bristolimp
Vital Champions League
its measured by how sustainable we are - selling on for profit secures the future.
Tayo to Blackburn?
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its measured by how sustainable we are - selling on for profit secures the future.
I see what you are saying, but I think it is part of the deal for good quality young players coming to the relative footy outpost of Lincoln. We are for some of them approved work experience, for others a step on the career path - rather that I think than a last payday for someone put out to pasture (Latchford) or another journeyman without real motivation (Battersby).
Impala
Vital Squad Member
Hope they packed the scarf to take to Bradford.
G-Of-Lincs
Vital Reserves Team
That’s where I am with my thinking. Like a premier c team.
Success is defined by on field results over several seasons not just a boom and bust approach over 1.
nothing we can do about it really. at this moment in time, we're a league one club. these players want to play in the championship. thats about the long and short of it.
John Bigbooté
Vital Reserves Team
Yeah I get that. Perhaps I should widen my criticism to the industry as a whole. Lower league football has essentially become nursery football by stealth thanks to the changes in academy rules and the imbalance caused by Premier League money. Borrowing players from clubs run by dictators and oligarchs is now something to aspire to, and flipping our own as quickly as possible is seen as success.
Lincoln should perhaps be commended for their role as pioneers navigating new waters - but it is not football as I know it, nor how I want it to be.
Casperimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
Absolutely this but unfortunately that's the reality the bloated money world and imbalance the Premier League has created. There was always a gap between the big clubs and the little clubs and it was always difficult to cross that gap but now it's chasm and virtually impossible to cross.
Sincilbanks
Vital Football Hero
In league 1 we cannot afford to compete for players who will provide on-field success as soon as they come into the team, any attempt to do that risks the entire future of the club. We can probably afford a spine of a squad that can compete immediately at this level (3 or 4 players?) After those players are signed the only way we can have any on-field success and remain remotely viable is to develop players who have the raw attributes to be able to play at this level and then coach them to be able to perform consistently at this level.
Once we have developed them and showcased their talent playing for us it is absolutely inevitable that the reality of football takes over and those players are either sold or (the worst case scenario) see out their contracts and leave for nothing to get a much better pay day somewhere else.
We were the only "small" team in the division last year to make the play-offs and that in a year with even some remote level of salary cap, this year onwards the job to compete just gets financially more and more difficult. The mere fact we are in League 1 for the 3rd season in a row and expectations are to make the play-offs is a minor miracle in itself and (in my opinion) should be judged as a massive piece of success for our "on-field results". We're a tiny fish swimming in a massive ocean and we need to get used to it...
HoofGrantBrown
Vital 1st Team Regular
The more we progress (and primarily that means financial progress in the modern football world), the more we will be able to retain better players for longer.
We're not a club at the top of the football food chain, and never will be, but we are at least no longer in the pig's trough but actually doing pretty well and could well have seen both record sales and record purchases by the time we've finished burning the midnight oil at both ends.
HoofGrantBrown
Vital 1st Team Regular
Accies will sign the current Blackburn LB...who has always wanted to play for Hamilton.
mikeosullivan
Vital Squad Member
The aim of Clive & Co has to be for the club ultimately to be self financing while still being successful. And that has to be 100% right for the long term future of the club.
We are limited on ground capacity and cannot rely on cup runs to generate additional revenue. So the only way the books can be balanced over a period of years is to sell players for more than what has been paid out in transfer fees, agent payment etc.
The club will have an internal valuation on all of our players. If a club comes in with an offer to match that valuation, he will go - and a replacement will be brought in at a lower cost.
We have to get used to that, even if it means favourite players moving on.
We are limited on ground capacity and cannot rely on cup runs to generate additional revenue. So the only way the books can be balanced over a period of years is to sell players for more than what has been paid out in transfer fees, agent payment etc.
The club will have an internal valuation on all of our players. If a club comes in with an offer to match that valuation, he will go - and a replacement will be brought in at a lower cost.
We have to get used to that, even if it means favourite players moving on.
Red Wimp
Vital Football Legend
I’m wondering when you thought it was different to this?
John Bigbooté
Vital Reserves Team
Obviously, 1992 was the turning point although the disparities really started to kick in when the Russians, Emiratis and Americans started to rock up. It's accelerated since then and the pace of change has increased with every season. I think I'm right with this illustration - when Grant went our joint-longest serving player was here on loan. I can't imagine that was ever the case before.
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clanford
Vital 1st Team Regular
Announced as a done deal on Sky Sports so it must have gone through. Whilst very disappointed to see him go, which him every success at a higher level. Hopefully it will be a good deal for both parties long term. Enjoyed watching Tayo play, and for me was one of our best signings under Mapp. Looks like the Dundee Utd lad is incoming so at least we will be getting a genuine left back on board.
But we aren’t really limited on ground capacity are we. In League One we may sell out only a couple of times this season when away teams sell out the full allocation and some will buy seats in the home stands. Not often City fans will buy all the home tickets available. We are limited due to the size of our fan base compared to some others in LG 1.
Sincilbanks
Vital Football Hero
Confirmed
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
I'm sure the club will now quickly move to announce a new signing to assist the fans to recover from hearing the disappointing news that Tayo has gone. It's nearly scarf time.
