with hindsight, yes

but if it had been made public at the time that we had paid £3m for Earnie but to get him we had to agree to a £3.5m release clause the overwhelming number of people on here would have said that was a reasonable thing to agree to (the alternative being to sign no-one). No-one would have known that in 18 months mediocrities like Chopra would be going for £5m. We had to make the decision based on circumstances at the time. The best chance of going up was probably to do it first time. We had just sold our pedigree striker. If we didn't replace him we would have effectively quit on a crucial season. How would YOU have reacted to that? That's the position the Board were in. I can understand why they did what they did. They aren't psychic.

Posted By: mr carra on July 18th 2007 at 14:24:30

Message Thread

"we have £3.5m which has been added to Peter's playing budget." sounds hopeful (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jul 18, 14:01:21
- Its about cash, not profit....so it doesn't matter that Earnie was worth at least £1m more (n/m) (NCFC) - scarycanary, Jul 18, 14:03:54
  - we got our money's worth (NCFC) - mr carra, Jul 18, 14:08:39
    - mr carra, are you a club mouthpiece? (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, Jul 18, 14:18:17
      - with hindsight, yes (NCFC) - mr carra, Jul 18, 14:24:30
        
        bad planning to leave the signing of Ashton's replacement (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, Jul 18, 15:15:38
    - Hi Neil (n/m) (NCFC) - Brandonio, Jul 18, 14:11:27
      - LMAO (n/m) (NCFC) - scarycanary, Jul 18, 14:14:14
  - If it's about cash (NCFC) - Creosote Ah Um, Jul 18, 14:05:58
    - All the Ashton money was received in 12 months (n/m) (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, Jul 18, 14:19:07

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