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[Tals-biggest-fan]

We should put a bid in for this lad...

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[Lord Kangana]

Don't want him if he can't do a seal dribble.

[Turkish Trotter]

8 Million and wages to die for should do it !!!

[bobo the clown]

TBH I'm shocked that a club with limitless funds could be able to conduct their business so swiftly, whereas we can't. We need answers.

I doubt it's got anything at all to do with money. Fee with Burnley is agreed, officially. So much so that they let them play in a friendly for us. Players have agreed deals. Again they played for us. Perhaps one of em has lost their national insurance numbers

I reckon the Burnley club secretary who totally & utterly denied this was happening on Monday is refusing to sign the papers.

So deep in denial he can see pyramids.

[Harry Genshaw]

I'm pleased with Pratley, Coker, Mears & Eagles but I'll be a lot happier when we've signed at least 1, or preferably 2, strikers.

[dionnn]

TBH I'm shocked that a club with limitless funds could be able to conduct their business so swiftly, whereas we can't. We need answers.

I doubt it's got anything at all to do with money. Fee with Burnley is agreed, officially. So much so that they let them play in a friendly for us. Players have agreed deals. Again they played for us. Perhaps one of em has lost their national insurance numbers

Unless we don't have the money available to pay for them yet

[Lord Kangana]

The cheque from the dildo pedlars probably bounced.

[BWFC_Insane]

TBH I'm shocked that a club with limitless funds could be able to conduct their business so swiftly, whereas we can't. We need answers.

I doubt it's got anything at all to do with money. Fee with Burnley is agreed, officially. So much so that they let them play in a friendly for us. Players have agreed deals. Again they played for us. Perhaps one of em has lost their national insurance numbers

Unless we don't have the money available to pay for them yet

I find that highly unlikely! If that were the case I can hardly see Burnley agreeing to let us play them!

[Lord Kangana]

They're also desperate for cash.

[BWFC_Insane]

They're also desperate for cash.

Exactly so they wouldn't risk their most sellable assets getting injured. Anways not having the money is the biggest pile of bollocks I've ever heard. We are run responsibly we don't go round bidding without the money ready and available. If we were in that much of a predicament you'd have heard about it long before now. Not to mention the 5m bid for Jeffren!

[Lord Kangana]

We've got far less money than we've had for years. Its self evident.

2 free signings and £3m for two players, whilst recouping £7.2m and taking masses off the wage bill points in that direction. I doubt we'll heavily net spend, if net spend at all this summer. Especially if Cahill goes nowhere. As it happens, if he stays, we're a good loan forward away from a decent side anyway.

[adamworthy2002]

EAGLES!

[BWFC_Insane]

We've got far less money than we've had for years. Its self evident.

2 free signings and £3m for two players, whilst recouping £7.2m and taking masses off the wage bill points in that direction. I doubt we'll heavily net spend, if net spend at all this summer. Especially if Cahill goes nowhere. As it happens, if he stays, we're a good loan forward away from a decent side anyway.

Not going to listen to someone who the other day told us all we'd only be signing 'loans', two days later we've effectively bought 3 players!

[Lord Kangana]

Yeah, that transfer fee for Coker was a bitch.

[BWFC_Insane]

Yeah, that transfer fee for Coker was a bitch.

Could have sworn you told us all last week that we couldn't possibly sign NRC cos of the massive wages he would demand, changed your mind on that aswell?

[Lord Kangana]

I'd like to see where I'd written "couldn't possibly" without being quoted out of context

[LiOC]

We've got far less money than we've had for years. Its self evident.

2 free signings and £3m for two players, whilst recouping £7.2m and taking masses off the wage bill points in that direction. I doubt we'll heavily net spend, if net spend at all this summer. Especially if Cahill goes nowhere. As it happens, if he stays, we're a good loan forward away from a decent side anyway.

And if we'd have spent the £5million on Jeffren we wouldn't be saying we had no cash at all. I can assume that we have been told to lower the wage bill hence not offering Elmander a lucrative deal, Taylor being sold before we lose him next year after he refuses a lower wage, Gardner being on reduced wages. Al Habsi was surplus to demands if rate Bogdan highly, Cohen, O'Brien, Samuel weren't ever going to be first team, we obviously don't think Ward will ever make the grade for us. I can't see too many things that suggest we're desperate for cash there.

[Lord Kangana]

Apart from the Elmander and Taylor ones? And all the others?

Its not about having no cash, its that we've got significantly less than previously. We've let more go than we've rcruited, some top end earners (Habsi, Elmander, Taylor) have gone, we've recouped more money than we've spent. I can't see that situation changing significantly. Especially if we sell Cahill. If we don't, and he miraculously agrees to an improved contract, I can see even less incoming.

[LiOC]

Apart from the Elmander and Taylor ones? And all the others?

Its not about having no cash, its that we've got significantly less than previously. We've let more go than we've rcruited, some top end earners (Habsi, Elmander, Taylor) have gone, we've recouped more money than we've spent. I can't see that situation changing significantly. Especially if we sell Cahill. If we don't, and he miraculously agrees to an improved contract, I can see even less incoming.

I admitted it looks like our wage budget is too high or at the top end of the spectrum.
Al Habsi was not first team, surplus to requirements if Coyle rates Jussi more and Bogdan for the future and earnt high wages, and we had a good offer for him. Why wouldn't we sell?
Elmander-earned some of the highest wages- had two years of failure, should we offer him a really lucrative deal?
Taylor-high earner. Not a guaranteed starter, didn't seem to work with the system Coyle wants to use imo. If we want to lower his wages, as I presume we would to suit the changes we're making, if we offer him a new deal next year at lower wages and he rejects it he leaves on a free, is it not better for the 2.2 million now?
We still need strikers, like I said if the £5 million had gone through for Jeffren, would it look bleak? If we bought N'Gog at 3-4 million it stops looking so bleak. Two more and we're probably breaking even or better.

[Lord Kangana]

And if we'd bid the £18m that was quoted for Elmander in January 2008? Theres plenty of ifs there. The fact remains, we have, as of the present moment, lowered the wage bill, and earnt more than we've spent on players. My hunch would be that this relative position won't significantly change by midinght on the 31st August. However it pans out.

If (and that is also an if) it remains so, I find it hard to conceive that it was done because we just felt like it.