players like Kozzie over and above finding and picking up a player 10 years younger that may actually offer something over the next few years.

Len is actually spot on for me on this one when he says it'd be nice to see some forethought and planning coming into fruition - for the last few years United's transfer policy has seemed totally haphazard and random on a large number of occasions. The talk 2 years ago was about signing young players and reducing the average age of the squad - without checking I'd imagine we have added 2/3 years to the average age in this time.

Nobody would mind us looking to expand our property empire but when the club is looking so poorly maintained it irks a little that we may be spending more money on a plan for the future. Sometimes if you plan too much for the future and ignore the present you can find the future becomes a very different place to that you'd envisaged. The club seem content with taking our money and almost shutting up shop and saying the next few years are going to be trouble. Whilst I appreciate some expectations need to be re-aligned I fear that the next few seasons will see us remain poor to watch and struggle to compete around the playoffs in what should be an open and achievable league.

I now await the first month of the new season with eager anticipation - I'm most interested to see if there really are any signs that Blackwell might have been told to change our piss poor style and any signs that he's capable of doing it. For me regardless of whether he can keep us floating for the next few years and/or continue to make savings unless he can get us playing significantly more entertaining football than we've had in the last 2 years he needs to go early and we need to change things. The majority of fans would be more than happy to give a new man time I feel as long as there is a sense of progression/signs of a plan. We totally muddled through last year on the pitch and off it in terms of transfer policy to the extent I perhaps feel the man in charge of decisions may have been using a magic 8 ball.

 

[super_pig]

>What is the solution?
give me a minute .. i'll give ian holloway a call

 

[Jostein Flo]

>What is the solution?
give me a minute .. i'll give ian holloway a call

Is he known for his superior knowledge of the Sheffield property market?