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Helik not in the squad today.
Walton (GK), Sibbick, Sraha, Kitching, Brittain, Palmer, Styles, J Williams, Cole, Woodrow (c), Morris.
Subs: Jinadu (GK), B Williams, Pache, Ariely, Miller, Simoes, Ritzmaier, Oduor, Thompson.
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With Helik going to the Euros he's two weeks behind the rest of the squad .Originally Posted by POGGYWELL
I'd be surprised if we see him in the first three games of the season to be honest .
In fact we may not see him again and the Swansea away leg was his last game for the club .
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He’s gone in my opinion.
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I'd agree with that Animal. I'm surprised at the wage bill to be honest. A squad of say 22 first team players paid 11million per annum averages out at 10k per week per player. Season ticket sales barely bite into that. There's the 8million in TV revenue plus sponsorship. There's also the academy to run, the scouting and recruitment and the admin plus many more costs that you've got to factor in. It's a tight ship. It looks paramount that we sell at least one big player for at least 2 to 3 million each season just to stay in the black.
The stumbling block to attract better players is obviously the wages they will want. If our wage bill crept up from 11m to say around 16m then we could hit big problems financially. It's a financial tightrope.
Personally I'm quite content with the status quo. Credit to the people running this gig. We now have a more than capable squad that are able to stay comfortably in the championship and that takes some doing in this day and age without getting into serious debt.
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Totally agree with you pass re the financial management acumen required to run the ship at Oakwell.
However to quote Mr Lee from the home leg of the play off " we will be stronger next season"!
Given the financial constraints mentioned, the loss of our head coach, all of his back room team, our captain, our CEO and if speculation is correct at least one of our better players. How on earth are we going to start as a stronger outfit next season?
We are like other seasons having been shot in the foot and missing the starting gun whilst the bedding in process completes.
I know some of you see this as a fact of life but Im old enough and grumpy enough to have had enough of this crap. This isnt building a club, its dismantling what you started and then starting again and the ownership try to paint it as a different picture.
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Maybe Mr Lee meant financially stronger Ethel as in cashing in on a number of players .
I don't take too much notice of what Lee or Conway says to be honest , 99 times out of a 100 its bullshyte anyway .
They aren't the first to come out with bullshyte to be fair , I'm still waiting for Cryne's box office signings to appear .
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Thats probably the objective Animal, financially stronger as it will eventually fill their pockets.
Its the deception and falsehoods that really pee me off.
Oh and the silences, weve appointed a new CEO before the fans have been told the old one has left!!
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If they were filling there pockets the club would be on its backside.
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It's abart time Conway and Lee paid all the instalments they agreed in December 2017 in order to purchase the club for £8 million. One instalment of £2.6 million paid at that time but the arseoyles ev paid nowt of the two lots of £2.7 million still to pay some three and a heyf years later.
As at OGC Nice the money will be made when they sell the club as its cost 'em hardly owt to buy Barnsley and it costs 'em nowt from their own pockets to run it.
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Helic won't be joining WBA . More than likely if he does leave ??? It will be to a European side not British , HC at WBA would like Anderson and Brittain , this was mentioned a while back ,
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