NFFC Financial Talk

[Widdow]

Would be quite ironic if Luton stay up with no parachute payments or spending loads of money, as Forest defence to the commission you need to do that to remain and be competitive in Premier league.

Think need to take 4 points on the chin, and get on with it. If we end up going down we deserve to. Yes we have had bad refs and terrible decisions, but we haven’t been competitive, I mean we haven’t been consistent or string together a run of form and performances. We still cannot defend set pieces which meant lost far more points than the commission took away. The football is now in our court and time to start playing as a team and working even harder. All we need to do is gain more points than Luton for the last 9 games, I know we haven’t been able to beat them, but surely we can do that

[DeesideRed]

The other side of this is we made huge mistakes in recruitment. Hwang, bowler, Richards, Scarpa, Shelvey, obrien, Dennis, lingard. That has been our major issue here.

Hwang - agree made no sense at time either
bowler - agree made no sense at time either
Richards - disagree was going to be first choice left wing back. hindsight job
Scarpa - was free, didnt work out, who cares could have gone either way
Shelvey - absolute solid signing, the 6 we desperately needed to be brave with the ball, our biggest issue in Jan
obrien - the championship player of the year for £8m? come on
Dennis - calculated gamble on his watford performances in PL
lingard - From what ive heard what didnt do on pitch was very good off it. 

our other signings weren't exactly splurges - Niakhate, Awoniyi, Mangala - German League signings all for less than £20m, Danilo £16m but on 6.5yr contract - Similar Neco £15-17m. 
Likes of Boly (undisc) Serge (free) Toff (£3m) Felipe (free) 

thats not heavy spending, its creating a team from scratch and at times being bloody frugal with it.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Would be quite ironic if Luton stay up with no parachute payments or spending loads of money, as Forest defence to the commission you need to do that to remain and be competitive in Premier league.

Think need to take 4 points on the chin, and get on with it. If we end up going down we deserve to. Yes we have had bad refs and terrible decisions, but we haven’t been competitive, I mean we haven’t been consistent or string together a run of form and performances. We still cannot defend set pieces which meant lost far more points than the commission took away. The football is now in our court and time to start playing as a team and working even harder. All we need to do is gain more points than Luton for the last 9 games, I know we haven’t been able to beat them, but surely we can do that

I agree widdow.

I would also like to say that I am a bit disappointed with EM, I am not going to try and defend him.

Anyway there is no excuse for not bettering Luton in the final nine games.

[DeesideRed]

It's all over the report that Atletico Madrid bid 50 mil Euros in June for Jonno and we rejected it.


Playing the absolute victims if that's true we need to move on and keep this trend of whining about refs and the prem away from the pitch.

If that is true then I'm sorry we shouldnt be appealing.

[The reds]

It's all over the report that Atletico Madrid bid 50 mil Euros in June for Jonno and we rejected it.


Playing the absolute victims if that's true we need to move on and keep this trend of whining about refs and the prem away from the pitch.

If that is true then I'm sorry we shouldnt be appealing.

If you read it properly, the bid was on the 30th June, player still needed to agree to it, have a medical, and be registered by La Liga, which is impossible to do, so can we stop calling our own club victims because we are not, Also the statement we put out was spot on.

[wassy04]

It's all over the report that Atletico Madrid bid 50 mil Euros in June for Jonno and we rejected it.


Playing the absolute victims if that's true we need to move on and keep this trend of whining about refs and the prem away from the pitch.

If that is true then I'm sorry we shouldnt be appealing.

If you read it properly, the bid was on the 30th June, player still needed to agree to it, have a medical, and be registered by La Liga, which is impossible to do, so can we stop calling our own club victims because we are not, Also the statement we put out was spot on.

They did heavily imply that if we'd have accepted the bid the mitigation would've held up and we probably wouldn't have a points penalty.

[The reds]

It's all over the report that Atletico Madrid bid 50 mil Euros in June for Jonno and we rejected it.


