LondonRoad
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Was it anyone on here? Can never remember anyone at Bramall Lane quoting that figure, but there were plenty of doom merchants using the figure as though it were gospel
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A Norwich fan quoted that last time they got fourty up front and fourty in January and the rest at seasons endWe were told that promotion to the Premier League was worth £150m ( a big chunk of which presumably comes from Sky). If this is true, then £40m is a reasonable investment, provided wages don't get totally out of hand.
I've never seen it explained how this money is paid. Does it come at the start of the season, in regular instalments over the season, or at the end? Does anyone know?
I think wages and length of contracts are big issues. I assume that we have maintained a sensible wage structure relative to our income with possibly clauses that they may reduce if we get relegated? Clubs that have got into difficulties before have suffered because they have players, often getting past their best, on long contracts and massive wages that no one wants to buy or even take on loan because of the wages if the club gets relegated.We were told that promotion to the Premier League was worth £150m ( a big chunk of which presumably comes from Sky). If this is true, then £40m is a reasonable investment, provided wages don't get totally out of hand.
I've never seen it explained how this money is paid. Does it come at the start of the season, in regular instalments over the season, or at the end? Does anyone know?
They get the guys from The People’s Lottery to walk down Cherry Street singing Let ‘em in, until someone bludgeons them to death with an over sized cheque.We were told that promotion to the Premier League was worth £150m ( a big chunk of which presumably comes from Sky). If this is true, then £40m is a reasonable investment, provided wages don't get totally out of hand.
I've never seen it explained how this money is paid. Does it come at the start of the season, in regular instalments over the season, or at the end? Does anyone know?
We were told that promotion to the Premier League was worth £150m ( a big chunk of which presumably comes from Sky). If this is true, then £40m is a reasonable investment, provided wages don't get totally out of hand.
I've never seen it explained how this money is paid. Does it come at the start of the season, in regular instalments over the season, or at the end? Does anyone know?
There were some unbelievable gullable and nieve people on here who took the 20m budget on here as gospel
and were slagging the owners off for not backing the manager. They look a set of cunts now
With all due respect, anyone who takes anything in the Mail at face value is more than a little naive.The £20 million story also appeared in the daily mail. Need we say any more. Wilder has always been very quiet when it comes to money and it seems to be working well so far. UTB
Maybe the choice of words is a little harsh but a number of posters pointed out why the £20m was unlikely and why in all probability we’ll spend more but some chose not to believe them. Some even chose to argue with them. Some, probably ‘innocently’ but others with a anti-board agenda used it as a stick to beat the owners with, whilst spreading fear and misinformation.That's a tad harsh Pedro. Yes, there are pessimists amongst our ranks, but generally with good reason. To his credit McCabe did say that Wilder had been provided with a healthy budget, and it appears he's been as good as his word. For a first season budget I'm hopeful, no more as this is going to be a tough campaign. Attracting players was either going to be easy or we'd be faced with agents who question our sustainability at this level. Wilder's managed to get a good blend of younger types who are technically gifted, who have pace, and with our existing squad should give us a good chance of remaining a Prem team next season. By which time we'll be looking to repeat this window's achievements and look to buy our first £30million player..........but that's being a bit fanciful, first the season ahead of us.
Returning to my opening line, we may have pessimists, but to call them cunts seems inappropriate. Just my view fella, but it kind of explains what the forum's here for, for United supporters to express their, often, uninformed opinions. Wrong they may be, but what's the flip-side of that? Being a smug twat? Being able to use hindsight as a means of emphasising the virtue of being 'right'? As if any of that really mattered anyway.
Maybe the choice of words is a little harsh but a number of posters pointed out why the £20m was unlikely and why in all probability we’ll spend more but some chose not to believe them. Some even chose to argue with them. Some, probably ‘innocently’ but others with a anti-board agenda used it as a stick to beat the owners with, whilst spreading fear and misinformation.
Maybe the choice of words is a little harsh but a number of posters pointed out why the £20m was unlikely and why in all probability we’ll spend more but some chose not to believe them. Some even chose to argue with them. Some, probably ‘innocently’ but others with a anti-board agenda used it as a stick to beat the owners with, whilst spreading fear and misinformation.
It was more of a general comment than a dig at any specific poster. I gave my opinion on that particular thread and I’m not going to repeat it tediously.... and some then pretended they hadn't done any of that, by quoting their old posts ... to prove that, in fact, they had!
Clubs that have got into difficulties before have suffered because they have players, often getting past their best, on long contracts and massive wages that no one wants to buy or even take on loan because of the wages if the club gets relegated.
I've just realised something... Is it a coincidence that our most costly transfers have come last? I wonder whether he used the £20m tagline to barter with qpr and pne, and then subsequently as the budget was revealed further we were able to 'squeeze' further more costly transfers out of our budget...
any way it seems to have worked a treat whatever the case!
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