The Board

[JCDBigBear 10,863]

21 hours ago, JukeBoxJohn said:

They don’t care. All about cash to them, they don’t get it - never have and never will. We’re customers in their eyes sadly. Hope there’s serious hostility towards these clowns. 

What cash???  Do you mean the cash to keep the Club going?   It certainly isn't cash for themselves.   If  I wanted to make money I certainly wouldn't invest in any Scottish football club.

The current board had little  option other than to give Beale a chance to try out his own players.   There were a good few posts on RM where people said judge him with his own players.   In my opinion the Parks and Ross Wilson were likely to be behind the Beale appointment.    Where I think they went awry was allowing Beale to sign three players in particular this summer.  Lammers, Dessers and Dowell.   The first 2 were too expensive, too old, given too long a contract, on too high wages and have no sell-on value.    Dowell has poor playing stats mostly due to injuries I believe.   He even arrived with us injured.  He will not be on poor wages and will have got himself a signing-on fee.

Cremonese and Atalanta must be thinking they won a lottery.

 

[qwerty 3,745]

Call them out and Sack them, we pay hard earned cash in and the result is unsatasfactory as fuck.

 

Its time the sharks hit the fence imo

[JCDBigBear 10,863]

3 hours ago, qwerty said:

Call them out and Sack them, we pay hard earned cash in and the result is unsatasfactory as fuck.

 

Its time the sharks hit the fence imo

How do you sack the majority shareholders?

What would that achieve at this time?

What difference would it make just now?

Who would take over and how would that be achieved?

[Worlds_Most_Successful_Team 70]

On 06/10/2023 at 07:37, graeme_4 said:

Don’t believe that to be the case at all. 

Seemed like it on here at the time. Admittedly I was happy he got the job at the time. Didn't work out. Just hope the next manager isnt a rushed appointment. 

[Worlds_Most_Successful_Team 70]

On 06/10/2023 at 07:49, RFC55 said:

It definitely wasn’t the case, but then that poster is a prick so not surprised to see him spouting shite 

Simmer down taig. 

[Monty Zoomer 90]

On 06/10/2023 at 09:10, DrLaudrup said:

He doesn’t have the funds to bankroll us and while he is combative and has experience of running a club he nearly took them into administration. We not only need ruthless leadership but also money and that will involve making a loss initially. Investors need the wealth to absorb that until we have regular Champions League money and a proper sell on model (brave enough to not let 20m of players run contracts down and leave for free). It may need a consortium like FSG at Liverpool / Red Bull as let’s be honest to really move us on with a top manager and players it could take 100m over a few seasons if we are to compete financially with celtic….back room team, signings and wages, infrastructure improvements etc will not be cheap. 

There will never be SERIOUS money coming into the club. Nobody with real money wants to invest in Scottish football for profits sake.

We need to get away from this dependence on "money being pumped in". The idea HAS to be to run the club properly and generate profits from within - EVERY year, we have to turn a profit, no matter how small, then re-invest that in a playing squad with a clearly defined trading model like THEY have.

That means identifying the correct young talent that can be developed and sold on for profit rather than buying the past-it quick fixes that have no future potential return on investment.

Its a long term strategy and doesn't work in the short term which is why the board haven't been brave enough to implement it properly - it means limited success in the short term and handing more titles to the taigs BUT will create a sure footed approach to future success that is sustainable.

[The Beast 9,263]

Our net spend this summer was something between £2M and £5M depending on what sources you believe regards the value of the various incomings and outgoings.

Irrespective of that it's still a pretty low net spend.

We didn't have this £15M outgoing that you see banded about. 

If there is not still significant money in the kitty for new signings in January then serious questions have to be asked of our custodians and what money they are actually making available to improve the team.

[RFC55 110,173]

9 hours ago, The Beast said:

Our net spend this summer was something between £2M and £5M depending on what sources you believe regards the value of the various incomings and outgoings.

Irrespective of that it's still a pretty low net spend.

We didn't have this £15M outgoing that you see banded about. 

If there is not still significant money in the kitty for new signings in January then serious questions have to be asked of our custodians and what money they are actually making available to improve the team.

But we do still have 15 million outgoing.

 

[BlueboyG 5,318]

Nothing changes the fact that we spent 15 million on what appears to be a shower of duds (Butland and Danilo being the exceptions).

[The Beast 9,263]

4 hours ago, RFC55 said:

But we do still have 15 million outgoing.

 

Technically correct yes but you can't look at that in isolation, it should be balanced off against the incoming.