mishtergrolsch Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 31 minutes ago, arab_joe said: I'm never comfortable when we make "big" signings - with the exception of Shankland (who was, technically at least, a free signing) I can't off the top of my head remember the last time that a big name worked out well. I'm thinking back to the days when we spent 100k on Collin Samuel, 275k on Lee Miller, 6k a week on Derek McInnes, ex-Champions League winner Sinima Pongolle etc. And don't even get me started on Alex Mathie. Micky Mellon was on the BBC English football podcast the other week, and cited Norwood as one of his biggest success stories at Tranmere - that he had given up on a bumper contract but turned things around and got himself a lucrative move to Ipswich. He obviously didn't expand on what lucrative was, but he implied that it was life-changing. With an already over-inflated salary structure, there is no way that we should be trying to compete with that... Let's agree to disagree, my friend, because... Great idea! A very quick bit of digging and I found this for here https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/how-salary-cap-could-affect-ipswich-1-6782272 Quote Basically, all contracts signed before the salary cap’s introduction will be treated as the league’s current average – that’s £1,300 a week (£67,600 pa). So even though, for example, James Norwood earns more than five times that amount, the remainder of his two-year deal will be treated as £1,300 a week for the salary cap purposes. So hes on about £8k a week id guess. There or there abouts. In the English 3rd tier. Where teams literally amount to nothing. No Europe, no cups, no National Champions, just a couple of promotion places to another league thats a league away from the big time. A league in which Paul Lambert can still gain employment and earn miles more than any club in Scotland outside the 2 could afford. No wonder football is fucking fucked. Edited August 18, 2020 by mishtergrolsch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinkle Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 Hearing Shankland is away in the next few days -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 54 minutes ago, Twinkle said: Hearing Shankland is away in the next few days 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabianKnight Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Twinkle said: Hearing Stop listening then! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Twinkle said: Hearing Shankland is away in the next few days I'm hearing that you touch kids and steal from old people. I don't believe it but some people are saying .. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Worryingly Twinkle has a track record of often being correct when It comes to United related rumours. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartyftd1 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Shankland won’t be going nowhere. He hasn’t kicked a ball yet this season. Clubs bigger than us will be waiting to see how he does in the Premiership. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, stewartyftd1 said: Shankland won’t be going nowhere. He hasn’t kicked a ball yet this season. Clubs bigger than us will be waiting to see how he does in the Premiership. Double negative, Stewart. Clever. Keep them guessing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Apparently it’s Fleetwood in for him. £900k plus add ons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I am no fan of the fat-headed freak but £900k for Shankland compared to £2 million for a total fucking jobber like 'Lyndon Dykes' would be a ludicrously wrong set of valuations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 4 hours ago, Twinkle said: Hearing Shankland is away in the next few days @ArabianKnight 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 13 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: Apparently it’s Fleetwood in for him. £900k plus add ons. Mick trying to get some new blood in to rejuvenate the group. Makes sense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabFC Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 26 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: Apparently it’s Fleetwood in for him. £900k plus add ons. Fleetwood are in League One which just introduced a wage cap and they had an average attendance of 3,130 last season. I'm struggling to see how Shankland would view that as a good career move. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: Apparently it’s Fleetwood in for him. £900k plus add ons. Must be £900k per goal last season? Maybe even £900k per month for the next 2 years? Id even settle for £900k per m2 of forehead. Someone at Fleetwood is obviously having a mental breakdown of some sort. Edited August 18, 2020 by mishtergrolsch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabianKnight Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 900k for Shankland ahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, ArabianKnight said: 900k for Shankland ahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha This ETA imagine he goes down there, scored 11 goals in a season then theyll get about £394858591392 from Brentford upon Sheffield Brom on Hove Super Mare Tuesday Athletic. f**k off. Edited August 18, 2020 by mishtergrolsch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Shedboy Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said: Apparently it’s Fleetwood in for him. £900k plus add ons. The replies to this... Edited August 18, 2020 by Big Shedboy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Pull My Strings said: Mick trying to get some new blood in to rejuvenate the group. Makes sense. Oh well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaspianChris Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 6 hours ago, Twinkle said: Hearing Shankland is away in the next few days So that explains the mysterious injuries and absences then. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, CaspianChris said: So that explains the mysterious injuries and absences then. He's been away buying class A drugs for Twinkle and Albert Mangoose. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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