What will be the effect of sacking Neil?

[pete 318]

Like most of you I have been advocating sacking Neil because he is simply a poor manager. Hasn''t ever recognised his best team, cannot motivate the players, rubbish tactics and poor substitutions. Little to commend his continued employment.

But AGM told us there is a projected loss for 2016/7 as £12m. Sacking Neil and dismissing Frank will cost 18 months compo. If say £1m salary that is £3m probably more. New manager £1m a year a conservative estimate. Maybe new backroom team Assistant Manager and a coach another £2m. Altogether at least £6m to add onto the £12m.

With this and some costly additions in January the projected loss will be the greater figure. Maybe breaching FFP and an added fine. If there is anything our Board understand even if its not football is the sacred debt free mantra. With these losses in two seasons without PL money we will be in a worse financial state than when fell into Div 1.

So expect to see Neil being here for the long haul and receives continued support from the Board.

[FenwayFrank 2,457]

Great maths Pete

[The Butler 0]

With maths like that you could not subtract a fart from a plate of beans!

So if AN goes and we pay compo we are then adding a new managesr salary?

Are we not paying AN and his assistant now then. Would we not have allowed for their salaries?

Complain by all means but please get it right.

[Yorkshire Canary 118]

This is always the dilemma as mistakes in management and signings are a quick way to lose a lot of money. Norwich are a mid range club that have had difficult times in the past then the 3 seasons in the PL put us on a very good footing.Relegation and poor transfer activity is a double whammy and is a triple Whammy when you have to pay off a manager and backroom staff. It has not happened yet but is only a matter of time. January is a key month.That is the only time we can have an attempt at improving the playing staff this season. If AN is still here they have to back him but does anyone believe he will spend the money well. If a new manager is in then he has to be backed. I suspect the piggy bank is pretty low now and who can we realistically sell to bring in any decent cash other than the youngsters that we are desperate to hang on to. If we gamble and spend money we have not got then fine if we go up but if we do not next season would be very very difficult no matter who is in charge. IMO if AN is in charge i would not spend a penny unless he can move on some of the expensive flops. If we have a new many at the helm we need to back him to a certain extent over and above player sales if we have a decent chance of the play offs

[Baywing 0]

The question is can we afford not to sack him ?

After all the riches are all in the promised land and failure to achieve promotion this year could see balancing the books in the championship very difficult to achieve ?

[morty 0]

Sounds like the penny is finally dropping, for a few people...

[It's Character Forming 1,160]

[quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]This is always the dilemma as mistakes in management and signings are a quick way to lose a lot of money. Norwich are a mid range club that have had difficult times in the past then the 3 seasons in the PL put us on a very good footing.Relegation and poor transfer activity is a double whammy and is a triple Whammy when you have to pay off a manager and backroom staff. It has not happened yet but is only a matter of time. January is a key month.That is the only time we can have an attempt at improving the playing staff this season. If AN is still here they have to back him but does anyone believe he will spend the money well. If a new manager is in then he has to be backed. I suspect the piggy bank is pretty low now and who can we realistically sell to bring in any decent cash other than the youngsters that we are desperate to hang on to. If we gamble and spend money we have not got then fine if we go up but if we do not next season would be very very difficult no matter who is in charge. IMO if AN is in charge i would not spend a penny unless he can move on some of the expensive flops. If we have a new many at the helm we need to back him to a certain extent over and above player sales if we have a decent chance of the play offs[/quote]

 

Keeping the manager and not giving him money to spend in January was basically the approach we tried with Hughton in his final season.  Like they say, history repeats, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

 

I also have no faith in AN''s ability to spend money wisely.  His signings have failed to make much of an impact. Klose looked the best of them but has now been dropped.  I don''t think the problem is a lack of playing ability on the pitch.

 

Yes there would be a cost to sacking AN, and there is a risk whenever you change the manager - we particularly need to avoid a replacement on the cheap such as Adams etc.  But given we''re in free-fall under the current manager, you''ve got to at least have a bash.  At the moment we''ll do well to even make the playoffs.

[93vintage 16]

We''re at a bit of a crossroads on many fronts. If we''re too far away from the top two then the board ought to decide to cut their losses and begin offloading when the window opens. They arguably ought to have done this in May, but didn''t.The ''gamble, gamble, gamble'' mantra of the AGM indicates that the board will throw the kitchen sink at getting promoted come what may.

[Jools 584]

[quote user="pete"]Like most of you I have been advocating sacking Neil because he is simply a poor manager. Hasn''t ever recognised his best team, cannot motivate the players, rubbish tactics and poor substitutions. Little to commend his continued employment.

But AGM told us there is a projected loss for 2016/7 as £12m. Sacking Neil and dismissing Frank will cost 18 months compo. If say £1m salary that is £3m probably more. New manager £1m a year a conservative estimate. Maybe new backroom team Assistant Manager and a coach another £2m. Altogether at least £6m to add onto the £12m.

With this and some costly additions in January the projected loss will be the greater figure. Maybe breaching FFP and an added fine. If there is anything our Board understand even if its not football is the sacred debt free mantra. With these losses in two seasons without PL money we will be in a worse financial state than when fell into Div 1.

So expect to see Neil being here for the long haul and receives continued support from the Board.[/quote]Neil & co resigning would cost us much less in the form of compensation and the current squad doesn''t need additions - so quids in for the only recruitment required, which is that of a new manager & coaching staff who have clearly f*cked up where the players are concerned.Question is, will Mekon and his couple of Treens do the honorable thing and head back to the northern hemisphere in order to make way for our very own Dan Dare?Or will he remain arch-enemy and render us below mid-table by the end of the season before he finally decides that getting the mighty Hamilton Academical''s out of the Scottish 2nd Division in 2017 really is his forte?