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I honestly don't think anyone knows. Nothing like he was on at Swindon. We went in for Alan Navarro from Swindon before we went for Roberts but were unwilling to sign him because of high wage demands. He would have been on less than Roberts at Swindon.
Interesting quote from Paul Cook in close season that we would not be paying high basic wages but incentivising players through higher appearance fees etc. I have no idea if this has happened or not.
I think Dave Allen announced our playing budget was set at £1.4mfor this season (or something along those lines) but we do appear to have been able to attract a lot of players who you would imagine are on a fair whack.
No idea what Ian Evatt is on either but I think that was more to do with moving closer to home and returning to a former club that he enjoyed.
Looking forward to us actually playing decent centre backs (Evatt and Cooper) when fully fit versus Hird and Edwards who are more of a back up.
Agree, no one really wants a football club to be in debt. However the investment we made was necessary to move the club forward and hopefully has / is being made in the right areas. New ground, improved training facilities, "CFC village" for our kids to live in ( as well as the squad.
The debts we have are based on structured repayments made over 10-15 years to Dave Allen, the local council and a couple of other small creditors. Last financial year we turned a £100k profit at the same time as making those repayments. Being c.130k over budget should equate to a roughly break even season for us (at the same time as paying back our debts). As the other poster points out that is the salary of Sam Hird who we are looking to offload.
So in summary, no I don't think anyone can be comfortable with debt, but in reality it is the cheapest form of equity, most businesses in the UK are leveraged and it was the only option open to us to move the club forward. With the majority of debt owed to our chairman who has also made significant equity investments in the club we shouldn't find ourselves in a situation with our major investor walking away.
Hopefully we are making investments in the "right" areas in developing the clubs commercial infrastructure, community footprint (new community facility and cafe in east stand) and kids facilities without going completely bananas on wages (operating within 55% turnover limit, no transfer monies paid). This means our turnover has tripled (I think) since we moved to the new stadium which obviously gives us much more room to manoeuvre with squad investment with the 55% cap rule.
At any rate it's refreshing to have both sets of fans paying compliment to what sounded like an excellent game of football (I was on holiday :( )
Worth saying that our two first choice centre backs (Ian Evatt, Liam Cooper) were out so Ryan Edwards played alongside Sam Hird and did more than enough against Harrad and Grimes. Tom Soares looked ok for them
Grimes did nothing. Got hauled off shortly after half time. To be fair we were awful in the first half and they did ok. Second half a completely different story they hardly touched the ball.
Ended hilariously with Gary Roberts trying to pass a bit of time playing keepie uppie with a ball boy (who didn't seem to realise he was wasting time), felt like a pre season friendly in second half
Afternoon all, Spireite here who goes to Dale a fair amount with a mate.
Thought this would tickle you lot.
Got to Gigg Lane about 2:30 and queued up for a pie in the away end. Children of the revolution playing on the tannoy, "the revolution starts here" we were told, a few puzzled looks on CFC faces. About 10 local "yufff" giving verbal abuse to everyone walking past, more puzzled looks.
Subsequently quite a lot of aggro in the snack bar near the entrance. No alcohol on sale, no burgers left, pies nearly run out (before the majority of away fans even in the ground).
When quizzed some classic quotes from the tea ladies on duty:
"The stewards won't let us sell booze as they don't think they will be able to control you lot, they say there are too many of you here for them"
"We were told that 300 away fans would turn up so ordered pies and burgers accordingly"...there were 1,200 away fans there
To which some wag replied, "we'll it's no wonder you went out of business really is it?"
A few strains of "small town in Rochdale" really seemed to rile the locals too.
Viva la revolution. Tinpot.
Ps hope you lot as my second team have a great season.
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