Cerbera":1h8ek5cd said:CF is an awful manager.
Where do you think the Chairman's secret stash of money is? The club is only allowed to spend 55% of it's gate receipts on the playing budget. Or are you suggesting the Chairman uses his personal money? Why should he? PAFC is a business, as such it must make a profit or at least break even. Making sustained losses means administration. What are you talking about, it wasn't overspending that got us in a mess? Who spent £17m we didn't have then? You clearly have absolutely no fiscal understanding at all.
Oh dear, here we go again! The facts! We had won an award as the best financially managed club in the division the year before and were riding high in the Championship with a chance of Premiership football when Stapleton decided he wasn't going to renew the players contracts that January prompting a superb manager Holloway's departure because he was mortified at the lack of ambition shown and understandably so.
There followed a mass exodus of players, namely our best for which the Club raked in millions and millions. That money was not put back on the table for purchases at anything like the rate fat sales were arriving at the bank. We instead went cheap, getting in utility players, bringing back a manager who got the best out of those types of players (Sturrock, except this didn't work at that level) and we started to plummet, simply because the squad was rendered incapable of competing. When panic buttons were hit and we had arrivals such as Mpenza, etc, etc, the whole thing had already gone so badly pear-shaped we were already in free-fall. Money was then spent very unwisely (agree) on a massive squad of useless players (now THIS is your 17 million !) but the catalyst WAS lack of ambition, lack of that old addage of speculating to accumulate.
For the Club to survive we DO need investment. If James Brent can enter in to a project such as Pavillions then my question is is his heart in Argyle to an equal extent. If not, what is he doing there?? The Club needs a fresh impetus, it is stagnating and in grave danger of losing it's league status and as a fervent fan this concerns me greatly.
Now some people may think well, all well and good but we are in this position now so the mistakes of the past, whichever way you see them, are irrelevant but I'd say no to that. We have to break this culture that we are just a selling club. Every time a young lad shows promise we are talking price tags in no time. Look at Palace's refusal to part with Zaha because they want him to play for THEM in the Premiership NOT Man Utd. Good!! Another trait we have to break is thinking it is acceptable to field a group of mainly average/sub-standard players week in week out in the forlorn hope that they make click and produce a string a good results. From evidence of previous glimmmers of light, green shoots, all the analogies going, this is clearly not going to happen. So, yes it needs our Chairman to delve in to some alternative fund in order to improve the team as he is the man in charge out there. I can't understand the 'why should he? philosophy, he would, maybe indirectly, be the beneficiary of much improved attendances allied to a promotion in any case.
We have to put some pride back in the fans by putting all of our efforts in to buliding and maintaining a good squad of able players. This is plain and simply the only viable way forward for this Club. There is no other argument. When people put a case against this they are not so much being pragmatic or realistic as they are vindicating our way to the Blue Square Zone of total obscurity..