POLL : Do You Think The Prince Is Going To Back The Manager

[Silent Blade]

Exactly. And then straight away a £1m loan fee gets slapped on his head to stop him joining the clubs in lg1 which he wants to join

 

[adamawdhali]

No coincidence that clubs are pushing for a permanent now. If agent and player think we are stunting his development then he’ll want to leave

 

[Blade56]

Prince will elude to how he backed club as second highest spenders int PL even though his money was spunkiest up wall and maybe just maybe he has a point

 

[Silent Blade]

No coincidence that clubs are pushing for a permanent now. If agent and player think we are stunting his development then he’ll want to leave

Mark Rankine the agent thought the same about Jordan Slew and forced a move to Blackburn. Slew then got a nice house and nice car (according to a relative of his who I spoke to some years ago) but didnt have much of a football career

 

[Grizzly blade]

He has no money to spend….why can’t people understand that?

There’s a reason why we are trying to get loans in with sign now pay later agreements, or free transfers!!

Player sales are needed to cover payments for transfers from the last two seasons, not a single penny will be invested back into purchasing players. We don’t go up this season we are buggered….and all these loans being dead money, added to amortisation of player values will see the club lose huge sums regardless of parachute money.

Oh well….fun eh!!

 

[Grizzly blade]

Prince will elude to how he backed club as second highest spenders int PL even though his money was spunkiest up wall and maybe just maybe he has a point

It was the clubs money…not his.

He had none to put up, he’s borrowed the lot and fees are to be paid in instalments. Hence no spending now just selling.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Except there's nothing in the accounts to prove that, and no-one else was in for us, so it's either McCabe and his skint ALK mates who won't even spend what little they do have, or the Prince, who doesn't have a lot but isn't tight and is a competent businessman.

People act like it was Prince Abdullah vs Sheikh Mansour.

Although it's nice to know we have a competent owner, but I don't think that his competency is the crucial issue. What concerns me is whether he has any possible intentions, and whether these intentions may so far be opaque. As has been mentioned elsewhere, we've had two consecutive seasons where our summer transfer activity has barely raised expectations of something possible happening. We were relegated with a sizeable parachute payment that was intended to provide better quality recruitment, yet here we are, the season has begun, we've sold our first choice goalkeeper, we've brought in a defender on loan from Liverpool, there have been various mentions of players we might be interested in, either on loan or as permanent signings.

If there was ever a misplaced strategy designed to raise, then lower expectations, it's what I've described and what our fanbase has been subjected to for the last two seasons. Maybe the signing of a forward whose promise has so far flattered to deceive might lay at the root of the lack of support to strengthen our squad. What worries me is that having secured the best manager available after Wilder's departure, we appear to have hindered his chances of strengthening a squad desperately in need of new blood. I've already identified that pre-season has been the best time to strengthen a squad that needed freshening up. The fact that we appear to have been asleep at the wheel while others have gone about their business must rest with our board rather than our manager.

And in case my opinion clashes with those who imagine the scenario I've described is far off the mark, maybe it's time the Prince provided answers to the question of why we've been shy of making serious efforts to bring in the type of players identified by our manager. In doing so it might help to throw light on whether we're serious about once again competing for promotion. And before that raises a chuckle, it's still early days and I'd like to think our board are as ambitious as they once appeared to be not too long ago.

 

[ZLB]

Where's Sam Hashimi when you need him?!

Identifying as an Aadvark.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

One thing that puzzles me greatly in all this is the notion which I’ve seen repeated time after time on here ,that our failure to recruit new and better players than we already have is a failure on the part of the board and particularly the club’s owner .

Unless I’ve missed something and the Prince has appointed himself Head of Recruitment , and / or there is clear evidence that realistic deals have been struck for such players only for them rejected by himself and the other board members , then is it not the case that perhaps the responsibility for our lack of success in this crucial area lies elsewhere?

 

[Prem owner needed]

It was the clubs money…not his.

He had none to put up, he’s borrowed the lot and fees are to be paid in instalments. Hence no spending now just selling.

Allegedly the Ramsdale fee has covered what was owed to his previous club and one of the installments on Berge. The next one due is apparently for Brewster, hence why they will listen to offers for him, should £10m+ come in, this will go along way to paying off what is owed to Liverpool, that just leaves the two Derby lads, hence again why they would prefer a perm move for Lowe and not a loan.

The owner does not have the wealth required to single handedly run a football club in the English Championship or above and never has had, hence this total bollox idea of a self financing football club. Didn't McCabe try that one?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

 

[Blade56]

It was the clubs money…not his.

He had none to put up, he’s borrowed the lot and fees are to be paid in instalments. Hence no spending now just selling.

