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One post on Facebook, from a Liverpool supporting friend (from the very, very north west of England, not Liverpool) read:
Roberto Martinez? Sweet baby Jesus! Is this how far we’ve sunk?..,….
Would his nickname be that of a search engine?
My take on that is:Clubs receive approximately £500k for qualification into the Europa Cup plus bonuses per game, but on the other hand, their spend on chartering aircraft and general logistics for away group games takes a huge chunk of that. When you then add staffing costs, stewarding, police, players’ bonuses, etc etc, your prize money is suddenly not a great deal at all, and you are relying on supporters coming through the turnstiles and willing to splash some cash to make it more attractive – something we’re not overly blessed with at Wigan (I mean the paying bit, not the attractive bit).
On top of the money side of things, you’ve then got your small squad playing at least six extra midweek games per season, when ideally they should be resting and concentrating on their league form.
Perhaps it was a case of Mr Whelan et al weighing up the pros and cons and thinking ‘Is it really worth getting into Europe, and should we start cutting our wage bill now and perhaps aspire for a top half finish?’
As much as European football is exciting, it’s also drain on resources – especially for a small, commercially unfashionable club like Wigan.
Just a thought like…please feel free to discuss.
Agree
IF Bob goes then I think we need another Spanish Manager. The style we play now is very Spanish orientated and as it finally looks like the players have grasped it, I want to see it continue.
I THINK OWEN WOULD BE GREAT HE IS A POACHER AND BETTER THAN OUR CURRENT STRIKERS HE WOULD ALSO PUT 2,000 ON THE ATTENDANCE EVERY HOME GAME.
I doubt he’d end up playing every home game. He’d certainly be the talk up at Wigan Golf Club.
Anyway, I thought we had a ‘fox in the box’ poacher in Boselli, but our style of play didn’t suit his.[/quote]
It does now[/quote]
Why sign Owen then for a fortune? Hopefully we’ll have our new striker in a rejuvenated Boselli.
The Toure brothers so we can add this to our song list
Not being funny but this rough diamond policy as been going on for 34 years
It has for sure but we slipped out of this under chris Hutchins/ Steve Bruce and started buying so called ‘finished articles’ like Bent,King, Kapo,Lenzaat,De Ridder,Kirkland.All on huge money and although the current policy didnt wash with most supporters at first who can argue with it now?
We also had spells in the lower divisions were we bought expensive players who didnt deliver when they arrived (Ashcroft, Redfearn ,Howarth spring to mind).[/quote]Bit harsh on Redfearn and Haworth imo. Haworth, whilst a lazy barsteward, worked well with Liddell and Barlow in the early part of 1999/2000 and scored some superb goals. Redfearn came in to do a job of steadying the midfield and did exactly that scoring some important goals from the spot and giving us an added edge from free kicks.
Ashcroft was shite though and about 3stone overweight.
Alternatively, let’s take the League Cup seriously.It’s the most realistic chance we have of winning a major trophy and I’d like to see us do just that.
I was browsing the local paper for the football scores. There were some interesting ones in the Musketeer League – all 4-1…..and one 4 all!!
Wouldn’t we all.
No hidden agenda here.
Just wondering what people would rather sacrifice if they had to lose 1 thing.Cup win then tbh
