Taking the Positives, The costs of a free speech

Premandup

🙄 AshleyI have listened to the Mike Ashley’s speech whilst Toonsy has reacted to it on a general level I’d like to pick up on the financial implications.

First off he said that we can now punch above our weight. Well historically we have been back in the pack, best of the rest along with Villa, Sunderland & Everton. There has recently been a 50% gap up to spurs recently. And then to Liverpool with over twice the revenue of ourselves before the big jump up to the big 4. The other thing to consider is that with the new TV deals the revenues each club has is not clear, or more accurately I haven’t done the research. Also does FFP still apply or can he work on the assumption that by the time any sanctions would be applied in three years time the rules will have changed. So what does punching above our weight actually mean. Well closing the gap on Spurs would do that, and Spurs Had a wage bill of £100m in the 2014 season (we spent £78m). Given the new deals I can assume that is going up for the 2016 season. So lets assume that we are going to increase expenditure on the footballing side by say 100%. Lets say that we are going to spend £150m on the squad, and assume that that is an increase of £75m. We will let our increased TV revenues just cover that. Our Turnover was about £130m. We had £35m in Cash, and I see no sign that we have spent it so let’s be gung ho, but reasonable. This is Mike we are talking about.

He said win something, and which like Wenger before him includes coming 4th in the EPL. Now I don’t see tripling squad expenditure to challenge for top 4 as an equal as being a target. Arsenal, Cheapskates of the top 4 had a turnover of £300m and a wage bill of over £165m. I think it’s more if we get lucky, and others have bad years sort of thing.

He said that he won’t be choosing the manager he will be leaving that to Lee Charnley and the football borad, so Lee’s job is safe. But since he did not say anything about John Carver I can assume that he is gone.

He also said that he will provide the maximum available resources but expects the boad to get the best pound for pound value from them. So I don’t think he is going to throw money at the problem big time.

So if we did start to punch above our weight I’m going to assume that we have £35m in Cash with an additional £10m from player sales to spend on transfer fees, and that we are looking to increase our wage bill by £75mpa. This will stretch our finances but not break them.

First up and most important we need a top manager. What will that cost. Looking at the salaries of the top earning EPL managers, Rogers on £3.25m, Pellegrini on £3.5m then Wenger, LVG & Mourinho on £6-10m. So we need to match that and spend maybe £5m to get a top man. Obviously we would like Kloop, Anchelotti or Rafa, but would settle for Moyes. Personally I would go for Bielsa, Emery or Garcia if they were available. Maybe Frank de Boer. Or Bert VanMarwijk. We need to build.

Assuming we do the right thing and ditch the 1st team coaching squad I would like to use some explayers to get a bit more experience and balls into the club. I would bring Ketsbia in as an assistant manager and give Jonas a coaching role. Build to the future. So the staff would be another £5m. However FTSOTB – YCMIU. This would still leave thick end of £65m for Players wages.

Players. Well top players cost money. A top player, a purple to use the venacular, would cost at least £15m in fees so that 3. However, at £100k pw a player costs £5m per year each. So that is £15m of the wage bill gone. We still have £50m to go so we could get 10 free’s however they still require a signing fee which we would have to put through increased wages but still we are likely to be restricted by the quality out there more than the finances.

So 3 top signings and cover wherever we need it. So where do we need it?

GK we are fine although Alnwick is out of Contract.

Defence is the problem but only Raylor, Streete and Satka are out of contract. Our 3 main centrebacks all starting the final year of their contracts So we need to start again basically. We need a CB as one of our Big Three. If we could get Micah Richards on a free as well that would do it for this year. However, he may be on massive wages from his time at Citeh. Actually this is one area where McLaren would not be too bad a shout, he can organise a defence.

Midfield we are losing Jonas & Sammi. But have the Rangers Loanees and Marveaux back. Bit more width and creativity would not go amiss. Again we have been linked with Ayew amongst many others.

Up front we need to find real goalscorers. Ayoze looks good and Cisse can score on his day but we need a 20 per year man. I see Luuk de Jong got that this season. Funny that. There is a 20 year old Latvian Vladislavs Gutkovskis who got 28 this year. Would only cost £½ m. Worth a shout.

Anyway enough fantasy, my point is that spending the money on a top coach is not that expensive and we have enough talent in the squad if properly motivated and used. A few for the first team and a couple on the bench should do it. We can afford it.

