The hysterically annoying and totally unfounded, but traditional, January 2025 rumours thread.

[LoopisDeLupis]

A possible indicator of why we've turned to shit.

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Managed to spend nothing and blow the PSR rules out of the water. Takes a special kind of talent.

 

[M17TT C]

A possible indicator of why we've turned to shit.

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Is there the same table for transfer fees received?

I'd guess we've done quite well in that aspect but it just shows how ridiculous our wage bill is.

 

[Brown Nose]

Is there the same table for transfer fees received?

I'd guess we've done quite well in that aspect but it just shows how ridiculous our wage bill is.

It's from Kieran Maguire and he's working on that one so I'll post when it's done.

Transfermarket reckon our net spend over the last decade is about £150m. This is significantly lower than the net spend of Notts Forest who spent most of that time outside the PL and about half the net spend of someone like Bournemouth.

Comparatively, we haven't spent excessively and we've made a lot back in terms of sales - over half a billion in that time.

Our problem (and it's not a new point I know) is that we've massively overpaid for shite without a resale value and then we pay them all far too much so they don't leave.

Clowns (Aiyawatt, Rudkin and Whelan) will be clowns.

 

[M17TT C]

It's from Kieran Maguire and he's working on that one so I'll post when it's done.

Transfermarket reckon our net spend over the last decade is about £150m. This is significantly lower than the net spend of Notts Forest who spent most of that time outside the PL and about half the net spend of someone like Bournemouth.

Comparatively, we haven't spent excessively and we've made a lot back in terms of sales - over half a billion in that time.

Our problem (and it's not a new point I know) is that we've massively overpaid for shite without a resale value and then we pay them all far too much so they don't leave.

Clowns (Aiyawatt, Rudkin and Whelan) will be clowns.

Wages has been a constant issue for us though - years of having near 100% of revenue spent on wages which is just completely unsustainable for any business - our annual income has been tied up with wages alone, hence little to no transfers without selling first.

If we had managed to sell some of the players we've let go for free instead then it would have helped but the wages for shite has been crippling us for years.

Teams like us cannot afford to have numerous players on £50k a week just for turning up for training each week, it's absolute madness and there is little to no incentive for bang average players when they have been financially sorted for life in a couple of years.

 

[LoopisDeLupis]

Wages has been a constant issue for us though - years of having near 100% of revenue spent on wages which is just completely unsustainable for any business - our annual income has been tied up with wages alone, hence little to no transfers without selling first.

If we had managed to sell some of the players we've let go for free instead then it would have helped but the wages for shite has been crippling us for years.

Teams like us cannot afford to have numerous players on £50k a week just for turning up for training each week, it's absolute madness and there is little to no incentive for bang average players when they have been financially sorted for life in a couple of years.

Money does not equal motivation.

Lots of our players are on crazy contracts. But paying them more wouldn’t make them more motivated.

 

[SilverFox]

A possible indicator of why we've turned to shit.

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How in the blue hell can Chelsea get away with a 1.6billion spend. **** a duck.

 

[Brown Nose]

Wages has been a constant issue for us though - years of having near 100% of revenue spent on wages which is just completely unsustainable for any business - our annual income has been tied up with wages alone, hence little to no transfers without selling first.

If we had managed to sell some of the players we've let go for free instead then it would have helped but the wages for shite has been crippling us for years.

Teams like us cannot afford to have numerous players on £50k a week just for turning up for training each week, it's absolute madness and there is little to no incentive for bang average players when they have been financially sorted for life in a couple of years.

I don't think any of us begrudge Vardy earning £140k a week because he's earned it.

The problem is that we have carried an enormous senior squad for the last few years and the mediocre and poorer players are earning £50-£80k a week.

Our 20th highest earner is probably on what the 4th highest earner at a Brentford or a Brighton is on.

 

[Joe_Fox]

A possible indicator of why we've turned to shit.

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The amount of utter shit we have signed makes the number of £258,000,000 seem almost unfathomable.

 

[Brown Nose]

Senior Mirror journalist reporting that our vice captain and so called dressing room leader was the one pushing for a move to our main relegation rivals.

 

[LoopisDeLupis]

Senior Mirror journalist reporting that our vice captain and so called dressing room leader was the one pushing for a move to our main relegation rivals.

Crumbling like wet cake

 

[Blue Maniac]

Senior Mirror journalist reporting that our vice captain and so called dressing room leader was the one pushing for a move to our main relegation rivals.

I mean, can you blame the poor ****? Almost everyone around him has given up and he spends most of his time on the bench watching hopeless twats like Okoli and Faes and that old bloke from Spurs trip over each other.

