wee eck, Sat 14 Feb 12:22

It`s hard to believe the previous owners authorised combined wages of £7,000 a week for two players when they froze James McPake`s recruitment budget last season.

Andrew283, Sat 14 Feb 12:13

sonofpetrie, Sat 14 Feb 09:06

GG Riva, Sat 14 Feb 07:03

"KRH and CK are costing us £7000 a week between them. Let that sink in. Neither of those players are from the new regime. It will take a while to clear the decks. This is very much a marathon and not a sprint."

I`m intrigued as to how some posters are privy to the salaries of individual players in our squad.

Genuine question. Is this information freely available in the public domain, or are these said posters friends or relatives of these players? If it’s the latter, I`d imagine the players concerned would be less than chuffed to have this information splashed on this forum.

Or perhaps it`s pure guesswork? 🤔

It`s not readily available GG. You only have to be friends with one or two of the players to know. And before everyone jumps on and says "that`s confidential" etc we all know in reality that work mates talk and people find out salaries. Is it really hard to believe that he earns around £100 an hour for a working week? I know what everyone earns at my work. I shouldn`t but I do. I also know it was a sore point for me back at the start of my tenure when I earned much less than some colleagues.

It took a long time to secure CK`s services at the start if we recall and there was a good reason for that. He was training with us for quite some time whilst his agent tried to secure him the most lucrative deal. Mcpake and McKay did this in the end but after the change in management ,even less ability to train and the obvious strict work ethic NL brings you can see why there is a bit of disharmony as a result.

The domino effect now is we are trying to secure JCM as a player and his agent is looking for MORE than CK earns. Whether we are successful in this or even want to commit to such a deal remains to be seen. These businessmen in charge are multimillionaires for a very good reason.

NL`s statements constantly reminding the fans that this will take time is not as simple as him admitting we need better players. It`s also because he wants to build a squad of players with a recognisable structure with a certain amount of parity and possibility of progression for the players.

For what it`s worth I think CK is a superb player and when we do get to see him play, and invariably score, I love it. I wish I could wave a wand that meant he didn`t have the injury issues he does.

Absolute waffle

red-star-par, Sat 14 Feb 17:02

Andrew283, Sat 14 Feb 12:13

sonofpetrie, Sat 14 Feb 09:06

GG Riva, Sat 14 Feb 07:03

"KRH and CK are costing us £7000 a week between them. Let that sink in. Neither of those players are from the new regime. It will take a while to clear the decks. This is very much a marathon and not a sprint."

I`m intrigued as to how some posters are privy to the salaries of individual players in our squad.

Genuine question. Is this information freely available in the public domain, or are these said posters friends or relatives of these players? If it’s the latter, I`d imagine the players concerned would be less than chuffed to have this information splashed on this forum.

Or perhaps it`s pure guesswork? 🤔

It`s not readily available GG. You only have to be friends with one or two of the players to know. And before everyone jumps on and says "that`s confidential" etc we all know in reality that work mates talk and people find out salaries. Is it really hard to believe that he earns around £100 an hour for a working week? I know what everyone earns at my work. I shouldn`t but I do. I also know it was a sore point for me back at the start of my tenure when I earned much less than some colleagues.

It took a long time to secure CK`s services at the start if we recall and there was a good reason for that. He was training with us for quite some time whilst his agent tried to secure him the most lucrative deal. Mcpake and McKay did this in the end but after the change in management ,even less ability to train and the obvious strict work ethic NL brings you can see why there is a bit of disharmony as a result.

The domino effect now is we are trying to secure JCM as a player and his agent is looking for MORE than CK earns. Whether we are successful in this or even want to commit to such a deal remains to be seen. These businessmen in charge are multimillionaires for a very good reason.

NL`s statements constantly reminding the fans that this will take time is not as simple as him admitting we need better players. It`s also because he wants to build a squad of players with a recognisable structure with a certain amount of parity and possibility of progression for the players.

For what it`s worth I think CK is a superb player and when we do get to see him play, and invariably score, I love it. I wish I could wave a wand that meant he didn`t have the injury issues he does.

Absolute waffle

Agreed, that`s just a load of made up nonsense in general

sonofpetrie, Sat 14 Feb 18:00

You`ve both got me. I did in fact make every single bit of that up. I am away to dry my eyes and think about my choices.

Berkey, Sun 15 Feb 08:52

What is our ambition? To be competitive in the middle of the premier league? Or to bring through youngsters and make some cash selling them on, or a little of both?

We’re very inconsistent as were a relatively young team and we’re lacking the cutting edge in some key areas. Quite feasible we’ll lose JCM in the summer and possibly Abdulai. Who knows tod might come back onto a game and leave and perhaps Fraser too.

Going to be hard to get the right players in to cover those better players leaving and continue to improve as a team. You need to unearth 2-3 gems each summer who are ready to compete in a physical hard league and make sure the experienced pro’s you have are good enough to take you further up the league.

It’s a hard one, do we continue to invest in youngsters and remain inconsistent or do we prioritise getting the quality in that takes you forward.

To get out of this league you need a core of quality players supplemented by promising youngsters and not promising youngsters supplemented by some quality players.

Berkey, Sun 15 Feb 08:52

What is our ambition? To be competitive in the middle of the premier league? Or to bring through youngsters and make some cash selling them on, or a little of both?

We’re very inconsistent as were a relatively young team and we’re lacking the cutting edge in some key areas. Quite feasible we’ll lose JCM in the summer and possibly Abdulai. Who knows tod might come back onto a game and leave and perhaps Fraser too.

Going to be hard to get the right players in to cover those better players leaving and continue to improve as a team. You need to unearth 2-3 gems each summer who are ready to compete in a physical hard league and make sure the experienced pro’s you have are good enough to take you further up the league.

It’s a hard one, do we continue to invest in youngsters and remain inconsistent or do we prioritise getting the quality in that takes you forward.

To get out of this league you need a core of quality players supplemented by promising youngsters and not promising youngsters supplemented by some quality players.

NMCmassive, Sun 15 Feb 11:34

It’s the owners first season. They’ve done works round the stadium, finally kicked out Stephen’s, brought in Neil Lennon, improved the squad and invested heavily in the scouting network.

Nobody came in for our players over the previous two summers apart from Crawley Town or some other nobody diddy team in England bidding for Otoo. We’re now concerned about loosing 3/4/5 players.

What more can the owners and club actually do? to me it looks like they’re doing their best at dealing with the off field issues and are giving the manager the best squad they can.