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We did at the beginning of the season though did we not? We're not at all though are we as we also seem to offer contract extensions to existing players that aren't particularly deserving of it. E.g. Kelly and Jones. We also prematurely did the same with Mason the season before last. The fact...

As I said, the type of player we target isn't an issue. The length of contract we insist on offering to both new and existing players is the issue. How quickly we've transcended up the league is somewhat irrelevant to the arguement as regardless of what league we were in this strategy of...

Yeah I don't really think the players we identify is necessarily an issue per say as due to our restricted budget we have to take more calculated risks than most in the league. Also like with Walker sometimes signings don't work out which is just part and parcel, no manager or backroom staff...

Copied and pasted from my previous post: Not really sure why Robins is bemoaning about a small squad when I don't think that's necessarily the case. The budget is there for him and the backroom staff to use freely as they wish - it's on them if they're misusing it by offering reasonably...

It does really though when it accumulates to the extent where you have 10+ first team players on the books, all of whom make little to no contribution on the pitch. Hilssner, Jobello, Mason, Bright, Kastaneer, Pask, Drysdale, Kelly, Jones, Dacosta and now Shipley and Walker. That's 12 players...

The fact that at one point this season we probably could've fielded a full Starting XI with the amount of deadwood we had shows there's a fundamental flaw somewhere. When a chunk of our budget is being taken up by players that are pretty much making zero contribution it's no wonder our squad of...

It could be that he's been carrying an injury which the club initially thought would go away on its own. Wouldn't exactly be a surprise now he's out for 6 weeks.

In most instances players only actually fail a medical if they find an underlying health issue or serious injury which is likely to have an adverse effect on their ability to perform or play in the long term. Just because a player has a minor injury they won't 'fail' the medical. That's not...

He's not even an oligarch is he? He's a UK citizen.

I presume this means Chelsea can't activate JCS's one year extension, leaving him free to leave at the end of the season?

I wouldn't say there's something very wrong with it but I would agree we're still paying for poor recruitment the summer before last. Bar O'Hare and Hamer, the permanent signings haven't worked out which has essentially swallowed a significant proportion of our budget ever since. Couple that...

Well I wasn't including Waghorn in the mix as I can imagine Robins will probably persevere with him next season. I'd imagine Walker was perhaps behind O'Hare last season but that's only a guess.

Yeah, I can imagine all those mentioned above are costing the club around £25k pw, give or take a couple of grand.

To put it into perspective I think between Hillsner, Walker, Pask, Drysdale, Kelly, Shipley, Dacosta and Jones you could quite comfortably bring in two, perhaps even three, first team players on reasonable salaries.

I suspect either we paid them off to the point at which they found another club or the club paid the difference between their CCFC contract and their new contracts at their respective clubs - as I'd wager they aren't on as much as they were here. I think that's usually how clubs structure it...

I think you need to re-read the sentence.... I said partially covered. Fair enough but we'll have to agree to disagree. Apart from the fact that it would be no worse than Luton, I think that's probably a given Luton receive around half the footfall than what we do per matchday. I also forgot...

But there have been outgoings though which would've made room for some of the signings this season? E.g. Marosi leaving to at least partially make room for Moore's wages, this season's loans replacing last season's, all of the Jan outgoings to again make room for Bidwell coming in, etc...

Wasn't it just short of £12m in the last set of accounts? Given we've increased the contracts of players and signed those such as Bidwell and Waghorn who would've commanded big wages I'd expect it to be somewhere between £14m-£15m.

Like us they don't particularly have a model though. They just do the best they can with what they have at their disposal, and where possible try to find young talent that has the potential for a higher resale value. I don't really get why you think that's disputable. It's clearly what we aim to...

Interesting estimate. You do realise that works out as every single player in the squad being on at least £15k per week right?