Teasy

Duff isn't just in poor form, he's finished, its plain to see he's desperately slow now.

"I have had some amazing support from fans, current and ex players, family and friends and I need to thank everyone for that. But I am a big man and I take responsibility for us not winning" What a tosser! mackems.gif

So then that means there is no £13m clause in his contract anymore? No it's gone, the only clubs Martins would entertain however are Arsenal or Serie A. He was going to get offered a pittance by arsenal a third of his current wage. Hey Teasy mate if you want, i'll pack in posting anything, doesn't bother me, I'll keep well and truly stum. No don't do that, I was just having a bit of a joke with that reply to Dave's post, its just that there seems to have been a massive increase in ITK'ness lately and I think the majority of it is bollocks. You might be right, its certainly not out of the question IMO that Martins is on something close to that amount if he has really signed a new contract with the clause removed.

Makes no difference what people originally paid for them. The club was worth around £110 million according to the stock market, he paid £134 million. Paying off debt will increase the potential value of the club (though not neccesarily linearly) , but so will spending loads of money on players. Fact is he's put a lot of money in, and he's already sanctioned a pretty huge bid for a player that we know of over a month before the window has even opened. Just think its bizarre to get on his back about being tight.

The price he paid everyone was well over the actual value of the shares, that's before Shepherds little bonus. Try to think before posting, I know its hard with rabbies but just try.

He's Football crazy, he's Football mad..... literally.

The full extent of the debts weren't known also not everyone wanted to sell so the price he paid for the club was over its true worth. He didn't have to pay all of the debt off either. He could easily have left debt on the club and gave that money to the manager. I suppose then he'd be a generous person..

Yeah he only put £100 million into the club in the last 12 months.. tight bastard eh

Wow that was one poor come back

Its ok, you can always just pretend like everyone else.

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He couldn't already buy a ferrari on £40,000 or whatever? Look I'm not saying your lying, but the fact is you were told this info by someone who could be. Its more believable if your saying its due to a new contract (I was confident he wasn't on anywhere near that when he joined). But I still doubt it, I didn't hear any confirmation of a new contract being signed.

He's on around the £50,000 a week mark at a guess. Not even close double it. Lad ITK with Martins says the boys on big bucks before he even steps on the pitch, and more so if he plays well. Smith needs chopping I'd reduce Duka's wage give him a goal bonus. Duff is on stupid money as well probably. You're trying to tell us Martins is on £100,000 per week? This ITK crap is starting to get out of hand, its turning into a Spuds forum..

So the times article that apparently backs you up is wrong is it?

People don't believe it because there's no evidence what so ever to back it up. Being a negative story isn't a good enough reason to believe something, as much as that might fly in the face of some people's logic on here. I mean, we're supposed to believe that Keegan agreed to be manager knowing the apparent direction the club was taking. He'd been told that Wise, Vetere ect were coming in, that they would all have to agree on transfers and that they would not spend big money on older players. So he agree's but thinks "Nah don't worry, as soon as I'm manager I'll just convince them to go back on it all, plus I'll convince Thiery Henry to sign for us, along with four or five others players and all for £20 million ".. FFS this is what passes for believably on this forum?

He's also mad if he thinks that a club sets a transfer kitty based on only the money that leaves the clubs account in that period of time. If you have a transfer budget of £20 and you buy a player in a £18 million deal paying £6.5 million a year you still only have £2 million left in that budget.

For the millionth time the Modric deal was going to be paid as £6.5 million over three years. It's likely that most of our deals will be done this way from now on. From now on?, loads of deals have been done like that. It makes no difference though, once you agree to a deal for £18 million you've paid that £18 million no matter how much is paid up front.. That total amount comes out of the transfer kitty. Or are you seriously trying to tell me that when they say we have £20 million to spend they only mean based on initial payments? If that was the case, and it isn't because its insane, then our transfer kitty could absolutely anything from £20 up to £100 or more..

Oh common, our budget is £20 million but we're willing to bid £18 million for one player.... yet the directors want a list of young players. Were they planning on signing the likes of Gomis and Turan for £2 million? mackems.gif It doesn't take much logical thinking to dispel the s*** from the papers, think about it a bit more FFS.

Someone really saw you coming Baggio..

Exactly.

Keegan refuses to ok a deal for Turan and Gomis because he wants Kapo and Crouch instead.. ok, you just lost any belief I had in your story mate mackems.gif

Why would he? It makes absolutely no sense to sell.. Because the club isn't worth anywhere near that so he'd be happy with his £60 million profit for 12 months work? Everything's got a price. What's he going to do with that £300 million? Go and buy a different club and start all over again so he can add £60 million to billions he already has? This bloke bets that kind of money on the stock market, he isn't going to cancel out everything he's been trying to achieve over the last 12 months just as its really beginning for £60 million.. He's a business man and his main interest is making money, if he was the big fan and was interested in running the club as a hobby then he'd have pumped more of his money into the club on transfers rather than setting it up to run as a business, the fact that he hasn't suggests to me that he doesn't see it as a hobby at all. That doesn't mean he doesn't want to make us successful because by doing so he'll increase the value of the club, I don't think he's actively looking to sell either but if he had the chance to make a 20% profit then I think he would sell and tbh it wouldn't bother me either as whoever owns the club will want whats best for it and that is success. Just because he's not willing to do an abramovich that doesn't mean he's in it for the money. It just means he's not willing to make huge losses to achieve what he wants. No billionaire in his right mind buys a Football club to make money, they can make more in a reasonable low risk investment that they don't even have to be personally involved in. Its pretty clear to me that Ashley is in this to achieve something. I can't see him saying "Ah well never mind, back to Sports Direct" because someone offers him a small profit.

Why would he? It makes absolutely no sense to sell.. Because the club isn't worth anywhere near that so he'd be happy with his £60 million profit for 12 months work? Everything's got a price. What's he going to do with that £300 million? Go and buy a different club and start all over again so he can add £60 million to billions he already has? This bloke bets that kind of money on the stock market, he isn't going to cancel out everything he's been trying to achieve over the last 12 months just as its really beginning for £60 million..

Why would he? It makes absolutely no sense to sell.. Billionaires don't buy Football clubs to make money, its a terrible investment, they buy them to achieve status, glory or because they just love Football.

Oh dear, here he goes again..