Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[chaddyrovers]

19 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

There is no way they spent around 10 million pull your head out of the clouds i think the next accounts will tell a truer picture of around half that spent.

Around 10 million in fees maybe committed over time including various add ons but not spent.

Like fees are normally done over installments in a 6 months/12 months periods with addons.

[chaddyrovers]

9 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

We did neither.

We've been cost cutting like feck for the last few years, feel like you'd have noticed?

So are did buy Gudjohnsen, Tavares, Morishita for around £2m each then add other signings..its around £10m. 

Original budget as £5m wasnt it? 

Yes we sold players for more but still committed to 10m 

Yes we are cost cutting in other areas as previously mentioned like in pitch, stadium repairs and up keep, basic and boring food and drinks served. 

 

[RevidgeBlue]

12 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

We did neither.

We've been cost cutting like feck for the last few years, feel like you'd have noticed?

Yep, you can nit pick until the cows come home as to whether the headline fees quoted either in or out are completely accurate.

However the bottom line is that in summer we sold decent quality, and bought in lesser quality at a moderately negative net spend, and presumably a massive reduction in the wage bill.

And find ourselves struggling badly. As 99% of supporters predicted would happen in advance.

Quite surprising really.

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

So are did buy Gudjohnsen, Tavares, Morishita for around £2m each then add other signings..its around £10m. 

Original budget as £5m wasnt it? 

Yes we sold players for more but still committed to 10m 

Yes we are cost cutting in other areas as previously mentioned like in pitch, stadium repairs and up keep, basic and boring food and drinks served. 

 

Fuck me......£12m of players out!

[davulsukur]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Like fees are normally done over installments in a 6 months/12 months periods with addons.

They won't be accurate and if they are anywhere near, whoever picked out Taveres for £2m needs sacking immediately.

 

[Tomphil2]

9 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Like fees are normally done over installments in a 6 months/12 months periods with addons.

Most fees paid over the length of 3 or 4 year contracts meaning we've actually 'spent' far less and the rest will no doubt be covered by future sales.

So the re-investment to date from the Wharton/Sammy sales etc is minimal.

[RevidgeBlue]

John Williams was always firmly of the view your finish in the table was roughly commensurate with the size of your wage bill in comparison to everyone else.

I don't completely subscribe to that but by now our wage bill must be amongst the lowest in the Championship and that's exactly where we find ourselves.

[Tomphil2]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

John Williams was always firmly of the view your finish in the table was roughly commensurate with the size of your wage bill in comparison to everyone else.

I don't completely subscribe to that but by now our wage bill must be amongst the lowest in the Championship and that's exactly where we find ourselves.

I wouldn't be surprised if where we are right now in the division is right on where we'd be in the first team wages table.

Mostly in life or business you get more or less what you pay for.

 

[B16Rover]

37 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

They won't be accurate and if they are anywhere near, whoever picked out Taveres for £2m needs sacking immediately.

 

Also they're in euros 

[Mattyblue]

To be fair you can't expect to buy players and have decent drinks on offer.

[rigger]

39 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

Also they're in euros 

It could be in Thai Bahts, and two million for Tavares would be too much.