weeyin Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 It's not about scaremongering. When the Setanta contract was agreed, clubs would likely change their financial projections for the next few years to reflect this. Having a guaranteed income stream allows you to make borrowings against that stream and pay, for example, larger salaries now in the expectation of being able to fund them from future income. If that future income has now been cut, it means all those projections also have to be adjusted downwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 You may or may not have seen this on the BBC yesterday but McGhee was quoted as saying... "We tried to sign a couple of players yesterday who we weren't able to afford and who look as though they've ended up signing for St Johnstone, so that's our problem and we have to cut our cloth. "The youth system is really where our squad is going to be coming from, because we aren't going to be out there buying and selling lots of players." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelvinBragg Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 You may or may not have seen this on the BBC yesterday but McGhee was quoted as saying... "We tried to sign a couple of players yesterday who we weren't able to afford and who look as though they've ended up signing for St Johnstone, so that's our problem and we have to cut our cloth. "The youth system is really where our squad is going to be coming from, because we aren't going to be out there buying and selling lots of players." I read it. I was kind of hoping that it was a negotiating tool to use with agents and other clubs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 "The youth system is really where our squad is going to be coming from, because we aren't going to be out there buying and selling lots of players." that doesn't bode well for us considering that the only young players mcghee seems willing to bring in are 17 and 18 - saunders, hutchison, mchugh and slane - and it's not going to be good for either us or them to rely on them too much. apart from jamie murphy we don't have any players in the first team squad aged 19, 20 or 21 which isn't good at all. if you assume that quinn, clarky and reynolds are on their last contracts at the club and that buzz, hughes, klimpl and mclean are leaving we could very well be up shit creek for the next few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Kerse Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 if you assume that quinn, clarky and reynolds are on their last contracts at the club and that buzz, hughes, klimpl and mclean are leaving we could very well be up shit creek for the next few years. THAT needs rectified ASAP. We prob will get a couple of half decent bosmans and that will actually be OK if these boys are tied up on two year extensions. At least DC!!!! Giving these boys new contracts (and getting Maros permanently) could be our best bit of business this summer!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 THAT needs rectified ASAP. We prob will get a couple of half decent bosmans and that will actually be OK if these boys are tied up on two year extensions. At least DC!!!! Giving these boys new contracts (and getting Maros permanently) could be our best bit of business this summer!!! aye but the reality is none of them are going to sign new deals with the club because other clubs will be offering them more. the fact is apart from jamie murphy we have done nothing to strengthen our squad through our youth system in the last two years and we might well end up paying the price for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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