Thu May 24, 2018 9:36 am
Thu May 24, 2018 9:51 am
Thu May 24, 2018 9:52 am
Thu May 24, 2018 10:20 am
Sneggyblubird wrote:Tan would be an idiot to mention any number in terms of investment,nobody in their right mind would for obvious reasons.
Thu May 24, 2018 10:37 am
City Slicker wrote:Sneggyblubird wrote:Tan would be an idiot to mention any number in terms of investment,nobody in their right mind would for obvious reasons.
Absolutely right. This subject requires careful media management. Even if Tan had said something bland like " I will ensure Neil gets the backing he needs" any prospective transfer target will get their price inflated. I think the whole club has learnt from the last debacle and they won't get their fingers burnt again. I still think we'll get some quality signings.
Thu May 24, 2018 10:45 am
Thu May 24, 2018 11:21 am
Thu May 24, 2018 12:04 pm
bluebird7291 wrote:He said, maybe slip of the tonuge. When I'm worth 10B we can talk about 200M.
He's worth about 1B. So is he saying we got 20M?
Thu May 24, 2018 12:18 pm
Sneggyblubird wrote:Tan would be an idiot to mention any number in terms of investment,nobody in their right mind would for obvious reasons.
Thu May 24, 2018 1:02 pm
Thu May 24, 2018 1:15 pm
Thu May 24, 2018 2:11 pm
Thu May 24, 2018 2:15 pm
2blue2handle wrote:bluebird7291 wrote:He said, maybe slip of the tonuge. When I'm worth 10B we can talk about 200M.
He's worth about 1B. So is he saying we got 20M?
maybe but sounds more like a bit of banter to me.
Thu May 24, 2018 2:34 pm
RV Casual wrote:I got to much time on my hands a minute (clearly ) so I had a look at our signings from last time.
According to http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk
Malky spent £35.1 million, but we got back £24.9 million of that plus Kenwyne Jones in a swap for Peter Odemwingie.
When Ole came in January he spent another £5 Million plus whatever Berget cost as it's unknown, but we got back £3.5 million of it.
So we spent about £40 Million last time but it was 5 years ago and the market is even more inflated now, I know it's obviously going to be kept under wraps etc but I hope he does give Warnock at least £40 Million, its the least you need I think, if he does only have something like a £20 million budget then quite frankly we are pissing in the wind.
In a further defence of the man everyone loves to hate Ole Gunnar, despite what you think of him as a Manager, in the season we wen't down the Club made a profit of £13 Million on transfers.
He did spend a fair bit, but to be fair the bulk of that was on Manga and Morrison and I think most people would say they turned out to be outstanding signings and worth every penny, Pilkington for £1.25 Million was good business aswell, looking at it, the only one who turned out to be a complete waste of a (substantial) amount was Adam Le Fondre.
Thu May 24, 2018 4:22 pm
Fri May 25, 2018 11:35 am
goats wrote:I really hope he is far more careful this time round, I’m sure he will be. Sounds like Neil and Vincent get on well. Tan is obviously still on cloud 9 that Neil got us promoted. Wise spending is what’s needed. Even last time, we recouped big money on some of them like medel, caulker etc. 20 million would be ok if it’s on decent players whose value would increase aswell.
Fri May 25, 2018 7:06 pm