This extra £6m burning a hole in our pocket ........

[Norderner]

Who would you buy to strengthen us? Lenihan £1.5, Hugill £2m, Leonard £550,000 or Diagouraga. Martinez £1m.

 

[Bladesman]

Get Darius Henderson I reckon

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

Shaun Wright-Phillips.

 

[Rodley]

Who would you buy to strengthen us? Lenihan £1.5, Hugill £2m, Leonard £550,000 or Diagouraga. Martinez £1m.

Do those figures include signing on fees?

 

[S5Blade]

Connor Sammon, Would tear this division a new one

 

[I should coco]

Or ....

'Option D - None of the above'.

It needn't burn any hole at all and it doesn't have to be spent just because it's there. If CW can't see the right players who 'fit' he won't spend for the sake of it.

 

[BushBlade]

Any player we sign is likely to be on a three year contract so we're adding to the wage bill for three years, not just one. If we sign a player for £2m and pay him £500k a year, we've committed £3.5m.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Is £6m now written in forum stone ?

 

[Sean Thornton]

Any player we sign is likely to be on a three year contract so we're adding to the wage bill for three years, not just one. If we sign a player for £2m and pay him £500k a year, we've committed £3.5m.

Give over, you can make the accounts say anything you want,......

 

[unitedbhoy]

Take pillars out of Kop!

 

[I should coco]

Is £6m now written in forum stone ?

£6m is this morning's figure but with inflation, compound interest and KM pocketing some of it, the real figure will be £8m by tomorrow and so on.

Cue a November thread titled 'Where did McCabe hide OUR £50m?'.

 

[I should coco]

Take pillars out of Kop!

But the roof would fall down then!

 

[BushBlade]

Take pillars out of Kop!

Then roof fall down!

 

[unitedbhoy]

Then roof fall down!

I blame McCabe! Build a new un!

 

[I should coco]

Then roof fall down

Him Big Cheif BushBlade speak word of truth for white man.

Him also slow chuff beaten by good looking very clever ISC charm man.


(Promoting Hollywood stereotypes since........)

 

[Bladesman]

1 million bottles of Peroni.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Who would you buy to strengthen us? Lenihan £1.5, Hugill £2m, Leonard £550,000 or Diagouraga. Martinez £1m.

Just because we have a pot of money doesn't mean CW should betray his principles of over paying for players. If he starts down that route, then he will be on a slippery slope.

CW appears to have good principals when spending "our" money - he should carry on the same way. Can his way succeed? It's hard to say - what is clear, as a club (with present owners) we are unable to compete with the silly money going round in the Premier league. We HAVE to aspire to being in the top division, but we have to do it a different way. A mega rich benefactor (eg: Lerner - Chansiri etc), seems to want to do it with lots of cash - and lets be right, history shows most of them get in for a bit then get out and leave a car crash behind, we should try and do it the CW way and see where it takes us.

UTB

 

[Davalon]

Already spent.

Any windfalls we receive have always already been spent even when not budgeted for.

 

[Tyler Durden]

3 hotdogs and a packet of Maltesers from Cineworld.

 

[S5Blade]

3 hotdogs and a packet of Maltesers from Cineworld.

thats probably more than 6m, robbing cunts

 

[SwissBlade]

Give it to me, i'd spend it in a weekend.

 

[JJBlade]

Any player we sign is likely to be on a three year contract so we're adding to the wage bill for three years, not just one. If we sign a player for £2m and pay him £500k a year, we've committed £3.5m.

As long as wages are sensible there is no reason why a fair chunk of this money should not be spent

We're not the only club that has to pay its players

 

[west_yorks_blade]

There must be a newer, improved version of the Desso available.

 

[Bladesman]

Give it to me, i'd spend it in a weekend.

On blackjack and hookers?

 

[Woodwaaard]

On blackjack and hookers?

I wouldn't waste it on Blackjack

 

[BushBlade]

As long as wages are sensible there is no reason why a fair chunk of this money should not be spent

We're not the only club that has to pay its players

Yes and in the past we've not been the only club to sign players and then find that in the following season we can't afford to pay their wages. I'm not saying 'don't spend it' I'm saying spend it sensibly.

 

[I should coco]

I'm saying spend it sensibly.

You and your new fangled ways.

It will never catch on.

 

[BusheyBlade]

£6m is this morning's figure but with inflation, compound interest and KM pocketing some of it, the real figure will be £8m by tomorrow and so on.

Cue a November thread titled 'Where did McCabe hide OUR £50m?'.

He put in a bid for Carlos Tevez which fell through so bought the investment arm of Santander bank instead.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Just because we have a pot of money doesn't mean CW should betray his principles of over paying for players. If he starts down that route, then he will be on a slippery slope.

CW appears to have good principals when spending "our" money - he should carry on the same way. Can his way succeed? It's hard to say - what is clear, as a club (with present owners) we are unable to compete with the silly money going round in the Premier league. We HAVE to aspire to being in the top division, but we have to do it a different way. A mega rich benefactor (eg: Lerner - Chansiri etc), seems to want to do it with lots of cash - and lets be right, history shows most of them get in for a bit then get out and leave a car crash behind, we should try and do it the CW way and see where it takes us.

UTB

Talking about financial models, Wilder has spoken about Bournemouth quite a lot. He's made a clear distinction between the team that rose through Division 1 and made it to the Premiership, especially the way they've accounted for every penny that's been spent. Now of course they spend in ways that are relative to where they're having to compete, so spending in the millions is commonplace, but as he's quick to identify, it wasn't always like that.

I think that sometimes it's a case of horses for courses, Eddie Howe tried to make a go of things at Burnley, but it just didn't work. Whereas he's been superb at Bournemouth, and showed that he's not just a flash in the pan where having to confront new divisions has been concerned. Which brings me onto Wilder (and Knill) and the question of how they'll acquit themselves in new footballing terrain. Personally, I think Wilder will be fine the higher we rise. I don't think he'll be phased by teams with supposedly better players. I think he'll find ways to identify strengths and weaknesses and then use our quality, of which we're not lacking, and compete, learn, and improve. Yes, the issues of money and what we spend will change. It will have to. But right now Wilder is looking to strengthen the Blades, and I think we're all curious to see how the new players will integrate into the way we play. We look a lot stronger than this time last season, something that I think we're going to get used to as the Blades improve and progress.

 

[BusheyBlade]

Talking about financial models, Wilder has spoken about Bournemouth quite a lot. He's made a clear distinction between the team that rose through Division 1 and made it to the Premiership, especially the way they've accounted for every penny that's been spent. Now of course they spend in ways that are relative to where they're having to compete, so spending in the millions is commonplace, but as he's quick to identify, it wasn't always like that.

I'd rather steer clear of comparisons with the way Bournemouth "spend in ways that are relative to where they're having to compete" if I'm totally honest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36189779

Though I do get the sentiment.