I never said we were skint I said the championship as a whole seems to have skint clubs which means unless stupid money is offered for their players they aren’t going to let anyone of real value go. No club will want to be weaken dramatically, as they will not be in a position to replace with the quality required unless it is silly money received. What we are going to see this year is more clubs will be closer to FFP than ever before and suffer the pain that we did a few seasons back.
As to why we will not spend much well again that is due to a bit of FFP but more of having such a large squad on big wages. Our main aim is to reduce the squad this transfer window, as right now the squad is unstainable with players on large historical contracts who are in the final year of the contract and probably of the their football careers. Freeing up squad spaces and wages will be a very hard task for all those involved and being that we do need move players out to show profit and sustainability for the season I would not expect us to begin to bring players until we have levels back within a reasonable number. This brings its own problems of course as we may want a player but do you think they would be prepared to wait for us to move players out if they have other contract offers. Yes there will be cases where the club might be willing to take that risk but as business model it isn’t good practice. So the time will be a factor in being able to spend and do I think this board is stupid enough to mad panic at the end of the window? No I do not. I think that they will have targets and if they haven’t been able to get them they will not just go out and get any man and their dog.
I also do not expect the club to bring 6 or more new faces I think you will see 3 maybe 4 if you include loan deals this season. From what we have seen the club is looking to make use of scouting network and pick up possible cheaper players who could make the grade from lower leagues, which I will add is a sensible approach and is as much of a risk as signing names because you can never know how someone will perform. There are bargains out in the market and it is about finding them, which the club is more than capable of doing.
Then there is the players who have been released from contracts, which again we can assume the club is looking at and will try to take advantage of.
The next reason and you did mention it that last year was a scatter gun approach to signings. This season i very much doubt this would happen. Again I think a sensible approach of where are the holes/improvements required will have been looked and we will sign what the manager thinks we need. We will not sign anyone for the sake of it.
So what I was saying was that with all the works that goes into transfers and the direction the club seems to be heading is that I very much doubt we will spend above 6 million this season on the transfer fee’s (only) even if we can. Hope that explains it a bit better.
I would also add that I do not expect to see much spending from other clubs either and it will be very much same teams with the same players as last season going for it this season. Which is why the difference this year will not be the players, it will be the team who is coached the best.
As to why we will not spend much well again that is due to a bit of FFP but more of having such a large squad on big wages. Our main aim is to reduce the squad this transfer window, as right now the squad is unstainable with players on large historical contracts who are in the final year of the contract and probably of the their football careers. Freeing up squad spaces and wages will be a very hard task for all those involved and being that we do need move players out to show profit and sustainability for the season I would not expect us to begin to bring players until we have levels back within a reasonable number. This brings its own problems of course as we may want a player but do you think they would be prepared to wait for us to move players out if they have other contract offers. Yes there will be cases where the club might be willing to take that risk but as business model it isn’t good practice. So the time will be a factor in being able to spend and do I think this board is stupid enough to mad panic at the end of the window? No I do not. I think that they will have targets and if they haven’t been able to get them they will not just go out and get any man and their dog.
I also do not expect the club to bring 6 or more new faces I think you will see 3 maybe 4 if you include loan deals this season. From what we have seen the club is looking to make use of scouting network and pick up possible cheaper players who could make the grade from lower leagues, which I will add is a sensible approach and is as much of a risk as signing names because you can never know how someone will perform. There are bargains out in the market and it is about finding them, which the club is more than capable of doing.
Then there is the players who have been released from contracts, which again we can assume the club is looking at and will try to take advantage of.
The next reason and you did mention it that last year was a scatter gun approach to signings. This season i very much doubt this would happen. Again I think a sensible approach of where are the holes/improvements required will have been looked and we will sign what the manager thinks we need. We will not sign anyone for the sake of it.
So what I was saying was that with all the works that goes into transfers and the direction the club seems to be heading is that I very much doubt we will spend above 6 million this season on the transfer fee’s (only) even if we can. Hope that explains it a bit better.
I would also add that I do not expect to see much spending from other clubs either and it will be very much same teams with the same players as last season going for it this season. Which is why the difference this year will not be the players, it will be the team who is coached the best.