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Summer 2024 : Transfer Window Rumours and Discussion

Jack Daniels said:
I don't believe that "we spent the entire budget on Okkels".

I just think we locked the safe with cash inside it.

Why is the question that should be asked.

£4m in the summer of 23 excluding loans.

£2.4m in the summer of 24 excluding loans when we told in between the 2 that whilst we wouldn't have multi millions, we'd have millions and a better outlay to spend with the 21 Covid Year wiped off the FFP Restrictions. We have locked away there at least £1.6m. Realistically more due to 21 being wiped off and PRs "words" around May time.

Again, I ask "Why?".

I'm not having it that between £1.6m and a conservative guesstimate of £2.5m went on Lowe and Marsh leaving the building.
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Say Lowe was on 20k per week, roughly £1m for a year payout - yes mutual but no way would Riddler let his mate go without a decent payout. If Marsh is on half that - 500k

£1.5m already there.

Assuming a signing on fee for both Heckingbottom and McCall (like we do with players to reduce wages over the years - See Scott Sinclair). We could then assume another 500k.

We're now at £2m.
£1.7m Okkels, 700k Thor = £4.4m

I'll include loans since we assume Ramsey was free for Liverpool to use Deepdale and theres Millar who i expect was a low loan fee Basel sold him cheap. We could assume loan fees totalling £1m for KKH, Greenwood, Bowler the difference between the years.

£5.4m for 2024
Wages probably no change as Browne left but so did those on possibly less such as Woodburn.

Anything leftover would be Peter's annual bonus.

Rough guesses but you could see where all the extra went.
 
Think people are also assuming Osmajic was paid up front. Fully expect any hefty fees to be paid over the course of the contract, it's not just one budget taking a hit. That was the only way we were making an offer for Cannon, and it would have paupered us for years.
 
Bobbage said:
Or Bolton.

Or Shrewsbury.

And seemingly turned down an offered contract here. Strange, very very strange as when he eventually got fit he looked a top class player alongside DJ for us.
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He never got himself fit. Even when he was starting matches he was blowing out of his ass after 50-55 minutes.

The guy just seems very unprofessional.
 
JK said:
They only hate the Premier League because they both got beat every week.

Sign of proper entitlement.
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If we where getting thumped in the Prem all season, yet pretty much bossing the Championship the year after then I suspect most on here would be saying the exact same.

That's not really entitlement, just enjoying watching your club compete and win games.
 
I bet Brentford, Wolves, Bournemouth, Palace, Brighton etc don't want to be back down here.

Maybe the Champ is the best league if you walk automatic promotion most years, but I think it's shite. Same dull away trips every year, most games are just teams trying to cancel each other out, and then you just get the odd battering off a side with parachute money.
 
MrBoomBoom said:
If we where getting thumped in the Prem all season, yet pretty much bossing the Championship the year after then I suspect most on here would be saying the exact same.

That's not really entitlement, just enjoying watching your club compete and win games.
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Under the days of Stan Ternant and the like Burnley fans would only have dreamed of playing in tbe top flight.
 
JK said:
Under the days of Stan Ternant and the like Burnley fans would only have dreamed of playing in tbe top flight.
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In regards to this (and your earlier post, if partially aimed at me), it's all relative. Any fan enjoys watching their team win, obviously, but there is far more to this than simply losing a lot. The same complaints I (and I would think Blades fans) have were there when we finished 7th and 10th. I have far (FAR) fonder memories of some seasons under Stan like 01/02 than I do the vast majority of our time in the PL.

The PL is a cesspit of inequality, and I don't just mean financial. It's how your club is perceived by punditry, on social media, how you are there to simply make up the numbers unless you are part of the perceived 'Big Six' (or whatever that number is these days). The refereeing and VAR decisions bordering on the corrupt almost week in/week out, and the lack of any real analysis or consistency for smaller clubs is farcical. The fact you have to invest to make a fist of it (allegedly!) and then the same mercenaries that come in ride off into the sunset upon relegation, like they were somehow above you! This happens time after time, season after season. Everything feels so temporary and unbalanced/unsustainable.

The Championship may well have it's own inequality due to parachute payments and some ownerships but any team can beat any other each fixture, any team can get into the PO's or better with a fair wind and a bit of luck. If we do end up going up again, what is there to look forward to as a fan really? We try to finish 17th season after season, just like about 5-8 others. It's a poor do, it's not what anyone goes to watch their team for. I would love for the Super League to happen personally, but maybe that is just me.
 
JK said:
Under the days of Stan Ternant and the like Burnley fans would only have dreamed of playing in tbe top flight.
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True, but that was 20 years ago.

They've now spent what, 8/9 season's in and out of the Prem with the most recent mainly spent being the whipping boy's.

It's not difficult to see why they'd rather be winning games and bossing the Championship then getting thumped in the Prem every other week.
 
Burnley1882 said:
In regards to this (and your earlier post, if partially aimed at me), it's all relative. Any fan enjoys watching their team win, obviously, but there is far more to this than simply losing a lot. The same complaints I (and I would think Blades fans) have were there when we finished 7th and 10th. I have far (FAR) fonder memories of some seasons under Stan like 01/02 than I do the vast majority of our time in the PL.

The PL is a cesspit of inequality, and I don't just mean financial. It's how your club is perceived by punditry, on social media, how you are there to simply make up the numbers unless you are part of the perceived 'Big Six' (or whatever that number is these days). The refereeing and VAR decisions bordering on the corrupt almost week in/week out, and the lack of any real analysis or consistency for smaller clubs is farcical. The fact you have to invest to make a fist of it (allegedly!) and then the same mercenaries that come in ride off into the sunset upon relegation, like they were somehow above you! This happens time after time, season after season. Everything feels so temporary and unbalanced/unsustainable.

The Championship may well have it's own inequality due to parachute payments and some ownerships but any team can beat any other each fixture, any team can get into the PO's or better with a fair wind and a bit of luck. If we do end up going up again, what is there to look forward to as a fan really? We try to finish 17th season after season, just like about 5-8 others. It's a poor do, it's not what anyone goes to watch their team for. I would love for the Super League to happen personally, but maybe that is just me.
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We have never had the chance to decide where our best memories are because we do the same thing every year. Who the hell wants to play mediocre in the second division every year, it’s damn boring. We get to compare which of our games was the shittest and trust me there is plenty of competition for that.
 
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