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apparently we are hard up according to the mirror, and may have to sell joe bryan, with several clubs interested hard up? do they know something we don't?

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Just now, pillred said:

apparently we are hard up according to the mirror, and may have to sell joe bryan, with several clubs interested hard up? do they know something we don't?

I saw that also and thought WTF are they on about. Mind you if we can get £3m for Joe Bryan then bite their hands off.

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Just now, BRISTOL86 said:

More lazy crap journalism. If it's not the Premier League then the 'big' press have zero clue. 

This. No story here.

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12 minutes ago, bristolcitysweden said:

I can imagine the accounts for last season will be a nightmare with six new signings in January

yea especially with the 11 million we received for Kodja

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3 minutes ago, bristolcitysweden said:

The ones we spent on new signings during the summer? Every penny was re-invested in the team

I'm pretty sure LJ has said some of it remains unspent Tommy. No doubt someone will correct me if that's wrong.

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Just now, Ska Junkie said:

I'm pretty sure LJ has said some of it remains unspent Tommy. No doubt someone will correct me if tIhat's wrong.

Yes it was something cryptical about the statement at the time so you are probably right

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4 minutes ago, bristolcitysweden said:

The ones we spent on new signings during the summer? Every penny was re-invested in the team

no it wasn't the money spent on the summer signings was before we sold him, Kodja still played for bristol city until 30/08/16 we signed Engvil after that for 1.3 million raising to 2 then spent a further 3 million odd in jan, We also sold Agard for about 750l, Williams for around 300k and Ayling for around 750k

The reason we spent more money wasn't because of Kodja it was because of increase attendances and off field monies brought about by the new ground giving us the ability to have more clout in the transfer market 

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We invest in the squad every single year. I know people like to pretend like LJ was given a war chest, the likes of which we've never seen before, but that's bollocks. 

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2 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

The Daily Mirage is a rancid pile of horseshit !

Still a million times better then the sun

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21 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

Still a million times better then the sun

And two million times better than the Mail.

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1 hour ago, BRISTOL86 said:

We invest in the squad every single year. I know people like to pretend like LJ was given a war chest, the likes of which we've never seen before, but that's bollocks. 

It's not bollocks, but completly true. Never before has a city manager spent £15 million on transfer fees in one season

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14 minutes ago, JasonM88 said:

It's not bollocks, but completly true. Never before has a city manager spent £15 million on transfer fees in one season

Never before has a manager had a player worth £15m sold in the same season. Net spend of....nil if all of the add ins are realised in the Kodjia deal. Hold the front page.

The board knew full well in the summer that Kodjia would not see out the end of August. 

SL was prepared to give Cotterill £10m for a single player, with no outgoings, so you could argue that he was backed even more generously than little Lee. 

Bottom line is City managers have, and will, always be backed under Lansdown. 

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16 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said:

Never before has a manager had a player worth £15m sold in the same season. Net spend of....nil if all of the add ins are realised in the Kodjia deal. Hold the front page.

The board knew full well in the summer that Kodjia would not see out the end of August. 

SL was prepared to give Cotterill £10m for a single player, with no outgoings, so you could argue that he was backed even more generously than little Lee. 

Bottom line is City managers have, and will, always be backed under Lansdown. 

Evidently he wasn't. And no bid was worth £10 million. 

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38 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said:

Never before has a manager had a player worth £15m sold in the same season. Net spend of....nil if all of the add ins are realised in the Kodjia deal. Hold the front page.

The board knew full well in the summer that Kodjia would not see out the end of August. 

SL was prepared to give Cotterill £10m for a single player, with no outgoings, so you could argue that he was backed even more generously than little Lee. 

Bottom line is City managers have, and will, always be backed under Lansdown. 

You know that for a fact, do you?

More likely, hindsight is playing tricks with your lazy thinking.

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3 hours ago, BRISTOL86 said:

More lazy crap journalism. If it's not the Premier League then the 'big' press have zero clue. 

Are you implying the Mirror have a clue with the Premier League either?

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1 hour ago, JasonM88 said:

Evidently he wasn't. And no bid was worth £10 million. 

Except he was backed. The player didn't want to come. I thought it was £10m, maybe £8m. 

Whats LJs highest fee paid, £3m? 

Nonsense to say Cotterill wasn't backed...all City managers are backed financially. 

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56 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

You know that for a fact, do you?

More likely, hindsight is playing tricks with your lazy thinking.

It's an educated guess - certainly no lazier than the consistently tiresome 'Cotterill never had any money to spend' nonsense. 

