Quote from: ozzjim on May 30, 2018, 06:25:03 PMIf we have to find £40 million in savings essentially this summer....£3 million - Terry leaving£2 million - Gabby leaving£3 million - Gollini leaving£2 million - Gil leaving£2 million - Snodgrass leaving£2 million - Elphick to Reading£6 million - McCormack (4 million fee plus the wages saved)£1 million - Johnstone leaving£2 million - Deleat leaving£1 million - Samba leaving£1 million - Grabban leaving£3 million - Lansbury leaving£1 million - Hutton leavingEven with all of that we are only at around £30 million, would be seriously screwed as we would be a keeper short, have 1 left back and 1 centre half, need 2 wingers and a centre forward. Going to need an incredibly patient fan base and board for whoever has this task. Could easily end up where Sunderland are (they must even more fucked than we are!)£15m for Grealish when he goes to Huddersfield or Watford or wherever - We'll have £5m to buy a squad and pay wages. Job done.
If we have to find £40 million in savings essentially this summer....£3 million - Terry leaving£2 million - Gabby leaving£3 million - Gollini leaving£2 million - Gil leaving£2 million - Snodgrass leaving£2 million - Elphick to Reading£6 million - McCormack (4 million fee plus the wages saved)£1 million - Johnstone leaving£2 million - Deleat leaving£1 million - Samba leaving£1 million - Grabban leaving£3 million - Lansbury leaving£1 million - Hutton leavingEven with all of that we are only at around £30 million, would be seriously screwed as we would be a keeper short, have 1 left back and 1 centre half, need 2 wingers and a centre forward. Going to need an incredibly patient fan base and board for whoever has this task. Could easily end up where Sunderland are (they must even more fucked than we are!)
Stadium naming rights have a value, the only things debatable are what that value is, and then whether Tony can, or wants to, pay it.
So other than pulling up the drawbridge for the elite few, all FFP really does is fuck over any clubs with the slightest bit of ambition.I fucking hate modern football.
It seems we went half measures. Either you cut your cloth accordingly when relegated or you say fuck it and spend big to get out. It seems we did neither. If FFP was going to wreck us if we weren't promoted then maybe there was a case for going all in last summer and putting a squad together that would piss the division rather than one that would be competitive.
But were they of the quality required to piss the league? IF FFP was always going to screw us then you make sure you're out of the division in two seasons rather than being mediocre for one then scraping a squad of loans together.
Quote from: Billy Walker on May 30, 2018, 05:22:42 PMThe biggest thing I take from the statement is that Bruce will be off.Agreed.
The biggest thing I take from the statement is that Bruce will be off.
Quote from: Ads on May 30, 2018, 07:56:12 PMQuote from: Billy Walker on May 30, 2018, 05:22:42 PMThe biggest thing I take from the statement is that Bruce will be off.Agreed.Doesn’t that cost us rather than save money?
Quote from: olaftab on May 31, 2018, 03:16:23 AMQuote from: Ads on May 30, 2018, 07:56:12 PMQuote from: Billy Walker on May 30, 2018, 05:22:42 PMThe biggest thing I take from the statement is that Bruce will be off.Agreed.Doesn’t that cost us rather than save money?I thought Bruce was on a rolling contract, which is a concept I admit to not understanding but I assume it means that AVFC do not have to pay a lump some in compensation?