Oh dear, apparently, they’ve had the austerity chat at Sevco.
It is one thing to walk into a meeting hoping for the £15m budget and willing to accept £10m.
It is quite another to walk out with zilch.
The thing is, he THOUGHT that he had a budget.
Bless him.
Consequently, he went into the sit-down armed with a couple of likely targets to strengthen the squad in January.
My information is that he was informed that his recruitment business would have to be, ideally, loan deals.
Moreover, the loaning club will have to pick up most of the salary.
I’m told that the Belgian then informed the Transcendental Chairman and his trembling office junior that the parent club would expect said loanee to play in every match if fit.
Obviously, that curtails the autonomy of the manager, who has to select the best possible team on a game-by-game basis.
Sadly, I’m told that the dignified conclave got worse.
My information is that Philippe was told that even if he generated funds from player sales, he wasn’t guaranteed to receive all of it for re-investment.
In an entirely unrelated development, I’m told that UEFA have intimated that they weren’t impressed with the year-end accounts of the parent company, Rangers International Football Club (RIFC).
This convinced me that Planet Fitba’s gallant allies in Europe are getting through to the Sevco High Command that sustainability is the way forward.
The brethren in the Blue Room will hope that their Old Firm friends at Managed Decline FC will do them a solid and give Brendan a few projects instead of the first team starters he has insisted upon.
We know how that treason finale ended in February 2019.
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Just wondering, do you get a dunce’s hat and free set of donkey’s ears when when you get appointed manager at Sevco?
Don’t forget profits 2 year’s running now and they will be trying to reduce that large wage bill by not purchasing any new players strategy.
McCausland will be punted to anyone who offers the same money as was paid for their last young Evertonian superstar, £16m sorry £3m.
Philippe had an option in the cash rich east apparently surely a man of his dignity could walk away in breach of contract. Their recent purchases will be in no hurry to seek new employment.
Sevco must have had an idea that they would be low on funds, I think they hood-winked Monsieur Philippe and he did not do his homework on the fraudster of a club. My first question would be, how much funds do I have to spend on players I want? Did he go into the Sevco meeting blind and stupid? Of course, I could be way off the mark, but I’d put nothing past them. Just saying!
That might explain the emergence of the laptop superstardom of the boy Mcauseland (hes like a new signing dont you know ) expect the headlines of the treatment room producing another 3 or 4 , like new signings too
Oh dear indeed.
Sevco should have been up front about the challenges of the job during the recruitment phase. Otherwise they risk having a disgruntled employee who could seek constructive dismissal.
But equally, there are some obvious questions the candidate should have asked:
* why has such a ‘huge club’ won so little in the past ten years?
* how did such a ‘huge club’ come to be playing in the fourth tier quite recently?
* why has there been such a turnover of managers?
* why is the injury list so long?
* why did two ‘star players’ walk away on free transfers?
* why are so many of the current squad free/cheap transfers or loan players?
* why has such a ‘huge club’ not turned a profit in the past ten years despite sell out crowds and playing in Europe?
None of these questions get into the same club/new club issue – they are just sensible questions looking at the club’s annual reports and track record over the past decade. The answers would suggest the club has a toxic business model and good managers would look elsewhere for their next gig.
Wouldn’t even try to put it better myself!
On the money ,as usual
If Phillippe had done due diligence (read this website) he would have known he was being lied to.
I have a feeling that Phil the Flem will not be best pleased to have the promises made to him broken in such short order, they can be a sulky lot at the best of times. On the plus side it’s nice to hear the white elephant in the room hasn’t gone away.
Keith jackass could turn that into a positive
Indeed he could but only the Govan half-a-heids would believe it. For them, it beats reality every day of the week.
Aye, it’ll be a a MINIMUM, ‘war chest”, of £15m!!
Purely coincidentally of course, Phil, I see the fantasy football pundits are regurgitating last summer’s tinfoil hat pish about a Malik Tilman transfer windfall for Sevco. Apparently they will pocket £1.2m of his imminent £12m transfer to PSV. I’m not sure what’s less believable – the deluded nonsense that they have any claims whatsoever on a player, whose loan deal (and therefore any related purchase option) expired ages ago, or that PSV would stump up £12m for such a mediocre dud. Especially as I would imagine all of Dutch football is firmly in “once bitten, twice shy” mode, with regard to ex-Sevco players after the Calvin Bassey experience. I don’t see his name on any Harry Kane assists, far less goals of his own, or even appearances for Bayern.
He is currently at PSV which may explain why he isn’t creating many chances for Harry Kane
Ah , it’s great to know that there are still some proper ,old fashioned journalists out there in wee Scawlin’ like yourself Phil . People who ask questions and then question answers ! People who always say ,nah , I can’t eat lamb ,but I’m hungry for the truth to be told !