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Reply | Rodney Signs New Deal
at 19:58 21 Jun 2024
If he is now really free of whatever his illness was, he will hopefully benefit from a complete pre-season and emerge as the player we have not yet really seen but hoped he could be.
McNulty still has a lot of work to do but this signing signals an intent that I feared we might not see again.. not home and hosed yet by any means but moving in the right direction.....as my late father in law was apt to say, "you can't shit 'bout shite" .... and you cant play good football without good players. |
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Reply | Eng v Den
at 13:48 21 Jun 2024
Nothing wrong with playing long if Kane had been anywhere near the penalty area (theirs not his own) ... one touch in the opponents area is shocking, OK he scored, but he needed to strech the pitch and force their defenders closer to their own goal, not ponce about in midfield. Who was Saha supposed to cross to?
England have a left back problem, Trippier is a decent player, but he is not going to get away playing as a right footed left back at this level, nor was Alexander-Arnold going to suddenly become a midfielder, or Foden a left Winger. To misquote Eric Morecambe , all the right players, not neccessarily in the right places....Southgate is middle management, not bad but not great, we need a brilliant managing director who knows how make things work properly. |
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Reply | George Nevett to Peterborough
at 18:40 18 Jun 2024
Hopefully it starts with a bigger number than 1....
We need to recruit at least 2 more central defenders now and a keeper. |
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Reply | At the right price.
at 22:28 13 Jun 2024
It would be interesting to see the fine print in these add-on deals, I imagine most of it would be loaded onto a percentage of any sell-on profits, say 10% and maybe a smaller amout for say 50 first team appearances perhaps £5-10k. I can't see that Rochdale would receive another payment when the 3rd club sells to a 4th club or the 4th sells to a 5th.
We got £750k for Hogan from Brentford, they sold him to Villa for a rumoured £12- 15m. I dont think we got another million+ out of that deal, so were there any add ons in that deal or was it just the initial fee??
Forest sold Holt to Shrewsbury for £170k ( a loss) so we got nothing extra there.
Bristol Rovers sold Lambert to Soton for £1m so maybe we got 10% of 800k profit..another 80k. Hogan and Dawson look like the only players we have sold where the add ons have actually amounted to much more than £100k but Holt Lambert, Buckley, ALF, Murray, probably didnt.
The reason we had a reputation for being well run was that we couldn't afford to be in debt. Probably because no one would lend us any money any way we managed OK in L1 when big away followings came to Rochdale, we got some great cup ties and we kept a tight rein on the outgoings. The problems started when there were no crowds and the cash started to run out, Bottom spending shitloads on stuff we didnt need like 100s of gallons of sanitzer, signs, cashless turnstiles, and the pitch didnt help the cash situation either. |
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Reply | At the right price.
at 23:36 12 Jun 2024
A million in the hand is better than ....you get the gist. We supposedly got £1m for Matheson but how much of that did we actually collect? Add-ons are the riskiest bit for the selling club and only work in a small % of sales. A big club can put add-ons into a deal with very little risk... if the player becomes a big star, the add-on is pocket money to them if he doesn't make the grade no one benefits.
As we have recently proved, cash is King, put the add-ons in the deal by all means but the upfront payment is what actually goes into the bank. Where is the harm in asking for £1m or more? Until someone says no, you might as well ask for big money. If they do say no, at least you are negotiating down from a big figure and might end up with £750k+. Sometimes you have to give the buyer a deal he can go back to his directors with.. " they wanted a mill, I got them down to £750k"... sounds
like a win..... And interestingly, we might get into a bidding war for him if there are 3 or 4 clubs interested, even more reason not to undersell him. |
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Reply | At the right price.
at 17:12 12 Jun 2024
Nevett is 18, left footed, well over 6 feet tall, has a season of men's football under his belt and is an U19 Welsh international, Find me another one!
We need to stop it with the negative waves.. slap a £1m price on his head and include 10% of any future sales in the deal.. If he stays for another season he will only be worth more! If you start low expectations, you get low payments.
The money would be nice, but thankfully we are not now desperate, so there is no need to accept lowball offers. Lets not allow this lad to become another LeFondre or Lambert. New era.. new thinking! |
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Reply | EEL Stays
at 01:06 8 Jun 2024
I thought Mitchell had several perfectly presentable opportunities that he completely fluffed his lines on... his heading is a weakness that will be difficult to improve and which nullifies the wingers to an extent. I fear he doesn't make the centre halves he is up against work hard enough. |
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Reply | EEL Stays
at 18:09 7 Jun 2024
Whilst all defences will leak poor goals occasionally, our defensive problem for most of last season was crosses from our left hand side not being properly defended or prevented in the first instance. A bigger problem was not being ruthless enough in front of goal. Had we scored another goal every other game , say 20 more over the season we would have been into the play off places..taking chances must be an area for improvement in the coming season. I am still hopefull that we will bring in a competent left back with Armstrong as back up. |
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Reply | Pre-Season Friendlies List
at 17:58 7 Jun 2024
Fleetwood Town, Away, 20th July. Behind Closed Doors.... Announced this afternoon.... [Post edited 7 Jun 18:54]
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Reply | Meet The Board Tonight
at 14:11 4 Jun 2024
The best thing is that we now have the quality of Directors with Legal , Financial and Business skills that we have never really had before. The days of Pie men, Publicans and "what can I get out of it" types are truly over. The future looks decidedly brighter, there is a long and medium-term plan. and a structure within the club that is built to respond early and quickly to events that may be yet to unfold.
The next big test will be finding a home for the training pitches and community hub, I wonder if the Council will now realise its time for them to to step up?
Thank God that Simon and Richard and the others had the stones and wherewithal to keep us alive whilst getting all this over the line, gratitude seems like too small a word to describe my feelings. |
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Reply | Meet The Board Tonight
at 08:32 4 Jun 2024
An interesting snippet from last night....apparently the Ogdens are season ticket holders at Man U and in discussions with the club wondered if there might be some support from United... when told we dont really have any big connections to United, they said " its OK we know Jim Ratcliffe quite well". Its not always what you know..... |
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Reply | Released Players
at 19:01 29 May 2024
Burnley released .( u21s)
The following players will leave the academy: (U21s) Ackeme Francis-Burrell, Kian Le Fondre, Marcel Lewis, Michael O’Neill, Michael Parker, Renaldo Torraj, Jack Turner and Harry Moss. (U18s) Sonny Pickup, Dylan Sime, Ollie Sweeney, Lucas Wane, Callum West, Jack Rogers, Rohan Vaughan and Jack Bates.
The Le Fondre is a cousin of Alfie.... |
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Reply | Salford looking for investment......
at 19:54 23 May 2024
They promised us that Kingsway would not turn into a vast area of warehouses, but that promise was broken, so I tend to take their intentions with a giant pinch of salt when it comes to deciding what they want there. My guess is a stadium with decent parking and facilities to house conferences and events would employ more people than a vast automated warehouse, and yes there is a high-tech new materials site there but its hardly going to be like the Cambridge Pharma Park is it? Even the Graphene developments went out of Manchester rather than staying close to its inventors and the Graphene Research Centre... The problem is that its difficult to attract well paid talent from the leafy shires to the urban jungle of Rochdale especially given the recent publicity the town has attracted.
Maybe the drains comment was a bit tongue in cheek , but its always harder to fix inherent problems on an existing site than it is to build-in solutions from new. I just think its time to move on and have bigger thoughts and ideas and I include RMBC, The Gtr. Manchester Authority and the football club... Who knows , perhaps Starmer will throw a sack of money he hasn't got at Rochdale .... |
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