I hear you Grizzly but clubs his ergo his munneh

 

[CyloCybin]

Allegedly the Ramsdale fee has covered what was owed to his previous club and one of the installments on Berge. The next one due is apparently for Brewster, hence why they will listen to offers for him, should £10m+ come in, this will go along way to paying off what is owed to Liverpool, that just leaves the two Derby lads, hence again why they would prefer a perm move for Lowe and not a loan.

The owner does not have the wealth required to single handedly run a football club in the English Championship or above and never has had, hence this total bollox idea of a self financing football club. Didn't McCabe try that one?

What a depressing reality if this is all true

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

I expect no investment, no players coming in - maybe a loan at a push. I expect at least one outgoing that we'll be disappointed with and one left field departure that takes us all by surprise and leaves us all feeling gutted.

The lack of investment, the lack of board communication with fans, the lack of recruitment and the obvious lack of funds is leaving me increasingly worried and suspecting that we are the play thing of an owner who doesn't really know how to run an English football club.

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Grizzly blade]

Seems the penny might be dropping for a few more….I expect by the end of another 7 days it will finally be very clear where we are going with this owner at the helm!

 

[Rodley]

Whether he hasn’t got a pot to piss in, or not, the recruitment process at the club is absolutely rank. Whether that be analytics, scouting or the actual negotiation and approval process at board level, it looks not fit for purpose, scattergun / incoherent and painfully slow & unresponsive.

We look a rudderless ship at the moment, that’s ultimately the boards responsibility. I level a lot of the above at their door as it (recruitment) has been a problem for over a year and hasn’t been remedied.

 

[metalblade]

It is increasingly looking like the only thing that can save us is a worldwide pandemic of the shits to get that bog roll factory running at top speed. He could I suppose have a word with his uncles and convince them not to bother with Newcastle Utd. Without a doubt the club has lost it's direction and everything seems to be falling apart can any fan name the members of the board without using google apart from Rip Van Winkle, Bettis if he is still there and an Italian lawyer with a long name.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Allegedly the Ramsdale fee has covered what was owed to his previous club and one of the installments on Berge. The next one due is apparently for Brewster, hence why they will listen to offers for him, should £10m+ come in, this will go along way to paying off what is owed to Liverpool, that just leaves the two Derby lads, hence again why they would prefer a perm move for Lowe and not a loan.

The owner does not have the wealth required to single handedly run a football club in the English Championship or above and never has had, hence this total bollox idea of a self financing football club. Didn't McCabe try that one?

That appears to suggest Arsenal paid the fee in one go. Is that the case?

 

[scouseblade]

No permanent deals for the second full window. Despite picking up tv revenue, rammers money.
Brining in loan signings is not the answer. The squad needs a refresh
So in short, no the Prince is not backing SJ.

 

[Micky Narker]

No

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

They'll back him like they did Wilder, with what funds are available.
Unfortunately income is reduced and our player assets are worth less than we paid, so it has to be done carefully to avoid completely fucking the club financially.

 

[Bladesince59]

The club comprises custodians (the temporary owners): the mercenaries (the players and the manager): and Sheffield United (n thousand supporters) who will mostly only have alliance to one club ever. I, as a long standing member of Sheffield United, am getting pretty fed up at being fucked over by the custodian and mercenaries.

 

[Rodley]

That appears to suggest Arsenal paid the fee in one go. Is that the case?

There were a few rumours circulating that it was payment wholly or substantially “on the nose”.

 

[Drunk blade]

I'm guessing the wages for our 'star' players are crippling us as well as having to pay a huge chunk of the prem money to buy back the ground. Not seen the figures but you king of get the feeling it will all ultimately end up with administration

 

[yorkshirecoast]

The pigs are showing more ambition than we are and they couldn’t even pay their players a few months ago.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I'm guessing the wages for our 'star' players are crippling us as well as having to pay a huge chunk of the prem money to buy back the ground. Not seen the figures but you king of get the feeling it will all ultimately end up with administration

“Not seen the figures”

“Administration”

Jesus Christ.

 

[SelbyBlade]

Prince will elude to how he backed club as second highest spenders int PL even though his money was spunkiest up wall and maybe just maybe he has a point

How was it "his" money? The money was earn't through promotion he only used money Wilder had earnt for the club. He then made sure there was a profit for himself after getting the club for £5mil.

 

[Blade56]

How was it "his" money? The money was earn't through promotion he only used money Wilder had earnt for the club. He then made sure there was a profit for himself after getting the club for £5mil.

When you buy a business you acquire its assets and its liabilities they become yours. If we continue on this current downturn and end up deep in debt will you say it’s the clubs debt not the owners?

 

[Sean Thornton]

How was it "his" money? The money was earn't through promotion he only used money Wilder had earnt for the club. He then made sure there was a profit for himself after getting the club for £5mil.

Plus £16m he’d already put in.

 

[RedandWhite]

I don't think he trusts the club to purchase the right player anymore, after the many failed Wilder signings.