An interesting article on the BBC internet sport.Blackburn, Bolton and Birmingham: Seven charts showing how Championship clubs reached this pointhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47691385
Quote from: sirlordbaltimore on March 25, 2019, 08:34:31 PMOnly caught the last 40 minutes of the WM thing tonight. Just as well as my heads still aching now.From what i gather, if we don't get promoted then we're really got to sell Jack to balance the books. If we don't go up i'd expect that to happen anyway obviously. The problem then is, who do we sell to balance the books the next summer if we still aren't promoted ?Yes that was insightful stuff on WM. Lots of people on here slate the station, but that was a good listen this evening. The guy they had on, Kieran Maguire, was very knowledgeable.Blues were spending nearly twice as much as they were bringing in, and Wolves would have been in trouble had they not been promoted. They lost far more than anyone last season but apparently promotion bonuses aren't included in any calculation. Also an interesting article on Redknapp in the Observer yesterday. We were so close to liquidation in the summer, that the criticism Bruce gets about leaving the squad in a parlous state now seems quite harsh. We may need to get creative ourselves in the summer if we don't go up or inevitably we'll sell Jack and maybe McGinn.
Only caught the last 40 minutes of the WM thing tonight. Just as well as my heads still aching now.From what i gather, if we don't get promoted then we're really got to sell Jack to balance the books. If we don't go up i'd expect that to happen anyway obviously. The problem then is, who do we sell to balance the books the next summer if we still aren't promoted ?
Quote from: rougegorge on March 25, 2019, 11:25:56 PMQuote from: sirlordbaltimore on March 25, 2019, 08:34:31 PMOnly caught the last 40 minutes of the WM thing tonight. Just as well as my heads still aching now.From what i gather, if we don't get promoted then we're really got to sell Jack to balance the books. If we don't go up i'd expect that to happen anyway obviously. The problem then is, who do we sell to balance the books the next summer if we still aren't promoted ?Yes that was insightful stuff on WM. Lots of people on here slate the station, but that was a good listen this evening. The guy they had on, Kieran Maguire, was very knowledgeable.Blues were spending nearly twice as much as they were bringing in, and Wolves would have been in trouble had they not been promoted. They lost far more than anyone last season but apparently promotion bonuses aren't included in any calculation. Also an interesting article on Redknapp in the Observer yesterday. We were so close to liquidation in the summer, that the criticism Bruce gets about leaving the squad in a parlous state now seems quite harsh. We may need to get creative ourselves in the summer if we don't go up or inevitably we'll sell Jack and maybe McGinn.Bruce was a major contributor to us being in the shit.
We were so close to liquidation in the summer, that the criticism Bruce gets about leaving the squad in a parlous state now seems quite harsh.
Quote from: rougegorge on March 25, 2019, 11:25:56 PMWe were so close to liquidation in the summer, that the criticism Bruce gets about leaving the squad in a parlous state now seems quite harsh. Not really. The new owners took charge in late July. I'm not sure how being close to liquidation the month before meant he had to: - loan out Elphick (31st Aug) and leave us without a back-up centre half, - spunk good money on loaning Moereira (26th July) and buying Nyland (7th Aug) while loaning out Jed Steer who is at least their equal- bring in 2 wingers (Bolasie and El Ghazi) on the 22nd and 25th August while loaning out Green, but not bring in a left back.Those were nothing to do with the financial situation, just shit management of resources.
Quote from: SheffieldVillain on March 26, 2019, 08:20:16 PMQuote from: rougegorge on March 25, 2019, 11:25:56 PMWe were so close to liquidation in the summer, that the criticism Bruce gets about leaving the squad in a parlous state now seems quite harsh. Not really. The new owners took charge in late July. I'm not sure how being close to liquidation the month before meant he had to: - loan out Elphick (31st Aug) and leave us without a back-up centre half, - spunk good money on loaning Moereira (26th July) and buying Nyland (7th Aug) while loaning out Jed Steer who is at least their equal- bring in 2 wingers (Bolasie and El Ghazi) on the 22nd and 25th August while loaning out Green, but not bring in a left back.Those were nothing to do with the financial situation, just shit management of resources. Absolutely. It was all very nice signing attacking players but it did seem obvious we had massively failed to fill a JT shaped hole in our defence. Then there was his continued belief that playing a midfielder at centre half, a centre half at right back and a right back at left back was a good idea.
Quote from: clash city rocker on March 26, 2019, 07:57:43 PMQuote from: rougegorge on March 25, 2019, 11:25:56 PMQuote from: sirlordbaltimore on March 25, 2019, 08:34:31 PMOnly caught the last 40 minutes of the WM thing tonight. Just as well as my heads still aching now.From what i gather, if we don't get promoted then we're really got to sell Jack to balance the books. If we don't go up i'd expect that to happen anyway obviously. The problem then is, who do we sell to balance the books the next summer if we still aren't promoted ?Yes that was insightful stuff on WM. Lots of people on here slate the station, but that was a good listen this evening. The guy they had on, Kieran Maguire, was very knowledgeable.Blues were spending nearly twice as much as they were bringing in, and Wolves would have been in trouble had they not been promoted. They lost far more than anyone last season but apparently promotion bonuses aren't included in any calculation. Also an interesting article on Redknapp in the Observer yesterday. We were so close to liquidation in the summer, that the criticism Bruce gets about leaving the squad in a parlous state now seems quite harsh. We may need to get creative ourselves in the summer if we don't go up or inevitably we'll sell Jack and maybe McGinn.Bruce was a major contributor to us being in the shit.So was O'Neill, how far we gonna go back into our repertoire of making awful business decisions ?It's been one bad decision after another for god knows how long now.