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If it's any consolation it is the same at Spurs, and look where they are.
Fascinating season coming up. A lot of questions will be answered I think.
Paid nowt for Harry Kane.
Quote from: GazLaz on July 18, 2018, 10:32:31 amFascinating season coming up. A lot of questions will be answered I think. At Spurs, Rovers or both?
I think that the fans have every right to be a bit apprehensive at the moment.The problem is that if we were to start the season with the current number of players and struggled the manager and board would lose a deal of credibility.I could take it if we were told we had to reign back for financial reasons but let's have some honesty. I still can't believe that the manager and board will go just with what we have now though.
If we have a bigger budget than previously (which I have no reason to doubt) and we haven’t used it all yet it just means there’s plenty left in the pot. Maybe we need to keep some back to pay a decent contribution to some good quality PL loanees once they announce their squads?
Quote from: StocktonRover on July 18, 2018, 10:58:05 amIf we have a bigger budget than previously (which I have no reason to doubt) and we haven’t used it all yet it just means there’s plenty left in the pot. Maybe we need to keep some back to pay a decent contribution to some good quality PL loanees once they announce their squads?Well that's just it. Just cos the manager hasn't used it doesn't mean it isn't there. No doubt I'll get slated for this.
I've got to admit I'm in two minds on this one and it's rare I have a pop at the board (catering aside).. But In the end I couldn't work out whether are players weren't as good as people thought or whether DF just wasn't getting the best of them with the systems he played,i lean towards the latter now..So that question can only be answered by GM and I think he will do well given support That said like many others on this board have said, the summer recruitment hasn't been good enough..Gavin and SM have continually said the budget is higher yet for us the humble fan, that is more than hard to believe judging by what we have brought in so far and the apparent keenness to let us know apart from a striker there will be little else... Their were times last year we couldn't fill a bench and we have a smaller squad and a few of them have pretty poor recent injury records..Yes there will be some of the budget left for loans later but by then we might be firefighting our league position.. I have a lot of respect for Gavin,the board and SM but they need to realise that people can only go on what they see and make there conclusions, and they can deny all day long that the budget was not why DF left and it's bigger but were we are sat right now...There is no evidence for us as fans to support that view I'm afraid... Dickos has made a excellent post here..These are the questions that us the fans want the answers too,nobody cares on who approached who for the Posh lad,it doesn't matter one jot to me..
Quote from: RedJ on July 18, 2018, 11:20:09 amQuote from: StocktonRover on July 18, 2018, 10:58:05 amIf we have a bigger budget than previously (which I have no reason to doubt) and we haven’t used it all yet it just means there’s plenty left in the pot. Maybe we need to keep some back to pay a decent contribution to some good quality PL loanees once they announce their squads?Well that's just it. Just cos the manager hasn't used it doesn't mean it isn't there. No doubt I'll get slated for this. No I agree with this, but the season starts in two weeks, it’s been reported in the press that McCann is happy with he squad.But in reality we will have to sign at least 4 more players for the wage bill to be increased on last year. And I’m not sure at all that this is going to happen
Point of information - we only once failed to fill the bench in a League game last season. That was when Alcock was injured in the warm up before the Southend game.Yes, sometimes we had youngsters on the bench, but that can assist their development, so shouldn't be seen as a negative.
We have spent big in the past, and it has been an unmitigated disaster, Alford , Jackson anyone. And while people seem to want us to pay the same money out in wages as we did on Williams last season, half the supporters on here did not rate him, and we had a manager who had to have thumb screws on before he picked him, in spite of how much we paid him.