Now what was that statement that mark twain made about benjamin disraeli
i’ll leave that for you to google
I am afraid manipulating data so martinez benefits from the sale of players(valencia)who had left the club before martinez arrived, or cattermole who never played for martinez just smacks of desperation – how on earth can any current manager benefit from a previous ones plus column , not one of martinezs signings have shown a profit and when we are relegated the value of the ones hes signed will drop even more.
Oh i just remembered what that american fellow said now, something about lies & damn lies wasnt it.
The biggest load of crap since last weeks daily express imigration scare.
Of course he should be shown to benefit from the sales of Valencia and Cattermole!
The whole point of highlighting the sales as well as purchases is give a net spend figure, not to say ‘Isn’t Roberto clever getting all the money by selling Valencia’.
If he’d used funds won on a scratch card bought by Steve Bruce, I’m sure that would have been shown too.
No, he hasn’t received profit for any of the players he signed – because only three of his signing have left (loan signings not included):
Amaya came as part of the Diame deal, and left for nothing.
Steven Caldwell arrived on a free, and a year later left on a free.
Scotland was signed for £2 million, and sold for £1 million.
It’s hardly a massive loss in the grand scheme of things is it, considering he’s probably saved in the region of £4 million just by offloading Bramble, De Ridder, Brown and Cattermole and bringing in players on lower salaries?[/quote]
For christs sake standish have you had some form of brain surgery that has effected your reasoning – how on earth can martinez be credited on what is basically a profit and loss cash book, 16 million in credit for valencia or 6 mill for cattermole ?
Their purchase and sales values had been concluded before martinez was in control, any manager can only be judged on net worth, what he’s spent, the return he got for his investment and value of any sale.
From where I see it martinez is being credited with over 31 million pounds (valencia, cattermole, nzogbia) that he is not entitled to although in nzogbia’s case, playing under martinez suited him and added value to his net worth this is something that must also be included in any comparisons.
