Statement of Intent

Quoted from Bigdog

£900k

Which amplifies the necessity to get out of this division this season. As it stands, from next season, even with a vastly superior income, we won't be able to outspend virtually any club in the National League, the likes of Kings Lynn, Dover, Maidenhead etc will enjoy a level playing field with us. It's a very scary prospect..

This season is more critical than some of the be patient, vacuous virtue signalling long term project claims.. that's for sure..

Quoted from Mariner93er

Like a lot of people, I was slightly taken aback yesterday when Chesterfield signed Tshimanga, as id secretly hoped we’d be in for him.

However, it’s a big risk on their part. According to the boreham wood chairman, the value they set was aimed at league 1 and championship clubs, and he was shocked when Chesterfield met it. It’s a similar situation with madden at Stockport and mullin at wrexham. Each could easily be playing a couple of divisions above, but there’s some big money being thrown around. Which is all well and good if you get promoted, but there’s only one automatic spot and one in the lottery of the play offs, meaning some of these teams will miss out (it’s safe to add notts county to the list of big spenders too). So it’s actually a high risk strategy.

And it’s not as if they’re guaranteed to make money from these players unless they bag a hatful. Tshimangas 24 (the youngest of all the strikers mentioned), so he’s going to have to excel in the next few years if they’re going to recuperate that fee. And I saw a stat the he only scored 12 goals from open play in over 40 games last season (the rest were penalties), which obviously isn’t bad but probably tells you why a team in a higher league aren’t willing to pay the money Chesterfield have for him. It could pay off, but it’s a big risk.

And I think stockwood’s article in the telegraph sums it up well, spending big doesn’t guarantee you success. Of course, it can help, but look at the Sutton’s and Barrows that have won the league. Coincidentally, Sutton’s top scorer only got 14 goals. I say only because it doesn’t look like we have a 14 goal player, although mcatee is being overlooked a lot here and could get double figures.

So I think we need to take a step back and not go over the top. Sure, we’d like a new striker but I actually think we’ve got a good forward line that will spread the goals around we’ll, which is actually a better recipe than relying on one man.

Quoted from GrimRob

Clubs have been getting around salary caps or similar initiatives since before the days of professionalism. If you have got the money from your own business activities (as opposed to gifts from the directors) you should be able to spend it.

Quoted from Mariner93er

I’d imagine it’d be something to what the efl tried implementing with players already on your books now counting towards it at first. Was that how it was going to be?