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Sheffield United always have and always will have poor owners, any success we have is more often that not despite them not because of them.

They remind me of the bent twats who always want to be on "the committee" in working mens clubs.
 



local Librarys will get you the book in FREE if you dont want to give BigKev anymore of your cash, but are wanting to read it . bit like a bitter ex-wifes memoirs that book .🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳
 
Possibly a bit different but still a poor decision and at the wrong time. How do I present it to my grandson who’s just looking forward to us competing with his Man City supporting friends?
 
I met McCabe a few times and he came across as a nice bloke who genuinely card about the club. He certainly made some mistakes and was tighter with money than many would have liked but I think the current levels of opprobrium towards him are somewhat excessive.
 
Camden Blade said:
We would never have spent over £20 million on a player under McCabe. Would we have gave Ndiaye what he asked for on his initial contract when he asked for more? Selling Calvert -Lewin, Walker for peanuts is something else that wouldn't happen now. We don't undersell.
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Ndiaye, Murphy, Maguire, Calvert Lewin, Ramsdale (first time), Adams all undersold under the joint ownership, or the Prince's ownership.
 
its what i say alot, prince isn't perfect by a long way. but im pretty confident if mccabe was in charge we would be seeing 2009 2010 dejavu, where we sell our best players in January dont get promotion & then end up with relegation fight
 
Camden Blade said:
In his interview yesterday PA said even if we had got double what we did it wouldn't have matched Ndiaye's value but last year of contract, absent for Aftican Cup in January and the player wanted to go. It seems we got £20 mill which will be reinvested. That's a bit different from the McCabe scenarios.
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The exact same scenario as Maguire. Similar to Jags and Mcdonald who triggered release clauses. Devil's advocate but Tonge, Monty, Jags, Paddy, Maguire, Stephen Quinn all played far more games before being offloaded than they young talent since the Prince became involved. Brooks, Ndiaye, Adams, Maguire, Calvert Lewin, Ramsdale, Murphy all gone very early in his reign. Sander is the only one we've kept for a substantial amount of time. Maybe JOC. The rest were old or had limited value. The McCabe narrative is built around the sale of the two Kyles and Beattie when the club was haemorraging money at an alarming rate after cheque book Bryan's time. His major fuck up.
 
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Twenty quid?? I'll wait till it's in the 99p bin in The Works. So September-October time.
 
Sean Thornton said:
How many of those just under the Prince?
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How many have we kept for say 200 appearances. A young lad breaks through and they're flogged pretty quickly. At a push JOC, Berge and... That's with two year's prem money and a two years parachute. Infrastructure? The Wilder miracle saved us imo
 
nopigfansintown said:
How many have we kept for say 200 appearances. A young lad breaks through and they're flogged pretty quickly. At a push JOC, Berge and... That's with two year's prem money and a two years parachute. Infrastructure? The Wilder miracle saved us imo
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Any chance of a relevant answer?
 
Cassius Kray said:
I met McCabe a few times and he came across as a nice bloke who genuinely card about the club. He certainly made some mistakes and was tighter with money than many would have liked but I think the current levels of opprobrium towards him are somewhat excessive.
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If only he’d delegated football strategy and decisions, and done it to good people.
 



nopigfansintown said:
Ndiaye, Murphy, Maguire, Calvert Lewin, Ramsdale (first time), Adams all undersold under the joint ownership, or the Prince's ownership.
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i would disagree on that, i don't remember murphy but the other 5 we had reasons why & in the last 4 it look undersold because transfer market has gone mad Since

2.5m for L1 Player 10 years ago was good value

DCL wasnt going to play much, if someone offers you 1.5m + sell on % for a substitute when you have sharp upfront & helped us buy most of L1 team that got 100pts. you take it

Ndiaye, Adams & Ramsdale all wanted to leave & there was no convincing them to stay
 
nopigfansintown said:
The exact same scenario as Maguire. Similar to Jags and Mcdonald who triggered release clauses. Devil's advocate but Tonge, Monty, Jags, Paddy, Maguire, Stephen Quinn all played far more games before being offloaded than they young talent since the Prince became involved. Brooks, Ndiaye, Adams, Maguire, Calvert Lewin, Ramsdale, Murphy all gone very early in his reign. Sander is the only one we've kept for a substantial amount of time. Maybe JOC. The rest were old or had limited value. The McCabe narrative is built around the sale of the two Kyles and Beattie when the club was haemorraging money at an alarming rate after cheque book Bryan's time. His major fuck up.
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How Forum judgements work….