Who knows things may be looking up.

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281 thoughts on “Taking the Positives, The costs of a free speech”

  1. CC that’s one of the reason he will not want Carver and company he like his own staff

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  2. ICEDOG
    would not mind a defensive coach meself cause we aint got a clue how to defend just go and look back over the season and look at how many goals weve gave away

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  6. I don’t know what Carver has on them, If you remember when Pardew first got the job JC was put on a short term contract to see if they could work together… :roll

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  7. I already feel sorry for who ever the new manager is… on a hiding to nothing! Poor *******!

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  8. Even golden boy Pardew who got away with murder here wasn’t allowed to choose his own staff

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  9. ICEDOG
    would hire a defensive coach meself build the defence once thats done ya can get rid of him and bring in an attacking coach just needs to be told to leave the defence alone

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  10. The coaching staff have to be torn out, root and branch. There cannot be any remainder. Whatever Charnley and Carr are thinking they should have a rethink and just discard Carver when he is on holiday. The man is a fool and will bring this club to its knees.

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  11. you would not build ya house of crapy foundations and thats mainly our trouble the defence is the teams foundations and weve allways had a **** defence for as long as i can rember,ya can bring in this attacker or that attacker but if the teams foundations aint right its just ganna keep on falling down

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  12. TAE: your analogy is correct and it should extend to the coaching staff. Root and branch, they should all go. They have shown they have no clue so it is time for change.

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  13. Eric that a bit harsh on Carver and his coaching staff mate. You should get on your hands and knees and be begging Carver to stay on.

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  15. So: a season ending assessment of the coaching staff:

    Carver: was in charge of the attack under Pardew. Hoofed it to Williamson on every free kick and corner. Won 3 of 20 when given the manager’s job.

    Stone: what did he ever do exactly? I am waiting… as Troysta would say.

    Watson: every free kick and corner from the opposition was like an accident waiting to happen.

    Woodman: Jak Alnwick!!! Where did Elliot go??? And who decided Krul should be taking free kicks when he can never knock it to one of our players from a simple backpass – never, it always goes to the other team.

    Beardsley: we all have a soft spot for him so maybe he is the weed that should be left in the garden, MAYBE?

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  16. we need coachs that can get there point across to the players cause from the outside looking in it seems thats not happening to me

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  17. as for hoofing the ball looking for williamson every free kick we must be so easy to defend against at free kicks the other teams must be laughing,how long we been doing that 1 2 or 3 years now lol tells me theres a lack of ideas amonst our coachs

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  18. I’m only joking about Carver and his coaching staff and begging him to stay. I really can’t see much changing in that department.

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  19. Our coaching staff have not got a clue even the basic how to play a dead ball ffs when was the last time we scored from a free kick or a corner a bloody long time,most teams will score 12/15 goals a season from dead/corners,how do these guys get their coaching badges,if they have one like

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  20. i wish they would just get appointing a new coach over & done with.

    someone that…

    comes cheap.
    won’t rock the boat.
    will kiss goodbye to their dignity.
    will be ashley’s mouthpiece.
    etc etc etc.

    – the brolly man is the perfect fit/***.

    i can’t see past the – confirmed failure – getting anything less than a 5 year deal.

    same **** – different yes man.

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  22. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< could prob come up with more ideas of things to try than all our coachs put together lol and thats very sad when i think that lmao

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  23. Stem @168: I know that mate. Because, as we assess the past 5 months we know it was an unmitigated disaster, Jonas aside, and the fact that we narrowly avoided relegation aside.

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  24. Let’s also say Laudrup comes in, and Charnley and Carr say: “here is Jonny C, deal with it. He has experience from playing for Whitley Bay and Gateshead and won 3 out of 20 this year. He does have a coaching badge though and seems to talk to Alan Pardew and just about every other coach in the league on a daily basis (not that that shows any insecurity, like 🙂 ). He doesn’t watch football and prefers golf and cricket.”

    Hmmm. I think Laudrup might need assurances that he can sack Jonny C.

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  25. John Carver’s CV to be submitted to incoming manager:

    * Won 3 out of 20 in 2015.

    * Played for Whitley Bay and Gateshead.

    * devised the cunning plan of hoofing it to Williamson on every set play. Success rate 0.1%.

