National League Updates 2019/20 Season II

[pagl]

Originally Posted by 'Orrible Ogre

Pumping £15m into a club with little turnover is hardly sustainable, especially as they seem to be changing direction for this upcoming season and not spending as much.




He does correct it in one of the later tweets.

They dont do it for sustainability. Its about the league dream.

They are prepared to lose the money to chase the dream.

Just imagine if say 2,000 fans decided to donate £500 each
That would be a huge budget increase to go for it

[Todd Sweeney]

Originally Posted by Haruki

The owners are investing in the form of equity and not debt so it all looks to be sustainable.

A strange comment. In what way is it sustainable?

The club owes £1.9 million to creditors, the players aren't being paid, and they have just narrowly avoided receivership for the fourth time in five months. If the owners were to stop funding the club they would cease to exist.

That is the opposite of sustainable, no?

[John Neals Dynasty]

Originally Posted by pagl

They dont do it for sustainability. Its about the league dream.

They are prepared to lose the money to chase the dream.

Just imagine if say 2,000 fans decided to donate £500 each
That would be a huge budget increase to go for it

Sounds good Pagl but you need to have the right man spending it else you would chucking the money into a moneypit
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[pagl]

Originally Posted by John Neals Dynasty

Sounds good Pagl but you need to have the right man spending it else you would chucking the money into a moneypit
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Yeh.
As with anything you need management to define a framework and then the manager uses this and recruits the players he wants.
All good managers live or die in their jobs based on their player choices.

[Huffy]

Originally Posted by pagl

Yeh.
As with anything you need management to define a framework and then the manager uses this and recruits the players he wants.
All good managers live or die in their jobs based on their player choices.

And lets not forget ,not all teams can be top ,someones going to be near the bottom

[pagl]

Originally Posted by Huffy

And lets not forget ,not all teams can be top ,someones going to be near the bottom

Lost me there.
If were not top then so be it, I am talking about the style, quality and ability of players a manager signs and plays.

I mean Gashman for a start - too lightweight and that was obvious.
Barrow signing Stockton on loan, FFS.

I just regard some of this as basics. If I was a manager I just could not allow myself to sign this dross. As I have indicated probably too many times I would bring in potential before old dross. A least a bit of energy and effort.

If I had some players we have seen that lacked the basics to close down the opposition they would never play again. No joking.

[Todd Sweeney]

Dr Abdulla Al-Humaidi admits Ebbsfleet United’s big spending since he bought the club has been a mistake.

And he insists the club must start to live within its means rather than depending on money transfers from the Middle East.

Dr Al-Humaidi said: “Comparing our budget to most of the teams at our level, ours is very excessive and unsustainable.

“The football club is dependent on external sources of cashflow and this is something bad for the club.

“We built a new stand and our revenues have increased substantially so we have to use our means in terms of spending.

“We’re not a Premier League or Championship club, we’re a National League side and this was a mistake from the beginning, spending money insensibly everywhere.

“What prompted this financial restructure was our position two-and-a-half months into the league, spending way more than other clubs.

“Spending-wise, you’d assume (we would) be in the top five in the league but that wasn’t the case.

“The most sensible thing to do is make the club self-sustainable so we’ll reduce external dependency – money coming in from abroad – to make sure the club can run by its own means. Our league standing was a contributing factor to the start of that process.

“There’s no point living month by month or season by season, there should be a long-term view and this is best achieved whereby revenue matches expenditure."

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravese...ps-now-192552/

[Huffy]

Originally Posted by pagl

Lost me there.
If were not top then so be it, I am talking about the style, quality and ability of players a manager signs and plays.

I mean Gashman for a start - too lightweight and that was obvious.
Barrow signing Stockton on loan, FFS.

I just regard some of this as basics. If I was a manager I just could not allow myself to sign this dross. As I have indicated probably too many times I would bring in potential before old dross. A least a bit of energy and effort.

If I had some players we have seen that lacked the basics to close down the opposition they would never play again. No joking.

I trust Hughes to know what he wants . As you say ,if it doesnt go well ,then he might be gone a bit earlier

[OneLoveWrexham]

Originally Posted by Huffy

I trust Hughes to know what he wants . As you say ,if it doesnt go well ,then he might be gone a bit earlier

You trust Hughes? Fair play.