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I must admit our owners actions are hard to swallow but them leaving right now would be catastrophic. The stark reality is, as it stands without them right now we would go under in a max of 2 months.
We have to believe that the majorly fcuked up and once this huge monthly outgoings becomes manageable come June/July and people like Fletcher Cousins Edwards and a gang of others who basically took and never gave have gone then and only then can we start to plan for next season.
The problem now is, what do we do with Jordan Jones Shinnie, Humphrys, McGrath ?. All of these players have a year left.
For me flog the lot asap and get some money in I bet there’s not far off £150k in monthly wages there we can save we can I’ll afford to have these lot top earning in L1.
Clubs will have us over a barrel with these lot knowing, if we get them on loan for say 12 month they’ll all be free agents come 2024 because we know Wigan can’t afford to keep them on the payroll and I’m sure none want to play in L1 anyway !!.
Then there’s Wyke the clubs current top earner, we all know what he’s been through but that should be behind him one way or another. The club recently a released a candid give nothing away statement saying hope he gets better, from what ?. No mention of heart problems or injury just a “Get well soon” message.
Now I know this may seem harsh but, he needs to be assessed if he has long term none injury related problems. At any work place you would be looked at and released from your company if you can longer do your job after a lengthy time out. It seems to me that the club are holding back on the real reasons why he’s not been available as there’s a few rumours flying around I won’t mention.
9 of the players out of contact or leaving are over 30 which speaks volumes as to which direction we’ve been going in. We should have concentrated on bringing young lads through not flooding the club with top earning end of career players, no wonder were in the sh1t were in !!!!!.
I asked this before, weres the likes of Jonathan Jackson ? I’m not saying he’d be hungry to come back but it’s people like him we need at our club. No more Ballbag Brannigan on £250,000 a year milking us till we bleed we need Latics young and old running our club.
If there’s one good thing that’s going to come out of all this, we will finally start to see some of the younger lads given a chance. Yes we know it will be tough for them and us but we need to get behind them 200% win lose draw.
And a message to our owners, get your act together, you have a clean slate come July top earners will hopefully all be gone and there should not be any more wages issues.
If you cannot run a club next season that will have a wage bill less than the reception class at St Catherine’s has then you need leave our club infact leave football asap and let the missus step in, she can budget better than you lot.