    * Never realised the other Managers had figured out the cunning plan and were ready to counter-attack.

    * Sacked by every team he worked for except NUFC.

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  26. And some people say I am boring about Carvs. But, I say NO. He should be hounded out of town for being absolutely useless. He is the definition of the current regime’s ineptness, the culmination of the Ashley, Llambias, Charnley no-football-sense stupidity.

    True NUFC die hards like Stuart and Troy have given up their season tickets FFS. They deserve better, I deserve better, we all deserve better.

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  27. It’s all very quiet on the NUFC front. Non of the journo’s are doing much on Twitter and Chron haven’t had their usual Q&A

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  28. the only positives for me this season was janmatt colback and perez and cisse should also get a meantion for his goals,still say hes a 20 goal a season striker only prob is hes spent to much time out though his injury and surspended

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  30. the other prob we have is wimps like taylor play a couple of games a season spend the rest of the season with there feet up been doing that for years now time to get rid of wimps like him

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  31. wish i could pick up his wages and have 11 and a half months off a year

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  32. when the clown is on the field, trys to cause crimnal damage to the goal frame

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  34. shearer was asked on motd the other week which out of ings and austin would he want and shearer said ings

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  35. Can’t blame Ings if those are his choices. Id go to Spurs if I was him. He and Kane would form one hell of a partnership and have a good shot of breaking into the top 4.

    TAE. A little harsh on Tayls, no? It seems his injuries aren’t exactly the ones you can play through. He’s brittle as glass mind

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  37. MDS
    whats harsh is us being stuck with a wimp that has 11 and a half months of the year off meaning when ya cb are playing **** ya cant change it cause hes sat as always with his feet up,how much is he on a week ?most expensive cheer leader in the prem

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  39. just had a message from a bud in america says putin made a statement saying that the fbi only jumped on fifa cause they want to nick the world cup from the russians lol whats that putin on

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  41. Putin is just crapping himself that everyone will find out they bought the WC. Just a shambles. Makes NUFC look like the best ran club on earth.

    Blatter just goes on like nothings happened.

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  42. Especially considering the FBI started their investigation before Russia was awarded the WC.

    I personally think the U.S. government had no clue how corrupt FIFA really was until Qatar got the WC

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  44. Putin just sees it as a chance to throw stones at the US, Plus he knows his country and he are about as popular as a dose of crabs right now.

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  45. Really hoping that someone turns on Sepp and drops him right in the ****. That weasel has a face that really wants slapping.

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  46. Don’t know how you can have a WC in a country in the middle of a civil war anyhow ❓

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  49. TAE, Aye mate, and didn’t they say their was corruption in the last election of him? If so then he should be told to step down right away anyway.

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  50. the trouble with fifa is they got away with it for so long they thought they were untouchable

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  52. yeah they thought the last time he was voted in there was corruption in the voteing and the european fas have certainly had enough of his antics

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  53. Apparently not as Teflon as they thought 😆

    Ice, Hope they choke on their canapés mate. 👿

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  55. that blatter will be saying next its just a smear campaign by the british and america press and the fbi lol

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  59. <<<<<<<<<<< also thinks fifa could of fixed the odd game or 2 as well, it would be easy to bride the ref and linesman if they came from little poor countrys, so do be surprised if its comes out him and his chums have had a betting scam going

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  60. Non-Americans probably don’t realize how rare it is to have the Attorney General, FBI Director, IRS Director, and US Attorney all at the same press conference to announce charges. In all seriousness, the last time might have been when they indicted Al Capone.

    Not exactly a good sign for Blatter and FIFA

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  61. people would pay a lot of money if they knew what the result was ganna be and making big bets

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  64. the chinese beting rings would pay huge amounts of money for that sort of info to name but 1 of the top of me head

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  65. So Big Sam tells scum thanks but no thanks
    Klopp says he would take L/Pool post if asked

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  66. Ice ,That doesn’t surprise me, they have to be the better bet out of the likes of us and West Ham and Scum

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  68. think some peeps are ganna be very shock when they see how deep this fbi investigate really gos theres ganna be loads more arrests

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  69. Ice, If they shorten those sentences with info on Blatter they won’t hesitate. 😈

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  72. i know fifa pick the officals for the world cup do they also pick them for champs league games ?

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  75. So toon have moved up the date of season tickets renewal to 10th June,funny that like

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