McCabe gives Red Wine Robbo the cheque book. Puts us in serious debt. Managers fault.

Prince gives Wilder the cheque book putting us in serious debt, the most ever. Owners fault.

:)
 
sheff_blade90 said:
i would disagree on that, i don't remember murphy but the other 5 we had reasons why & in the last 4 it look undersold because transfer market has gone mad Since

2.5m for L1 Player 10 years ago was good value
DCL wasnt going to play much, if someone offers you 1.5m + sell on % for a substitute when you have sharp upfront & helped us buy most of L1 team that got 100pts. you take it
Ndiaye, Adams & Ramsdale all wanted to leave & there was no convincing them to stay
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We got less than a million for Ramsdale. And around 2 million each for the others. Just over 1 million for Murphy. That's the definition of underselling. What we did with the money is a different question. We were told that the days of selling our best youngsters were gone. Clearly a lot of talent to go through the leagues and make us a lot more money and success than those fees if raising money wasn't an imperative
 
Sean Thornton said:
How Forum judgements work….

McCabe gives Red Wine Robbo the cheque book. Puts us in serious debt. Managers fault.

Prince gives Wilder the cheque book putting us in serious debt, the most ever. Owners fault.

:)
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Different slant. Prince refuses to give Wilder the cheque book to pay bigger wages but is happy to give him the cheque book for bigger fees but smaller wages as it's easier to delay paying the fees than the wages. Club suffers as a result.

Could that be what happened or are you very confident that all the signings were Wilder's first choices?
 
cooperblade said:
Different slant. Prince refuses to give Wilder the cheque book to pay bigger wages but is happy to give him the cheque book for bigger fees but smaller wages as it's easier to delay paying the fees than the wages. Club suffers as a result.

Could that be what happened or are you very confident that all the signings were Wilder's first choices?
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Aah. Got it. The club didn’t suffer after Robbo then? How many years in L1? No money and selling players. Just like now. But in the Premier League.

Wilders first choices? Unlike a few on here who know everything that happens at BL* l don’t actually know.


* anything wrong that can be laid at the current owners door.
 
cooperblade said:
Different slant. Prince refuses to give Wilder the cheque book to pay bigger wages but is happy to give him the cheque book for bigger fees but smaller wages as it's easier to delay paying the fees than the wages. Club suffers as a result.

Could that be what happened or are you very confident that all the signings were Wilder's first choices?
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I would love to see where our budgets stack up relative to income compared to the Mccabe Prem year and the Robson debacle. And where our wage bill and fees combined spent stack up against our PL rivals under the Prince's PL tenure. The fees only tell part of the story.

The other bit with Wilder was the volume of transfer success that got us there and kept us there for a year. The first year in the Prem, it could be argued, paid for itself re transfers as we guaranteed another year's money. They've also played a part in getting us back (see Prince's comments). Robbo was shit from start to finish. Most of the Wilder signings in the Prem have made a loss but I do feel we've been unlucky to not recoup more due to injuries to Berge and JOC.
 
There's no bigger blade than him... wonder if there is a paragraph in.there about James Beatties chest infection
 
The Prince did his best to butcher our promotion and had it not been for an outside intervention he'd have ran us into administration.
All of this despite PL football income.

Right now, he's leading us into a PL season having lost our best player and signed no significant first team upgrades.

McCabe left us in a better place than he found us on & off the field. Far, far from perfect but better than the Prince in my opinion.
 
Can’t help but think he’d sell a lot more copies if he’d used both these images on the cover and called it “HEY”
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CaptainMorgans said:
The Prince did his best to butcher our promotion and had it not been for an outside intervention he'd have ran us into administration.
All of this despite PL football income.

Right now, he's leading us into a PL season having lost our best player and signed no significant first team upgrades.

McCabe left us in a better place than he found us on & off the field. Far, far from perfect but better than the Prince in my opinion.
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You do realise administration would effectively result in the owner losing his investment. He could have sold players. It was never going to happen last year. Just a bogey man for the Prince haters to push out to the like minded. Isn’t there plenty to criticise without spouting falsehoods?
 
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