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On 21/07/2023 at 07:58, Carnero said:

Oh I'm sure this place would be a twitch free zone if we'd had their summer, losing a dozen players including Ince & Joao, replaced by Knibbs & Smith, appointing Ruben Selles as manager when we thought we were getting Wilder, with an absent Chinese owner who only seems to pay the bills sporadically and still awaiting a points deduction for late payment of wages 🙄

 

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10 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Possibly Thompson or Bardell? Be nice if it was a trialist/new signing…it’s quiet, too quiet.

I think its just the background (the bushes) making it look like he's got a beard? Pretty sure it's Thompson. Not sure the admin would put an actual full blown image of a new signing out like that by mistake.

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5 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

A legal requirement for a business to publish their finances to companies house doesn’t equate to fan entitlement. 
Regardless of that, it doesn’t justify you claiming David Clowes is lying about something when he clearly isn’t. 

What am I saying I am entitled to?

Neither of us knows if Clowes was telling the truth. He doesn’t come across in any way, shape or form of being a MM, so let me say that for sure and maybe my words were a bit too harsh, however I’m disappointed that we appear not to be making any investments into the team in the form of paying small transfer fees on the back of what his comments were. Small fees may have got us certain players such as Alfie May.

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10 hours ago, rammieib said:

I'm asking him if what he said in his interview was the truth or not. Isn't that a fair request?

 

10 hours ago, rammieib said:

If the transfer sales were going into the costs of running the club, keeping a Cat One academy and so on - then I'm absolutely fine with that - but I think it would be nice to tell us!!!

Perhaps “entitled” was strong on my part.
I’ve quoted the above points from your post from this morning, you say you’re asking if what he said in his interview was the truth or not. Earlier today I provided the quote from the interview in which Clowes stated he had set Paul Warne a budget that he (Clowes) believes is a good budget to get promotion from this league, he also added a caveat that there are no guarantees. So what potential mis-truth are you suggesting he’s said? I don’t get it. There’s nothing in what he said that’s potentially a lie, one part of it is a statement (he’s set a budget) the other part is his opinion (he thinks it’s a budget for promotion). He didn’t say “the budget is x amount” and now we’ve found out it’s not that. He didn’t say “we’ll spend hundreds of thousands on fees”. He didn’t say “we’ll spend any money raised from player sales in new transfer fees”.
Warne has in subsequent interviews explained that there is room left in the budget to sign players, and he thinks he’ll get better value by using the room left in the budget on wages rather than transfer fees. 
It is disappointing that we’re not signing players for fees, I’d love it if we’d taken a punt on Lee Bonis even though I haven’t seen him play, just that idea of buying a rough diamond and potentially turning a profit on him would be great…but the situation we’re still in as a club appears to be one of sensible restraint, either through choice or due to the business plan.
From what’s been said it seems clear to me  there is an allocated pot of money that is to be used to strengthen the squad, that pot can likely be used for transfer fees, agent fees, signing on fees, and wages. Warne and Pearce and the recruitment bloke have to work out how to get the best value from the pot of money and they’re choosing what they think is best. 
The bit I interpreted as you saying fans are entitled to know is where you said it would be nice for them to tell us what the money is being spent on. We’ll get info from supporters group forums, the accounts will show the figures when they’re released, Warne has seemingly been open and transparent in his recent interviews about the budgets…we get to know a fair bit I think. What we don’t know is how much we’ve paid out in wages to secure some of the new players, perhaps we’ve offered them good terms to secure them?

At the end of the day it’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it, I personally didn’t agree with your questioning the honesty of Clowes based on that interview as I don’t see where the lie is so tried to express that.

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30 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said:

I think its just the background (the bushes) making it look like he's got a beard? Pretty sure it's Thompson. Not sure the admin would put an actual full blown image of a new signing out like that by mistake.

I agree, I think it’s an existing player. What I do find odd, cause I’m bored and want more signings/the season to start, is the official coverage of pre-season training seems to have disappeared. Before, during and after the Spain trip we got videos and pics of them training through the clubs official channels, there’s not really been much of that this last week (the “mystery player” image being a screenshot from a player’s IG). 
It’s probably just to do with the focus on Fozzy’s testimonial taking priority, but there’s an absence in my life of Warne and Richie Barker running the players into the ground that I’d selfishly like to see more of.

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2 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I agree, I think it’s an existing player. What I do find odd, cause I’m bored and want more signings/the season to start, is the official coverage of pre-season training seems to have disappeared. Before, during and after the Spain trip we got videos and pics of them training through the clubs official channels, there’s not really been much of that this last week (the “mystery player” image being a screenshot from a player’s IG). 
It’s probably just to do with the focus on Fozzy’s testimonial taking priority, but there’s an absence in my life of Warne and Richie Barker running the players into the ground that I’d selfishly like to see more of.

I think you’re right…

…however…

…after looking at Thompson’s haircut and what boots he tends to have on in training photos I’ve decided it’s not him. I’m also wondering why no training pictures have been put up by the club…but have been by one of the youngsters? An admin might not accidentally put up a picture of a new signing but Ben Radcliffe might have!

also the more I look it the more I think it is facial hair and not a bush…

…maybe I’m just a bit bored but would love to know who it actually is! Maybe some of our forum members with a great knowledge of our academy could lend a hand?

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