Left Testy 0 Posted January 5, 2005 Lets face it we need quality or nothingWe need a striker and centre back who can help us avoid relegation and do the same next year and thereafter. If we do get relegated then these players need to have the potential and quality to get us up next year and then keep us in the Premiership.Why buy some 500k OKish player who we will need to change out later on i.e. Scowcrofts, Zamora''s etc...plus we have the additonal burden of their wages.Buy Quality Example:- "Huckerby done exactly what its says on the tin!"Buy Okish Example:- "McKenzie we now need to buy another striker!"We need a couple of others and time is not on our side.Buy Ashton 3m get relegated then sell him for 4m! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Northern Canary 0 Posted January 5, 2005 i agree. We may aswel just buy players and sell them higher at the end of the year wether we stay or go down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mcsncfcmcs 0 Posted January 5, 2005 Nice idea. But it''s completely impractical.If the idea is; "gamble now and if we go down we can sell them" then its flawed right from the start. If we NEED to sell upon relegation, then you can forget making a profit, we would make a loss on the player because every club would know we needed to get money back quick. And more to the point, if you sign someone for £3m, then that player is going to want a lucrative and relatively long contract (say 3 and a half years). If you then go down 5 months later and say "we need to sell you", the player would quite rightly turn around and want us to pay up at least half of the money remaining on his contract, as we would be breaking it. So if we gambled £3m on Ashton, and gave him a 3 and a half year deal at £10k a week, chances are we would be forced to sell for at least a £500k loss (probably more like £1m) and would be forced to pay out at least £780k to the player for the rest of his contract. And another thing people don''t think about when they talk about players like Ashton. We would hope to attract them to our club by offering them Premier League football, so they might only agree to join us if we accepted a get out clause in the contract on condition of relegation (a fee for significantly less than we paid), which would be madness for us to agree to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Left Testy 0 Posted January 6, 2005 You seem to forget parachute payments Quality players will get you back in the premier league if you go down and keep you init! We have Quality players, Green, Huckerby and Francis and I am sure we could and psossibly will sell these players if the books do not balance i.e. Green MC your thinkin is totally inline with the board and it is this kind of mentality that will always keep Norwich down. Now is the time to apply causious speculation! p.s. There are no Dragons ouside of Norfolk! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites