| Leigh Dineen DM conversation 08:05 - Aug 27 with 12070 views | waynekerr55 |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 15:57 - Aug 27 with 2025 views | Smellyplumz |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 13:01 - Aug 27 by forkbeard |
They don’t make up the whole team so how did you work that one out? |
I think your clever enough to work that one out and that's a compliment. |  |
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""Although I cannot promise or predict the future, I can guarantee one thing - the current board of directors will always fight, as we have done over the last 12 years, to work together as one with the Supporters Trust to make 100% sure that Swansea City football club remains the number one priority in all our thoughts and in every decision we make." | | Poll: | Huw Jenkins |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:04 - Aug 27 with 1994 views | Highjack |
So we spent most of the summer courting Woods. Probably even agreed terms with him. He’s ready to move his whole family down here and we say whoops sorry mate but we never had the money to buy you in the first place.
It’s laughable. It’s embarrassing. It’s completely amateurish and unprofessional. |  |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:07 - Aug 27 with 1985 views | Smellyplumz |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:04 - Aug 27 by Highjack |
So we spent most of the summer courting Woods. Probably even agreed terms with him. He’s ready to move his whole family down here and we say whoops sorry mate but we never had the money to buy you in the first place.
It’s laughable. It’s embarrassing. It’s completely amateurish and unprofessional. |
Grit and beauty innit. | |
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""Although I cannot promise or predict the future, I can guarantee one thing - the current board of directors will always fight, as we have done over the last 12 years, to work together as one with the Supporters Trust to make 100% sure that Swansea City football club remains the number one priority in all our thoughts and in every decision we make." | | Poll: | Huw Jenkins |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:08 - Aug 27 with 1981 views | jasper_T |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:04 - Aug 27 by Highjack |
So we spent most of the summer courting Woods. Probably even agreed terms with him. He’s ready to move his whole family down here and we say whoops sorry mate but we never had the money to buy you in the first place.
It’s laughable. It’s embarrassing. It’s completely amateurish and unprofessional. |
Of course we didn't have the money "in the first place" when we started negotiations we still had half a dozen players to shift.
I see no reason to think we weren't pursuing him in good faith, but a combination of his rising price (Stoke are paying £7m plus significant addons when we opened at what, £4m?) and our failure to get what we expected for Clucas and the Ayews made the deal less and less feasible as deadline day approached. |  | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:08 - Aug 27 with 1981 views | Catullus |
Anybody who says mismanagent can't be responsible for relegation is talking obvious nonsense. Although even a well run club can still be relegated, mismanagement as in wasting huge sums, buying poor players, not supporting a manager properly and whatever else you want to include can obviously cause a relegation.
Not taking the 8 million for J Ayew, I reckon it was a big mistake. That was 8 million coming in and shifting him off the wgae bill, they were greedy, wanted more and it backfired. Even if it was staged payments it was still money IN our budget. | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:09 - Aug 27 with 1975 views | swan65split |
Only in Swansea mun. |  | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:21 - Aug 27 with 1942 views | Dr_Winston |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:08 - Aug 27 by jasper_T |
Of course we didn't have the money "in the first place" when we started negotiations we still had half a dozen players to shift.
I see no reason to think we weren't pursuing him in good faith, but a combination of his rising price (Stoke are paying £7m plus significant addons when we opened at what, £4m?) and our failure to get what we expected for Clucas and the Ayews made the deal less and less feasible as deadline day approached. |
Tend to concur with this. |  |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:28 - Aug 27 with 1922 views | dobjack2 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:08 - Aug 27 by jasper_T |
Of course we didn't have the money "in the first place" when we started negotiations we still had half a dozen players to shift.
I see no reason to think we weren't pursuing him in good faith, but a combination of his rising price (Stoke are paying £7m plus significant addons when we opened at what, £4m?) and our failure to get what we expected for Clucas and the Ayews made the deal less and less feasible as deadline day approached. |
The interest got leaked to the press so instead of a quiet enquiry it became headline news for us. Were they hoping that Brentford wouldn’t leak interest to set up a bidding war or that Woods’ agent wouldn’t leak it because ideally they wanted interest from a midland area club?
What made it worse was that negotiations appeared to have kept on going until the very end. A PR disaster with fans. Although it will be nothing compared to the fall out if we don’t get a defensive midfielder and striker in on loan.
I assume the McKenna stories are pretty much the same as Woods - interested but no
I believe the owners banked on getting in over £25 million more than they got on the Ayew’s and Clucas.
Without knowing the payment scheme and timescales for players such as bony, Clucas, Andre ayew etc. And our payment scheme for Sigurdsson and the fire sale players it’s impossible to tell if there are serious cash flow problems. | | | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:55 - Aug 27 with 1838 views | awayjack |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:08 - Aug 27 by jasper_T |
Of course we didn't have the money "in the first place" when we started negotiations we still had half a dozen players to shift.
I see no reason to think we weren't pursuing him in good faith, but a combination of his rising price (Stoke are paying £7m plus significant addons when we opened at what, £4m?) and our failure to get what we expected for Clucas and the Ayews made the deal less and less feasible as deadline day approached. |
Why do you think we didn’t have money? We’d sold players before deadline day for £30m+. |  | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 17:03 - Aug 27 with 1806 views | jasper_T |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:55 - Aug 27 by awayjack |
Why do you think we didn’t have money? We’d sold players before deadline day for £30m+. |
We started the window needing to find £50m+ to cover costs for this season due to the loss of half our previous annual income. The club has never been cash rich. | | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 17:07 - Aug 27 with 1785 views | jasper_T |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:28 - Aug 27 by dobjack2 |
The interest got leaked to the press so instead of a quiet enquiry it became headline news for us. Were they hoping that Brentford wouldn’t leak interest to set up a bidding war or that Woods’ agent wouldn’t leak it because ideally they wanted interest from a midland area club?
What made it worse was that negotiations appeared to have kept on going until the very end. A PR disaster with fans. Although it will be nothing compared to the fall out if we don’t get a defensive midfielder and striker in on loan.
I assume the McKenna stories are pretty much the same as Woods - interested but no
I believe the owners banked on getting in over £25 million more than they got on the Ayew’s and Clucas.
Without knowing the payment scheme and timescales for players such as bony, Clucas, Andre ayew etc. And our payment scheme for Sigurdsson and the fire sale players it’s impossible to tell if there are serious cash flow problems. |
McKenna tore his hamstring so we'll never know but I'm happy with how the centreback situation has worked out to be honest.
A local lad and a loanee instead of £2.5-5m out on a slow Scots Prem clogger. Good business even if its happened by accident. | | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 17:11 - Aug 27 with 1768 views | dobjack2 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 17:07 - Aug 27 by jasper_T |
McKenna tore his hamstring so we'll never know but I'm happy with how the centreback situation has worked out to be honest.
A local lad and a loanee instead of £2.5-5m out on a slow Scots Prem clogger. Good business even if its happened by accident. |
Agree. | | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 17:54 - Aug 27 with 1692 views | awayjack |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 17:03 - Aug 27 by jasper_T |
We started the window needing to find £50m+ to cover costs for this season due to the loss of half our previous annual income. The club has never been cash rich. |
Yup understand we needed to find £50m or so to plug gap - maybe even £60m. I can’t reconcile this with not being able to spend £6m on our top target. We ended up with circa £45m player sales and cut £35m or so from player wages before we move on likes of Dyer, Routs and Narsignh. | | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 18:01 - Aug 27 with 1679 views | perchrockjack |
Any business that buys goods then sells at a fifty per cent loss after 12 months is going to be fecked | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:18 - Aug 27 with 1555 views | waynekerr55 |
The truth probably lies somewhere in between
We aren't totally skint but at the same time we're far from swimming in cash. | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:31 - Aug 27 with 1517 views | LeonWasGod |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:18 - Aug 27 by waynekerr55 |
The truth probably lies somewhere in between
We aren't totally skint but at the same time we're far from swimming in cash. |
True, although strip it back to the basics and we are one of the 3 in the division with a massive financial advantage over the rest. Doesn’t help though if we’re still paying for our past mistakes.
