Why the hell is an offer of £4mill for Earnie too much to resist?

[The Fish Seller 0]

For gods sakes we paid £3.5 mill for him less than a year ago so an extra £500,000 hardly represents much of a profit once all the agents fees etc are factored in does it?

No! Yet again the club are looking to recycle last years investment cash rather than inject new money, this will give some of the more gullible followers of NCFC the impression that we are rebuilding a team, the impression that money is being made available for new blood, the impression that the board are on our side and on the ball!

This is a nonsense! At the first sign of trouble we have cashed in every player of value in the last two or three years, creamed off a percentage, spent some of what''s left..... It''s been a gradual downgrading of the squad since the Prem year. We proudly announced a £6,250,000 profit on players over this period. I put it to you that if that money had been reinvested in the squad we would not be in the ridiculously low position we currently hold. Our squad value would be approx £12-14million, okay we''d not have made a comfy £2.5mill profit for the shareholders (read M+D) and would have short term debts of £4mill+ but a £14 million squad should and would be capable of getting automatic promotion from this poor league and any shortfall would be instantly wiped out with the Prem money.

Yet again our board have bottled it, they want to recoup any investment at the first hint of trouble. They''re patently not in it for the long rollercoaster ride that is football but for what they can get out of it.

If they''d done their job properly we could have been fielding a team including Earnie, Hux, Croft, Safri,etc.  and another £6 million pounds worth of talent for Southend. You''d expect to obliterate these teams under those circumstances, instead we scrape an away draw and I dont feel particularly confident about today, a narrow win is the most to hope for.

I feel cheated, there never was any ambition!!!!

[GMF 1,010]

[quote user="Ralph Wrong"]

For gods sakes we paid £3.5 mill for him less than a year ago so an extra £500,000 hardly represents much of a profit once all the agents fees etc are factored in does it?

No! Yet again the club are looking to recycle last years investment cash rather than inject new money, this will give some of the more gullible followers of NCFC the impression that we are rebuilding a team, the impression that money is being made available for new blood, the impression that the board are on our side and on the ball!

This is a nonsense! At the first sign of trouble we have cashed in every player of value in the last two or three years, creamed off a percentage, spent some of what''s left..... It''s been a gradual downgrading of the squad since the Prem year. We proudly announced a £6,250,000 profit on players over this period. I put it to you that if that money had been reinvested in the squad we would not be in the ridiculously low position we currently hold. Our squad value would be approx £12-14million, okay we''d not have made a comfy £2.5mill profit for the shareholders (read M+D) and would have short term debts of £4mill+ but a £14 million squad should and would be capable of getting automatic promotion from this poor league and any shortfall would be instantly wiped out with the Prem money.

Yet again our board have bottled it, they want to recoup any investment at the first hint of trouble. They''re patently not in it for the long rollercoaster ride that is football but for what they can get out of it.

If they''d done their job properly we could have been fielding a team including Earnie, Hux, Croft, Safri,etc.  and another £6 million pounds worth of talent for Southend. You''d expect to obliterate these teams under those circumstances, instead we scrape an away draw and I dont feel particularly confident about today, a narrow win is the most to hope for.

I feel cheated, there never was any ambition!!!!

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What complete nonsense, player power is everything these days. If Earnie wants to stay he will, if he wants to go, he will. End of.

[7rew 0]

Only the pink''un has said that it may be too much to resist.

27p and the best pie in the world may be too much to resist for some people - Paul McVeigh?

Grant and the board have made no comment on this.

Surely 4mil is pompys opening position for negotiation, not the top the are prepared to pay for him.

This story only reflects the ambitions of Harry Redknapp.

[The Fish Seller 0]

[quote user="GazzaTCC"] What complete nonsense, player power is everything these days. If Earnie wants to stay he will, if he wants to go, he will. End of.[/quote]

Que sera sera! A typically fatalistic answer, is there nobody left in this Country who can accept responsibility still? Never anybodys fault these days is it? So who employed the Lawyers who ratified the deal and agreed the price on the get-out clause then?

