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I’m not reading this whole thread but I expect it is full of irate individuals wanting a guy who lives thousands of miles away to spend yet more millions on our hobby.
If Tan can't find anyone to buy the club at a price he'll accept he needs to appoint a new board of directors, then let them run the club without interference. They're costing him money and us our sanity.
where's Ben Steele..?
Yeah lads you got me.
I want to take over the club again and think I'll be welcomed with open arms after putting the club in so much debt last time.
I've just struck it lucky that this owner is as incompetent, if not worse, than I was so I can put the boot into him.
Sadly it is simply just a regular fan wanting an owner to admit his mistakes and fix the club or ship out.
SgorioFruit and i'm having a laugh
SgorioFruit and i'm having a laugh
It surprises me too.
We only paid a transfer fee for 3 out of the 17 that came in (Robinson £1.5m, Etete £500k and Tanner around £40k), but there may have been loan fees and 'sign on fees' for a few out of contract players.
Overall we slashed the wages from the year before (down by 30%+ I think from the figures discussed here last month), with a reduced average salary target, but no-one really knows the individual wages of the incoming players.
The Athletic did a review of summer 2022 Championship transfers and claimed that a few relegated clubs were spending a lot to restructure (though Norwich held on to most of their Premier League squad) but a lot of clubs were totally reliant on frees and loans (although they too could have paid loan or signing fees):
https://theathletic.com/3561377/2022...ndow-round-up/
As the summer underlined, this is a level increasingly dominated by transfers without cost. Championship clubs signed 65 free agents this summer, almost three apiece, while also agreeing to 79 loan deals. It is hard to be clear in the age of undisclosed fees, but it is estimated that only 47 transfers required a sum to be exchanged.
Reading, who remain the only EFL club operating under a transfer embargo, were joined by Bristol City, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers, Rotherham United and Stoke City in dealing only in loans and free transfers. Preston North End and Wigan Athletic, meanwhile, only parted with nominal amounts.
That puts our spending above 8 other Championship clubs - but doubt it puts us very high in the spending league.
Looking at it another way. Our spending of roughly £2million (and certainly less than £3million) is less than Tan was paying out per month to bridge the gap in wages alone last year.
Does anybody know what our wage bill was last season?
Is Tan still having to pay money to keep us afloat?
Given the wages of the players who went out and what we've replaced them with you'd expect it to be a fair bit less.
I don't understand why Tan can't just sack everyone. It's obvious that Dalman, Choo et al aren't up to it. They must be on a wedge, they must be replaceable. WTF is going on?
9th in a league of 24 having had to sign 17 players through necessity due to letting a lot of big earners go out of the door.
That is an average of less than £120,000 per signing.
Given the rebuild I don't think Tan has backed the manager as well as he could or should have done. Many believe it has all the hallmarks of being a money saving exercise. Wages especially.
Given what we had to replace I think you'd be hard pressed to find a squad of players for less at this level outside of promoting the reserves (and we know we tried that partially last season too).
Does anyone know what really happened with Morison?