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Old 9th June 2018, 15.15:29   #42-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: Its all about money and we've got enough.

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Originally Posted by pagl View Post
I think the point is that after 10+ years in this league then the current model does NOT provide enough investment for a realistic chance of promotion.
Despite last season being a great opportunity we simply didn't have money to invest in the January window to push on and win the league. Even Maccy beat us to the signing of Blissett.

So if you want to do some figures then...…
Last season we raised £100k BTB which was spent on players over and above the budget that would have been available from the 3,500 fans (although it was more like 4,200 last season). Add onto that any money spent from the Taylor sell on fee and it shows again that the current revenue streams are not enough and we need to increase/improve them.
We should be aiming to increase the budget by at least 50% so that we can then offer £1,200 a week to someone instead of £800 (that's just example numbers as I don't know what we actually pay).

Fans are not bashing the 'model' as such because we all realise that we are now fan owned and we don't really want to move away from this into a sugar daddy model that would jeopardise the future of the club.

However what we do need to look at is how we can increase revenue streams or attract 'additional' investment into the club that will allow us maybe sign players we could sell on or simply just recruit better quality which would then pay for itself with crowds over the budget and break even figure.
So how can a club like Macclesfield who actually budgeted for 1300 crowds for season 17-18 out bid a club with near 5000 gates at the time,and just like Wrexham fc we are told they do not have a sugar daddy,also wrexham would have had to pay about £1800 a week to bring in Andy cooke and then it has been mentioned keates would not pay the agents fee,but 3 months later Keates signs him for Walsall.
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