January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[bertlambshank]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

4K a month could be the diference between giving one of our academy a professional contract or releasing him, that player could then go on to play for our first team, thus saving us even more money, he could even turn out to be a star.

I worry about 4 quid a month,it's all about scale.


while that's true, i suppose turning off the lights in the carpark an hour earlier would make a decent saving. The point is if we're worried about 4k a month then we really are in the shit.

[SheffieldVillain]

while that's true, i suppose turning off the lights in the carpark an hour earlier would make a decent saving. The point is if we're worried about 4k a month then we really are in the shit.

I don't think Villa are worried about 4k a week per se. but they have stated 9or at least McLeish has said as much in interviews) that there is a wage budget that he must stick to, so if saving a few quid on a couple of loanees allows him the room to offer a promising kid his first professional contract then that's good surely.
Anyway, I believe Beye is ready to take a small pay cut to get another contract here, so even more good news.

And if he does that, perhaps others might follow suit. Big Emile for one. Emile at £60k - no thanks. Emile at £40k, well then you're beginning to talk value for money.

[Greg N'Ash]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

£20000.00 is more than my current annual salary. £20000.00 could pay some of the non footballing staffs wages. Catering or merchandise sales people. £20000.00 may not feel like much to you, but if you ask any self respecting business in this current climate if they had a way to reduce a loss by £20000.00 whether they would take it or not, I think you will find they would take it.   

I totally agree in the real world, but this is football. When you post losses of 40m, a saving 4k a month isn't going to have any effect on the wage bill

[SheffieldVillain]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

£20000.00 is more than my current annual salary. £20000.00 could pay some of the non footballing staffs wages. Catering or merchandise sales people. £20000.00 may not feel like much to you, but if you ask any self respecting business in this current climate if they had a way to reduce a loss by £20000.00 whether they would take it or not, I think you will find they would take it.   

I totally agree in the real world, but this is football. When you post losses of 40m, a saving 4k a month isn't going to have any effect on the wage bill

Yes it is, it's going to make it £4k a month less.

[bertlambshank]

But that could buy new ovens and the pies would be hotter.
That wouldn't worry you though would it.

[hawkeye]

Dunno if any one can elighten me, but i have never understood how this situation developed. MON bought him, then didnt play him and he dissapeared. I never saw him make comments in the Media, when he did play he was played out of position with a scratch defence. So what happened?
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*sigh* MON buys shit player, MON realises he's shit 6 months after everyone else. Player disappears off the planet.. See also Davies. MFH, Sidwell, Shorey, add your own example.....

(sigh)The difference is all those players got a run in the team, Beye hardly played and dissapeared.

[glasses]

You clearly have the business acumen of Rodney Trotter then Greg.

[SheffieldVillain]

Never to be seen again through three subsequent managers (Houllier, Kevin Mac and McLeish). Perhaps they just can't see what we see in him.

Dunno if any one can elighten me, but i have never understood how this situation developed. MON bought him, then didnt play him and he dissapeared. I never saw him make comments in the Media, when he did play he was played out of position with a scratch defence. So what happened?
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*sigh* MON buys shit player, MON realises he's shit 6 months after everyone else. Player disappears off the planet.. See also Davies. MFH, Sidwell, Shorey, add your own example.....

(sigh)The difference is all those players got a run in the team, Beye hardly played and dissapeared.

[Greg N'Ash]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

£20000.00 is more than my current annual salary. £20000.00 could pay some of the non footballing staffs wages. Catering or merchandise sales people. £20000.00 may not feel like much to you, but if you ask any self respecting business in this current climate if they had a way to reduce a loss by £20000.00 whether they would take it or not, I think you will find they would take it.   

I totally agree in the real world, but this is football. When you post losses of 40m, a saving 4k a month isn't going to have any effect on the wage bill

Yes it is, it's going to make it £4k a month less.

well thats a relief. Just the other 39,980,000 to worry about now.

[SheffieldVillain]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

£20000.00 is more than my current annual salary. £20000.00 could pay some of the non footballing staffs wages. Catering or merchandise sales people. £20000.00 may not feel like much to you, but if you ask any self respecting business in this current climate if they had a way to reduce a loss by £20000.00 whether they would take it or not, I think you will find they would take it.   

I totally agree in the real world, but this is football. When you post losses of 40m, a saving 4k a month isn't going to have any effect on the wage bill

Yes it is, it's going to make it £4k a month less.

well thats a relief. Just the other 39,980,000 to worry about now.

Don't worry. Be happy.

[Greg N'Ash]

You clearly have the business acumen of Rodney Trotter then Greg.

and i reckon you work for the EU. worrying about the pennies when its the big expenses you want to get down


And rodney trotter ended up a millionaire *winky*

[Clampy]

I go away for a coffee and a few choccy biscuits and find the mad and hopelessly wrong ramblings of GregNaff still rumbling on. Like others have hinted, i do find it a puzzle that he's so very concerned about the financial situation of a club which he openly admits he has no intention of putting any money into.

[Greg N'Ash]

I go away for a coffee and a few choccy biscuits and find the mad and hopelessly wrong ramblings of GregNaff still rumbling on. Like others have hinted, i do find it a puzzle that he's so very concerned about the financial situation of a club which he openly admits he has no intention of putting any money into.

A bizarre statement frankly. I could buy a season ticket for the rest of my life and it probably wouldn't cover Beye's weekly wage

[Clampy]

I go away for a coffee and a few choccy biscuits and find the mad and hopelessly wrong ramblings of GregNaff still rumbling on. Like others have hinted, i do find it a puzzle that he's so very concerned about the financial situation of a club which he openly admits he has no intention of putting any money into.

A bizarre statement frankly.

Nowhere near as bizarre as what you've come out with today.

[Greg N'Ash]

what? Beye isn't worth keeping for the 2k a week we may be saving on his wages till May?


Shocking leftfield stuff i must say.