Record Losses....

[tarzansbrother]

Mcliesh will see out contract, sell to buy policy, selling club with any future talent, no big signings. SHAMBLES

[pav]

Were in the shit , dropping like a brick

[Greg N'Ash]

Well i guess it just shows what an utter mug lerner was, but I can't help thinking it would have been cheaper if he'd just done a national tv and radio campaign advertising the fact - accounts are so dull. It looks like no-one was watching the balance sheet despite them saying differently at the time (to utter disbelief from yours truly). MON's pay-off is what you'd expect from the man - not an honourable bone in his body. I just hope he was Doug's choice otherwise I wouldn't trust Lerner anywhere near a new managerial appointment

[lovejoy]

Two things:
I have more sympathy for Randy now.
The size of the sum likely paid to O'Neill shows legally he was in the right when he walked out. We can shout all the bile at him we like but he was, apparently wronged when he left so can we leave all this "he walked out of the club five days before the start of the season" nonsense behind us. None of the evidence points to this being anything like true.

[Legion]

It's not nonsense. That's exactly what he did.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Two things:
I have more sympathy for Randy now.
The size of the sum likely paid to O'Neill shows legally he was in the right when he walked out. We can shout all the bile at him we like but he was, apparently wronged when he left so can we leave all this "he walked out of the club five days before the start of the season" nonsense behind us. None of the evidence points to this being anything like true.

Rubbish its exactly what he did. Martin O'Neill walked out on the club five days before the start of the season and left us completely and utterly in the shit. No debate. No arguement. FACT.

[caster troy]

Maybe this will force their hand re: McLeish if season ticket sales plummet in June. It would mean a short term hit as yet again we pay off a manager but surely the loss of ST revenue and associated match day sales of food etc would dwarf this?

On the other hand they may be even more determined to give him more time to avoid more compensation payments, a thought that scares the shit out of me.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Is it bad news that comes in threes?? Bent out for the season,now this,whats tomorrow,contract extension for McCleish?

Worse. Emile's just signed another three and a half year contract or until he scores again, which ever happens sooner.

[Greg N'Ash]

Two things:
I have more sympathy for Randy now.
The size of the sum likely paid to O'Neill shows legally he was in the right when he walked out. We can shout all the bile at him we like but he was, apparently wronged when he left so can we leave all this "he walked out of the club five days before the start of the season" nonsense behind us. None of the evidence points to this being anything like true.

or it could be he's a litigious little c*nt who employs an army of lawyers to sue everyone down to website's publishing critical letters from fans and Lerner didn't want 12 months of shit with all his dirty laundry washed in public.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Does a £54million loss and dropping us all in the shit mean Faulkner etc can get some obscene bonuses or would they have to move to RBS or similar for that ?

[SoccerHQ]

Pretty sure it was commented at the time we gave Houllier a very generous deal to come out of retirement. He signed a contract for 3 years and pretty sure he was on 2-3m a year.

The figures don't look good but tbf as others have said Downing and Young sales not included nor their wages or those of Friedel, NRC, L. Young, Carew etc coming off the wage bill so I'd be more interested to see the situation 6 months down the line.

[Greg N'Ash]

i wanna know where these losses are coming from re the salaries. Surely they must have dropped a bit seeing we were letting players go left right and centre or will we eventually find out we've been paying Ivanhoe 20m a year?

[Eigentor]

i wanna know where these losses are coming from re the salaries. Surely they must have dropped a bit seeing we were letting players go left right and centre or will we eventually find out we've been paying Ivanhoe 20m a year?

The big clear-out was last summer and wouldn't affect these figues.

[Greg N'Ash]

we still lost the likes of milner, carew, shorey, harewood, davies, sidewell? all big earners

[hawkeye]

Still dont get the pay off, if MON walked without justification then there would be no pay off, this was an out of court settlement which meant they new they were going to lose and or the damage they would have sustaind at a hearing would have been worse.