Morning all....lets begin

I am not sure budgets will be the deciding factor it could be other factors like training facilities and who recruits the players

 

I think we have to carry on with the current plan. Changing the structure and culture of a club takes time but we are moving towards a more long term, sustainable model.

Under Rhodes and Lawn it was short term, one season at a time and see if we could net a windfall from a cup run or player sale.

With the current ownership there is a plan of signing first team players with a potential sell on value alongside signing young players for the development squad who may become assets in the future. This is a much more sustainable model and is a model that we as fans have often envied when in place at other clubs like Peterborough.

Mistakes have been made, the owners have admitted it but I still think we are heading in the right direction if you look a bit more long term.

 

If we are to mirror Peterborough then we are going to have speculate quite a bit more than what we have this season. They actively target the top talent of the leagues below with competitive bids to match. Of all the money the money we speculated in the summer, the only player you could say would attract a bid was Robinson who was a free transfer.

 

And they have taken a fortune in player sales over the years and spent a fraction of it . They will do the same this summer with Maddison. And Marriott. With the players they have if I was a Peterborough fan I would be very disappointed not being in the play offs

 

They have taken a lot but have spent big to accumulate big. Don't forget how much they spent on Luke James, £500,000. You have to be prepared in the fact that not all gambles will pay off. Peterborough system can work, but only with large investment and being able to accept that you may lose big on some signings.

 

I would hope if we are ever in the position of selling players for big money it would all go into team strengthening

 

So who benefits from this "get em young sell them on", when there is no improvement of their footballing status, most Bradford City fans would be well pissed off if that is what our owners are going to do with any "gem" they unearth.
Surely it has to be reinvested in the first team if they are not prepared to fiance it themselves.

 

I agree.if you like I would like to be like Crewe and instead of putting money into keeping afloat invest it all back into the team. Over the last few years we have benefited greatly from the sale of young players I hope they now can do it on a bigger scale. At the same time I hope the team progresses as well

 

Thats not how it works Park, the whole idea of the strategy is for the club to be self sustainable so i keep hearing. That strategy is built around developing players for resale, i would expect a small percentage of money made from player sales would go to team strengthening. Barnsley have made very big profits from a number of players who now play in the premiership such as Stones, Holgate, Mawson and others. But as a business were operating at quite large losses before these sales were taken into account. Point being that you can operate a successful strategy based on young talent and purchasing lower league talent but be prepared that you will have other clubs speculating on the very same players you want, you want the potential big sell on signings then you are going to have to be prepared to lose in the short term to get them.

 

You know, IF Grayson does sign, it doesn't neccessarily mean we can break out the champagne. We're thinking that if he does sign, it's because his terms have been agreed. Well to be honest, he hasn't exactly pulled up many trees during his time with us, and his stock might have gone from a furious boil, to a steady simmer. Didn't exactly do it at Sunderland either.

Which means, he might just have to take what's on offer, regardless if we tick all his boxes.

 

Yes I know that perhaps I should say most of the money. Unlike many clubs we start from a sound base no punitive interest to pay on debt

 

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