One minute we have no money, the next we won’t be signing anyone, and 30 minutes later we have to sell to buy.
We’ve all seen the coverage yesterday where Alex McLeish says.
‘We won’t be bringing players in until we trade. We still have a very heavy wage bill and we’ve got to try and work with Randy and Aston Villa to adjust that.’
Now apparently it was only a few days ago that we wouldn’t be signing anybody fullstop according to our ever reliable ‘free press’.
So ignoring that contradiction for a minute, because frankly the doom and gloom and nostalgic harping back to previous manager(s) who are now God like irrespective of the facts, it’s getting a little boring – I shall posit.
Does anybody outside of the club actually have a Scooby about the plans or our financial condition – I mean facts.
I assume, like others, we have let a number of players go that easily will have wiped £250,000 off the wage bill a week.
Those who pay attention will know it and will be thinking it.
Those who don’t will keep swallowing the press and all they say, and that is simply the game McLeish has played since day 1.
Downing was the odd one out, he requested the transfer as soon as presumably his agent thought it best. Everything else is PR and spin and fans are working themselves up over it.
The only true facts remotely close are our wage bill was hysterical, we had a half a squad in effect not interested in performing or earning their wages after previous treatment and they weren’t motivated to change.
We had also hit our own ceiling where blowing 4th place wasn’t so bad because we got 6th. Not once, but twice.
McLeish, like Houllier before him, is charged with getting us back on a financial footing and ridding us of the deadwood. It has to happen. We could not continue how we were.
We all know this, yet every media report that comes up certain quarters explode over – even if it contradicts another report in the very same paper.
So, as said, ignoring this latest contradiction that the press lap up without realising and so do fans, when I’d say McLeish is playing the game that every manager does, would it surprise anybody to now see those quotes alongside ‘we haven’t given up interest in Mr Beefburger’.
It’s natural isn’t it. We won’t be signing anybody. We must sell before we buy. We still have huge issues with the wage bill.
So two and two together, let’s link the never ending Carlos Cuellar to Rangers talk with Hits who remains a free agent.
If Cuellar moves, we’ll sign Hits.
And the proof. An apparent quote from McLeish saying.
‘Thomas’s name has been mentioned against a number of other players.’
Well that’s it for me then, the German Brummie is returning home. Absolutely, stake your mortgages on it.
Just like you should’ve done 3 odd weeks ago when he was a dead cert to sign, just like Parker was. Just like Joey Barton was.
Our wage bill is significantly healthier compared to a season ago, even factored against turnover. We have money to spend when factored against turnover.
I don’t need facts to state the obvious when you look at the names who have left.
It just seems now we won’t sign people for the bench, or for the sake of signing a new body because we have given up on old bodies.
I fail to see why that is a bad thing.
Flame away……
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