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He’s out of contract in summer.
£3m is bloody good money if he is showing no signs of signing a new contract.
Its not “good money” to me. I wont be seeing any of it. Only thing i will see is a weaker team.
Will we get a better player in for 3million? Will the 3million go on a replacement?
Just read all the posts regarding Scharner and I agree that 3M for a player out of contract in the Summer is good money. But why are we going back to Swansea for another player? has Bob not bought enough whale from there?Everything Whelan does and before I get crucified we owe him alot for having a club and being in the Prem reaks of doing it on the cheap. Bob was quoted as saying we don’t need to sell yet we are going to loose 2 of our better players. And we will replace them with a cheaper option and Big Dave will make a profit in the transfer window as he always has.
I have watched Wigan from Non league all the way to the Premiership but the way the club is run now is two veg. We will never be the biggest club but keep selling our best players is not going to put bums on seats in fact our crowds are dropping every year. All the Whelan fans are going to have a field day with this I can hear them now we have to sell to survive our crowds are not big enough but running the club like this is never going to increase our fan base.
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I understand what you’re saying, and I’m sure everyone who posts on here would love to keep all the best players and attract a bigger fanbase, but it all boils down to simple economics.
If you keep all the best players, attract more punters, and hope for a full house every game, it’s still only an additional five thousand on the gate per game. Over the course of a season, if you assume that everyone pays £25 a ticket (per league game, which they don’t, but let’s assume), that’s still under £2.5 million in additional revenue.
Sell a player like Scharner – who could leave for free in the summer, and you get £3 million in one fell swoop. I’m not going to go into the old ‘do you know how much it costs to run a football club and service its debt’ debate, but considering Whelan is one of only a few chairmen in the country who have put their own personal money into their club, even if he was to make any profit, would he not be entitled to do so, considering there has been a reputed sixty-odd million outlay from his own funds?
Before you say it, no I am not a Whelan lover. I respect what the man has done for the club I have supported for thirty-odd years, but on a moralistic level, the man is a snake. As a business man however, he is phenomenally successful, and who would you rather have in charge of your club: a successful local businessman who is thrifty and keeps a tight ship, or an Arabic oil tycoon who will loan you endless millions but is likely to get bored and drag the rug out from under your feet when he sees fit?
Yes, the club survived in the past without Whelan, but it would never have reached the Premier League without him. Who else would have invested so much money in an ailing, unfashionable, financially ruined northern football club in a town where they only like rugby, other than a local multi-millionaire?
Unfortunately, that’s the way it will be at Wigan for the foreseeable future. The only economically viable way of attracting a bigger fanbase, whilst at the same time balancing the books, is to keep the club in the Premier League for as long as possible and hope fans are picked up along the way. If we pick them up, then we do, and if not, hey-ho, never mind. We’ll just have to keep buying the Paul Scharners of this world, enjoy their contribution for a season or two, then bid them good luck as they inevitably move on.
Unless we suddenly discover that Bill Gates is originally from Whelley, then Whelan is the best we can hope for.
Unless we suddenly discover that Bill Gates is originally from Whelley, then Whelan is the best we can hope for.
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Great post, as usual.
However, fear not… apparently there was a chap around these parts once called Abram Bryn Gates, who may be related to t’other feller.
Chances yet!
Unless we suddenly discover that Bill Gates is originally from Whelley, then Whelan is the best we can hope for.
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Great post, as usual.
However, fear not… apparently there was a chap around these parts once called Abram Bryn Gates, who may be related to t’other feller.
Chances yet![/quote]
I’ve met his cousin from Westhoughton: Win
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