It’s deluded to think Doug King is going to, yes. There’s no evidence or hint he can finance the club beyond player sales.It’s deluded that our owner should be putting some of his own money into the club so we can buy just decent 3 players? Alright then
It’s not like I’m saying we should be spending £1 billion like other clubs, just 3 decent players would sort us out.
Based on how he’s underperformed from what he’s spent so far I’m not surprised
Robins has final approval on the deals does he not?
Yeah fair enough about other clubs but I’m not sure if £10 mil really is a lot these days, it’s a lot in terms of pure hard cash to the average Joe Bloggs on the street but in terms of football it’s not a lot. I’m not exactly sure what Doug has or hasn’t spent but just on paper it seems that he’s yet to spend any of his own cash on players.
I think with the supposed £7 million profit we have so far this season, maybe add £5-7 million of Doug’s own cash to that (if he has it) and we’d have a decent stack to buy quality players with. I’m clearly just speculating but I’d like to think our club owner has more than £2.50 to rub together
Not on the price tags, he doesn't.
Robins surely has final say on the players he wants?
Give it a rest. Can Doug time travel? Who signed the players that raised £35m in the first place?
First comment on the matter and ‘give it a rest’ ok. It’s a fact we’ve underperformed so far.
Well if you take Robins at his word (and I do) then it's very clear - "it's ultimately down to the owner"
So you’re saying the only way the club can get more money is to buy better players, grow talent and then sell them on for profit? But who are we selling for profit? I’m not saying Simms or Wright are bad but there’s no way they’re worth more than we bought them for? And Eccles and Sheaf and Lati etc, they’re not worth much either. I’m not saying you’re wrong but I seriously hope Doug is going to invest in us properly otherwise we’re going to be going nowhere fast. We’ve already seen what selling our best players year on year has done to us.
That’s exactly what I’m saying
It’s amazing people actually take all this at face value.
It doesn’t matter whether king paid £25m, £50m or simply wrote off money owed to him by SUSU from another transaction. So far he has tried to drive more ambition and higher standards into the club. He’s been open and accessible …. Not something many owners are and not something our previous owners were.
I’d like to see maybe Million Manhoef from Vitesse. He’s a 21 year old winger that can also play full back 13 games and 4 goals this season 3.5m value could be a cheap punt
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A £3.5m punt!! Glorious. I remember when we were signing Peter Ramage.
Kastaneer and Jobello looked great in their highlight reels.
He hasn't actually spent everything we've earned in sales yet has he?
