WellDon wrote:
keyser soze wrote:
WellDon wrote:
Gravel Path to Martti wrote:
WellDon wrote:
I’ve heard the talk about contractual obligations regarding Marschall and that has to be bollocks, how a club could sign a player with clauses that say the said player must play if fully fit is ridiculous, and if it really is the case, Sweeting, Williamson, and Winkie have lost the bloody plot. I’m sorry I just don’t believe we could be that bloody stupid, even though as I’m typing this, I am doubting myself, as I know this club is no stranger to being bloody stupid….we visit it on a regular basis.
When we loaned Shaun Cummings from Chelsea, I'm almost certain there was an agreement in place where if he played that week then Chelsea paid his wages, if he didn't play when fit then we paid the wages.
If that’s the case, we are gambling on the clubs future based on a few grand in players wages, that is very poor in my eyes……but I’m not shocked.
If that's true. then playing him was likely a Board led decision, not a Head Coach one. If so, I'd be fuming if I was MW...
What he said…..that’s not a clever way to run a club.
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Might be true. Though WellDon's meltdown also initially came to the conclusion that Williamson was picking him because he was 'his signing', and that he wanted to give him another chance to come good. Which also might be true. And which is not a clever way to manage team selection. And I'd be fuming
at MW if that's true. Shit decision either way, whoever made it. As was signing him in the first place - which is definitely on MW.[/quote]
I was thinking yesterday how much the situation reminded of Shaun Cummings. That got to a really toxic point eventually. I can't remember the away game, but he was pretty much being booed by our own fans, with a lot of 'F-off back to Chelsea' shouts. He ended up having a run in the Championship with Reading and Millwall, although finished his career with just 172 games.
I can't remember what alternative players we had at the time, but I still struggle to believe the club would put themselves in a position where there would be significant financial implication for not playing a player.
I don't doubt that that we pay a percentage of Marschall's wages, which may be higher if he doesn't feature (or the other way round) but surely not enough to jeopardise the success of the club?[/quote]
A quick Google tells me that we'd earn an extra £200k from the EFL (on average) for being in L1 rather than L2. We averaged about 2k more home fans in L1 last season which could be approx. £15 average per person (£690k over a season).
Even if we pay all of FM's £4.3k wages per week and a small loan fee, that comes to around £100k.
We are risking almost £900k to save £100k. Imagine doing that at work and keeping your job!