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Ok, we spent money to survive, and we did. Last season was the second in this division, often difficault. Think this season we will be better than the last. The new players hav had a season and LJ knows them better. Its a longterm thinking and the new players of last season will pay off this season I think. As a Club I think City is on the right track. New stadium, bigger crowds and hopefully we will be a good team in this leauge.

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2 hours ago, JasonM88 said:

It's not bollocks, but completly true. Never before has a city manager spent £15 million on transfer fees in one season

We still haven't we spent about 8 or 9 million

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1 hour ago, BRISTOL86 said:

Except he was backed. The player didn't want to come. I thought it was £10m, maybe £8m. 

Whats LJs highest fee paid, £3m? 

Nonsense to say Cotterill wasn't backed...all City managers are backed financially. 

Its true mind, do people forget the bids for Gayle and Gray or what as im slightly baffled?.. We had a 9 million bid accepted for a single player yet some will still bleat on that Steve Cotterill wasn't backed by the board...

GIVE...IT...A...REST!

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18 minutes ago, bris red said:

GIVE...IT...A...REST!

My understanding is SC made early approaches for Gray and Gayle. These approaches were questioned and held up, by our board. They were subsequently approved but the players declined to come. Both probably made the right decision for their careers in retrospect. 

SC IMO thought big but the players he wanted thought they were out of our league. 

SCs vision of the way ahead was not shared by SL. This caused friction and little change on the pitch. 

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12 hours ago, BRISTOL86 said:

More lazy crap journalism. If it's not the Premier League then the 'big' press have zero clue. 

Agree, are we cobblers hard up, we were very net positive on the transfer front last season and SL has always kept the stadium costs separate from the football budget.  We might show a net loss when the accounts are aggregated but we are far from hard up.

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14 hours ago, BRISTOL86 said:

Never before has a manager had a player worth £15m sold in the same season. Net spend of....nil if all of the add ins are realised in the Kodjia deal. Hold the front page.

The board knew full well in the summer that Kodjia would not see out the end of August. 

SL was prepared to give Cotterill £10m for a single player, with no outgoings, so you could argue that he was backed even more generously than little Lee. 

Bottom line is City managers have, and will, always be backed under Lansdown. 

But surely this is the point?

It's irrelevant where the money came from (actually the fact it came from  one player who's replacement was already here, is even worse) now the simple fact that Lee Johnson spent the money and managed the team last season.

Look to the future, but in a couple of years time people will see last season for the failure and balls up it was.

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43 minutes ago, 054123 said:

But surely this is the point?

It's irrelevant where the money came from (actually the fact it came from  one player who's replacement was already here, is even worse) now the simple fact that Lee Johnson spent the money and managed the team last season.

Look to the future, but in a couple of years time people will see last season for the failure and balls up it was.

I wasn't debating the merit or otherwise of the signings Johnson made. Simply saying that the OTIB myth that is 'Cotterill never had that' is nonsense. It's well evidenced that the club were prepared to spend incredible sums of money on HIS targets  

Cotterill just backed the wrong horses.  

Posted

We are minted.

We have not spent the money from Kodgy-wodgy yet.

The we've got the sell-on money from Bolasie.

That's before the money we get for selling Flint and Bryan.

We'll have money for a whole new squad (to sit on the bench).

Whoppee!!

 

tfj

Posted
21 hours ago, JasonM88 said:

It's not bollocks, but completly true. Never before has a city manager spent £15 million on transfer fees in one season

Never before have players like kodjia been worth 15m, its all reletive, is a manager backed anymore now than they were in 2008 for example? I don't think so but fees are out of control 

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11 minutes ago, Rob k said:

Never before have players like kodjia been worth 15m, its all reletive, is a manager backed anymore now than they were in 2008 for example? I don't think so but fees are out of control 

I have often wondered what the equivalent of the £600k Wilson spent on Lee Peacock would be in today's prices. In relative terms he spent a fortune to not get out of the third division.

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23 hours ago, bristolcitysweden said:

The ones we spent on new signings during the summer? Every penny was re-invested in the team

It wasn't actually as we received 11m + for Kodjia and a few mill for Bolasie. Plus Agard, Ayling & Williams brought in approx 3m so net spend well in the black.

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Just now, Derek from Nailsea said:

It wasn't actually as we received 11m + for Kodjia and a few mill for Bolasie. Plus Agard, Ayling & Williams brought in approx 3m so net spend well in the black.

Don't believe everything that comes out of Ashton's mouth...

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