Agreed we are all annoyed and/or tired at our transfer dealings just gone , but other than the 'Roland's a tight git' reason - could it be that we have failed to sign needed players be because we have misjudged and fucked up our financial fair play boundaries?
RD is a keen advocate of the rulings but unless he's the one keeping a close eye and tightly following our finances , maybe we have buggered it all up?
Would be interesting to look at the balance sheets and finance bits that should be published soon (...I think!?)
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Instead of risking millions by chasing promotion, the club feel the squad is capable of staying up, and assess the situation in the summer.
However, other clubs have made a mockery of the FFP regs, I do wonder, how it provides an advantage to clubs who aren't splashing cash everywhere.
He also indicated the club was aiming for a similar result this season.
Last season the loss limits were £8m and this time it's £6m so the club is well within the limits.
The long term advantage to clubs not splashing the cash is that they don't run up debts of £10-15m a year. More and more clubs have total debts exceeding £100m and will fall over if the main benefactor walks away or runs out of cash.
Cardiff, QPR and Bolton are three examples.
This doesn't mean that Charlton shouldn't spend a bit more in order to compete. Quite the contrary because spending on a couple of decent players will help performances, results and eventually crowds. People blaming our current predicament on FFP are missing the point as we have headroom to spend another couple of million.
The rules change next season but right now you could say the tightness of the division and the number of clubs on 34 points is an indication that restrictions are starting to bite...
Blackburn and Forest were restricted from spending money on players thus January. Just that Charlton chose not to which is probably not the brightest thing to do when you have gone three months without a win!
While it might please a few/many fans if he sold that creates three problems.
The club will be left in limbo until a new buyer is found leading to little investment similar to the last 18 months of the Spiv and Spiv era
There is no guarantee that the new owner will be any better. They could be a lot lot worse
Yes really
Last but not least what will the museum do with the seat Roland signed?
In years to come it will tell the story of the "Network" years, when we were Sub-Standard Liege and nobody knew what day of the week it was.
Put it alongside the photos of Eddie Firmani.
It's part of our history.
Arthur Madeup
Anne Onymous
Billy Nonsuch
MT Promise
Miss N U Alreddy
Walter Wastamunee
Hugh Hee
Wendy Sainsco-Marchenin
Albert Fferkin- Thyme
Sheikh Yurbooty
Mandy Lyffe-Botes
Cliff Hanger
Lucy Tania
or
Nye Eve?
;-)