Good point but as we found out last 3 isn't enough. 1 gets injured and one suspended and one out of form. It's easy to end up with no strikers. You can then bring in someone but they don't know the tactics or all that so it's not productive. 4 good strikers please.
Our club can't afford 4 strikers. We need two strikers, one attacking midfielder that can do the job when needed and an academy striker that knows where the net is.
We are where we are now through overspending. Our income is poor. Our debts are a disaster. And none of this will change until we are back at the Ricoh.
100%.
I would say minimum 3 strikers though and I think SP will get them. He has to. Would of been a requirement to let Wilson go. He wanted 3 before he went didn't he?
Good point but as we found out last 3 isn't enough. 1 gets injured and one suspended and one out of form. It's easy to end up with no strikers. You can then bring in someone but they don't know the tactics or all that so it's not productive. 4 good strikers please.
Our club can't afford 4 strikers. We need two strikers, one attacking midfielder that can do the job when needed and an academy striker that knows where the net is.
We are where we are now through overspending. Our income is poor. Our debts are a disaster. And none of this will change until we are back at the Ricoh.
I wonder if he is given some money he would make a cheeky bid for Stevie May from north of the border? Playing on the SPL but looks very handy.
Our club can't afford 4 strikers. We need two strikers, one attacking midfielder that can do the job when needed and an academy striker that knows where the net is.
We are where we are now through overspending. Our income is poor. Our debts are a disaster. And none of this will change until we are back at the Ricoh.
I don't know what's going on this morning Astute, but I've liked 3 of your posts
WM
Agreed with that, although given the losses we were already making at the Ricoh, I don't think a sudden return to the Ricoh will lead to any kind of significant increase in wage and transfer budget.
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We now have not one striker in the team and we need 4 strikers to come in now. We now have the money or more likely wages to do this as I believe we won't pay for signings but could offer them a decent wage.
Come on guys who do we want who is realistic and can replace Clarke and Wilson's goals?
Agreed with that, although given the losses we were already making at the Ricoh, I don't think a sudden return to the Ricoh will lead to any kind of significant increase in wage and transfer budget.
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We scored 74 goals in league 1 last year which was one of our highest for a long time. This obviously fell away dramatically after Clarke and Wilson partnership was broken up. Without the players now departed, we only scored 15 goals!!!! Doesn't look promising unless a murale transpires with players coming in?
I think a 5-fold increase in ticket revenue would make just a bit of a difference, even with higher rent.
Indeed. Replacing the goals is THE most important thing. Hopefully Pressley can get in his preferred players for that job. Shoring up that defence would go a long way to helping as well - Johnson is a step in the right direction.
Yes it would, I wasn't arguing against the financial advantages of Ricoh vs Sixfields. It's a no brainer. My point was rather that even at the Ricoh, with an extra £2m ticket revenue sisu will be wanting to keep the wage bill as low as possible, to minimise losses and the amount of money they have to find to fill the funding gap, that extra £2m wouldn't be automatically added to the transfer and wage budget. We lost £7.2m (whilst not paying rent) in our last season there. We've cut the wage bill significantly, but I would still expect £2-3m losses even at the Ricoh.
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Much would depend on us returning to the Ricoh under the same circumstances as we left it. Negotiating access to revenues is a must.
Much would depend on us returning to the Ricoh under the same circumstances as we left it. Negotiating access to revenues is a must.
Wasn't revenue offered with the 400k rental deal shook on in January last year? Sure it was.
Then in August last year rent dropped to a low of 150k although they won't get that now.
I will remain hopeful of a Ricoh return before August starts. The buzz would be still good and people would come back. Let's of new signings, no points deduction and a full house at the Ricoh opening home game against Sheffield utd. Be amazing to be fair.
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