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Post by nicholasjalcock on Jul 10, 2020 10:21:50 GMT
These fees keep me awake at night. And it's not even my money. 😆😆
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 10:43:45 GMT
I have one more question to ask. Has this level of expensive failure ever been achieved before or are we true pioneers in this field? I think there have been other instances, but I'd have to search the greyer areas to remember them. A recent example but administered a different way is Alexis Sanchez, who cost manure nothing as part of a swap deal, who earns £500000 but doesn't play for the club (eventually going away on loan). Pogba went through a period where he was believed to be fit but wasn't playing. Then there's clubs like Real who paid huge fees and wages for players who soon are unwanted, Bale being one. But there's probably never been a League 1 club existing on terms like ours.
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Post by nightwish on Jul 10, 2020 10:51:30 GMT
get your heads round this - ince,volkes and mclean cost a lot more than bojan, arnautivic and shaqiri !!!!!!
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Post by lordb on Jul 10, 2020 11:06:31 GMT
Just having a conversation with a work colleague and we got round to how much our squad cost us. We worked out between us that our starting lineup last night cost circa 37M, with around 13M on the bench and a further 64M out on loan? Butland 2.5M Smith 4M Batth 3M BMI - 8M McClean - 6M Clucas - 6M Vokes - 7M Total - 36.5 Subs:Lindsay - 2.5M Ince - 10M Thompson - 500k Total - 13M rest free transfers / loans / youth players Out on loan / returned (unavailable)Wimmer - 18M N'Diaye - 14M Etebo - 8M Afobe - 12M Woods - 6M Bauer - 6M Total - 64M Is that really right? Am I reading that correctly? a squad costing a grand total of circa 114M hurtling towards League One? these figures loom right to me,going by reports at the time - will be one or two that are £1m more or a £1m less think we will have paid more for Butland in add ons Rowett's signings stick out as poor value even for ones who are doing alright: MacLean & Clucas
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Post by greenman on Jul 10, 2020 11:17:56 GMT
It feels like some bizarre plot twist in nthe film Brewsters millions.
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Jul 10, 2020 11:23:46 GMT
Lets not forget how much money we've ploughed into our youth setup. Campbell also cost about £1.5m Collins cost money too didn't he? Aye a youth set up that has produced pretty much nobody.
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Post by zigazaga on Jul 10, 2020 12:00:10 GMT
All our history we’ve been skint, and then this. We're like that fat clown who won the Lottery, Mickey Carroll. Didn't know what had hit him, and spaffed it up the wall, pretty spectacularly. Absolutely spot on. Its unreal to think that Scholes has been living in a total fantasy world laughably earning himself circa 1 million/year whilst constantly losing millions upon millions with zero to show for it. I'm staggered by the amount of the money he has lost. Its is absolutely and utterly monumental. If he was a wall street trader he would be jumping out of a top floor window for sure.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jul 10, 2020 12:03:15 GMT
How much do the squads of Leeds, WBA, Brentford, N.Forest etc. cost I wonder?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 12:31:26 GMT
How much do the squads of Leeds, WBA, Brentford, N.Forest etc. cost I wonder? Leeds entire squad cost 43M, which includes the very recent 16M purchase of Costa from Wolves.
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Post by xchpotter on Jul 10, 2020 12:35:02 GMT
I think you have to try and make an effort to be this incompetent. Even not knowing what you are doing wouldn't have led to things going this badly. A number of poor decisions have been made and when you stack them together they equal disaster. When you look at major disasters, it's very rarely one thing.. its a serious of unfortunate events. I would love see each one of our crap decisions and see the name or sign off attributable to them. There must be a common denominator in it all
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 10, 2020 12:59:26 GMT
Lets not forget how much money we've ploughed into our youth setup. Campbell also cost about £1.5m Collins cost money too didn't he? He wouldn’t have cost much I can’t imagine. Would love to know how much we spent on someone like Corrigan.
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Post by scfc75 on Jul 10, 2020 13:04:52 GMT
How much do the squads of Leeds, WBA, Brentford, N.Forest etc. cost I wonder? If you go on Transfermarkt you can look at the transfer spending by season and current market value of each squad. It won’t tell you what each squad cost to build unless you spent ages analysing the data, but it’ll be an indicator.
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