Cog bid accepted - talks tomorrow

See ya

 

It's a great idea isn't it flog all your better players who would give you the best chance of getting us back into the Championship.

BFC = Titanic = sunk

 

What don't people understand about the 60% wage cap in league 1?

 

Didnt he say Charlton was way too far to move to? Is his Geography really that poor that he doesnt know where Brighton is??

 

How many other Clubs have come down and cleared almost the full team out?

We have lost so many players now who were on Championship money to be replaced by players who if PFA figures are correct will be earning a 3rd of the average Championship salary.

This isn't about the cap I think Cryne is getting ready to dump the club and cutting his loses.

 

give it a rest, o'grady's hardly irreplaceable, i'd much rather see danny rose given his chance than keep COG on the wages he's probably earning, time to give youth a chance,

 

cleared out the incompetent!

 

Why does everyone see Danny Rose as the new Messi??? COG got goal in a gash relegated side so he would get plenty in this pub league (Ill be banned now for the Danny 'Messi' Rose remark)

 

How I Met Your Mother ending and news COG is being sold on the same day. Bad times.

 

Given we are paying about 5 players currently we should just about scrape under it.

Yeovil and Donny should have smaller budgets but haven't felt the need to dispense with pretty much all their senior professionals. At the minute we would struggle to put out a 5 a side team.

I'm usually sanguine about these things but if the COG transfer goes through.

We will have no first choice keeper, no right back, only Kennedy at left back, 1 senior midfield player and a winger, 2 forwards one with less than 10 starts in professional football and 1 we have bought as a prospect again with little experience.

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So COG is incompetent! Words fail me.

 

Yep.....that just about sums it up nicely.
No need to panic though, despite the season starting in THREE weeks, TWENTY ONE days.
We'll be reight.....all the reasoned people on here say so.

 

I think he said he'd prefer to stay up North but if the deal was good enough he would go, obviously Brighton have given him the wages he wants

 

I read it as my family would have to move with me because it's too far from our family home, would you want to bring teenagers up in a ***** hole that's ruled by tribes of kids who carry knives and quite often use them to murder other kids with ? Because I know I wouldn't, on the other hand Brighton & Hove are lovey places.

 

That was months ago!

 

The 2 bits I don't understand are:

1. I thought our budget last season was closer to L1 than Championship average so how much do we need to lose?

2. How much have all the (17?) players who left before Steele lowered our wage bill?

 

Evidently we offered out some stupid contracts, but at the time everyone wanted to see the players come in (O'Grady) and didn't want some to leave (Craine, Steele). We offered a ridiculous contract to Kennedy and one to McNulty who wasn't even played.

I'm betting that Steele, Cranie, Kennedy and O'Grady came to around 25k a week.

We lost loads of players, but none of those would have been on anywhere near the amounts they were on.

Our * budget * might have been closer to league 1, but the turnover to wage ratio rule didn't apply, so we could happily spend 80/90% of our turnover on wages without a problem, which I'm lead to believe is what we did. We had players on championship contracts that we simply can't afford to keep them on now if we are going to adhere to league 1 rules.


Unfortunately, the first time we spent a bit of money in a while Flitcroft used very, very poorly.

 

I don't think this quite answers the second point above by the time we flogged Steele we had already released 17 players. Which would probably have released 60k in wages. Even if we top slice 20% off to reduce the wage bill to conform to league one rules. You are still left with 48k. The average wage of a league 1 player is 2-3k even shopping a the top end of the market this equates to 10 players. It's this element that confuses me TBH.


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I do see what you mean now. I couldn't even guess what wages any of those were on but even if we say an average of £2k because of the youth players that were released, that's still £34k to use.

Maybe for the amount of players and the quality they will have we've needed to shift more wages?

I imagine we'd be able to get 2/3 maybe 4 decent league 1 players for what O'Grady was on.


The only other explanation I have is that Danny wants to start from scratch, which to be honest I can only see as a good thing even if it means selling/releasing our best.

 

I have no qualms about starting again but we seem to have operated a scorched earth policy. It would seem to me we should have been able to sign at least 6 senior pros in addition to the 3 we have brought in to replace the 17 that left and should be using the funds released from Steele and GOG to get 4/5 players who would be the icing on the came being top quality players at this level. To be 3 weeks before season kicks off needing to recruit 10/15 players seems absolute madness to me.

We also made long term cost savings in January by releasing several players and replacing them with only short term solutions.