 

[homer]

I mean, can you blame the poor ****? Almost everyone around him has given up and he spends most of his time on the bench watching hopeless twats like Okoli and Faes and that old bloke from Spurs trip over each other.

Too right

He sat there on the bench last week watching possibly the worst central defensive performance we have seen in decades - and the ****tard manager then puts Okoli on to try and make it better

Like Buonanotte, he probably can't possibly fathom how and why he's sat twiddling his thumbs while we fall apart week in week out

 

[Joe_Fox]

Crumbling like wet cake

I would have thought dry cake was more crumbly.

 

[big_mac4824]

Wages has been a constant issue for us though - years of having near 100% of revenue spent on wages which is just completely unsustainable for any business - our annual income has been tied up with wages alone, hence little to no transfers without selling first.

If we had managed to sell some of the players we've let go for free instead then it would have helped but the wages for shite has been crippling us for years.

Teams like us cannot afford to have numerous players on £50k a week just for turning up for training each week, it's absolute madness and there is little to no incentive for bang average players when they have been financially sorted for life in a couple of years.

Under PSR yes for the owner no, he is a multi billionaire and could probably spend far more than he is allowed to. PSR is there to keep the status quo with the current so called top 6, Newcastle, Villa face steep opposition in the form of regulation to break that threshold.

For us the points deficit ( The prem could have resolved the issue before the season commenced) hit us hard not only with recruiting a manager (potter) but more critically how do you persuade a player to join with a potential 15 points deficit hanging over the club?

Move that into January how do you recruit players to a club that face almost certain relegation and a potential points deduction if relegated?

Who decides wages, Rudkin? The chairman must surely now see that he must conduct an overhaul of his board and look to bring in fresh perspectives?

The only positive with this window is that resisted the urge to panic buy.

For me the solution to PSR is that clubs who break it are fined pound for pound spent and that is then distributed across all of the clubs who did not break it.

 

[Brown Nose]

Under PSR yes for the owner no, he is a multi billionaire and could probably spend far more than he is allowed to. PSR is there to keep the status quo with the current so called top 6, Newcastle, Villa face steep opposition in the form of regulation to break that threshold.

For us the points deficit ( The prem could have resolved the issue before the season commenced) hit us hard not only with recruiting a manager (potter) but more critically how do you persuade a player to join with a potential 15 points deficit hanging over the club?

Move that into January how do you recruit players to a club that face almost certain relegation and a potential points deduction if relegated?

Who decides wages, Rudkin? The chairman must surely now see that he must conduct an overhaul of his board and look to bring in fresh perspectives?

The only positive with this window is that resisted the urge to panic buy.

For me the solution to PSR is that clubs who break it are fined pound for pound spent and that is then distributed across all of the clubs who did not break it.

PSR is being replaced after this season.

The new rules will focus on spending limits tied to a percentage of your revenue. This aligns with UEFA rules.

It's a good job LCFC spent the last few years growing the club with stadium development and encouraging new supporters. Oh.

 

[M17TT C]

PSR is being replaced after this season.

The new rules will focus on spending limits tied to a percentage of your revenue. This aligns with UEFA rules.

It's a good job LCFC spent the last few years growing the club with stadium development and encouraging new supporters. Oh.

Hindsight and all that but spending the money on the training ground instead of the stadium expansion/development has really cost us in numerous ways.

 

[Brown Nose]

I mean, can you blame the poor ****?

Yes.

He was talking the other week about how he'd never known a togetherness anywhere like there was at City.

He's reportedly getting £100k a week to be incredibly average every time he plays.

I expect better.

 

[LoopisDeLupis]

Yes.

He was talking the other week about how he'd never known a togetherness anywhere like there was at City.

He's reportedly getting £100k a week to be incredibly average every time he plays.

I expect better.

 

[jb5000]

Hindsight and all that but spending the money on the training ground instead of the stadium expansion/development has really cost us in numerous ways.

There's every chance that I've misunderstood the PSR rules, but I think that investment into the training grounds is one of those things we can offset against other losses for PSR purposes. Likewise, funding the women's team (and especially giving them the old training ground and getting them playing at the KP) has allowed more money to be spent elsewhere. The problem is that most of that money has been wasted.

 

[Brown Nose]

There's every chance that I've misunderstood the PSR rules, but I think that investment into the training grounds is one of those things we can offset against other losses for PSR purposes. Likewise, funding the women's team (and especially giving them the old training ground and getting them playing at the KP) has allowed more money to be spent elsewhere. The problem is that most of that money has been wasted.

I think the point is that that investment doesn't help increase our revenue like improving stadium and supporter numbers would.