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Transfer Window Overview - Summer 2020
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All very depressing.
Basically, we don't/won't pay enough to be able to get quality players to come and sign for us. And we don't/won't pay enough to get players that have built up a reputation as quality championship players with us to stay.
I'd normally say we should be reluctantly cashing in on Davies, Pearson, Browne, DJ etc with them being OOC in June, but what's the point? Even if Hemmings gave every penny of the transfer fees to PR & AN to spend, if the wage ceiling remains rigidly the same, no players worth decent money would come anyway as they can get bigger salaries elsewhere.
We need a miracle this season, or we're fucked.
Basically, we don't/won't pay enough to be able to get quality players to come and sign for us. And we don't/won't pay enough to get players that have built up a reputation as quality championship players with us to stay.
I'd normally say we should be reluctantly cashing in on Davies, Pearson, Browne, DJ etc with them being OOC in June, but what's the point? Even if Hemmings gave every penny of the transfer fees to PR & AN to spend, if the wage ceiling remains rigidly the same, no players worth decent money would come anyway as they can get bigger salaries elsewhere.
We need a miracle this season, or we're fucked.
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Unfortunately many on here will not wake up and smell the coffee. As recent ticket sales have shown we are a league one club trying to compete in the championship with the help of a generous benefactor. White Horse pointed out that despite all that their fans have been put through and where they are now Bolton still managed to sell double our season tickets. Until the people of this town start to get behind the club in sufficient numbers we will continue to shop in the lower leagues for up and coming talent, a policy which has actually served us quite well in recent years. Thankfully the vast majority of our fans do understand this.
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Hemmings should set the playing budget for the season and then let the people like Ridsdale and the Finance Director determine how that is spent. If he thinks they are incapable then replace them.
We should have tried to tie down the so called big 4 contracts last year. Did we try or have we just left it?
From the outside looking on it feels like an employee of the club would need to go to Hemmings to requisition a new toilet roll.
I appreciate that the owner is spending a lot of money on the club, but it also feels there is a deprivation of oxygen within the club that is taking the life and soul out of the place from contracts to merchandise to ticketing etc.
We should have tried to tie down the so called big 4 contracts last year. Did we try or have we just left it?
From the outside looking on it feels like an employee of the club would need to go to Hemmings to requisition a new toilet roll.
I appreciate that the owner is spending a lot of money on the club, but it also feels there is a deprivation of oxygen within the club that is taking the life and soul out of the place from contracts to merchandise to ticketing etc.
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Conveniently forgetting to mention that Bolton's season tickets start at £262.
Plus the fact some folk actually get more exited when you drop into a league that you can actually compete in, rather then boringly stagnating in the Championship, year on year, with nothing changing.
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Maybe contract negotiations were going well until Sinclair arrived.
Or maybe that is complete bollocks?
Your post blamed the fans and now this one Sinclair and not the blatantly obvious.
You're agenda against Scott Sinclair is concerning.
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Ah! You’re speaking for the vast majority of fans now and not just the Sherwood 20!
The DJ money will go in Trevors back pocket....
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Our wage structure would not be able to accommodate what our ‘big 4‘ now want, whether Scott Sinclair was here or not.
You seem to be banging this drum quite frequently but Sinclair hasn’t caused any problems behind the scenes.
What he does need to do though is start playing a lot better than he has been.
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The people of Preston over the past 60 years haven’t experienced anything like the success Bolton have and the way the club is run currently are unlikely still not to experience such success. So you reap the seeds you sow.
Maybe people haven't got behind the club because they wanted us to shell out at least 400 notes without a guarantee that you would see live footy or recieve a penny back if it all goes down the shitter.
They have been behind it for 60 years and let down most of them. Preston has consistently sold its best players year on year without reinvesting. I don’t know which bit of you reap what you sow you have trouble comprehending. The people of Preston have had no say in the way the club has been run but they gave watched Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton even Blackpool come from two leagues below us to a league above us! Perhaps the club needs to excite and interest the people of Preston to come and support it!
How times have changed..... I am currently watching the “ English Game “ series on Netflix......
it is about a bunch of cotton mill workers who formed a football team ( Darwen ) and they were forced to take a pay cut in thier day jobs to ensure that they kept the jobs, meanwhile the football manager ( The Mill boss ) brought in a couple of lads from Patrick and started paying them £3 a week to play football whilst the rest of the team played for the love of it !!
The manager of Blackburn then approached one of the two players ( Fergus Suter ) and offered him a £100 signing on fee and doubled his wages to £6 a week....
That was back in 1880 and obviously the start of the rot....
Isn't that part of the irony about the modern game is we were complicit in the start of ramping up wages and transfers etc under Suddell?
According to Aldi, they provide real Quality on their budget. I believe the Quality is there if you look hard enough and at the right price.
Absolutely.
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In and around the play offs for the last three seasons to get to the biggest league in the world. That's a magnificent achievement for a small town club. Have some of you ever been out of Preston? Get on the motorway in Sheffield, drive for Twenty minutes and guess what, your still in Sheffield. The small mindedness of some on here is astonishing to say the least.
We have not been in the play offs, we may have occupied a position during the seasons but we haven’t been in the play offs don’t tell lies. If the club hadn’t been small minded and short term thinking we would have been in the Premiership when Billy Davies was manager so bog off and give one good reason for any lapsed fan to return at this point in time
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