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Cut it down to 50% then. Still results in £4.6m (or £90k per week) extra on the wage budget at the peak. Again, appreciate there’s other elements such as signing on bonuses, possible transfer fees, contract extensions, etc. Though you’d hope that the only contract extensions would be for those...

Some of the revisionism around JCS is interesting. For me, he was a very good player and was key to making our system work. Granted, he had a stinker at Luton but so did many others. It’s disappointing that we haven’t managed to sign him although I do understand the concern around injuries. If...

And on a base level I’d agree *if* we were speculatively increasing the wage bill on potential future transfer fees. What I’m suggesting is the reverse of that - using fees received as a means to fund future wages. I’ll hypothesise this quickly (and I’ll use round numbers to make it easier to...

If you continually recycled the method I’ve mentioned then you’d be able to organically grow the wage budget without risking the club’s future. Yes of course it relies on player sales but without a change in ownership it’s the only way we’ll be able to improve.

I’d imagine he will be very much in the first team frame now Bissouma has gone. Edit: and I wonder whether the loan to Belgium (a trick Man Utd used to use) was more to do with work permit issues.

Very interesting take. What I’m getting at isn’t an ongoing increase, merely using funds (like suggested) to give us the ability to bring in half-decent players on half-decent 3-year contracts this summer. If it all goes tits up then they’re out of contract by the time the wage bill has to be...

I’m also not massively fussed about spending on transfers. We need to increase our wage budget so even if Hamer going out gave us the opportunity to increase our wage budget by £2m per year for the next 3 years then that would give us far more opportunity to progress. Or even a bit of a...

Christ. Get Rory Delap back in there as well.

It’s also the issue with people getting hung up on “keeping hold of the big 3”. If we want to progress in the medium term we *need* to sell and reinvest. Hamer, O’Hare or Gyokeres get to their last year of contract and we’re fucked.

I hear we’re going to sign Yan Dhanda and announce him at the same time as JCS. (this was a dream I’ve just had. Bit weird)

Tried that to a degree with the tax amendments that meant you can’t claim interest relief against your rental income. However, it just saw people setting up in Ltd Co structure instead and it would be nigh-on impossible to correctly legislate against this.

Was thinking less of the current games and more back to the Euros when Trippier was inexplicably picked.

343 all day. I think generally that’s the direction football is going in now anyway. But can we stop playing full backs/wing backs on their wrong side.

Errrrrr…

May surprise you to learn he wasn’t very good.

Had that with the Callum Wilson deal. That went well.

This is what I’m taking away from the thread :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

The situation slightly reminds me of when Che Adams went there and didn’t really get much of a game in his first season. He was a couple of years younger, granted, but may follow a similar track.

Can’t stop watching Cal O’Hare’s attempt at singing on the highlights.

Yes, spotted that this morning. When a previous auditor has had to resign due to falsified information, it is VERY easy to draw some very distasteful and negative views from all this.