Connell completes move

Oh get copulated,  What is this, 3 years FFS.   Its only £115k, and they want 3 years.   If they want him they should pay for him up front.  What with Bennett being a drip feed over 5 years, what we sell our best players and get intercourse all for them,  Installments means the fee gets swallowed up in normal finances rather than having a war chest to replace him.

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Oh get copulated,  What is this, 3 years FFS.   Its only £115k, and they want 3 years.   If they want him they should pay for him up front.  What with Bennett being a drip feed over 5 years, what we sell our best players and get intercourse all for them,  Installments means the fee gets swallowed up in normal finances rather than having a war chest to replace him.

95% of football clubs are financially challenged.  Very few clubs in the football world have a proverbial pot to p1ss in.  Banks are no longer interested in offering huge loans to football clubs in respect if future earnings.  £115k, in the current market, represents a considerable amount of money.  If it is structured over three years then so be it.  And if it gets swallowed up in normal finances then so be it because we are losing 900k a year!!!!!!

BTW Fenty was on record as saying that the first installment will be going straight to the managers and if that doesn't buy you a good centre forward at this level then something is very wrong!!!

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Oh get copulated,  What is this, 3 years FFS.   Its only £115k, and they want 3 years.   If they want him they should pay for him up front.

I agree with the sentiment but to hazard a complete guess, I do wonder if the club are suffering cash flow problems and that may be part of the motivation for the sale.
But even if that were to be true, the whole thing is confusing because we have set a good budget for promotion.
If it's not true and the club simply thinks it's a good deal or good business then you could argue they're missing the bigger picture in relation to enhancing our promotion chances when on the face of it, it looks quite important for us this season.

Quoted from 1600

I agree with the sentiment but to hazard a complete guess, I do wonder if the club are suffering cash flow problems and that may be part of the motivation for the sale.
But even if that were to be true, the whole thing is confusing because we have set a good budget for promotion.
If it's not true and the club simply thinks it's a good deal or good business then you could argue they're missing the bigger picture in relation to enhancing our promotion chances when on the face of it, it looks quite important for us this season.

AC wanted to go, that should by itself be enough, but on the back of the 40kish we will get this year from the transfer plus the wages we will save, (pure speculation) let's say 50k, then it strikes me that S&H will have more than enough funds available to do what they consider appropriate in the transfer market.  

Of course Connell most probably wanted the dream move all along but we wanted the right deal too.
You say "AC wanted to go, that should by itself be enough" but the club weren't willing to sell at ANY price, that's the point - you don't just roll over because a player desires a move, the club turned down a number of offers before accepting.
So it all boils down to opinions about where the line should have been drawn(if at all) but like I said, we're not privvy to the clubs internal finances.

Quoted from The Grim Reaper

if anyone cares

http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10417~2395388,00.html

sad to see him go.Big blow for our promotion hopes this season.Hope we can get a adequate replacement asap.

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Oh get copulated,  What is this, 3 years FFS.   Its only £115k, and they want 3 years.   If they want him they should pay for him up front.  What with Bennett being a drip feed over 5 years, what we sell our best players and get intercourse all for them,  Installments means the fee gets swallowed up in normal finances rather than having a war chest to replace him.

I'm sure when we pay a fee for a player, it will be by instalments as well though. Oh! hang on, we don't pay fees for players. Perhaps we should start to?
And before anyone gets pedantic, yes I know we paid £3.50 for Ademeno!