How good is our squad?

[RoyMac5]

5 minutes ago, Oldben said:

Warnes not actually had a transfer budget to buy players in. He's been allowed only to offer high salaries so has missed out on the best players he might have has a chance to sign for the club if a transfer budget could have been used.

Wrong. He has had a budget which he could use to pay transfers but chose not to. He's spent the budget on wages.

[Blondest Goat]

3 hours ago, CongletonRam said:

Thank you. I appreciate that. It's so difficult to start a new business in the current climate where the government is doing less and less to help new startups.

The problem with the government is they have all spent the majority of their careers in lesser roles.   Rishi Sunak?   Hasn't spent any of his career running countries before so how can you expect him to do a good job?

[Ghost of Clough]

1 hour ago, Oldben said:

Warnes not actually had a transfer budget to buy players in. He's been allowed only to offer high salaries so has missed out on the best players he might have has a chance to sign for the club if a transfer budget could have been used.

Correct... Except for the transfer budget Warne put towards wages, and the future fees we owe for Fornah, Wilson and Washington upon promotion and selling them.

[winktheram]

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

Wrong. He has had a budget which he could use to pay transfers but chose not to. He's spent the budget on wages.

Wrong, was promised 'some' money for transfers that want forthcoming.

[RoyMac5]

38 minutes ago, winktheram said:

Wrong, was promised 'some' money for transfers that want forthcoming.

Really? How did that happen then?

[Mick Brolly]

3 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Wrong. He has had a budget which he could use to pay transfers but chose not to. He's spent the budget on wages.

But if you pay high transfer fees those players would surely want high wages so it's a bit of a balancing act.

[Tamworthram]

2 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

But if you pay high transfer fees those players would surely want high wages so it's a bit of a balancing act.

Excellent point. You can’t spend the budget twice on transfer fees and wages.

[RoyMac5]

5 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Excellent point. You can’t spend the budget twice on transfer fees and wages.

Lol. No it's a choice. The poster said:

3 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Warnes not actually had a transfer budget to buy players in.

A reply came in:

1 hour ago, winktheram said:

Wrong, was promised 'some' money for transfers that want forthcoming.

 

At the Fans Forum it was clarified that we could pay transfer fees. So if we didn't that was choice.

[May Contain Nuts]

12 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Excellent point. You can’t spend the budget twice on transfer fees and wages.

As if players and agents don't use this to their advantage.

For any player with multiple options, no transfer fee = higher singing on fee and/or weekly wage.

An agent getting a club for his out of contract client? Harder work, higher fee.

Edited October 14, 2023 by Kokosnuss

[Mick Brolly]

6 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Lol. No it's a choice. The poster said:

A reply came in:

 

At the Fans Forum it was clarified that we could pay transfer fees. So if we didn't that was choice.

The point trying to be made was if we'd have paid a big transfer fee for a player who would also want high wages the hole budget would have been used up on one or two players coming in.

[RoyMac5]

10 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

The point trying to be made was if we'd have paid a big transfer fee for a player who would also want high wages the hole budget would have been used up on one or two players coming in.

And if those two players were 'game changers' rather than 'squad fillers'?

[Mick Brolly]

26 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

And if those two players were 'game changers' rather than 'squad fillers'?

Then if they got injured we'd have no squad depth , like I said it's a balancing act 

[RoyMac5]

2 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

Then if they got injured we'd have no squad depth , like I said it's a balancing act 

And like I said - the point was about us not being able to pay transfers. We could but we didn't!

[Mick Brolly]

Just now, RoyMac5 said:

And like I said - the point was about us not being able to pay transfers. We could but we didn't!

And like I said it we had this might have blown the whole budget on 1 or 2 players which might or might no have worked

[RoyMac5]

4 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

And like I said it we had this might have blown the whole budget on 1 or 2 players which might or might no have worked

Or we might have had one or two game changers as opposed to squad fillers who got inured! Like I said.

The choice was Warne's, he could have paid transfers. How that turned out is not the point.

Edited October 14, 2023 by RoyMac5

[David Graham Brown]

16 hours ago, Blondest Goat said:

The problem with the government is they have all spent the majority of their careers in lesser roles.   Rishi Sunak?   Hasn't spent any of his career running countries before so how can you expect him to do a good job?

Has anyone in government now, got the experience of “running a country “ or anyone in the past, before they become Prime Minister?

[On the Ram Page]

12 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Or we might have had one or two game changers as opposed to squad fillers who got inured! Like I said.

The choice was Warne's, he could have paid transfers. How that turned out is not the point.

So which 2 players would you have spent the money on?

[Tamworthram]

1 hour ago, David Graham Brown said:

Has anyone in government now, got the experience of “running a country “ or anyone in the past, before they become Prime Minister?

I suspect/assume it was a joke. By definition, if you're doing a job for the first time you can't have any previous experience of doing it. 

[i-Ram]

1 hour ago, On the Ram Page said:

So which 2 players would you have spent the money on?

Bellingham and Kane.

[RoyMac5]

1 hour ago, On the Ram Page said:

So which 2 players would you have spent the money on?

Probably a striker and a pacy CB (knowing Cash would likely leave and need a replacement). If you mean the exact names then I'd have to ask the recruitment team for names.