Originally Posted by
pass_and_move
I agree with most of what you've said Jules. If a player departed for a significant sum, the money should be reinvested in signings of a certain quality, hence us spending more money than we'd normally spend on new signings to improve the team.
The likelihood is that this won't happen with the owners citing day to day running costs and loss of TV revenue etc. Regardless of the incoming profit, the owners will probably spend more in line to what we spent last summer on more young low budget players, so whether we get 10m or 3m for a player isn't really going to improve the situation on the pitch.
However, as Ponte Steve has pointed art, thaz got to factor in the players ambition and ability. Personally I wouldn't begrudge a player like Woodrow a move. Why hold him back? He's done very well in a Barnsley shirt, especially this season when he's scored goals against the odds and he should be playing in the championship in my opinion. It's natural progression for the lad and his career. Listen mate I would love him here as much as the next Reds fan but we've got to appreciate that they only get one crack at a career and we apparently can't offer anywhere near the wages of the other championship clubs.
We've been told by the club in the summer that significant record breaking contract offers were made to Pinnock, Davies and Moore which were refused. Whether that is entirely true or not is debatable. I personally can't believe the stuff that comes out of their mouths. What it does tell me is that clubs budget clearly couldn't match the players ambition.
How will that ever change unless the owners are prepared to either invest their own money or use surplus transfer profits from departing players to pay the necessary wages and actually get us established at championship level.
We are operating financially as a league one club and while ever we operate like that then that's all that we'll ever be.