Popular Post Athelwulf Posted April 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2021 ...to our advice back in 2015/16. Everyone on this site was of one accord. We begged him not to spend. We didn't want quality players like Forestieri and Hooper bringing into the club. Nor did we want a shot at promotion. We wanted money investing in sustainability, youth development and the like. So what if we'd have to wait another decade to have a go? I mean, we'd only been outside the top flight for 15 years, so what's having to wait another 10? This mess is entirely of Channers' own making, and it was done explicitly against our wishes. And if you believe that, then you'll believe that I'm off out on a date with Taylor this week. And what's more, my wife's driving me there. 2 1 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton_Swfc Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Cool story. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fudge27 Posted April 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2021 What a throbber 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewings Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Well idk about you but I kinda liked having quality players at Hillsborough. Didn't mind that bit....must have been nice, forgot what its like to have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted April 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2021 Exactly. 13 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 21 minutes ago, Athelwulf said: ...to our advice back in 2015/16. Everyone on this site was of one accord. We begged him not to spend. We didn't want quality players like Forestieri and Hooper bringing into the club. Nor did we want a shot at promotion. We wanted money investing in sustainability, youth development and the like. So what if we'd have to wait another decade to have a go? I mean, we'd only been outside the top flight for 15 years, so what's having to wait another 10? This mess is entirely of Channers' own making, and it was done explicitly against our wishes. And if you believe that, then you'll believe that I'm off out on a date with Taylor this week. And what's more, my wife's driving me there. Another parody account, coming out with clickbait like this, like a prize Perch I'll take the bait though. Most of us were happy to see us spending more than the previous £350K max budget to try and push us forward. When it ultimately failed we had hoped those running the club would have some sort of plan to fall back on that didn't mean financial ruin for the next 4 years and counting. Instead we hoarded past it players and got a points deduction and transfer embargoes to boot. Hey ho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl Be Back Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Nice try, OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camffiti Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Chanser did listen We got the CLEAR AAHHHHT that the OT massif wanted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobayashi Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Yeah because a load of fans on a forum twisted his arm and made him totally incompetent. Spending is one thing, Being a numpty is another. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameylamps Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
room0035 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 If only Chansiri had listen we all told him to bring in a striker in January and he knew better. Well relegated after the Blackburn game with 3 games left, one of the worse scorers in 92 teams it appears DC does not have a clue what he is doing. His latest error will cost him the best part of £10m a season for each season we are in league one. We wait for the latest excuse why it's not his fault and someone else is to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athelwulf Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 4 hours ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: Exactly. Smarty pants. Well, everybody apart from areNOTwhatTHEYseem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobness Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 9 hours ago, Athelwulf said: This mess is entirely of Channers' own making, and it was done explicitly against our wishes. And if you believe that, then you'll believe that I'm off out on a date with Taylor this week. I call dibs on sloppy seconds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Part of being the custodian and owner of the club was reading the rules, and operating within them. It is not the spending per se that was the issue, it was the spending being outside the rules, which has led to embargoes and a points deduction that will ultimately relegate us. As fans we could not know how much we were spending on wages and transfers as the former are not public and much of the latter were undisclosed in terms of fees. Only the club knew that. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athelwulf Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 9 minutes ago, mcmigo said: Part of being the custodian and owner of the club was reading the rules, and operating within them. It is not the spending per se that was the issue, it was the spending being outside the rules, which has led to embargoes and a points deduction that will ultimately relegate us. As fans we could not know how much we were spending on wages and transfers as the former are not public and much of the latter were undisclosed in terms of fees. Only the club knew that. As fans, we never knew anything. ...and neither did the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudentOwl Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 You should have seen my b*tching back in the summer of 2016 about our policy of signing older players on huge contracts then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick_Turpin Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 12 hours ago, Athelwulf said: ...to our advice back in 2015/16. Everyone on this site was of one accord. We begged him not to spend. We didn't want quality players like Forestieri and Hooper bringing into the club. Nor did we want a shot at promotion. We wanted money investing in sustainability, youth development and the like. So what if we'd have to wait another decade to have a go? I mean, we'd only been outside the top flight for 15 years, so what's having to wait another 10? This mess is entirely of Channers' own making, and it was done explicitly against our wishes. And if you believe that, then you'll believe that I'm off out on a date with Taylor this week. And what's more, my wife's driving me there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Athelwulf said: As fans, we never knew anything. ...and neither did the media. No fan knew the ratio of spending vs income and how that would breach the FFP rules. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shezzas left peg Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 The problem wasn't really spending money on a few quality players to push us into the top six and closer to promotion. That first seasons recruitment was good business. It's what came afterwards that was the problem. We wasted so much money on squad players we didn't need like urby, horrific signings like abdi and of course it got worse paying big wages for over the hill, overpaid journeyman like Jones and boyd. Oh and of course while we were crying out for a left back, a replacement for loovens and a central midfielder to replace hutch. He goes and wastes £10+ million on Rhodes and his wages when we already had 6 strikers at the club. Splashing the cash would still have been not a problem with ffp if we'd have been smart, after season 1 if rumours were to be believed, Burnley were after Lees for around £8 million, Fulham for Nando £10/12 mil along with some substantial bids for both Lee, Westwood and bazza. A proper football club run right. Would have got £30 million from selling them and reinvested it whilst still making a profit. That's where we failed. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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