But unless that money is actually spent there's no proof of the money being there. We could put in a £250m bid for Yamal but it means nothing if the deal doesn't go through.
Maybe, maybe not, perhaps not all of them together, nobody knows the detail (but then you know that). It's quite likely that any business would have depended on somebody going too. What we do know is that Woolfenden had been on the radar for a long time (like most, if not all of our transfers in)
Maybe the bids were just posturing to look like we would be busy, and to throw the fans off! No proof we have any money at all.
Around £5m seems to get you a solid champ player still in most positions, except top goal scorers. These kinds of players are never going to be turned around for big money though, so you can't be a "Brentford" doing that. The best we can really hope for on average is a return something close to neutral (if you ignore the wages) and everyone else is playing the same game of course! The top money youngsters have youth international pedigree already and these players tend to get signed or get poached much earlier on by the PL clubs. I find it quite interesting that Woolfenden, just for example, was around £4m, Hughes on the other hand has some connection to the England set up. The lower leagues are full of players who never made the progression from the unders so it's always a big gamble. That's why the smaller European markets are so important.
It's pretty clear they're running a budget for around 23-25 seniors registered players. That's still a smallish squad especially with the older/better u-21s out on loan. They'll also be paying player transfers over 3 years or so and big committments in the past couple of seasons will still be pulling on the accounts.
Clearly the big value in his investment comes with promotion but the finances are so delicately balanced. The thing that persuaded him to sack Robins in the end was threat to the income streams of a relegation fight.
Which is what happened with Sheaf apparently. Wrexham were in for someone and that fell through so they swooped in for Sheaf at the 11th hour which didn't give us any time to find a replacement. Apparently Lampard was well peed off.
Yes but perhaps not if the total losses start becoming £25 or £30m over the 3 years all of a sudden. As you rightly said it's as much about the wages
Instalments out are ok as long as they are roughly matched by the payments received for outgoing transfers.
Yes, it's still a while before the next accounts are due.
If we bid on a player for £10m then yes.
Was there any actual proof that bid of that sum was made ? I honestly don't know.
So you are saying King would bid on a player without the funds then, as a bluff?
No thats not what I'm saying. i was just asking whether there was any actual concrete proof that a bid of that amount was made.
Multiple media sources
Which ones in particular ?
Baz Cooper from the Hull Daily Mail
Not at all. Just paper gossip
What more do you one than one of Hull City's primary reporters mentioning it? The fax that Doug King sent to their owner?
So one source which was reported as a bid believed to be in the region of £10M
What more evidence do you need than that?
I know there's a lot more to serious negotiations with millions of pounds at stake than that trivial nonsense. It's all click bait!
Chris chatting utter bollocks shock, horror!
Ah that's lovely . Always good to see others stepping into the breach to help out their insecure friend . Good work
Avoiding my question i see
Learnt that one from your good self. The next step is diversion and the final one in your armoury abuse .