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You are just making up random figures and suggesting that players are wanting wage structure shattering amounts based on nothing, purely to defend the club. The concept of a wage structure does not invalidate the point that it is extremely damaging to be in a position where we cant keep any of our main players on new deals. It depends what that wage structure is and the ceiling to ours is clearly not competitive enough. You keep saying fixating because you are underappreciating the fact that as expected, the issue has totally undermined the whole summer window. The overhaul has been more than anyone including the manager would have wanted because instead of topping up a solid core of players with a few additions, we have had to blow apart that core and replace it with cheaper replacements from abroad, all at the same time. Your last jibe is just totally out of context and is not specific to our club. If the TV money for everyone goes up, and wages across the board go up, yet ours keep going down, that doesnt keep us competitive.

Granted. But if you wage bill 20m for the season that's £384k a week.

Just got it from the court case thread and wasn't sure if it had been mentioned here. @wilsdenrover is the one who has been brilliant in keeping tabs on what's been happening with these billion adjournments and caught that this part of things had been resolved. I don't think their court case will affect us anymore, but if I were Venkys my next move would be to get some of that money they've put up for the bond back. Basically the need for more bonds is over because the amount they've paid into bonds already considerably exceeds the maximum fine payable as a result of the case. I think we are talking either 7.7 mill or 8.8 million quid in fines (currency conversions seem to have slight discrepancies) and I think it was something like 25 or 30 million already paid in bonds, but the proper numbers are all in that thread. I expect they'll want that difference back, and then to not pay or minimise the fine, but ultimately I don't think we have to give a shit about that anymore, and thus it's probably be more gratifying for most of us if they suffer as much financially as possible. Some would argue freeing up their constraints on funding us is a bad thing in the long game anyway.

Have they found new owners?.

Thanks for the reply

I doubt any club in this league pays all players the same it's impossible. We are paying Cantwell at least 20K pwk therefore by your definition Tronstad, Carter, and all the other established pros are asking for that as well. It's a nonsense excuse thrown around to deflect the low balling low wage model we now operate.

Apologies @KentExile if that’s the case!

Incredibly convenient timing for them stinks Thanks for sharing any news on what happens next with their court case?

I'm struggling to know what your point is. If they wanted to renew contracts, they could've done, they just chose not to . The other argument would be whose decision was it?

Shame for the lad, he’s now 24 and I think those 5 games for Altrincham is the most he’s played for a single club maybe even for all clubs combined at a senior level Seems Harry Chapman played against him for Gateshead coming off the bench!

To be fair the 8-0 loss to Chorley wasn’t so bad after all The official report says 2 of the goals could be argued as fouls https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/september/08/match-reflection--chorley-women-8-0-rovers-women/ “It should have just been 6-0, you’ll never sing that”

Tax deductable?

They’ll wheel out the privy account with ‘January is a notoriously hard window with inflated prices, look at other teams, Wigan and Kidderminster not signed anyone, with Adam Khan coming back it’s like a new signing’ or similar

Its something I acknowledge weeks/months ago. I just don't fixated on the issue. Players move on and new players come in. We cant match what players want. We have a wage budget and we are sticking to it. Should we pay more than what we can afford, it that right approach. If you pay one 25k then others we demand the same then you are going to be over your budget. Then your squad players will demand more for their role in the team. RF99 complaints that players are taking all the money out of the game then wants us to pay more than our budget is. Massive conflict there Don't you agree?

All I remember is what I’ve described in that post. Can’t remember if it was something on here or if I was told in person by someone, but I was at least made aware. I believe it ties in to the potential breaches of contract with Macron that have been alleged elsewhere.

What deal with Adidas and Gary Aspden?

Yes I am yearning for something that isnt happening. I am also desperate for Venkys to sell up, that isnt happening either but it doesnt dampen that desire at all. My and many other peoples point is that it is a huge problem that we are unable to get any contracts sorted with current important players. Its not the odd one which would be understandable. Us being able to sign new players from abroad at a fraction of the cost of wages of those leaving doesnt disprove that. I dont get why you are being so pedantic about whether its an inability or a choice as the end result is the same either way. You could argue it is an inability within the very low budget set under the owners. We certainly have been unable to sort contracts out, that is a fact.

But "new or otherwise" is dismissing the point entirely. I'm talking specifically about the extension of existing players.

Showing the "ability", or knowhow to physically draw up a contract, new or otherwise. They're quite capable of drawing up a contract, if it's to their liking.

Around the same time it was disclosed that SW was sorting something out with Adidas re: club shop refurb, shirt sponsor, collab with Gary Aspen etc, I think? Then the women’s team issue was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I didn’t like Waggott for many reasons but at the very least he was trying to increase income, whereas Pasha et al seem to just seek cutback after cutback.

Would rather they sold the club

In fairness it’s 10 players who will be on 8 grand max and probably not many suitors.

You keep on saying it's inability when it clearly isn't. I've never once said they're no good, but it's obvious what has happened/is happening and you just keep on yearning for something which clearly isn't going to happen. As I've been saying for weeks, whether the new process works depends almost solely on how good the recruitment department is . They've got a lot on.

Sums up venkys entire tenure at the club.

You said: "they've just signed 10 players, they're more than capable of penning contracts." Again, they were obliged to sign those players, otherwise we wouldn't have a squad. The fact that a number of new, low value contracts have been offered has no bearing at all on whether they either can't or won't offer improved terms to current players. They HAD to sign new players. They had no choice.