We're a selling club

[Edd_AVFC]

I have to admit I haven't been overwhelmed by our choice of manager - but I'm also not going to condemn him until he fucks it up - I think we should give him a chance first.

If we're willing to pay out millions in compensation instead of going for a free agent like Hughes then it would suggest to me that we do have money to spend at least otherwise we would have gone for the cheap option.

It seems to be more of a case that the powers that be are convinced that investing in youth is the way to go rather than paying over the odds for over-priced mercenaries that will leave us at the first opportunity *cough* Downing *cough*.

[Villa'Zawg]

We have now sold Ash and Downing plus released a load of players. The wage bill must have been savagely cut, there is no excuse not to spend.

Only next year will be start to the benefits of reducing the wage bill. I dread to think what was the percentage of our income was player salaries last season, as be failed to really cut it but added Bent and Makoun.

Wasn't it 90% or something ridiculous like that?

For one season we had the 6th highest wages in the league. Our Billionaire owner decided the club couldn't afford that level of investment but thankfully we could afford the £11m+ in management fees and interest payments he charged to the club.

Villadawg,

You have always struck me as a balanced and intelligent poster, but you appear to be lost in some 'everything is shit' nightmare. 

Yeah sorry, I'm finding it very difficult to find any positive angle at all.

[Olneythelonely]

Villadawg has been anything but balanced since O'Neill left. However, I seem to be agreeing with him more and more since May.

[Chris Smith]

We have now sold Ash and Downing plus released a load of players. The wage bill must have been savagely cut, there is no excuse not to spend.

Only next year will be start to the benefits of reducing the wage bill. I dread to think what was the percentage of our income was player salaries last season, as be failed to really cut it but added Bent and Makoun.

Wasn't it 90% or something ridiculous like that?

For one season we had the 6th highest wages in the league. Our Billionaire owner decided the club couldn't afford that level of investment but thankfully we could afford the £11m+ in management fees and interest payments he charged to the club.

Villadawg,

You have always struck me as a balanced and intelligent poster, but you appear to be lost in some 'everything is shit' nightmare. 

Yeah sorry, I'm finding it very difficult to find any positive angle at all.

It's always difficult to find things if you're not looking for them.

[Villa'Zawg]

...
Yeah sorry, I'm finding it very difficult to find any positive angle at all.

It's always difficult to find things if you're not looking for them.

I find it more useful to try looking at things rationally and then deciding if they are positive or negative on the basis of facts.

[Chris Smith]

...
Yeah sorry, I'm finding it very difficult to find any positive angle at all.

It's always difficult to find things if you're not looking for them.

I find it more useful to try looking at things rationally and then deciding if they are positive or negative on the basis of facts.

You interpret the facts to suit your position, same as everyone else.

[hilts_coolerking]

You interpret the facts to suit your position, same as everyone else.

I'd like to point out that Chris Smith doesn't speak for me on this point. 

[Brend'Watkins]

You interpret the facts to suit your position, same as everyone else.

I'd like to point out that Chris Smith doesn't speak for me on this point. 

I think Chris speaks for you more than anybody on this point.

[hilts_coolerking]

I think Chris speaks for you more than anybody on this point.

Which says more about you and him than it does about me.

[Brend'Watkins]

I think Chris speaks for you more than anybody on this point.

Which says more about you and him than it does about me.

Maybe so, but your

I think Chris speaks for you more than anybody on this point.

Which says more about you and him than it does about me.

hilts, I'd llike to go into this but I'm off to bed as I've a long distance to travel tomorrow.  Catch you later.

[Greg N'Ash]

Its a bit sad to see two of the old MON brotherhood having an arguement. A bit sad, but funneh all the same.

[hilts_coolerking]

hilts, I'd llike to go into this but I'm off to bed as I've a long distance to travel tomorrow.  Catch you later.

Safe journey.

[Villa'Zawg]

Its a bit sad to see two of the old MON brotherhood having an arguement. A bit sad, but funneh all the same.

Chris and I have disagreed on a number of issues, we make our point and move on. It's not in the same category of sad and funny as it is reading your ever more desperate attempts to maintain and recycle an argument you lost a long, long time ago.

[LeeB]

We have now sold Ash and Downing plus released a load of players. The wage bill must have been savagely cut, there is no excuse not to spend.

Only next year will be start to the benefits of reducing the wage bill. I dread to think what was the percentage of our income was player salaries last season, as be failed to really cut it but added Bent and Makoun.

Wasn't it 90% or something ridiculous like that?

For one season we had the 6th highest wages in the league. Our Billionaire owner decided the club couldn't afford that level of investment but thankfully we could afford the £11m+ in management fees and interest payments he charged to the club.

Villadawg,

You have always struck me as a balanced and intelligent poster, but you appear to be lost in some 'everything is shit' nightmare. 

He's not alone, there's quite a few formerly rational posters who've been dragged into the vortex.

[Risso]

Perhaps they're still rational and just don't like what's happening at the club?