"Ambition"

[WithamImp76]

Toney will go this window (probably to Huddersfield) for £3-4m .... maybe DC will snap up Andrade/Toffolo/Chapman for £1-1.5m, seeing as he has big bucks to spend?

Why would he when he can have them all for nowt in the summer?? One thing we know is DC is tighter than a ducks arse on transfer fees...

 

[exhertsimp]

Liam Scully has applied for a position at Huddersfield according to a bloke unlikely to be ITK who sits near me

 

[Luke Imp]

Peterborough United published its accounts yesterday with more detail than is customary for clubs at our level.

In 2018-19 they made a massive operating loss of over £5.5 million on a turnover of £6.5m (much lower turnover plus increased wages). This was mostly offset by their huge profit of £4.4m on player transfers (mostly Jack Marriott and Gwion Edwards the latter of which who was so unimpressive last Sunday for Ipswich)

Still lost over £1m, though, despite that.

Wage bill at Peterborough is £5.3m (82% of turnover)

Obviously they still have some very saleable players indeed, but despite the success of this model they have still lost £4.4m in the last five years.

The club owes £1m in bank loans and almost £7m to the owner(s)

They're a weird one for me.

You can see what they're trying to do, but they have very little (or no recently) progression with it. It just seems that the Chairman is happy having games involved in lots of goals, sell a player or two a summer and start all over again. There's got to be a balancing act between the two. It's almost like it's a continuous ego massage to get as much money for a player as possible. And even then, from a business point of view it's not necessarily working out for them.

The also seem to have a high turnover of players as well, which can't help them.

 

[Luke Imp]

In some respect though we have possibly ended up with a better technical coach who may actually more suited to having us challenge at the top of League 1 with lesser resources.

This is a well made point IMO.

Now we've seen more of L1 than we had done at the time DC/NC left, it's clearly a much more technical league than L2 and I'd suggest MA is more in that mould, and an experienced L1 manager at that, too.

That's not to say it wouldn't have worked under the previous management but their way is different to MA (although not as extreme as opposition fans would have you believe!).

 

[MaineRoad_96]

It's almost like it's a continuous ego massage

Nail hit squarely on the head.