The new owners / stakeholders

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

22 days into the window and we are more likely to get relegated than make the play offs. But we have this consortium of very wealthy owners.

Are they being frugal because they think that's good business? Or because we are getting close to the sustainability level?

If it's the latter, what are their intentions / plan? Coleman was chairman for over a year before becoming a shareholder so he must have known how the books look and these evidently are not unintelligent men. So did they know they couldn't put money into buying players? And therefore did they / do they realise we are miles off promotion and to get it would require large investment? Just how do they think we could get promoted without large transfer fees? Was the Welsh league cup plan their hope to compete in an alternative way?

If their frugalness is down to the sustainability thresholds, why aren't they investing in the academy? Don't think investment in that counts towards sustainability costs? Surely getting us back to CAT1 would be a relatively cheap and long term option and allow us to sign more talented youngsters? Of course option only available if they want to spend their own money.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Was the Welsh league cup plan their hope to compete in an alternative way?

Knowing these numpties well enough by now, it wouldn't surprise me if every single egg they have was placed in that particular basket.

 

[monmouth]

January is terrible value. We won't get better than the likes of Yates that we've loaned out. We need to wait for the summer. It's a risk though. Many games with Naughton/Christie/Key at CB and we'll be in a right scrap. If we can't start putting teams away in the first half we will be anyway.

 

[magicdaps10]

I think as the days go by this month, fans are starting to realise that we have been led up the garden path once again.

I think they are happy to let the Luke Williams drama carry on and use it to their full advantage.

I hope I am wrong but it seems that teams in a worse situations than us are capable to bring in players at decent fees.

 

[magicdaps10]

January is terrible value. We won't get better than the likes of Yates that we've loaned out. We need to wait for the summer. It's a risk though. Many games with Naughton/Christie/Key at CB and we'll be in a right scrap. If we can't start putting teams away in the first half we will be anyway.

So no cover defensively and we need to have more quality in the final 3rd and you think it's best that we leave business until the summer.

That's going to end well, isn't it!?

 

[cmajack]

22 days into the window and we are more likely to get relegated than make the play offs. But we have this consortium of very wealthy owners.

Are they being frugal because they think that's good business? Or because we are getting close to the sustainability level?

If it's the latter, what are their intentions / plan? Coleman was chairman for over a year before becoming a shareholder so he must have known how the books look and these evidently are not unintelligent men. So did they know they couldn't put money into buying players? And therefore did they / do they realise we are miles off promotion and to get it would require large investment? Just how do they think we could get promoted without large transfer fees? Was the Welsh league cup plan their hope to compete in an alternative way?

If their frugalness is down to the sustainability thresholds, why aren't they investing in the academy? Don't think investment in that counts towards sustainability costs? Surely getting us back to CAT1 would be a relatively cheap and long term option and allow us to sign more talented youngsters? Of course option only available if they want to spend their own money.

Spending pots of money isn't a guarantee to success , as several recent transfer windows have proved. We managed to get to the Premier league without busting the bank ,with personnel and managers at the club that could pick a player and use their contacts . There must be several players in League 1 or abroad that could cut it in the championship, unfortunately we have people in charge at the top , and a manager, that are pretty clueless in finding those players needed.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

January is terrible value. We won't get better than the likes of Yates that we've loaned out. We need to wait for the summer. It's a risk though. Many games with Naughton/Christie/Key at CB and we'll be in a right scrap. If we can't start putting teams away in the first half we will be anyway.

Spending pots of money isn't a guarantee to success , as several recent transfer windows have proved. We managed to get to the Premier league without busting the bank ,with personnel and managers at the club that could pick a player and use their contacts . There must be several players in League 1 or abroad that could cut it in the championship, unfortunately we have people in charge at the top , and a manager, that are pretty clueless in finding those players needed.

It's certainly no guarantee, but your chances of success increase exponentially if you do spend pots of money. I'm not advocating that by way, I'm just confused at what the owners hope to achieve and why they bought us? What value do they think they bring to the club if don't want to or can't spend their considerable fortune?

If the issue is what you suggest above, why aren't the owners going out and procuring a top quality director of football and scouting network?

 

[Swanjaxs]

Same horse, different jockey ain't it...

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

I think as the days go by this month, fans are starting to realise that we have been led up the garden path once again.

I think they are happy to let the Luke Williams drama carry on and use it to their full advantage.

I hope I am wrong but it seems that teams in a worse situations than us are capable to bring in players at decent fees.

Not everyone has been led up the garden path. Ever since they came in I've worked on the basis they're the same shower of shit as before, unless they provide clear and consistent evidence otherwise.

I'm willing to keep an open mind - still over a week left, they might yet bring home the bacon. But I'm not holding my breath.

 

[magicdaps10]

Not everyone has been led up the garden path. Ever since they came in I've worked on the basis they're the same shower of shit as before, unless they provide clear and consistent evidence otherwise.

I'm willing to keep an open mind - still over a week left, they might yet bring home the bacon. But I'm not holding my breath.

Always live in hope.
I'm thinking they should now be embarrassed by their claims and the the glaringly weak squad at hand and will force them into some movement.

Even given the following have gone out the door
Fisher
Hughes
Watts
Abdullai
Abbey
Broome
And yet still it seems no closer to a signing.

They seem to have as much front as the previous lot.

 

[Niigata Jack]

January is terrible value. We won't get better than the likes of Yates that we've loaned out. We need to wait for the summer. It's a risk though. Many games with Naughton/Christie/Key at CB and we'll be in a right scrap. If we can't start putting teams away in the first half we will be anyway.

We are proper short as a squad, we definitely need a couple of players to come in, what happened to the cheap chat we heard about two players who were supposedly half way through the door before Christmas ready to sign on the dotted line in the first week of Jan.

Talking horses talking shit again, without doubt,

 

[Niigata Jack]

Not everyone has been led up the garden path. Ever since they came in I've worked on the basis they're the same shower of shit as before, unless they provide clear and consistent evidence otherwise.

I'm willing to keep an open mind - still over a week left, they might yet bring home the bacon. But I'm not holding my breath.

Come 11pm Monday 3rd of Feb and the Transfer window slams shut.