To be fair, they are trying to do this now, just with academy products and youth signings.
Actually, I referenced a full quote of both the answer and the question from a reputable source (ESPN). That exchange does not actually say what you are claiming it does. It is somewhat open to interpretation and you are interpreting it the way you heard it. Which you can feel free to do, but I do disagree with your interpretation. What he said is not as clear-cut as you make it sound so no reason to claim that we are changing the meaning of what he said.
It's just the silence before the storm.
You cannot build an entire team, let alone trophy-winning team, solely based on academy. You do need to also buy from outside and either you buy very smart like Leicester does, or if your recruitment is as much of utter shit as ours is – then you have to suck it up and pay market price. Currently market prices are high.
What he said is clearly not what you said and you don't have a quote of the question in that article.
Unlike what ESPN wrote Janedis didn't ask if the qualification had played a part in another bumper set of financial numbers, he is talking about prospective deals based on that particular season's performances.
And here you have Woodwards interpretation of the question and his answer. Janedis agreed with the interpretation and was happy with the answer. And it makes sense because a season good or bad won't have a significant impact on sponsorship deals, severals season one way or the other will have an impact but that's not what he was asked about.
He is on the squad for today's match.
Seems like it. A very expensive game of chicken
That's what it feels like.
We're 5th mate. Not 6th or 15th. The doom and gloom is all a bit much really. The forum has spent 5 years whining about us overpaying for shite. We're now apparently taking a stand and thats not right either.
You'd have to imagine the unemployment rate on the Caf is sky high, given so many people think it's a good idea or even acceptable to call out their boss in public.
Who is actually our negotiator for this? It isn't Woodward - he just signs off the deal - is it the mysterious Matt Judge?
I was thinking about that too. When the club spend big on a player, we are mugs. And when we try to lower the price of player or stick to our valuation we are cheap idiots. Basically wrong 100% of the time.
Most sensible people won’t have an issue with not over paying for players and taking a stance if that didn’t mean that we ended up with nothing. The fact we put all our eggs in one basket is the reason we have to end up paying so much. Or if we’d done some proper business in the summer maybe we wouldn’t be in the position where we’re so desperate for players that every selling club can smell it.
We've just lost our best player and highest scorer for the season.
This is the caf. I want Bruno done, but long term it is a good stance that we will not be blackmailed into paying over the odds.
When does anyone front up to the media in that context, for any club?
Yep. In fairness if it happens I'd say it's well played by us - seeing lots of different figures quoted but the high end was 80m euros whereas we're at somewhere near 50m - however it is a huge risk. We aren't recruiting from a position of strength and the whole world knows we're desperate. I saw the story that Woodward was told they would sell at 50m and that's why we're sticking but who knows if it's true.
We aren't really in that position though are we? This squad isn't at a point where we can say, you know what we will be fine without him, let's leave it.
We are always in that position and we are even more in that position today because in a rebuild you can't afford to waste money, you have more than one additions to make, if you overpay regularly you limit the amount of the time you can try to fix an important issue. If anything you are less in that position when you have a great team, you can waste a few millions here and there because you already have a solid funadation and won't need every penny in the near future.
So you'd rather save 5-10 million and not get a better player? even when the squad is stretched to it's limits already? That's just bonkers to me.
On Wheeler Dealers, they sort these small differences out in a few seconds.
If we .spent big on Haaland or Mbappe I doubt we would be called mugs. You are rightly called a mug when you spend 80m on an average CB
Yeah this is when I struggle to understand the thought process of the club. There's no logic that I can see to our decision making. There's no real pattern, apart from a pattern that just looks a mess from the outside.
So the Glazers net spend of 70m the last two years is ok with you?
Mata's proven useful almost every time he's played this season.
I believe Woodward is really the assassin of JFK
Fundamentally you are correct but it comes down to the idea that purchasing Maguire for 80m was a bad idea and it's not perplexing for anyone to maybe learn from their mistakes. Or do we expect/hope that the club simply repeat the same dumb moves over and over?
We've a net spend of 139.17m euros in the last two seasons haven't we @JoaquinJoaquin? Where are you getting your info from?
No because it's linked to a 330m wage of bill for players that are wank by elite standards.
He has not, he has in the last 2 games he played but not almost every time, massive recency bias
I meant 70 per season so yeah that is around 140m Euros.
He probably means per season
Ok. So if you shred the wage bill which we have done excessively (to the point even our squad players are leaving), you are then left with the squad decay that we currently have. It sounded to me like you were an apologist for the Glazers lack of spending the last two years. Simple fact is, we shouldn't be haggling over a few million here and there anyways. Do Barcelona or Real Madrid (the 2 other clubs in the Deloittes richest clubs) do that? No they don't. They target the player they want and buy them. Those are proactive clubs, our club just makes excuses.
Of course not, however let us not act like Maguire is an isolated indecent, secondly Bruno is obviously a quality player and the price isn't extortionate for a January transfer. Especially if it pertains to the structure of bonus payments.
Isn't Woody a Wheeler Dealer.
Ha ha, good one.
