NFFC Financial Talk

[wassy04]

You make one bad signing and you're stuck with them for years.

The solution is you don't make bad deals.

There seem to be this view that there's no reason to even think about running a football club in a sensible & sustainable manner, which is exactly the thinking we got under Fawaz, yet some seem eager to return to that thinking.

The solution to bad deals is not to say debt & losses is inevitable, the solution is to cut out the bad deals.

Some would have our club bankrupt & in the Wells Road One Stop under 5's girls league if they were in charge of this club.

I can not honestly believe there is a rolling discussion here arguing against trying to be profitable or sustainable & arguing that what we've evidenced elsewhere is somehow impossible & undesirable for Nottingham Forest.

I mean literally there are posts in this thread that say that a profitable club, who ended up being promoted that season is a bad example, & we shouldn't strive for that, like in which universe is that a good answer?

Profit & promotion? Bugger that lad, we're perfectly capable of screwing up recruitment, turning a loss & staying down here!

I look forward to the EM out banners, because everyones going against his stated intention, so I'm waiting for the "Not enough Debt! Get Out!" banners at the City ground.

I sometimes feel like I'm in the twilight zone...

It's completely unrealistic to expect to not make bad signings. For a start the reason players are available is because their current club don't want them or they want too much money in most cases. So ripe for overpaying.

Norwich only made profit due to parachute payments. I feel like you're just choosing to ignore what we're saying here. 

The point is not that we're asking for the club to be run madly, simply pointing out that it's very difficult to run a club sustainably without parachute payments in the current championship climae and also challenge for promotion. Obviously it would be better if we were run sustainably, but then you'd also have to accept that it's not realistic to expect anything other than mid-table given every other club is not doing this.

The fact that not a single club is doing this is probably a sign that I fact you're wrong and that every single chief exec/owner might understand their own businesses slightly better than you do.