We're in a pub league right now...Yeah, but that's 17 goals in a pub league.
Billy McKay scored 28 SPL goals for Inverness Cally Thistle before joining us, and look how that turned out...
We're in a pub league right now...Yeah, but that's 17 goals in a pub league.
Billy McKay scored 28 SPL goals for Inverness Cally Thistle before joining us, and look how that turned out...
Scottish Sun reporting we have had a £300,000 bid rejected for St Mirren midfielder Jamie McGrath.
Bottom end of the SPL is worse than League 1, trust meWe're in a pub league right now...
True, but I'd actually say the SPL has deteriorated since then.
For every McCarthy, MacArthur and Kipre there's a Mckay, Cowie and Walker...
True, it wasn't long ago that Celtic & Rangers, with their promise of European Football every season, hoovered up the best players in Scotland for peanuts, but there seems to be a genuine pushback happening these days, with other Scottish clubs either telling the Old Firm to pay top dollar, or point blank refusing to sell to them.There are loads of bargains in the SPL it's just a case of working out which players are genuinely good and which just look good in that league. Hopefully our recruitment team have found the next Scott Fraser and not the next Fraser Fyvie.
True, it wasn't long ago that Celtic & Rangers, with their promise of European Football every season, hoovered up the best players in Scotland for peanuts, but there seems to be a genuine pushback happening these days, with other Scottish clubs either telling the Old Firm to pay top dollar, or point blank refusing to sell to them.
There is good players in the SPL, but the gulf in quality is that big these days that buying any player from North of the Border comes with a massive risk.
If the signing comes off, I hope and pray to be proved wrong...
Admire his ambition, but If we're in the Premier League within the next five years, I'll get a Wigan Warriors badge tattoo'd on my arse and you can hold me to that.
A stable self sustainable Championship club in the next five years will do me just fine.
Bold statements of ambition from @Talalalhammad32 in his latest interview #wafc https://t.co/yXFVMI6fPa
They aren't signing the likes of Wyke to sit in mid table in L1, so no surprise whatsoever and you love the ambition.
But obviously that ambition needs to based in realism and while 5 years to the Prem is certainly not impossible; if they want to achieve that they hopefully understand the level of investment that will require. Unlike Choi who seemed to massively underestimate the money required to meet the 3 year target he set.
The other thing they hopefully have in mind is while it's great to have bold goals - in football it's easier said than done - even if you are willing to invest. So they have to be willing to adapt their goals if things don't go to plan.
I can imagine these quotes are understandably going to make some people nervous after what we just went through with Choi. But the flip side is no great achievement comes without big ambition so I guess we'll see how it plays out.
I think the big difference this time is while Choi never showed any interest Talal seems like he's super into it so hopefully it will become a labour of love like it was for Whelan and Sharpe rather than a faceless business transaction for IEC.
They aren't signing the likes of Wyke to sit in mid table in L1, so no surprise whatsoever and you love the ambition.
But obviously that ambition needs to based in realism and while 5 years to the Prem is certainly not impossible; if they want to achieve that they hopefully understand the level of investment that will require. Unlike Choi who seemed to massively underestimate the money required to meet the 3 year target he set.
The other thing they hopefully have in mind is while it's great to have bold goals - in football it's easier said than done - even if you are willing to invest. So they have to be willing to adapt their goals if things don't go to plan.
I can imagine these quotes are understandably going to make some people nervous after what we just went through with Choi. But the flip side is no great achievement comes without big ambition so I guess we'll see how it plays out.
I think the big difference this time is while Choi never showed any interest Talal seems like he's super into it so hopefully it will become a labour of love like it was for Whelan and Sharpe rather than a faceless business transaction for IEC.
Haha, I'm going to refer back to my well positioned caveat in that statement!This aged well
They aren't signing the likes of Wyke to sit in mid table in L1, so no surprise whatsoever and you love the ambition.
But obviously that ambition needs to based in realism and while 5 years to the Prem is certainly not impossible; if they want to achieve that they hopefully understand the level of investment that will require. Unlike Choi who seemed to massively underestimate the money required to meet the 3 year target he set.
The other thing they hopefully have in mind is while it's great to have bold goals - in football it's easier said than done - even if you are willing to invest. So they have to be willing to adapt their goals if things don't go to plan.
I can imagine these quotes are understandably going to make some people nervous after what we just went through with Choi. But the flip side is no great achievement comes without big ambition so I guess we'll see how it plays out.
I think the big difference this time is while Choi never showed any interest Talal seems like he's super into it so hopefully it will become a labour of love like it was for Whelan and Sharpe rather than a faceless business transaction for IEC.
My issue with the statement is that I want Wigan Athletic around till I'm no more (& beyond) & I don't want to run the risk of going through what we've just been through ever again
Whilst I think undoubtedly there were things that could have been done differently under Whelan to increase our income streams, to go on that fantastic journey we had meant the club lost millions upon millions of £'s over that period & Whelan covered it
IEC continued to cover losses & the appeal over the points deduction was right in saying that this is what you run the risk of when a club is reliant on 1 person (or a company) to fund it's spending levels (regardless of how they screwed us over in the end)
We all know how much investment is required (unless you strike it very lucky) to get from Lge1 to the top flight in 5 years & whilst club's are always reliant on some extent to certain revenue streams I don't ever want to see us reliant again on 1 person or company to fund losses just to push us up the leagues - I want us to maximise income & only spend what we generate. If that means Latics spend the rest of eternity in Lge1 or has the odd promotion & relegation and cup runs I'm fine with that just as I'd be fine if a sensible & self financing plan gets us back in the top flight
That said, this interview is tempered by more realistic comments that I've seen both from the chairman & the likes of Brannigan so I'm hoping that he was just getting a bit giddy with it all
If that is all the ambition you have for a football club then maybe you would be better supporting a Walsall Crewe or Scunthorpe type of club. No offence