Frees and loans

[AgaMonkey]

We are fishing in the same pond as the vast majority of clubs at the bottom end of the PL, top end of the championship. We can’t compete with most of them in either fees or wages.
So we have to be smarter and identify good players earlier. I don’t know how we do that without investing in a whole team of data analysts

 

[Balham Blade]

The accounts from our first season back in the Championship didn’t show a 40% wage reduction.

The reduction in the accounts was 25% but 20/21 was an 11 month reporting period. Restate that to 12 months (simply by dividing the figures by 11 and multiplying by 12) and the drop is just over 30% (£61.6m to £42.4m). The 21/22 figures also include the cost of sacking Jokanovic and his backroom team.

 

[bakeblade]

We are fishing in the same pond as the vast majority of clubs at the bottom end of the PL, top end of the championship. We can’t compete with most of them in either fees or wages.
So we have to be smarter and identify good players earlier. I don’t know how we do that without investing in a whole team of data analysts

Just follow Lutons targets and gazump em.

 

[BLADES1988]

Just follow Lutons targets and gazump em.

Arent you supposed to have more money to gazump someone? We couldnt gazump a tramp buying a can of Kestrel Super.

 

[bakeblade]

Arent you supposed to have more money to gazump someone? We couldnt gazump a tramp buying a can of Kestrel Super.

What a sad state of affairs if we can't afford to outbid F ing Luton

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Arent you supposed to have more money to gazump someone? We couldnt gazump a tramp buying a can of Kestrel Super.

God is that even still a thing?

 

[BLADES1988]

God is that even still a thing?

It was 10 years ago i know that much. Used to buy a can for a laugh for pre drinks

 

[Kanye]

I agree…but we have to accept that, in all probability, unless we are sold to rich backers, the club’s future isn’t in the EPL.
We might be able to stay one or two seasons at the most, but relying on turning up a couple of undiscovered gems that no one else has spotted every season isn’t really sustainable. The crop of kids we have coming through is promising, but it looks a bit unlikely that any of them will be good enough for the first XI this season.
The fact is that, as things stand, we can’t really compete with the big boys and every season we are in the PL is a bonus, but we don’t belong here, we’re just gatecrashing the party.

I would argue that signing uncovered gems that no-one else has spotted is the only sustainable way to run the club.

Buying young players, and nurturing our own, is just about the only way a club like ours can get by, without a wealthy benefactor of course.

 

[Kanye]

With new buyers in the pipeline to me it makes it crazy that we won't go out and compete for good established signings

Who's to say the new buyers are any wealthier or willing to invest than our current owner?

Who's to say that whatever potential takeover deal in the pipeline goes through, and fails like the last 2?

Do good established PL players move to newly promoted clubs?

Do we have the turnover, regardless of ownership to pay a squad of established premier league owners?

I personally think it's crazy that so many people are happy to gamble with the future of the club. There are so many cautionary tales of PL clubs overspending on players, getting relegated and struggling to recover from it - couldn't happen to us though, right?

 

[71Blade]

I would argue that signing uncovered gems that no-one else has spotted is the only sustainable way to run the club.

Buying young players, and nurturing our own, is just about the only way a club like ours can get by, without a wealthy benefactor of course.

Brighton seem to do alright using this system that said the price of uncovered gems is also what we can't afford .. blame the Russians..UTB

 

[1889]

LCB incoming

 

[Keen Blade]

Who's to say the new buyers are any wealthier or willing to invest than our current owner?

Who's to say that whatever potential takeover deal in the pipeline goes through, and fails like the last 2?

Do good established PL players move to newly promoted clubs?

Do we have the turnover, regardless of ownership to pay a squad of established premier league owners?

I personally think it's crazy that so many people are happy to gamble with the future of the club. There are so many cautionary tales of PL clubs overspending on players, getting relegated and struggling to recover from it - couldn't happen to us though, right?

It feckin did happen to us , we ended up in a transfer embargo for failing to pay our dues

 

[brownblade]

God is that even still a thing?

Yep homelessness figures are still rising fast.

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Yep homelessness figures are still rising fast.

Yes thanks for that. I am aware.

 

[Snowflake]

LCB incoming

Should we hide under the table ? Although I understand that most Longrange Cuban Bombs rarely explode

 

[10-0 win]

Ben Brereton no goals mostly sub. Not a great move to spain. Loanmove......

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Ben Brereton no goals mostly sub. Not a great move to spain. Loanmove......

Not bad for a forgein loan. Can't we have 4? Only have Larouci as well.

 

[BigBed]

Not bad for a forgein loan. Can't we have 4? Only have Larouci as well.

Thanks, I'll be having nightmares again tonight now!

 

[Bladesman]

Ben Brereton no goals mostly sub. Not a great move to spain. Loanmove......

Yeah I wouldn't be opposed to a loan move for him.

Ayew is still a free agent.

 

[Sithblade]

Ben Brereton no goals mostly sub. Not a great move to spain. Loanmove......

Chuba Akpom is still waiting for his first Ajax goal, who have had a terrible start to the season.
Pretty sure he didn't make a appearance for Middlesbrough this season so could make a loan move in January.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Shocker

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

That's a very roundabout way of saying we'll be re-signing Billy Sharp on a free

 

[Mouth of the South]

Chuba Akpom is still waiting for his first Ajax goal, who have had a terrible start to the season.
Pretty sure he didn't make a appearance for Middlesbrough this season so could make a loan move in January.

He's actually scored 5 in 5 appearances, all bar one starting from the bench.
He would be eligible to play but it's doubtful Ajax will let him out as he and they are now finding form.