Rich Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 So it was all a ploy. Send DC an email because he knows it'll go out on air, say that they are working hard and deals are expected. Invite Sky to the training ground so that they can witness Ashley arriving and can place them not too far from the office they're based in so they can see Hughton etc. working from the windows. Looks like they're working hard. In reality, they couldn't give a f***. Seriously doubt that. What is there to show for it though? A failed £8m bid for Johnson and a failed £8m bid for a player that was probably worth £14m. If that email is from Ashley, he brought attention to himself and the club today deliberately and why would he do that unless he was going to have something to show for it? I don't believe those that say Ashley does what he does to sit back and laugh at us because he can, but it's starting to look more and more like he seriously couldn't care less what happened. Agree with most of that, up until the last line again. Don't think he stands to gain anything from "not caring" how we do. But like someone just said in the transfer thread, he really had the chance to win alot of people over today. He certainly would have went up in my estimations had he produced out of nowhere a couple of cracking buys/decent players to improve us further and keep us up. The fact that he didn't makes me wonder whether he actually cares about making things better. If he did, he would have at least brought one other face in. He might have tried to though, you never know. It's not Football Manager at the end of the day, deals are complicated, players are greedy, teams don't want to sell and we're hardly "in the money". I'd have loved some quality players in as much as anybody but I'd rather we didn't spend anything than brought in another Luque or a Boumsong for the money we did actually have. That would be even worse in the long run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Maybe he was working too hard trying to get unnatainable players and ran out of time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Maybe he was working too hard trying to get unnatainable players and ran out of time. On transfer deadline day you should be prepared and have a plan. There clearly was no plan, which suggests no intention. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest black n white Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 The email had to be a ploy imo. Fantastic businessman ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Conned and bumped. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Maybe he was working too hard trying to get unnatainable players and ran out of time. On transfer deadline day you should be prepared and have a plan. There clearly was no plan, which suggests no intention. The plan was to finalise the Taylor deal and bid for Johnson. There was a plan, just perhaps not the best one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 There was absolutely no reason whatsoever not to insist upon getting Johnson as part of the Given deal if we really wanted him. Stinks to high heaven, this whole thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Maybe he was working too hard trying to get unnatainable players and ran out of time. On transfer deadline day you should be prepared and have a plan. There clearly was no plan, which suggests no intention. The plan was to finalise the Taylor deal and bid for Johnson. There was a plan, just perhaps not the best one. Part of the pre-deadline day plan needed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that such a move was possible if we stumped up an affordable amount of cash. This preparation did not happen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Maybe he was working too hard trying to get unnatainable players and ran out of time. On transfer deadline day you should be prepared and have a plan. There clearly was no plan, which suggests no intention. The plan was to finalise the Taylor deal and bid for Johnson. There was a plan, just perhaps not the best one. and another £8m midfielder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thandi_45 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Can someone please provide the Transfers In/Outs since he's been in charge and also the transfer money spent. I kind of think we've been had here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Some figures haven't been officially confirmed, but an estimate would be: In: Barton - £5.8m Rozehnal - £2.9m Geremi - Free Alan Smith - £6m Cacapa - Free Enrique - £6m Faye - £2m Beye - £2m Baheng - £500k Kadar - £400k Tozer - £500k Zamblera - £300k Diatta - Free Sodeberg - £250k Jonas - £2.5m Guthrie - £2m Bassong - £1.5m Coloccini - £9.1m Ranger - Free Xisco - £5.7m Gonzalez - Loan Arestidou - Loan Lovenkrands - Free Nolan - £4m Taylor - Free £51.45m Out: Parker - £7m Dyer - £8m Huntington - £500k Solano - £1m Luque - £2.6m Pattison - £400k Carr - Free Ramage - Free Troisi - Free Diatta - Free Rozehnal - £2.9m Emre - £5m Faye - £2.25m Milner - £12m Given - £5.9m N'Zogbia - £6.5m £54.05m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Arestidou - Loan who? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Arestidou - Loan who? young lad from blackburn who came in for a few games as our u18's had a bit of a keeper crisis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thandi_45 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 so we have been had then......thought so Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Didn;t Ashley say he was going to make a statement after the transfer window closed? Cant wait for this. Something about trying to sign someone called Rooney or something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? Fair point. He's not attempting to asset strip our club. He just happens to be a woefully incompetent piece of shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? Fair point. He's not attempting to asset strip our club. He just happens to be a woefully incompetent piece of shit. I'd agree with that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? It's not.. Just a paper "loss".. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? It's not.. Just a paper "loss".. OK, Ashley is putting £20m a year in to cover wages. Better? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? It's not.. Just a paper "loss".. OK, Ashley is putting £20m a year in to cover wages. Better? Nope, we made a loss due to player amortisation. Means nothing in terms of cash flow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? It's not.. Just a paper "loss".. OK, Ashley is putting £20m a year in to cover wages. Better? Nope, we made a loss due to player amortisation. Means nothing in terms of cash flow. So our income without transfers is greater than our outgoings without transfers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisJbarnes Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 is david craig the same person as craig david? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 £3m profit for the club, Ashley must be laughing all the way to the bank! OK, I realise people are pissed off, but why has the finances thread been forgotten? The club is losing £20m a season. How exactly is Ashely pocketing cash? Don't get me confused mate, I'm with you on this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 has craig david appeared yet on ssn or what whats going on with this window, im lost Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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