...will be catastrophic!
It's already clear that we have progressed little in the 4 years Rangers have been away...we should have pulled away fromand kept going!
Now I fear there may be no gap at all by the time the 2016/17 season kicks off.
Losing to them on Sunday now gives them the opportunity to win the Scottish Cup against Hibs, who, let's face it, are better at bottling it than us. If they win the Scottish Cup they then have the chance at Europa League football. This will significantly improve their signing policy, budget and quality of player they may attract this summer. Add this to the fact it is looking likely we will have a new management team settling in and we will be getting used to life without some familiar faces (Brown, Commons, Johansen, Forrest for example), I am growing increasing worried. Excited but worried.
The implications of Sunday's defeat...
posted on 19/4/16
Sorry but no.
Sales of assets (players) are part and parcel of business so they have to count.
As does the cost of buying and paying players.
You can't have one and ignore the other.
No auditor would sign off any accounts on that basis.
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posted on 19/4/16
The writing has been on the wall for some time, is my point.
posted on 19/4/16
C'mon Zachary, what with the reaction of the SFA to abuse of practices by a member club. It could never happen again.
"you tell us how to govern fc"
posted on 19/4/16
Zach
posted on 19/4/16
I meant I thought it came out as a loss but we all knew Van Dijk was off so it made it up, or was it Forster that happened with? Definitely happened at some point.
I know it's not technically running at a loss, but if we need to sell assets to balance the books then we're not exactly well run.
posted on 19/4/16
Totally agree that in an ideal situation we shouldn't need to sell players to make a profit but we are where we are in our market.
We are a stepping stone for decent to good players. We know that so it is part of our strategy. In any event, some players will outgrow us and want a move so we really do make the best of these instances.
What we need to do is reduce our wage structure and further limit what we will spend on players whilst trying to increase income revenue.
Much like Rangers have done but all we hear from many supporters is "buy better" (I agre with), and invest more (I don't agree with).
Not easy.
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posted on 19/4/16
I think more fans would readily accept it if the board came out and said where we are in terms of what we need to use the income from sponsorships, CL/EL money etc on. Rather than publicising the we got x amount of million for being in Europe and £x million for this player. Then when don't make the right signing the fans complain.
Don't think we necessarily we need to invest more either. The board need to delegate and give the next manager (or a Director of football) more control. If we didn't have a squad of like 9000 player or people like Carlton Cole on big wages we'd probably be better off financially and be able to sign better quality. A good manager would make those decisions, the board obviously can't. They've got too much influence on football matters that they know nothing about.
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