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Reply | Net spend in the Premier League since June 2014
at 21:25 30 Apr 2018
That's not how it works. They money clubs receive from the Premier League is distributed at the end of the season after tallying the merit payment (prize money dependent on finish), number of live broadcasts, and facility fees. If we're spending next season's budget before even getting the money, that must mean we're taking out a bunch of loans and borrowing like mad. |
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Reply | Net spend in the Premier League since June 2014
at 21:08 30 Apr 2018
Oh please, this is complete utter nonsense. This has nothing to do with a criminal bankrolling us or not. To say that would be completely letting the club leadership off the hook and the awful job they have done. It's about buying good replacements. It's not that we don't have an oligarch or an Arab sheikh at the helm. It's that we don't have a competent recruitment staff.
Just look at Sevilla. Our wage bill and budget dwarfs theirs, they have positive net spends every year, and they're forced to sell their best players season after season. And yet from 2013-2016 they won 3 straight Europa League titles. What made the difference is that unlike us, they are actually able to find decent replacements for their departing stars, consistently replacing them with equal if not better talent. Same goes for Porto, Benfica, Udinese, etc. who also are always forced to part with their stars. [Post edited 30 Apr 2018 21:12]
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Reply | Net spend in the Premier League since June 2014
at 20:59 30 Apr 2018
That's what I don't get about this club. The yanks keep saying that every cent that's made is reinvested back into the club and that all that can be spent on transfers is done so, and yet every season when it's Winter and we sack the manager we magically have money to pay him and his staff out. If everything is spent, where the hell is all this money coming from? |
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Reply | Sam Clucas blocked me on Twitter
at 12:00 19 Dec 2017
i'm not insulted. i'm actually quite pleased and flattered he took the time out of his schedule as a professional footballer to read my tweet and reacted so strongly towards it that he had to block me. it's good knowing that your opinion is valued and that people see what you put out.
if an actual decent footballer like sigurdsson or mahrez blocked me, then perhaps maybe I'd feel insulted. |
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Reply | Sam Clucas blocked me on Twitter
at 11:51 19 Dec 2017
perhaps that's why he has no incentive to get better and why he continues to play so poorly. he alters his reality how he sees fit and lives in his own little fantasy land full of nothing but praise and admiration from hanger-ons and yes men. in his mind he actually thinks he's a premier league footballer, that everything's going to be fine, and that after bringing us down like he did with hull last year another prem club will be stupid enough to sign him.
unfortunately sam life is real. you can't block things like relegation and wage reductions from relegation clauses. nor can you block the very real actuality that you're just not good enough for this level |
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Thread | Sam Clucas blocked me on Twitter
at 11:20 19 Dec 2017
Proof: 
And the crazy thing is, I didn't even insult him or attack him personally. Hell, I didn't even DIRECTLY TWEET HIM OR MESSAGE HIM. All I did was make a tweet saying that the 16m we paid for him could have been put to better use. Nothing mean spirited, nothing malicious. I'm sure you can all agree that is a fair criticism given how he's played. This lad is literally searching up his name on Twitter and blocking anyone who's opinion doesn't sit well with his. Christ.
Is this what our squad is made up of now? Is this what 16m buys you these days? A prima donna who would rather spend time looking up his name on twitter and blocking anyone who doesn't rate him than putting in those extra hours working on the training pitch?
Here's something you should really block me over you prick: how about you take that time stroking your ego on social media and spend it at Fairwood practicing how to take a competent set piece, marking your man, or stopping a cross, because at the moment you can't even do the bare basics. You're a pub league footballer masquerading as a professional. Block that you snowflake. |
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Reply | Over to you Box Office
at 10:32 19 Dec 2017
clucas has been poor even when clement has played him on the left side of midfield. the guy is a lower league player, plain and simple. there's a reason hull went down last season with him. [Post edited 19 Dec 2017 11:02]
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Reply | Andy Yiadom
at 09:12 19 Dec 2017
it's hilarious how jenkins always thinks he can find a gem in the lower leagues even after failing time and time again. i'm now saying it's not possible (see: delle ali and jamie vardy), but they are FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. since we got promoted we've signed the following stinkers from the lower leagues: proctor, lita, emnes, n'gog, moore, fer, olsson, grimes, mcburnie, clucas, and many more I'm forgetting. all had one thing in common: they were all a gigantic waste of money and they are all not good enough for the premier league
at this moment it's as if jenkins doesn't even care anymore. he seriously might as well just take a random list of lower league players, tape it on the wall, throw a few darts, and sign the ones that were hit. though I'm having suspicions that our existing transfer strategy is already like this |
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Reply | Andy Yiadom
at 09:02 19 Dec 2017
Great, another championship player.
no doubt we'll sign 2 more and then close up shop for the window. pathetic stuff. |
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Reply | Getting cut adrift now. Will the trigger get pulled?
at 06:56 19 Dec 2017
This is 100% spot on. They saw JTAK and thought they'd have an easy time just letting Huw take care of everything before selling off for a nice profit in 4-5 years, while putting nothing in. To them, we would have just been merely the millionth or so company that they had flipped. They thought they were so clever. And they thought this would be so easy.
But unfortunately for our smug and self-righteous prick owners who thought they knew it all and had it all figured out, this isn't the stock market. You can't just buy a Premier League club and sit on it like you would a share of stock.
It's very telling that Perlman admitted he had no idea what relegation was until we started losing games and were at the bottom of the table last season.
They're not the first dumbf uck owners who have no idea about football or about the prospect of relegation. The Venky's also had no idea relegation existed. They probably know now though w/ Blackburn in League One. [Post edited 19 Dec 2017 6:57]
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Reply | I’ll say it again
at 17:34 2 Dec 2017
Gotta love Huw. Two years ago he was unwilling to pay a completely reasonable price for Joey, saying he was too expensive, and fast forward to this summer he pays 16m for pub league footballer Sam Clucas.
16m for Sam Clucas gents. 16m.
But Joey was too expensive? |
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