Of course we’ve been badly run in the last couple of years. A commercial team of 5 but it takes Dimwit to sort out a shirt sponsor at the last minute. Appointing Bobbly. Paying ~£16m for Cluless. All obviously avoidable at the time. |  | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:34 - Aug 27 with 1507 views | waynekerr55 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:31 - Aug 27 by LeonWasGod |
True, although strip it back to the basics and we are one of the 3 in the division with a massive financial advantage over the rest. Doesn’t help though if we’re still paying for our past mistakes.
Of course we’ve been badly run in the last couple of years. A commercial team of 5 but it takes Dimwit to sort out a shirt sponsor at the last minute. Appointing Bobbly. Paying ~£16m for Cluless. All obviously avoidable at the time. |
Agreed
We certainly don't need to be as threadbare as we are | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:37 - Aug 27 with 1498 views | clloy2 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 16:09 - Aug 27 by swan65split |
Only in Swansea mun. |
Reminds me of an episode of Minder for those of us that are at a certain age, where Arthur Daley over a drink in the winchester, referred to the local constabulary, as a loose collection of inadequate individuals !! | | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:41 - Aug 27 with 1483 views | magicdaps10 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:34 - Aug 27 by waynekerr55 |
Agreed
We certainly don't need to be as threadbare as we are |
Of course we dont.
If the clowns hadn't appointed a shocking group of scouts, headed by a self appointed DOF, we could have been getting in cheaper options like we did pre premier league with Rangel(6k), Bodde(50k), Ash(400k) and lets not forget the loan signing of Jordi Gomez. |  |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:51 - Aug 27 with 1451 views | waynekerr55 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:41 - Aug 27 by magicdaps10 |
Of course we dont.
If the clowns hadn't appointed a shocking group of scouts, headed by a self appointed DOF, we could have been getting in cheaper options like we did pre premier league with Rangel(6k), Bodde(50k), Ash(400k) and lets not forget the loan signing of Jordi Gomez. |
Now, now. Don't forget Huw is irreplaceable mun. Why go out to look to appoint someone on a watertight contract (performance related) when we can have Huw for 672k? | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:56 - Aug 27 with 1434 views | Garyjack |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 13:02 - Aug 27 by Brynmill_Jack |
Knowing we would have been able to plug some of the gaping holes in our squad I would have bitten their hands off at 8 million . |
I would have bitten their hands off because he ain't worth £8m! |  | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:57 - Aug 27 with 1426 views | magicdaps10 |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 19:51 - Aug 27 by waynekerr55 |
Now, now. Don't forget Huw is irreplaceable mun. Why go out to look to appoint someone on a watertight contract (performance related) when we can have Huw for 672k? |
Certainly beats having a scout who got to places using his wife's easy jet discount.
Will say it again, the money got hold of them.....the premier league was too much for them, sickening. | |
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 20:20 - Aug 27 with 1359 views | QJumpingJack |
How much did it cost the club to part with Laudrup, Monk, Guidolin, Bradley and Clement?
10m+?
Is Jorge Mendes a consultant for us? How much would he be on? | | | |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 20:25 - Aug 27 with 1331 views | jasper_T |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 20:20 - Aug 27 by QJumpingJack |
How much did it cost the club to part with Laudrup, Monk, Guidolin, Bradley and Clement?
10m+?
Is Jorge Mendes a consultant for us? How much would he be on? |
No, he's not. Makes a couple million per transfer just in his own fees. [Post edited 27 Aug 2018 20:26]
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| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 20:27 - Aug 27 with 1319 views | QJumpingJack |
| Leigh Dineen DM conversation on 20:25 - Aug 27 by jasper_T |
No, he's not. Makes a couple million per transfer just in his own fees. [Post edited 27 Aug 2018 20:26]
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Ok.
Is Landon Donovan on the payroll? | | | |
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