[Archived] Nickos Thread

[brian_gallagher85]

Only if he wants to go abroad!

[Ewood and I Would]

I have Eva Longoria in mine - but each to their own

Not a big fan of MILFs but whatever floats your boat

[American Rover12]

I have Eva Longoria in mine - but each to their own

Touché good sir.

[Hughesy]

Rumours in papers at weekend where that Wheater would rather sign a new club for Boro than bigger clubs for bigger cash due to the fact its his boyhood club, no chance we would get him!

[nicko]

This guy obviously wasn't a dud...the Macedonian Steven Gerrard.

http://www.football.co.uk/ipswich_town/mag...ki_260314.shtml

[brian_gallagher85]

Kuqi banged them in over at Portman Road though Nicko in all fairness.

Would have liked to have seen him given a go in a Rovers shirt, however having watched the 3 videos on youtube, about 30mins of coverage, I never once saw him have one meaningful shot on goal!

[nicko]

Interesting...

http://www.thisisblackburn.co.uk/display.var.2051757.0..php

Confirms one or two things mentioned here in the past few months.

Well worth reading.

[PAFELL]

Interesting...

http://www.thisisblackburn.co.uk/display.var.2051757.0..php

Confirms one or two things mentioned here in the past few months.

Well worth reading.

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Read the article on the LET web, I agree it is interesting and confirms what most have believed for awhile, with regards to the money situation at Rovers. John Williams did say that a few parties are still interesting in buying Rovers though - have you heard anything on this? who they maybe etc?

[Dunnfc]

Dosent really go in depth to answer some of the questions, but hes very honest in what hes actually saying.

Dissapointed in the Walker trust because of several reasons but hopefully we will be takenover sooner rather than later. If the Walkers don't want anything to do with us why don't they just sell us on the cheap etc.

On another LET article it said debt hav risen from 13 mill to 20 mill how?

[philipl]

Answers to Rev Blue's and Dunnfc's questions here

[Exiled in Toronto]

"They have supported the club to the tune of £3m-a-year for the last six years, and £40m in total since Jack died, which is not inconsiderable."

This is a bald-faced lie and should be exposed as such. Our own message board accountant has stated innumerable times that the Trust has been putting in £7m-a-year cash for the last few years.

On that basis, should I not believe anything else Chairman Williams says in this article???

[Bazzanotsogreat]

Answers to Rev Blue's and Dunnfc's questions here

Where?

Still looking

[tony gale's mic]

it is pretty depressing reading, but will the money be diminished this much for next season?

i mean if we take the £11 million, then hopefully wages won't go up by so much this year (£3 million is a lot), and since we've got rid of savage and there's probably some more quite big earners who might be on their way (eg benni, roberts possibly MGP?) then hopefully that will lighten that load a little and we could be £1 million up on that even if we do give a new contract to bentley.

hopefully this overhang won't be as bad since we havent signed as many players of late, so maybe we can get another £ 1 million there. and if we're going to be closer to breaking even then you'd hope that there'd be another couple of million there, added onto the fact we couldve probably spent about 2 million this transfer window (we got £1.5 million from savage) and didn't so this is left over, there's probably a good £5-6 million from this for the summer hopefully. and then whatever else we would've got to spend this summer anyway as this is just the extra money that's being counted in these calculations.

not a pot of riches or anywhere near our rivals, but its money which could potentially be spent wisely. we should also take into account we're currently sitting on three very promising assets in samba, bentley and RSC, all of whom are quite young and should they leave the club would get us a pretty penny. bentley £15 million, RSC would depend on when he leaves but even if he leaves us in two seasons time he'll be 28 so probably at least £10 million, and samba at least £7 million. look at the other teams in the league with a similarish financial picture to us such as bolton and reading, theyre not sitting on anywhere near as much in terms of potential. bolton were but theyve wasted a lot of the anelka money already.

[philipl]

"They have supported the club to the tune of £3m-a-year for the last six years, and £40m in total since Jack died, which is not inconsiderable."

