Keepitreal
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- Joined
- 24 Jan 2018
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Don't hold your breath. This is a poster who exists solely to denigrate other posters. He is a sort of unguided thread killer. Every time anyone wants to have a discussion that goes beyond adulation, he kills it by taking it off subject matter and turning it into a feud. It's actually a rather effective tactic. I must remember to use it in my day-to-day job!
In answer to the question about the £4 million that came in last summer, it is precisely because of the staging of transfer fees that we received the second £1.2 million on Roofe and COD. Indeed, we are still receiving further payments on COD. We only got the first two thirds of the Marvin payment, though (according to Boro) so that is why the figure is £4 million, not £5.5 million. There is another chunk on that to come this summer.
All of which is great news, and was precisely the model that Ashton set up. Sell a player a summer, reinvest the proceeds in 4 new, better players and the team is both largely kept together and progresses. Hilariously, apparently the reason we didn't do this last summer was because the market was "over-valued".
Right. So you get £2.5 million for a joker like Marvin Johnson, and then complain that the market is over-valued and sign a bunch of crocks on free transfers whilst hiking the ticket prices. It's certainly a business strategy, for sure, but not so much a recipe for footballing success, which was the original intention of the Ashton model.
Lundinsponytail,
The issue, for me, is more about where all this income is going?. I have heard from an 'ITK' chap that there are a couple of folk within the Club lining themselves up to expose some pretty grubby financial goings on - not for detailing here for obvious reasons. Are you the old CharliesGhost and, if so do you have any insider info on this?