Weers Moneh Gone?

[Esablade]

Simple question.

We needed players, we didn’t get em ‘cause wages’*.
An unexpected 7 million in last year from sell on clauses, 4 million in’t bank from Brooks and a ‘mid-table’ budget before that....

I know wages have gone up but we’ve turfed a lot out and I reckon we’ve probably spent under 2 million quid all in all...which is poor really.

Can’t help thinking our inability to cross the line this window is down to the internal power struggle.


* though I would have thought we’d know roughly what a players after before entering negotiations, otherwise what’s the point?

 

[Roygbiv]

It's ridiculous how little we have spent. It's not all the boards fault this time either though they are still the main reason.

 

[Bellypork]

I think that this was always going to be the problem, namely, how do you fit an established Championship striker into your wage structure?

The short answer is that you can't.

Tufty's big on team spirit etc, and such a player would dwarf everyone else's wages.

So do you then give everybody else a pay rise?

That would mean paying a lot of players in the squad more than they're worth, and you don't have to look too far away to see what happens when you do that.

 

[BLADES1988]

We have let better quality out the door (younguns) than we have brought in (everyone except Woodburn) it's a piss take! How can you go from 2 perms and 2 loans to sweet fuck all, our Chris has some serious question answering to do!

 

[Liverpool blade]

We’ve always known as blades that we’re never going to have mega money to spend but I’m now starting to wonder where the money is going??.
I partly blame the boardroom issue but yet again just when we have a chance to push on!!!. The club seem to get the jitters and take the club backwards!!!.
I hope we do sign a striker or 2 before September 1st but wouldn’t be surprised if we stayed as we are?.
A final question: how much longer will wilder put up with this shit?. UTB

 

[GrayBlade]

Where has all the money gone
Int back pocket and every one
When will we ever learn
When will we ever learn

 

[Rodley]

Where has all the money gone
Int back pocket and every one
When will we ever learn
When will we ever learn

Is that Ed Sheerhan?

 

[Topplayersleave]

You're forgetting the better TV deal that Championship clubs get that will make us much more competitive and enable us to hold onto our better players
Plus approx. £6 - £7 million in season ticket sales they've had in advance
Plus Brooks being sold
Plus 15 players that have gone

Make no mistake, somethings happening, cos this is a firesale

 

[vorpal blade]

You're forgetting the better TV deal that Championship clubs get that will make us much more competitive and enable us to hold onto our better players

Plus Brooks being sold

I don't quite follow your logic.

 

[bromtom]

Be a Sheffield United footballer.
Be on 8-15K a week.
Would you really begrudge a 20 goal striker and a AMF coming in on 20-30K a week if it meant that you had a chance to get to the Premier League and either get that yourself in a year if you're wanted in the Prem, or be a proven Championship promotion player and be able to negotiate a better deal anyway.

Going up is good for team spirit.

I think it's stupid anyway, our players seem like a decent, realistic group of footballers and surely know the only way is sideways for most of them unless they find themselves in the right place at the right time in a Cardiff or Huddersfield type situation where you're not favourites but do it anyway, or another Sunderland situation where a rich/big team is out of place.

 

[GrayBlade]

Is that Ed Sheerhan?

Close. Peter Paul and Mary.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

It's ridiculous how little we have spent. It's not all the boards fault this time either though they are still the main reason.

Just half the boards fault, the half that fucks off with the Brooks money as settlement.

 

[Jonboy60]

Close. Peter Paul and Mary.

Peter and Paul we can probably shoehorn into the team, but, sorry no room for another Mary.

 

[GrayBlade]

Peter and Paul we can probably shoehorn into the team, but, sorry no room for another Mary.

I don’t know why not. There were at least a couple of Fannys turning out for us on Tuesday.

 

[8lade]

Peter and Paul we can probably shoehorn into the team, but, sorry no room for another Mary.

Mungo would be ok as a holding midfielder but Midge is just too small (sorry fella you just won't make it).

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Weir's money?

It's in David Weir's bank account I would imagine.

 

[Rob86]

So do you then give everybody else a pay rise?

That would mean paying a lot of players in the squad more than they're worth, and you don't have to look too far away to see what happens when you do that.

I get this point and I really do but have mixed views about it. Someone earning more money than you who is better cannot be griped about.

Companies across the world headhunt talent and pay what it takes to get them. Any existing employees that get precious about it need to then justify themselves getting a pay rise.

Football of course is an anomaly. Unproven youngsters can earn 4/5 times as much as a seasoned pro can. Woodburn must be near the top of our pay scale for e.g, but every player in the game must know this is how it works.

The problem comes of course when said top earner proves to be a bag of shit and everyone else is carrying them. Of course this can then affect morale, as some shit cunt is sat on twice your money and your better than him. As a club though you have to take this risk or not.

What we have done is neither. We have flirted with trying to sign players who are on ‘big’ money (for us) but haven’t fully committed to meeting the demands. We’ve fucked about trying to lure players on cheaper contracts than they will get and have ended up with fuck all as we haven’t scoured ‘our’ market.

I have no problem with a wage ceiling, fine, but don’t try and dip your toe in with the big boys half heartedly and end up in a fucking mess like we are now. If we had signed 3 strikers, mid 20s, from Legaue 1 and 2, I’d be more optimistic than I am now. They may all be wank but there’d be a chance we might see some energy up top in time.

I just hope we pull a few loans out the bag or this will be a painful season.

 

[Jonboy60]

Mungo would be ok as a holding midfielder but Midge is just too small (sorry fella you just won't make it).

Shame really, Midge always looked up to CW.

 

[metalblade]

It's all in the accounts, like anyone would trust an accountant

 

[Silent Blade]

Simple question.

We needed players, we didn’t get em ‘cause wages’*.
An unexpected 7 million in last year from sell on clauses, 4 million in’t bank from Brooks and a ‘mid-table’ budget before that....

I know wages have gone up but we’ve turfed a lot out and I reckon we’ve probably spent under 2 million quid all in all...which is poor really.

Can’t help thinking our inability to cross the line this window is down to the internal power struggle.


* though I would have thought we’d know roughly what a players after before entering negotiations, otherwise what’s the point?

Simple answer

 

[Jon Bon II]

Simple answer

Well, I'll believe it when (if) it happens...

 

[Esablade]

Simple answer

Yes I know....but that’s not ideal and we’ll probably;y be feeding on scraps....

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

We do seem suddenly fearful of every player turning and holding the club to ransom.

What I do respect is that Wilder has a wage structure in place to have a sense of equilibrium within the squad, what I don't like is not budging from that at all, to get that added bit of quality over the line. He does well to apply some sense in a bonkers, over-inflated transfer market however - but let's be real - it's not all self imposed out of principle, he's a smart and shrewd manager and he'll know what side his bread is buttered on. He knows the owners are tightwads/skint/refusing to cough up, so he needs to set himself limits in order to maximise his budget. That much is plain to see and to suggest anything otherwise would be ridiculous. If we fall short or the wheels come off, the owners only have to look at themselves for undermining the whole situation with their pettiness and fuckwittery.

All the while he's wanted that "lickle bit o qualiteh" but that won't come easily, or seemingly at all in budget he has.