This is a bald-faced lie and should be exposed as such. Our own message board accountant has stated innumerable times that the Trust has been putting in £7m-a-year cash for the last few years.

On that basis, should I not believe anything else Chairman Williams says in this article???

There is an incongruity but no lie.

Jack died in 2000 or seven full years ago. 7 x 3 = £21m. £3m is the number which has always been appearing in related party transactions being the annual Walker Trust gift to the club.

But £40m since Jack died: 40/7 = ~£6m which is what the accounts show for ACTUAL CASH TRANSFERRED (and that is what matters- not what it is labelled as) each year to June 2006. In 2006/7 cash transferred dropped to £3m.

The difference between £3m and £6m was paid over in loans. In the last three years over £90 million of loans or convertible shares ranking as loans have been turned into ordinary share capital so irrespective of whatever heading Jack Walker or the Walker Trust introduced that cash to the club under, it has all been turned into a capital contribution which equates to a gift.

The £7m number came from an anticipated figure which I believe originated from the club before the new Sky deal was announced.

Meanwhilst somewhere else, Bazza is learning how to read.

[ally]

what are chances of getting paul robinson off spurs now i see there after jamo and Marco Amelia?? i know brad is still performing well but he is getting on. although jason brown must have done something right to get a new contract

[Hughesy]

For some strange reason alot of board members dont seem to like Robinson - but for me he has the potential to become a great keeper.

[modes98]

For some strange reason alot of board members dont seem to like Robinson - but for me he has the potential to become a great keeper.

It is a case of rebuilding his confidence. He was and still is a quality keeper, it would take a while to get him back but whoever takes it on will find it worth their while imo.

[nicko]

I thought this was an intriguing paragraph and it's a surprise nobody picked up on it...

We also had another potential target, which would have involved one player leaving and another one coming in, but that didn't happen because we couldn't pull it off.

I suggest those who sneered at the Anelka in-McCarthy out story may have to re-assess their thinking.

[bringdunnback]

Arte you sure it wasn't Roberts and someone else.

[LeChuck]

Meanwhilst somewhere else, Bazza is learning how to read.

I don't know why, but that really tickled me.

[joey_big_nose]

I thought this was an intriguing paragraph and it's a surprise nobody picked up on it...

We also had another potential target, which would have involved one player leaving and another one coming in, but that didn't happen because we couldn't pull it off.

I suggest those who sneered at the Anelka in-McCarthy out story may have to re-assess their thinking.

Could be Roberts/Koumas? Or perhaps McCarthy-Sidwell? Maybe we were trying to swap Rigters plus cash for that Dutch fellow. Apart from that I'm stumped. I guess Anelka-McCarthy could have been it.

[joey_big_nose]

not a pot of riches or anywhere near our rivals, but its money which could potentially be spent wisely. we should also take into account we're currently sitting on three very promising assets in samba, bentley and RSC, all of whom are quite young and should they leave the club would get us a pretty penny. bentley £15 million, RSC would depend on when he leaves but even if he leaves us in two seasons time he'll be 28 so probably at least £10 million, and samba at least £7 million. look at the other teams in the league with a similarish financial picture to us such as bolton and reading, theyre not sitting on anywhere near as much in terms of potential. bolton were but theyve wasted a lot of the anelka money already.

DOn't talk like that! THis time last season we were saying "Pedersen 10m", "McCarthy 15m", "Nelsen 8m". Recent enormous drops in form have wiped out their value.

Don't tempt fate!

[Exiled_Rover]

Arte you sure it wasn't Roberts and someone else.

That's what I was thinking when I read that. Anelka is clearly out of our price range.

[brian_gallagher85]

I'm trying to cheer myself up by thinking it was Gamst and Huddlestone

[nicko]

Could be Roberts/Koumas? Or perhaps McCarthy-Sidwell? Maybe we were trying to swap Rigters plus cash for that Dutch fellow. Apart from that I'm stumped. I guess Anelka-McCarthy could have been it.

I am pretty certain that was the 'dream' move that the manager had in mind. When Chelsea came in the price went too high and the chances disappeared.