Playing the absolute victims if that's true we need to move on and keep this trend of whining about refs and the prem away from the pitch.

If that is true then I'm sorry we shouldnt be appealing.

If you read it properly, the bid was on the 30th June, player still needed to agree to it, have a medical, and be registered by La Liga, which is impossible to do, so can we stop calling our own club victims because we are not, Also the statement we put out was spot on.

They did heavily imply that if we'd have accepted the bid the mitigation would've held up and we probably wouldn't have a points penalty.

Well the person who was involved shouldn’t have been involved, that’s the question which needs to be asked.

[Paplane]

I'd imagine you never accept the first offer for a player so my take is that it was probably not unreasonable to reject the Atletico offer and issue a counter offer. The fact that the offer was made on the 30th suggests to me that it was a low ball offer and they were just fishing for a bargain.

[wassy04]

I'd imagine you never accept the first offer for a player so my take is that it was probably not unreasonable to reject the Atletico offer and issue a counter offer. The fact that the offer was made on the 30th suggests to me that it was a low ball offer and they were just fishing for a bargain.

Maybe so but we weren't in the position to negotiate given the deadline. Plus it didn't come in much less than Spurs offer in the end.

[Paplane]

The club said yesterday the transfer market is like no other marketplace. I'm sure we can all see that. Selling Brennan to a direct rival for below market value was never going to float in a true life football sense. Of course the panel are required to deal in pure fact - no we shouldn't have bought the players we did, yes we should've accepted the Atletico and Brentford offers, but the real true-life reality is that the things that have happened, ok maybe in moderation regarding transfers, were fairly rational in a football sense. We just pushed it a little too far. If we can just take these 4 points on the chin and scrape through this season, we're in a much better place medium term. Sell Murillo in the summer for decent cash and we can build on that and become a 'normal small club' which gets by on brining in emerging talent and selling on. At least we now know the clubs coming up will be shackled like we have been.

[wassy04]

The club said yesterday the transfer market is like no other marketplace. I'm sure we can all see that. Selling Brennan to a direct rival for below market value was never going to float in a true life football sense. Of course the panel are required to deal in pure fact - no we shouldn't have bought the players we did, yes we should've accepted the Atletico and Brentford offers, but the real true-life reality is that the things that have happened, ok maybe in moderation regarding transfers, were fairly rational in a football sense. We just pushed it a little too far. If we can just take these 4 points on the chin and scrape through this season, we're in a much better place medium term. Sell Murillo in the summer for decent cash and we can build on that and become a 'normal small club' which gets by on brining in emerging talent and selling on. At least we now know the clubs coming up will be shackled like we have been.

We really didn't need to play Brennan in those games at the start of the season. I suspect that mitigation is accepted if we didn't play him.

It's not even like he was useful in those games and they were games against Man Utd and Arsenal so was unlikely to have a major impact (I know one was vs Sheff Utd)

[Paplane]

I'd imagine you never accept the first offer for a player so my take is that it was probably not unreasonable to reject the Atletico offer and issue a counter offer. The fact that the offer was made on the 30th suggests to me that it was a low ball offer and they were just fishing for a bargain.

Maybe so but we weren't in the position to negotiate given the deadline. Plus it didn't come in much less than Spurs offer in the end.

But it arrived on the final day and when it did, the club were probably thinking they'd missed the psr deadline at that point anyway so why not try to negotiate? And also it was the first real offer to arrive and as such the thinking was probably that Brennan was going to attract a £50m+ bid towards the end of the window. It's very easy to criticise with the 20:20 vision of hindsight. I'm not saying the club acted entirely appropriately, im sure many critisisms can be made, i'm saying just that I can possibly see why decisions were made.

At the end of the day, knowing what we all know now, we can ask why the likes of Richards and the Korean guy were signed but if Navas and Danillo for example hadn't arrived last winter then we'd now be a championship club, not a prem club fighting for it's life.