Quote from: ROBBO on March 07, 2013, 12:06:06 PMThere are players bought that left most supporters shaking there heads in disbelief, when you look at the sheer waste of money over four years it makes me angry. Who remembers pelty on here dropping the fact that Heskey was the highest paid player at the club?That's Emile Heskey, who was nudging 32 when we threw a 3.5 year deal at him. That's an example of the sort of dreadful decision making we've engaged in.There's nothing wrong with shirking players with no future value and buying wisely so that you'll have sell on potential - even Spurs do that. My problem currently is that, we seem to have realised that now, but we're doing it on far too large a scale, too quickly.
There are players bought that left most supporters shaking there heads in disbelief, when you look at the sheer waste of money over four years it makes me angry.
Quote from: Concrete John on March 07, 2013, 02:33:00 PMQuote from: Risso on March 07, 2013, 02:15:15 PMWe haven't mentioned Spurs for a while, and we'll never tempt VD back if that isn't rectified.For 2011, their wage bill was £91m compared to ours of £83m. VD should be glad that we're finally paying less than them, it's just a shame how it's been achieved, ie they're still knocking around the top 4, while we're more concerned with the bottom 4.£8m a year is about 2-3 top players. Spurs are abviously more than 2-3 players better than us. So it just goes to show it's all about how the money is spent. And if you take those 2-3 players and also have our higher earners contributing as befits their salary, then would be that far off them? That's one of the biggest problems - the big earners who should be the backbone of the team just haven't contributed this season. I'd say in each area of the team, the following are by far and away the highest earners:GK - GivenDF - Dunne MF - IrelandST - Bent When you add in Hutton, Warnock, N'Zogbia and Gabby, I reckon you are talking well over £400,000 pw for a group of players who have contributed hardly anything.
Quote from: Risso on March 07, 2013, 02:15:15 PMWe haven't mentioned Spurs for a while, and we'll never tempt VD back if that isn't rectified.For 2011, their wage bill was £91m compared to ours of £83m. VD should be glad that we're finally paying less than them, it's just a shame how it's been achieved, ie they're still knocking around the top 4, while we're more concerned with the bottom 4.£8m a year is about 2-3 top players. Spurs are abviously more than 2-3 players better than us. So it just goes to show it's all about how the money is spent. And if you take those 2-3 players and also have our higher earners contributing as befits their salary, then would be that far off them?
We haven't mentioned Spurs for a while, and we'll never tempt VD back if that isn't rectified.For 2011, their wage bill was £91m compared to ours of £83m. VD should be glad that we're finally paying less than them, it's just a shame how it's been achieved, ie they're still knocking around the top 4, while we're more concerned with the bottom 4.
Queens Park Rangers has said that its wage bill doubled during its first year back in the Premier League.Spending on wages nearly doubled from £27.6m to £56m in the year to 31 May 2012, financial results showed.It reported a loss of £22.6m and debts jumped 57% to nearly £90m according to the accounts, which do not include the club's latest spending on new players.QPR chairman Tony Fernandes admitted that spending needed to be "closely monitored and controlled".However, he added: "A critical driver of any club's value is its presence in the Premier League and the club achieved its key objective for the 2011-12 season by successfully securing its Premier League status."The financial results reflect the club's focus on on-pitch success."Since the end of the last financial year the club has brought in a number of players, both during the summer and during the January transfer window.The club twice broke its transfer record during January when it spent more than £20m on Loic Remy and Christopher Samba.QPR are currently bottom of the Premier League and the signings aimed to strengthen the squad for its battle to avoid relegation.The club sacked manager Mark Hughes in November and brought in Harry Redknapp.QPR are partly owned by Mr Fernandes, and the Malaysian business tycoons Kamarudin Bin Meranun and Ruben Emir Gnanalingam, who have a combined 66% stake. The remainder belongs to the Mittal family.
..he has radically changed his mind - in a perfectly rational way. The MON approach wasn't working. That's why we didn't finish any higher than 6th. What was meant to happen in that situation? Carry on throwing ever larger cheques at it until he was bankrupt as well as the club? We're going about it a different way now but unfortunately there's a lot of repair work that's needed before we can start to grow again.
So who's to blame, Paulie? Is it Lambert for spending his budget on untried full backs whilst ignoring the two he inherited, only one central defender, three central midfielders from the Dutch and French (Div 2) leagues and English Third Division, a winger unwanted by Spurs trying to make a living in the MSL, whilst spending £7m on a striker when we already had a £24m top striker, Gabby, N'Zogbia, Holman, Wiemann and the Fonz?Or is it Lerner for not giving Lambert more to spend?
It comes down to whether there was scope for Lambert to buy more proven players at higher wages last summer and in January. In the case of last summer the Dempsey bid suggests so. Save for signing yet another two untried players he didn't do anything in January either and yet there are strong murmurs from the likes of Gnasher and Eastie on here that he had more money to spend but didn't. I feared last summer that he was still in the mindset of being the Norwich manager - picking-up lower league players en masse and giving them a shot at the big-time and I'm worried that will come back to haunt him.
Save for signing yet another two untried players he didn't do anything in January either and yet there are strong murmurs from the likes of Gnasher and Eastie on here that he had more money to spend but didn't.