Rob k

I’m wondering if ‘could this be it’ 

9 minutes ago, Fuber said:

Had a quick 15 minute crack at some basic figures from some older spreadsheets I have, gave them a quick update.

*Confirmed Initial Fees Only, If undisclosed rumoured fees at time utilised
Season	Manager	Transfers Out	Transfer In	Loans In (Number)	Net	Wages (Per Annum)	Y-Y Wages Change	%-wise	* within 5% +/- considered Nuetral
15/16	Cotterill	£3,000,000	£250,000	5	-£2,750,000	£17,400,000	£6,200,000	55.4%
15/16	Johnson	£400,000	£0.00	6	-£400,000
16/17	Johnson	£12,000,000	£12,000,000	4	£0	£20,900,000	£3,500,000	20.1%
17/18	Johnson	£13,000,000	£3,000,000	4	-£10,000,000	£27,300,000	£6,400,000	30.6%
18/19	Johnson	£11,000,000	£27,000,000	3	£16,000,000	£30,600,000	£3,300,000	15.8%
19/20	Johnson	£29,500,000	£45,000,000	4	£15,500,000	£33,000,000	£2,400,000	8.8%
20/21	Holden	£1,000,000	£3,500,000	2	£2,500,000	£35,300,000	£2,300,000	7.5%
20/21	Pearson	£0	£0	0
21/22	Pearson	£2,300,000	£1,300,000	0	-£1,000,000	£30,300,000	-£5,000,000	-14.2%
22/23 (est*)	Pearson	£1,400,000	£11,000,000	0	£9,600,000	£27,500,000*	-£2,800,000	-9.2%
23/24	Pearson	£4,000,000	£20,000,000		£16,000,000*	£28,000,000*	£500,000	1.8%
	Manager	Net Spend	Net Wages Impact	% Reinvestiture of Sales
	Cotterill	-£2,750,000	£6,200,000	N/A
	Johnson	£21,500,000	£15,600,000	75.75%
	Pearson	£8,600,000	-£7,800,000	23.84%

 

Long story short - LJ got back 75% retained funds of transfers as money to spend - currently, Nige has had 25%.

I meant that it’s no different to any other manager  in that they have had to sell their best players constantly 

7 minutes ago, Barry Sheene said:

The fact it took five minutes to decide would say otherwise

It really shouldn’t have 

1 minute ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

They need to show these in full speed, not slo mo.

Just said exactly the same 

Just give the pen 

1 minute ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Won't Naismith have to come in as Centre back with Dickie being suspended? ed: or do we see Pring being moved accross?

I’d certainly move Pring across and play Robert’s at LB with Naismith in midfield. 

9 minutes ago, ashton_fan said:

I feel a bit sorry for Nige, the club sells our two best players for £35m this year, we invest about £6m in new players and yet we as fans expect the team to do better than last year, it's not really logical is it? Added to the fact it's the last year of his contract, I imagine SL's thinking he'll give him till January (or maybe a bit later) to show we're challenging for top six but if not he'll be gone to give the new guy a chance to assess the squad before the next summer window. He's probably also thinking he needs to keep some cash back to give the new manager funds if that's what happens. 

No different to any other manager we have ever had to be fair

4 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

The more I think about it the more I reckon @bs3 is sat at his keyboard laughing at the bites 

I did think that after posting

It’s not even a difficult question to answer - until commercially they make as much then no 

8 minutes ago, spudski said:

Re the poor distribution, passing and crossing. 

 

Jesus Christ - that’s worse than i remembered 

The club must have known it was highly likely that Scott was going to be leaving this summer. The replacement should have been lined up and already here. 
Im at the point where I’d welcome new owners, i think they would shake the whole place up including the way we recruit. 

26 minutes ago, ChrisBW said:

He signed Cornick and Mehmeti and told us pre season was exactly what they needed - seen little progress. Not impressed with recruitment prior to this summer.

Who’s that on? Tinnion or Nige? 

Interesting that a few of you saw Williams as having a good game - i thought he was poor today and we look much better when Naismith was on the pitch.
I’m not a big fan of Memheti, didn’t think he offered anything, wouldn’t get a start for me. At half time I’d have shoved Pring forward with Robert’s behind or moved Cornick inside and Bell there for Mehmeti, Tanner was poor all game. 

52 minutes ago, BasSavage88 said:

Same old bluster, he's always done it and it keeps the happy clappers on side. Rrrrr nige is one of us sees it likes it is etc etc 

Such a boring phrase 

Just now, old_eastender said:

Sykes and Roberts on, Cornick & Pring off.

I’d have bought the players on that he has but I’d have pulled Mehmeti and Bell off, moved Pring forward and Cornick in to the centre. 

40 minutes ago, phantom said:

I guess the bigger thing to the club is money

We don't need the extra space for home games, but the away fans can fill the space

I’d give away fans the whole stand if i was in charge 

Would Greenwood be able to take Man U to court if they just decided to terminate his contract or put something in the media that he won’t play again for them seeing he’s not been convicted of anything? 

On 10/08/2023 at 19:48, Rob k said:

I see Tao Geoghagen Hart is leaving ineos for Trek and Pavel Sivakov is also off. 

Martinez too now 

20 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

Bigger clubs get favorable decisions. I don’t think it’s overt but I do think referees give major decisions way to often to the bigger club, in their head!

I only said this to Mrs Oxo the other day. Horrifying how foul throws are being let go. 

I’m not sure it’s particularly corrupt until it comes to the money slopping around. 
 

But bad decisions are now highlighted and in some cases not corrected. 
 

Last night was akin to an assault 

How do you explain last night? And I’m no conspiracy theorist but I’m struggling with some of these decisions 

25 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

 

I'm not saying the game is bent but if it did come out years down the line that decisions like that were being made deliberately in favour of selected clubs based on their size and standing in the game it wouldn't be the biggest shock ever.

I think with VAR it’s getting harder to actually argue with people that say football is corrupt - some of the decisions are just so bad you can’t even begin to justify them.

At least before you had the ‘he only had one look’ line as a defence. 

I think people underestimate what a chance Bell had, it wasn’t a half chance, he should have easily have scored IMO. We were by far the better side i thought.

If that challenge is on the keeper the refs blowing for a foul - it’s a ridiculous decision

7 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

How would that help? VAR looked at it and said it wasn’t a pen. Who would the review go to?

Also what pen on Vyner?

Agree - the same people are still going to make the same mistakes 

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

And to @Magger1 - don’t get me wrong if there was an Ellis Simms type available in our budget then I could see the clamour…but I’d still be thinking, who are we gonna sell / move-on out of the 7 forwards (the current 6 plus Weimann).

Am i right in thinking that we don’t actually have much room wages wise to bring in more players now?

3 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Haaland is just a bit special and Man City create for him without lumping it.

He also does very little but score!! Also a bit different when you have De Bryne, Grealish, Foden etc behind you setting up chances