AB's plan had been sussed. As it was at Watford and has been at Northampton. I sympathise with SISU going for the cheap option after that in that Ranson had made two appointments, both of them costly and disastrous.
It think RR split the camp because he had the right idea with the blueprint of where the club should be going and how to go about acheiving this (buying player potential at a lower rate rather than the finished article and selling at a higher rate) as a business model this should be sustainable as well as the club reaping the rewards of the talent on the pitch. I think some feel RR was let down by SISU when they no longer backed this vision and pulled the plug. Most would agree had we continued in this vein, we could have reached the promised land by now, had the club been true to the vision and sold the players at the right time (not let them leave for free).
How many decent players did we actually make some decent money on that we signed under him though?
That's the point I was trying to bring out ,more in the round though ,not that It should be a spending contest ,but compared to the previous
bunch What was spent on acquisitions? Not very much Is my viewpoint.In terms of return we only remember Dann + Fox ,But Keogh represented
the best percentage Increase over purchase price.
I remain a Beuzelin fan. He wasn't any great shakes, but had a touch of class about him at times. Like an exotic Adam Barton.
I remain a Beuzelin fan. He wasn't any great shakes, but had a touch of class about him at times. Like an exotic Adam Barton.
More like an exotic Ashley Grimes - before your time if guess.
I remain a Beuzelin fan. He wasn't any great shakes, but had a touch of class about him at times. Like an exotic Adam Barton.
Ah. Ray Ranson, the revisionist hero. If Fisher left today, you'd end up with some of the people calling him big fat Timmy giving him credit in a few years.
He was allowed to spend at least £7 million - signing Eastwood for over a million and baker - a division one player - for £700,000 was a joke. He signed wood on mega wages and he was no better than ward Also he did exactly what he criticised prior boards for doing - signing journeymen like wright, beuzilin etc.
Remember being utterly dismayed when Coleman was appointed, particularly as Billy Davies was without a club at the time.Could you imagine what might of happened had Ranson appointed a Robbins or Pressley instead of CC or AB? Goes to show Waggot is doing something a so called "football expert" in Ranson could not. Of all his so called outside dealings this was Ransons biggest crime, I hated CC with a passion.
And he recouped around £8m from player sales.
But yeah it's easy in hindsight to say which players were a waste of money. I'd imagine all clubs have a list like that, it's the nature of signings, I'm surprised anyone in football thinks you can avoid "signing journeymen" or even that you'd want to considering how Clarke is playing for us at the moment.
Could you imagine what might of happened had Ranson appointed a Robbins or Pressley instead of CC or AB? Goes to show Waggot is doing something a so called "football expert" in Ranson could not. Of all his so called outside dealings this was Ransons biggest crime, I hated CC with a passion.
Where did the £8million figure come from?
borrowdale 0.5 fox 1.5 dann 3 best 2 doyle 0.25, thomas 0,25 theres 7.5 - not far away from 8 you are suggesting
Doyle was a free transfer, Thomas wasn't sold, and sure that there was a transfer document which showed that Fox was only sold for about £665,000 or so.
maybe - but there was loan money received for both of them at those amounts. and best was £2m Fox - i was guessing tbf
Originally Posted by lordsummerisle View Post Doyle was a free transfer, Thomas wasn't sold, and sure that there was a transfer document which showed that Fox was only sold for about £665,000 or so....................................................................................................................................... On 24 July 2009, Fox signed for Celtic for an undisclosed fee (believed to be £1.5 million) Not stating this as fact btw. General concensus of a lot of reporters.
Ah good, another thread about jovial 'debt free' Ranson, who has never charged Wonga-esque interest rates loans on any clubs... and never ever had knowledge of hedge funds, no sirree, and as for the Cayman Islands...
And never had the Guardian expose his practices, notlike our owners, oh no.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/mar/02/football-league-cardiff-city-mortgage
and the reason nothing came of that, was that it was under the rules of the welsh FA - not the English, where there was nothing wrong in what he was doing
borrowdale 0.5 fox 1.5 dann 3 best 2 doyle 0.25, thomas 0,25 theres 7.5 - not far away from 8 you are suggesting
Doyle was a free transfer, Thomas wasn't sold, and sure that there was a transfer document which showed that Fox was only sold for about £665,000 or s, Best was £1.5million not 2.
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