The Accounts are out.

[LeeB]

Randy's gesture of £90.1m is amazing and in my own little way I will give a bit back tomorrow by purchasing a programme and not just a balti pie but also a portion of hot chips.

One or two "Randy is making a fortune out of our club" folk need to bookmark this.

Don't they just. And maybe even read it.

I have read it and stand corrected about how I felt about our finances.  Randy has still managed to make a total bollox of things though.  Before we get carried away with how fantastic he is let's remember where we are and what's happening on the pitch.
On a personal note the 'Don't they just. And maybe even read it.' Comment makes you look like a smug school boy sucking up to the teacher.

I'd imagine it's the frustration of having idiot after idiot spouting horseshit about the chairman, when a cursory glance of the accounts tell a completely different story.

It can make you that way.

[saunders_heroes]

Maybe, but I'd be surprised. It would seem to counter everything the club have done over the last few years. Why spend all this time sorting the wage bill and then make it huge again in one summer.

If the wage bill is mostly where they want it to be why not buy a couple of the players we so desperately needed in the January transfer window?

I doubt it was for want of trying. Deals were rumoured, one was made very public, but to buy anything you need to have a willing seller.

I think as most people had assumed, everything has been geared towards this summer being the key one. After that there will be no hiding place, it's time for board and manager to deliver and demonstrate (to fans) that the pain of the last two years was a price worth paying.

Players are always available if you have the money. Lerner won't release significant funds, that's why we scratch around for bargain basement stuff like Hoolihan.

[saunders_heroes]

Randy's gesture of £90.1m is amazing and in my own little way I will give a bit back tomorrow by purchasing a programme and not just a balti pie but also a portion of hot chips.

One or two "Randy is making a fortune out of our club" folk need to bookmark this.

Don't they just. And maybe even read it.

I have read it and stand corrected about how I felt about our finances.  Randy has still managed to make a total bollox of things though.  Before we get carried away with how fantastic he is let's remember where we are and what's happening on the pitch.
On a personal note the 'Don't they just. And maybe even read it.' Comment makes you look like a smug school boy sucking up to the teacher.

I'd imagine it's the frustration of having idiot after idiot spouting horseshit about the chairman, when a cursory glance of the accounts tell a completely different story.

It can make you that way.

The accounts haven't been released yet.

[Clampy]

Maybe, but I'd be surprised. It would seem to counter everything the club have done over the last few years. Why spend all this time sorting the wage bill and then make it huge again in one summer.

If the wage bill is mostly where they want it to be why not buy a couple of the players we so desperately needed in the January transfer window?

I doubt it was for want of trying. Deals were rumoured, one was made very public, but to buy anything you need to have a willing seller.

I've been saying this for a while. Some people just don't seem to understand how the transfer market works.

[ktvillan]

So, according to those figures we are on track then ?
Good.

Reading between the lines, it was the last year of being up shit creek and this year we've got a paddle.

That's what i thought. A decent sized paddle as well.

we might get an engine for it next year and maybe one in midfield for the team too

One just hopes the paddle is big enough to steer us away from the waterfall of relegation.  It's all very laudable aiming to put the club on a sound and self sustainable financial footing,  but going down would ruin all the good work and set us back years.  And we've been sailing far too close to the wind on that issue for a few years now. 

[Chris Smith]

Maybe, but I'd be surprised. It would seem to counter everything the club have done over the last few years. Why spend all this time sorting the wage bill and then make it huge again in one summer.

If the wage bill is mostly where they want it to be why not buy a couple of the players we so desperately needed in the January transfer window?

I doubt it was for want of trying. Deals were rumoured, one was made very public, but to buy anything you need to have a willing seller.

I think as most people had assumed, everything has been geared towards this summer being the key one. After that there will be no hiding place, it's time for board and manager to deliver and demonstrate (to fans) that the pain of the last two years was a price worth paying.

Players are always available if you have the money. Lerner won't release significant funds, that's why we scratch around for bargain basement stuff like Hoolihan.

Players might be available if you chuck enough money at it but that's what we are trying to move away from, i.e. not paying inflated fees and unsustainable salaries. Otherwise, players and selling clubs are more likely to keep their options open until the summer.

[Fergal]

Randy's gesture of £90.1m is amazing and in my own little way I will give a bit back tomorrow by purchasing a programme and not just a balti pie but also a portion of hot chips.

One or two "Randy is making a fortune out of our club" folk need to bookmark this.

Don't they just. And maybe even read it.

I have read it and stand corrected about how I felt about our finances.  Randy has still managed to make a total bollox of things though.  Before we get carried away with how fantastic he is let's remember where we are and what's happening on the pitch.
On a personal note the 'Don't they just. And maybe even read it.' Comment makes you look like a smug school boy sucking up to the teacher.

I'd imagine it's the frustration of having idiot after idiot spouting horseshit about the chairman, when a cursory glance of the accounts tell a completely different story.

It can make you that way.

So you think the club is being well run and only an idiot would question the finances?

[PeterWithesShin]

There is a difference between, for example, spending £10m on a player we think is worth £10m and spending it on a player we value at £6m. As Chris says, over paying is what got us in the mess in the first place.

[silhillvilla]

The way I see it Lerner came in had a real go for 4 years and is now clearing up his own mess with his own money. Hard to criticise that to a degree. At least he hasn't straddled the club with loads of bank debt a la the Glazer model

[Clampy]

There is a difference between, for example, spending £10m on a player we think is worth £10m and spending it on a player we value at £6m. As Chris says, over paying is what got us in the mess in the first place.

I cringe when I think that we paid more for Stephen Warnock than we did for Benteke.

[silhillvilla]

Curtis Davies for £10m must be hard to top

[dave.woodhall]

Randy's gesture of £90.1m is amazing and in my own little way I will give a bit back tomorrow by purchasing a programme and not just a balti pie but also a portion of hot chips.

One or two "Randy is making a fortune out of our club" folk need to bookmark this.

Don't they just. And maybe even read it.

I have read it and stand corrected about how I felt about our finances.  Randy has still managed to make a total bollox of things though.  Before we get carried away with how fantastic he is let's remember where we are and what's happening on the pitch.
On a personal note the 'Don't they just. And maybe even read it.' Comment makes you look like a smug school boy sucking up to the teacher.

I'd imagine it's the frustration of having idiot after idiot spouting horseshit about the chairman, when a cursory glance of the accounts tell a completely different story.

It can make you that way.

So you think the club is being well run and only an idiot would question the finances?

Only an idiot would ask the same question a dozen times after getting the same answer on every single occasion.

[Clampy]

Curtis Davies for £10m must be hard to top

It was an insane amount of money, but I still think he's one player we should have kept hold of for a bit longer than we did.

[saunders_heroes]

There is a difference between, for example, spending £10m on a player we think is worth £10m and spending it on a player we value at £6m. As Chris says, over paying is what got us in the mess in the first place.

But we're talking about Wes Hoolihan here, and he was hardly going to break the bank even if we offered over the odds.

[saunders_heroes]

Curtis Davies for £10m must be hard to top

It was an insane amount of money, but I still think he's one player we should have kept hold of for a bit longer than we did.

I wouldn't mind him in the team now.