07 Aug 2022 19:40:46
Not wanting to sound negative but should we not be slightly concerned with wages, FFP and all these players coming in without many outgoings?
07 Aug 2022 20:07:22
Read the article in the Echo mate really good article on how we are managing our finances whilst we can’t afford Champions league players we can certainly afford our signings excellent stuff BR.
07 Aug 2022 20:27:41
No, that’s our accountant’s job. Ours is to watch football.
07 Aug 2022 21:22:59
As none of us are fully aware of financial situation it’s quite difficult to be concerned.
We’re aware that we have been in problems with profits and sustainablity we’ve had to work with the premier league to be able to sign players.
I’m sure that is still the same now - I cannot imagine the club would be spending if they would risk breaking the rules, particularly with all the scrutiny we are now under.
It’s also a fallacy to say little outgoings.
We’ve had quite a lot of outgoings but most only focussing on the fact we sold Richarlison.
However we’ve let sigurdsson, Delph, Tosun and Kenny go also which is a considerable saving in wages, considering both sigurdsson and Delph were rumoured to have been on £100k+ per week and Tosun £80k per week.
I can’t imagine McNeil, Onana, Vinagre and Tarkowski wages will be as much as players that have left the club.
I also imagine there’ll be atleast 1 or 2 others that leave before window closes.
07 Aug 2022 22:37:41
I think the big issue is that while ffp is a huge problem for us, if we don't invest at all we will likely go down and that would be significantly worse for us. We are therefor likely sailing as close to the wind as we can, with the belief that if needed we will just have to sell at the end of the season again, if we have anything worth buying at that point.
08 Aug 2022 04:06:09
I don't disagree with much of what you're saying GB
"We’re aware that we have been in problems with profits and sustainablity we’ve had to work with the premier league to be able to sign players"
I also agree that none of us are fully aware of the financial situation as there is little transparency in the information given to us by the club. The review of the running of the club hasn't revealed what it found and little, if anything, has changed
The question I would ask is
If we are in such mess that we have been 'forced' to work with the premier league to be able to sign players how did we get into this mess, who ( and I think there are many) are responsible and why are they still with us when they are clearly not good/ effective enough?
08 Aug 2022 07:41:21
Spot on BW. Whoever: 'ooh I have messed up' - Big Boss: 'Ok let's have a review, you head it'.
08 Aug 2022 15:26:02
I couldn't give a monkeys about finances, I don't go to cheer the accountants I go to cheer on the team.
08 Aug 2022 22:50:26
You sure Wolf? I swear I heard some people chanting about the board being full of bankers….