AH broken his silence with the Post to say the deal should be done on Wednesday
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AH broken his silence with the Post to say the deal should be done on Wednesday
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Maybe he meant in 7-10 Wednesdays, or in the coming Wednesdays.
Joking apart, that's some good news (if it happens).
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Staff are due to be paid this Friday, having not received any salaries since the end of May after the club failed to deposit June salaries into their accounts.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport...-notts-3120281
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I wonder who will pay Julys salary next week?Originally Posted by Oldstripy
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If this video about Football Radar is anything to go by, then Neal Ardley should soon have the best scouting network in the world at his disposal. Probably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20tYwN-nECI
Last edited by jackal2; 22-07-2019 at 12:13 PM.
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That's an interesting video.
If they set up a dedicated number of people to look for players for us it could be very interesting, though Ardley should have the last say on which players are signed.
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The only business model I can ever see working for Notts County is to spot and sign hitherto undetected talent for little or no cost on modest wages, and then sell them on at considerable profit, with further sell-on clauses attached, in the way Barry Fry does at Peterborough. I think this was what Alan Hardy actually had in mind when he told Nolan to dispense with the golden oldies and bring in more young players who could be sold on, but whoever was picking the players didn't have a clue. Noor Husin for Christ's sake!
You would think that the expertise available at Football Radar would give us the maximum chance of spotting that talent anywhere in the world, and would also give us superior data with which to monitor and develop the players we've got, including more coming through from the youth team, again on relatively small wages.
As far as I'm aware, the Danes won't be arriving with huge amounts of money to throw at us, so maybe this is the model they have in mind, and they are buying Notts County as a laboratory for this experiment. If that's the case, then good luck to them, because it sounds like a more sustainable way of existing than we've seen in recent years. The big task will be to get the fans to buy into the patience and time required to make this approach work. Such a culture takes time to embed, and the early days might be the most difficult.
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The fans of the other Pies in the premiership don't seem to like the model of signing/selling on players at a profit.
They seem to be extremely vocal about getting rid of their owner, due to the lack of investment, although it must be said they are possibly the only Prem team that really stick to the financial rules.
Is this what we (might) have to look forward too ?
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Mike Ashley - for all his many faults - is a businessman who runs Newcastle United as a business. The club has ups and downs on the pitch and doesn't live up to the fans' ambitions, but financially they are better run than some clubs (which isn't saying much, I know).
The problem is that the mentality of most football fans is akin to an extremely needy child, demanding ongoing success, wanting lots of big new signings and not really being interested in the financial realities. They follow football to dream and get away from the financial challenges and slog of real life, and they often don't want to hear words like "sustainability". Therefore, it's entirely possible that any owner trying to implement a sustainable business model will quickly become a target of criticism, especially if they are stupid enough to go looking for adulation on social media!
But perhaps there is hope? Notts County fans have now been through the ringer of near extinction three times in the past two decades, each time because the club was badly (or maliciously) run and spent more than it earned. Surely, if the penny was finally going to drop with any group of supporters, it could be with us. Notts County can only survive and be successful again if it is built up slowly and sustainably, laying down strong foundations and taking baby steps forward, with some setbacks along the way. Spending big delivers at best only short-term success, and sometimes still results in failure, as last season, so we cannot afford to build a house/club on sand anymore.
I sincerely hope the new owners will come in with a sensible, sustainable business model based on creating a club that proudly develops and bloods its own players and develops young players expertly sourced from elsewhere, and that we start to regard that in itself as our success and our identity, as much as our position in a league table at any given time. I hope we can finally be the type of club that Haydn Green envisaged when he saved us ten years ago. We owe it to him as much as anyone to learn our lessons, look at the clever path trodden by clubs like Accrington Stanley and Burton Albion, and go about things the right way.
Last edited by jackal2; 22-07-2019 at 02:30 PM.
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They look a bit too smug to me. I'm not saying they aren't genuine buyers but their hoards of computers and young, clean, smiling workforce look like they know all their stuff in theory, but now though, they want to try playing at the real thing, i.e. owning a real football club. And in that they are as inexperienced as Alan Hardy was. Fingers crossed though.
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