Quote Originally Posted by Fantastyke View Post
Doesn't this work both ways?
You can't build a team to achieve success on the field without tying your top players down with contract extensions. Which means you will be building a team to be successful. You would also be protecting your investment and maximising income, by controlling negotiations with length of contract and the deemed value of the player by the board/management, when a fee is proposed from would-be buyers.
Surely that's a win/win for the club. Either they have a successful team or they make money on sales.

What's pyssed most of us Fanta is how we've managed this model over the years or should I say mismanaged .

We are always going to sell our best players the same as 95% of clubs have to do , Brighton have just lost two of their star players from last season to Liverpool , Coventry were a penalty shootout away from promotion to the PL and have now lost Hamer and Gyorkes .

We don't seem to be able to sell them at the right time which would maximise the fee , we seem to also sell in batches which has decimated any progress on the field and in fact has sent us backwards .

We've come up twice from league one with teams more than capable of holding their own in the championship since this model was introduced and on both occasions we've sold too many players in one hit for too little money .

The recruitment to replace them then sent us backwards and in many instances the money received was wasted plus the financial impact of losing our championship status .

We wouldn't be where we are today if there was a scintilla of competence at the club and that includes Patrick Cryne .

This club is screaming out for a Director Of Football , someone who knows this game , can work with agents , has contacts and knows what the feck he's doing .

Some big egos on Grove Street who have nothing to have a big ego about when it comes to football competence .