Magpie wrote:
The first thing that surprises me is that a single person still believes a single word that Winkelman utters. If he told me today was Monday I would check the calendar. Hes a walking talking encyclopedia of bullshit yet still some fans lap it up.
I dont doubt the odd target has gone elsewhere to play at a higher level but for my reckoning its simply amount money. As the Saudi situation demonstrates, thats all that players care about. At this level I reckon even more so. The difference between paying a player £2K or £3K per week is massive in context.
Of course its down to the balancing act of the budget. Do we bust the structure to get a 20 goal L2 proven striker or do we hedge and see what the loan market can bring.
Im not sure that we can sustain too long in L2 with the huge overhead of our stadium plus the need to invest in the training ground etc. to fund it I would imagine more and more non football activities will have to be booked in and the fan suffers again.
By December, we will know whats what and then the decisions made now will either prove good, bad or indifferent. I know where my expectatons are.
Yeah yeah, I know be grateful we have a club, Winkelman is god blah blah blah
So you would rather the club would go down the shitter based on what is quite frankly a baseless rumour that Winkelman has not given Sweeting and Alexander a playing budget. Why would MacG, Williams and Gilbey drop down a level to play for us if they were having to take a pay cut? It makes no sense. Its the same fucking bollocks every time. The babies don't get what they want (you go find me a 20 goal L2 striker who would stay in League 2 if they score 20 goals they would be higher up the totem pole and don't give me no BS you know its true before we have even talked about budgets) so they throw their dummies out the pram. I am not his biggest fan but fucking piss off with that absolute ludicrous crap. He gives what he can afford. I have already lost one club I used to support to owner greed and fan apathy and whilst I can't stop people from walking it just annoys me that every bloody summer we have the same conversation and it is boring.
The stadium is a white elephant, but again when things were mooted about closing the corners for example the people sitting there didn't want to move so what can be done? Fuck all.
The money should be invested into the training complex. We have spend 10 years getting planning permission for that. Now we have it the quicker it is finished the better in my eyes then there is no excuses.
Do be fucking grateful you have a club. Go speak to any Southend or Reading fan I bet they wish they were worrying about where their next 20 goal striker is coming from rather than if they will have a club to support week by week. It's not the money we have it's how its spent. Blame baldy for that one.