According to Alan Brazil, we've run out of money.

[BuddyBoy]

If money was tight we'd lose all our games, not least Birmingham. Yeah, so so true.

Utter bull. This man needs his P45 back.

 

[carlzeiss]

Most clubs run out of money years ago . They simply spend money that they don't have .IE debt

 

[KingstonSeagull]

We have the highest attendance in the league, I am pretty sure that we are in a better financial state than many others..

 

[BHAZiggy]

To be fair, it is common knowledge that Brighton and Hove Albion ran out of money. It is a shame that Mr Brazil never sobered up since hearing this news back in 1995 and still has no idea that we no longer play at the Goldstone Ground.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

What does 'run out of money' actually mean though?

Spent our budget for this season ?

Have nothing in the bank, and can't cover anymore 8 million pound losses ?


Maybe he just read that Palace idiot on football rumours who keeps banging on that we've no money and are selling Bridcutt to them for something like 12p

 

[Seagull73]

What does 'run out of money' actually mean though?

Spent our budget for this season ?

Have nothing in the bank, and can't cover anymore 8 million pound losses ?


Maybe he just read that Palace idiot on football rumours who keeps banging on that we've no money and are selling Bridcutt to them for something like 12p

Now why wouldn't it surprise me if Brazil got his info from football rumours?

Also, as another poster said, I don't buy him 'having contacts'. The only contacts he would have likely kept going are the heads of the breweries.

Still, we might not have any money though. Just he wouldn't know shite....

 

[Tooting Gull]

I don't buy him 'having contacts'. ....

He spends most of his time pissed out of his head in bars talking to players, managers, owners and the media about football. As any journalist would tell you, that's when you get your best stories.

 

[Seagull73]

He spends most of his time pissed out of his head in bars talking to players, managers, owners and the media about football. As any journalist would tell you, that's when you get your best stories.

Point taken, but frankly who would talk to him being that he is just a pissed-up journalist, and even if they did tell him 'stuff', how would he remember what he was told?

 

[shaunslats]

never take anything said on Talkshite sriously

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

What does 'run out of money' actually mean though?

Spent our budget for this season ?

Have nothing in the bank, and can't cover anymore 8 million pound losses ?


Maybe he just read that Palace idiot on football rumours who keeps banging on that we've no money and are selling Bridcutt to them for something like 12p

Exactly. "Run out of money" may mean not spending £2m on a striker again this season or the club aren't prepared to ignore FFP and the fines by overspending. Perhaps its becasue we didn't (re)sign Bridge on inflated wages and so obviously we're skint.

I doubt it means the club are broke and can't cover their expenditure. I'd like to think that the club are being run sensibly similar to Arsenal where they aren't prepared to be held to ransom on transfer fees or wages.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Point taken, but frankly who would talk to him being that he is just a pissed-up journalist, and even if they did tell him 'stuff', how would he remember what he was told?

He isn't a journalist. I prefer overpaid blagger. And on the memory thing, you have an excellent and valid point.

 

[Ernest]

HE is TALKING about the 1983 FA Cup Final and the MONEY Bloom got FROM selling WITHDEAN to the COUNSEL

 

[Bladders]

This is the same drunk idiot who touts Ipswich for promotion every pre-season.

 

[saafend_seagull]

Doesn't take a genius to work out we are spending less.

Everyone is except forest.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Crap tabloid radio station with crap presenters, who like to stir the crap for the sake of their crap ratings.

How could you ever take this bloke seriously?

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Hardly front page news. OK there's no denying that Barber has been fairly open in recent months about reining in our deficit but doesn't mean we are skint, just having to be very prudent. Talksport are only too happy to peddle gossip and half truths. I take most of what is said on there with a huge pinch of salt.

Of course it's no coincidence that throw away comments like that happen to suit the agenda of a certain ex-Albion manager. Brazil is still keen to talk up his Ipswich connections so who knows he might have had a chat with Tanno or maybe just put a bit of spin on bar room tittle tattle?

Pity he didn't acknowledge that we have been reasonably active in the transfer market and only just signed two players in Andrews and Ward who were allegedly on big money elsewhere, so we can't be that skint. The trouble is Clubs trying to be prudent under FFP are a soft target for cheap comments, just because we aren't spraying money around for fun like in the Prem or Championship clubs with parachute money. I hope Alan Brazil asks searching questions about the Clubs like Forest who are spraying money around, in spite of FFP.

Of course in some ways it may not do too much harm for such stories to play down our financial position so when we go looking for signings other Clubs don't think we are minted, but then I don't think they are that easily fooled either.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Better that other teams and agents think you are skint, than think you have, say 140 million, and price accordingly during transfer negotiations.

*cough* Dwight Gayle.

 

[public school boy]

The club have been hit hard financially by not getting into the premiership. By all the cost cutting that is going on I would say that money is tight but this is only to be expected. The club has to be run on a tight budget and the days of running up huge debts are over. We are going to have to rely on loans, free transfers and developing players for the future or find an extremely rich benefactor.

 

[kevo]

Why does anyone listen to TalkSport, let alone believe anything any of their presenters say?

 

[Southern Scouse]

talksport - s*n.

I still find it inconceivable that anyone actually listens/reads their rubbish, says a lot for Britain today.