Ha! What don't you understand. It's not about the players that yes, we were happy to sign, it's the fact we appear not to have a pot to piss in now. It's about the lack of financial planning. The fact that Bruce says we may have to sell players we don't want to sell to balance the books.
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on August 13, 2017, 03:34:27 PMHa! What don't you understand. It's not about the players that yes, we were happy to sign, it's the fact we appear not to have a pot to piss in now. It's about the lack of financial planning. The fact that Bruce says we may have to sell players we don't want to sell to balance the books.You didn't expect the managers to be backed?
Nobody is blaming Bruce. What I am questioning is the financial planning of Wyness and Round. Apart from Hogan, we paid an additional £11m on three midfielders and a full back, money that we've recouped this summer with the sale of Vertout, Sanchez and Baker. So far this window we've spent £2.5m and even then the manager is saying we still need to sell and by the sound of it, one of our more valuable players.Maybe Xia thought he could buy us out of the Championship but you'd have hoped Wyness and later Round would have set the alarm bells ringing back in January to let him know it was a shit or bust strategy.
We sold Ayew, Westwood and Rudy for 17 million in January, which funded the bulk of our purchases.Round wasn't at the club last summer.
It would be good to hear more about the long term plans for the club, be it in the Prem or where we are now. By that I mean on and off the pitch - this Aston re generation scheme sounds very promising.