They can't move the goalposts. The calculations are fixed based off projected earnings. Waggott got them wrong and in addition we signed far far more players in January than needed.
By that point we were clearly heading to an embargo and running out of cash.
Generally agree but not sure it is all down to waggot getting the figures wrong. Find it difficult to believe that the number crunchers at Sisu hq haven't been all over the figures. Fisher said that major decisions at Ccfc are signed off by Sisu...... annual budgets are major decisions. Similarly how is it they or the club didn't monitor the situation more closely? - an adjustment week 5 will have an effect week 52.
There is an element of its someone else's fault.
But as grendel says budgets are only calculations what counts is actual cash.
So what went wrong? They knew the season ticket sales by August and how that affected the budget, they couldn't rely on a deficit being made up from walk ups. Yet didn't adjust the budget? Sisu didn't oversee the budget ? Then they got the rise in average crowd which was made up of full price tickets? Yet still needed 750k short term loan from the owners, what expense in there was not expected that required such action..... they knew wage costs from August latest, season tickets had been mostly sold by that time.
To be honest water under the bridge , we will never know what really went on.
It is cash flow not budget that is important. The only way they make it work is by selling players, with front loaded payments I would think. That last bit is important because it indicates how desperate for cash they are, that the overall value will be negotiated down by the buyer the higher the upfront payment. When we are unable to create players of significant value and the performance payments run out then the problems really ramp up