Club statements today an insult to fans' intelligence

[macky]

What does it make a fan though?

I don't quite understand what you mean ? I think i'm just a stupid romantic who still expect a bit of honesty and straightforwardness silly me

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

For what it is worth I am with Tooting on this. We get to expect the bland corporate blah - but why not simply tell what has happened. It is an old-fashioned notion for sure, but this is the second time we have been here.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Wage bills for 2012/13

Albion £22 million
Burnley £15.6 million

And Derby for the same period even less. Clough was reducing the wage bill and recruiting the players we saw on Sunday.

 

[n1 gull]

I agree with Tooting. The worst thing is it's now what I expect. I hope the club let us know what is going on, but I doubt it

 

[Brighton Mod]

Maybe Garcia thought that he had been mugged off and treated with disrespect or maybe the board should select the manager with more care. \we'll never know just like the s..t smearing, but two years on the trot after playoffs to lose your manager is now becoming a habit. The chief executive is not bound to say anything but the longer he doesn't the more badly it reflects on him. Clarification please, its just a matter of courtesy.

 

[KZNSeagull]

but the difference is those anyone's are paying huge amounts
El Pres
something is drastically wrong and has been for ages (since before Gus went)
can you not see why people want to know

Is it not simply that Gus and Oscar did not believe that we could get promoted on our FFP compliant budget, competing against teams with parachute payments? Which is a little odd as both of them got pretty close. Whether this is or is not the case, we are once again looking for a manager who is up for this challenge, preferably one who will not be put off by transfer mishaps ala Grabban.

The club are clearly not going to budge on their views on FFP so until such time as FFP, or FFP2 or FFP68 has some effect, we may be in a similar situation for some time.

Anyway, let's see if Naylor sheds any light on the situation.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I only hope that those clubs who strictly comply with FFP monitor all those who don't and if little or no action is taken then they take the football league through the courts and sue them. The ridiculous situation where fines are given to charity is a nonsense as it's more money going put of the game at Football League level. The fines should be redistributed to those clubs in compliance of the rules.
Football administration in this country is becoming a complete shambles.

 

[Questions]

I quit my dream job a year ago, there were some unpleasant issues behind it, mouthing off about them in public wasn't in anyone's interests, so I said nothing. I'm sure many others have been in similar situations and have done the same.

Oscar's unhappiness with some things behind the scenes at the Albion have been known for a while, but Naylor talking about them in the Argus or people breaking the story on a message board serves no benefit to our playoff chances, so it didn't happen.

But now it can.

 

[El Presidente]

But now it can.

And indeed it has Q!