How is there any room in the budget for a wage increase for these two? Charlie Methven has just said the club has had to write an apology letter to the EFL for going over the limit already
sell youth
SELLING YOUTH DOESN'T COUNT TOWARDS FFP - IT'S WAGES OF OVER 21 YEAR OLD PLAYERS VERSUS TURNOVER- THAT'S THE ISSUE CM SAYS WE HAVE!
SELLING YOUTH DOES COUNT TOWARDS TURNOVER!!!!
It doesn’t in the accounts, which is presumably the cause of any confusion. The EFL calculations have a different basis.
@Airman Brown interested to know (sorry if you have been asked before) whether you have any inside info on the purchase price paid and if the £12M figure bandied about has any sense of reality... thanks
How is there any room in the budget for a wage increase for these two? Charlie Methven has just said the club has had to write an apology letter to the EFL for going over the limit already
sell youth
SELLING YOUTH DOESN'T COUNT TOWARDS FFP - IT'S WAGES OF OVER 21 YEAR OLD PLAYERS VERSUS TURNOVER- THAT'S THE ISSUE CM SAYS WE HAVE!
SELLING YOUTH DOES COUNT TOWARDS TURNOVER!!!!
It doesn’t in the accounts, which is presumably the cause of any confusion. The EFL calculations have a different basis.
Yes but that's irrelevant to the point I was responding to.
How is there any room in the budget for a wage increase for these two? Charlie Methven has just said the club has had to write an apology letter to the EFL for going over the limit already
sell youth
SELLING YOUTH DOESN'T COUNT TOWARDS FFP - IT'S WAGES OF OVER 21 YEAR OLD PLAYERS VERSUS TURNOVER- THAT'S THE ISSUE CM SAYS WE HAVE!
SELLING YOUTH DOES COUNT TOWARDS TURNOVER!!!!
It doesn’t in the accounts, which is presumably the cause of any confusion. The EFL calculations have a different basis.
@Airman Brown interested to know (sorry if you have been asked before) whether you have any inside info on the purchase price paid and if the £12M figure bandied about has any sense of reality... thanks
Not definitive but we’re likely to get that from the accounts in April. The debt to Sandgaard will have been written off by him, paid down (by SE7) or transferred (to SE7). That should tell us.
Does this strata of people ever do an actual honest day’s work?
No. But then doing an honest day's work is hugely over-rated imo.
Yeah you’re right.
Nobody on their deathbed is reported as saying they wished they had spent more time at work. I imagine the Methven strata would criticise striking rail staff for not working to take them to Fontwell Park or wherever.
I am waiting for the answer from anybody in this regime to give a clear answer as to ‘why Charlton?’
Because we were available, no great secret or fairytale.
It's probably easier to sell a club that have been in the Premier League to the investors you want to rope in too, and maybe a London club even, but basically chance.
Same as half of the people sniffing round football for one reason or another, they've got no affinity with any particular club, but the one they buy is the one for sale.
Not much you can complain about there, as a group they seem to want to grow the club in the right way, obviously Appleton was a disastrous appointment but they’ve sort of redeemed themselves getting NJ in. Ultimately it will come down to what we can achieve on the pitch next season, I really think playoffs has to be the absolute minimum next season. He came across well.
Constantly distancing himself from the football side, which as people have said, has been a disaster on the mens side.
Implied the women's team funding was too big for a league 1 side while saying funding/structure of women's game was unclear. Sounds like they are hoping for a restrucure of the women's game/pyramid/funding before committing to further costs.
Stating it was desirable and possible that the women's team will possibly play all their games at the Valley suggests a major investment in the playing surface is coming.
A lot of praise and hopes for the future being pinned on Nathan Jones. He gives me optimism too but not sure I buy this "he was the first choice in September" line. Very convinient to say that now.
A lot of the rest was vague.
A 3 year plan but we're a year in already: what milestones have we hit or can we expect next season?
Success on the pitch breeds bigger gates which breeds more success. Yes, it's a virtuous cycle but what are they going to do differently to kick start that cycle? Buy early and spend money. All good but words.
Not buying the claim that buying "big" in January was prep for this summer. It was desperation and some of them were loans.
I'm all for reaching out to the local, black, community but that is a slow and long term project, not a three year fix. Ditto the Jamaican academy link, no harm in trying but we already have a great academy.
CM is, IMHO, trying hard to come over as a far more modest and likable chap than he was on Netflix and I believe it might well be something he has learnt from. He doesn't seem an egotist or delussional but it is an official club puff piece to sell season tickets and reassure the punters, not a Panorama investigaton.
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@Airman Brown interested to know (sorry if you have been asked before) whether you have any inside info on the purchase price paid and if the £12M figure bandied about has any sense of reality... thanks
So is he an owner?
I imagine the Methven strata would criticise striking rail staff for not working to take them to Fontwell Park or wherever.
It's probably easier to sell a club that have been in the Premier League to the investors you want to rope in too, and maybe a London club even, but basically chance.
Same as half of the people sniffing round football for one reason or another, they've got no affinity with any particular club, but the one they buy is the one for sale.
In-depth Charlie Methven interview (April 2024)
https://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1713862800/1713864600/
Part 2
https://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1713862800/1713866400/
Bring on next season !!!!
Constantly distancing himself from the football side, which as people have said, has been a disaster on the mens side.
Implied the women's team funding was too big for a league 1 side while saying funding/structure of women's game was unclear. Sounds like they are hoping for a restrucure of the women's game/pyramid/funding before committing to further costs.
Stating it was desirable and possible that the women's team will possibly play all their games at the Valley suggests a major investment in the playing surface is coming.
A lot of praise and hopes for the future being pinned on Nathan Jones. He gives me optimism too but not sure I buy this "he was the first choice in September" line. Very convinient to say that now.
A lot of the rest was vague.
A 3 year plan but we're a year in already: what milestones have we hit or can we expect next season?
Success on the pitch breeds bigger gates which breeds more success. Yes, it's a virtuous cycle but what are they going to do differently to kick start that cycle? Buy early and spend money. All good but words.
Not buying the claim that buying "big" in January was prep for this summer. It was desperation and some of them were loans.
I'm all for reaching out to the local, black, community but that is a slow and long term project, not a three year fix. Ditto the Jamaican academy link, no harm in trying but we already have a great academy.
CM is, IMHO, trying hard to come over as a far more modest and likable chap than he was on Netflix and I believe it might well be something he has learnt from. He doesn't seem an egotist or delussional but it is an official club puff piece to sell season tickets and reassure the punters, not a Panorama investigaton.
The proof of the pudding will be in the eating.