10-01-2016, 13:01
So basically the biggest-ever budget amounts to a small undisclosed fee and some big wages. Not impressive.
O'Neil - Saunders largely dispensed with his services after a few games, so if he was a legacy it's not one even he recognised. If he's on a big wage (which he might even be worth) what the hell did Saunders think he was a-doin of?
Herd - I'm sure he can play a bit, but we are in what must be the longest injury-freeish run of his career. He was unwanted, if we lumped into his pay packet to get him we were daft. Mr Saunders would be a worse negotiator than David Cameron.
SEB - always liked him, but Preston didn't want him, their fans thought he was overweight. I can't imagine there was a huge clamour for his services ..... but Deano knew him from Wolves. Were we in a wage-bidding war? Mind you I'm glad we got him.
Novak - the reason he's still at Birmingham is no one can match the criminal wages they agreed ....... I can believe the half and half deal. It happens a lot when one team's desperate to reduce a financial burden and the other's desperate for a striker. He's doing fine for us ..... but fine enough to cover for our manager having a zero budget? Fine enough to be worth £100,000 to the end of the season?
Angel - had barely played a first-team game in two seasons. If we paid a big wage to lure him, we should hire his agent too.
My point is that our dealings lack transparency. If we spent our budget we did it to create a team headed for relegation until Christmas Eve.
It's doing great now, but at the moment we've got O'Shea, as he has done for every new manager, playing out of his socks. Experience tells us that particular honeymoon will be over by the end of January. We may lose Morsy. Herd just IS fragile. Angel is nowhere near playing yet. Evatt's achilles sounds as though it could have been worse, but the achilles is never good and our defensive cover is Maguire and Humphreys. Is it enough? Okay if we sell Morsy that creates a small budget, but if getting another like him were easy he wouldn't be in demand.
We're asking Danny and Chris Morgan to do a lot with nothing or next to nothing. It may be true as Matt says there are no really good teams in our division, but no one's that bad either; Oldham beat us, Colchester have had a bad run, but they're not terrible, even Crewe pull out the occasional result ........ Getting relegated would be easy. Our current rate of gaining points would see us just safe, but we'd need to win more than we lose for the rest of the season to finish halfway.
O'Neil - Saunders largely dispensed with his services after a few games, so if he was a legacy it's not one even he recognised. If he's on a big wage (which he might even be worth) what the hell did Saunders think he was a-doin of?
Herd - I'm sure he can play a bit, but we are in what must be the longest injury-freeish run of his career. He was unwanted, if we lumped into his pay packet to get him we were daft. Mr Saunders would be a worse negotiator than David Cameron.
SEB - always liked him, but Preston didn't want him, their fans thought he was overweight. I can't imagine there was a huge clamour for his services ..... but Deano knew him from Wolves. Were we in a wage-bidding war? Mind you I'm glad we got him.
Novak - the reason he's still at Birmingham is no one can match the criminal wages they agreed ....... I can believe the half and half deal. It happens a lot when one team's desperate to reduce a financial burden and the other's desperate for a striker. He's doing fine for us ..... but fine enough to cover for our manager having a zero budget? Fine enough to be worth £100,000 to the end of the season?
Angel - had barely played a first-team game in two seasons. If we paid a big wage to lure him, we should hire his agent too.
My point is that our dealings lack transparency. If we spent our budget we did it to create a team headed for relegation until Christmas Eve.
It's doing great now, but at the moment we've got O'Shea, as he has done for every new manager, playing out of his socks. Experience tells us that particular honeymoon will be over by the end of January. We may lose Morsy. Herd just IS fragile. Angel is nowhere near playing yet. Evatt's achilles sounds as though it could have been worse, but the achilles is never good and our defensive cover is Maguire and Humphreys. Is it enough? Okay if we sell Morsy that creates a small budget, but if getting another like him were easy he wouldn't be in demand.
We're asking Danny and Chris Morgan to do a lot with nothing or next to nothing. It may be true as Matt says there are no really good teams in our division, but no one's that bad either; Oldham beat us, Colchester have had a bad run, but they're not terrible, even Crewe pull out the occasional result ........ Getting relegated would be easy. Our current rate of gaining points would see us just safe, but we'd need to win more than we lose for the rest of the season to finish halfway.