[carpio 0]

[quote user="Ralph Wrong"]

For gods sakes we paid £3.5 mill for him less than a year ago so an extra £500,000 hardly represents much of a profit once all the agents fees etc are factored in does it?

No! Yet again the club are looking to recycle last years investment cash rather than inject new money, this will give some of the more gullible followers of NCFC the impression that we are rebuilding a team, the impression that money is being made available for new blood, the impression that the board are on our side and on the ball!

This is a nonsense! At the first sign of trouble we have cashed in every player of value in the last two or three years, creamed off a percentage, spent some of what''s left..... It''s been a gradual downgrading of the squad since the Prem year. We proudly announced a £6,250,000 profit on players over this period. I put it to you that if that money had been reinvested in the squad we would not be in the ridiculously low position we currently hold. Our squad value would be approx £12-14million, okay we''d not have made a comfy £2.5mill profit for the shareholders (read M+D) and would have short term debts of £4mill+ but a £14 million squad should and would be capable of getting automatic promotion from this poor league and any shortfall would be instantly wiped out with the Prem money.

Yet again our board have bottled it, they want to recoup any investment at the first hint of trouble. They''re patently not in it for the long rollercoaster ride that is football but for what they can get out of it.

If they''d done their job properly we could have been fielding a team including Earnie, Hux, Croft, Safri,etc.  and another £6 million pounds worth of talent for Southend. You''d expect to obliterate these teams under those circumstances, instead we scrape an away draw and I dont feel particularly confident about today, a narrow win is the most to hope for.

I feel cheated, there never was any ambition!!!!

[/quote] So , Its not just paper talk then?  Portsmouth and NCFC have agreed a £4 mil fee and the player is on his way? Of course not! but hey lets not let the facts get in the way of an oportunity to have a go at the board!! Why not wait and see what happens in January instead of treating a tabloid story as fact!!

[The Fish Seller 0]

So we''re going to be the only club in this league looking to strengthen the team in January are we? This wait ''til January stock quote is getting rather boring, and it sounds to me like you''re pinning an awful lot of hope on an outsider bet. It''s several years since a transfer period left us with a stronger team than when we entered it.  If we''re still crap in January then what? More excuses no doubt...... Cue the "It''s not PG''s team ''til 2-3-4-5 transfer periods have passed" type quotes. We got nothing but excuses for months that turned into years under the last regime, excuses, excuses it''s always excuses these days at Carrow rd, fact is our board cash in every time, check the transfer details since the prem, if Earnie wants to stay they might still flog him, if he wants to go it''s bye bye anyway, doesn''t auger well. Sometimes 2 and 2 really does add up to 4 just some people get to the answer a bit quicker than others....

 

[GMF 1,010]

[quote user="Ralph Wrong"]

[quote user="GazzaTCC"] What complete nonsense, player power is everything these days. If Earnie wants to stay he will, if he wants to go, he will. End of.[/quote]

Que sera sera! A typically fatalistic answer, is there nobody left in this Country who can accept responsibility still? Never anybodys fault these days is it? So who employed the Lawyers who ratified the deal and agreed the price on the get-out clause then?

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I didn''t say it wasn''t anybody''s fault, I said if Earnie wants to go, he will. With all due respect, there''s a difference.

[hogesar 10,770]

Ralph, despite your anger, its just a story.

We havent heard what Grant or the board feel of this. They havent accepted it? So why go on to say how could they, when you dont know if they will.

Jebus..

[The Fish Seller 0]

[quote user="hogesar"]

Ralph, despite your anger, its just a story.

We havent heard what Grant or the board feel of this. They havent accepted it? So why go on to say how could they, when you dont know if they will.

Jebus..

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Ask me on the first of Feb and I''ll tell you exactly why. Enjoy Earnire whilst you can everyone..........

[The Fish Seller 0]

[quote user="hogesar"]

Ralph, despite your anger, its just a story.

We havent heard what Grant or the board feel of this. They havent accepted it? So why go on to say how could they, when you dont know if they will.

Jebus..

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Ask me on the first of Feb and I''ll tell you exactly why. Enjoy Earnie whilst you can everyone..........