Silly Season January 2014

[Dutch Toffee]

Some people are proper fume heads on here. If we sign people great, if we don't oh well we still have a decent squad, and a better squad then 70% of the league

Agree with that last part, but I'm worried by that 30% that are better. Especially Liverpool and Spurs. Basically, if we don't get extra bodies in, we give up on fourth place for the second time in as many seasons. Lack of ambition if you ask me.

 

[Netromelo]

Liverpool Echo ‏@LivEchoEFC
Former Everton starlet Jack Rodwell a #TransferDeadlineDay target for Athletico Madrid

 

[Moomin]

As for people who are happy with our current squad and think we need no new signing, best get them on the blower to City and ask why they are bringing new players in.

 

[davek]

Alan Myers. He'll be a busy lad today. Pestering SSN to hammer home the already done 'fantastic business' and underline we could do more coz we've got loads of money if the manager wants it spent.

 

[mooseatingnome]

If that happens, by then a lot of things will be said and done and you really wont remember how you felt today at seeing the money 'saved for the summer' disappearing.

It's what they count on.

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So what you're saying is that we are all idiots because we come back for more every year. Yourself included.

 

[allen]

Liverpool Echo ‏@LivEchoEFC
Former Everton starlet Jack Rodwell a #TransferDeadlineDay target for Athletico Madrid

If that's true, there could be something in the Mario Suárez Mata link.

 

[Paul C]

It seems like giving johnny the fraud massive wages has come back to bite us

as if anyone is gonna pay him what he is earning here

Well that's last minute deadline day panic buys for you ;-)

 

[mooseatingnome]

As for people who are happy with our current squad and think we need no new signing, best get them on the blower to City and ask why they are bringing new players in.

Great comparison. Couldn't have picked two clubs that are more alike.

 

[davek]

A R T E T A Money was going to be spent in the summer as well, do people remember that year. We all fell for that one, good and proper.

DNA lad...DNA.

 

[Netromelo]

If that's true, there could be something in the Mario Suárez Mata link.

Exactly. Fingers crossed.

 

[Tubey]

I'm not talking about the accounts, I'm talking about cash flow. I'm well aware of the accounting practices used by clubs on player contracts.

Whether or not the loans we have taken on this season are long-term or not, doesn't change the fact that this season we have to pay them.

In the summer, most of those loans will be gone and we'll have extra cash to play with. However, every man and his dog will be screaming that we need to replace the players we've lost - maybe we'll sign a couple of players, maybe we'll loan a couple - who knows? The point being that we will most likely end up back to the point we're at right now where we're paying out a similar sort of amount on wages (whether that be temporary or long term).

Now, assuming we're at the point where we're currently at the level we were at the end of last season as far as wages are concerned, it's entirely feasible that we don't want to eat into the capital we've built up from player sales by spending it on wages. The more sensible approach would be allow Heitinga to leave and use the wages we save on him between now and the end of the season on a midfielder on a temporary basis between now and the end of the season.

In the summer, we find out which loan players are leaving, which loan players we may be able to sign and which loan players we may be able to loan for another year. At that point, we're in a better position to establish what flexibility we have in terms of a wage budget for next season.

Signing a player permanently now affects this.

I understand what you're saying, but I read pretty much word for word the exact same thing on her verbatim about the money for Fer and/or Negredo, and in many other transfer windows past.

What will happen, but won't be remembered due to collective amnesia, is that money will be spent in the summer and more loans will come in, we'll probably "break a transfer record", but the result will be a negative net spend in the long term after once more not taking the chance to strengthen when we actually need to mid-season to push on after a positive start.

So it's spin from the boardroom basically. Vault me on this if you like - we'll spend around £20m, bring in a few loans, sell around £5-6m, and Kenwright will be on the TV saying how he's backing the manager and the fans should be excited, whilst the clappers are dazzled by a cloud of smoke and mirrors from Mr. Coronation Street, looking forward to a new season and forgetting how in January 2014 we were actually on the verge of achieving something.

 

[Groucho]

Trolls and fools mate, trolls and fools.

Just because someone has a differing opinion on the board doesn't make them a troll or a fool.

 

[Yeldah]

Some people are proper fume heads on here. If we sign people great, if we don't oh well we still have a decent squad, and a better squad then 70% of the league

Did you watch the Derby?

Threadbare buddy, threadbare...

 

[davek]

So what you're saying is that we are all idiots because we come back for more every year. Yourself included.

Absolutely. Mugs every single one. It's just that some of us blink into consciousness fleetingly and see the reality before willingly falling back into a coma again to avoid the living nightmare of being owned by these clowns.

 

[Groucho]

Absolutely. Mugs every single one. It's just that some of us blink into consciousness fleetingly and see the reality before willingly falling back into a coma again to avoid the living nightmare of being owned by these clowns.

General nature of the football fan