The MEETINGS MAIN POINTS

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Re: The MEETINGS MAIN POINTS

A fascinating read on impact of COVID on a PL club & effect of trying to stabilise in PL.

For #twitterblades i estimate our wage bill for last year to be circa 35-38m.

Brighton's wage bill is 101m just to stay in the league.

It's staggering.

Additionally the cost in transfer fees to put together Brighton's squad is over 200m. Forget quality of what they have a second.

On a sheer numbers level it's staggering the investment required to stay in the league. Burnley obvious outlier but they are more exception than rule

https://twitter.com/Blades_analytic/...39369700745218

Club better start thinking longer term as price of potential survival in premier league is only going to increase. Investing in youth, scouting and backroom staff/coaching staff development should be the aim.

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Re: The MEETINGS MAIN POINTS

Vincent Tan is the best owner I have seen at this club since I started going to Ninian Park in 1968. The amount of money he has put in has been absolutely phenomenal. Other clubs that have owners who milk the club, or put them under like Macclesfield, Bury etc. Other owners have devious schemes of the club they own selling the ground to the owner, i think Derby and Sheffield Wednesday? Let's see how that works out for them. Tan has done none of those things, lent the club money and charged interest then written off the interest and lots of debt. We should be grateful to have him.

Football wise though, he has done well, appointed Trollope and got rid very quickly. Got Warnock in who steadied the ship and got us up, and then was poor for the PL season until he got sacked, after spending a fortune too. We have been appointing managers who were not working when the job was offered so no fees to pay out to tother clubs. Harris was OK that's it, very good after the restart but it's been terrible this season. Now McCarthy who I am sure will steady the ship and take us forward and I expect if he does well he will stay. We could have appointed a young manager who wants to develop young players and play a certain way but we don't know if it would work and we can't afford to be relegated to find out.

Mick McCarthy will get us in to the top half this season I reckon and he and the club will get my full support. I do think the club needs a 'football' man in the boardroom though, who will tell them when their are being screwed over by a club or agent when negotiating deals. And who'd work with the manager on building th e squad properly, not like Warnock's rash spending.

Admittedly a lot his spending could have been avoided and we haven't been great as a club when spending money and giving our big contracts. But we don't know how hard it is to attract players to Cardiff and therefore may have to pay more to get the players. Some of the contracts handed out have been ludicrous, like Smithies and others if the reports on salaries are true. And giving new contracts to Connolly, Bamba and Tomlin seem to be poor decision making. And the fees paid on Madine, Flint, Cunningham, Murphy and others. all transfer fees have now been devalued in the current iconic climate anyway.

Given what Tan has done it is fair to think that Dalman is a bit arsey about barbed comments about the club. It's a very difficult time at the moment as we know and still Tan keeps putting money in. A lot of clubs WILL fall by the wayside in the next year or so if the current Covid-19 situation continues.

Tan is possibly both the best and worst owner we have ever had.