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Our wages should be based on our regular income. That’s the only way to stay sustainable. One off windfalls should in the main be used for one off expenses, or areas where a return on investment is more likely - like youth development facilities, or repairs and upgrades that may reduce our ongoing costs. Doubling our wage budget doesn’t guarantee us success, and we have learned twice in the last 15 or so years that overspending and getting it wrong could be catastrophic. We’re still paying back Boyle and Hutchinson for those.

I wouldn’t go reading between the lines with the squad number announcement. Turnbull has a number because he hasn’t officially left yet. Cadden is out of contract, so wouldn’t have a number.

With the crazy money down there the sell on could be worth more than the initial fee. Gives me a reason to look out for English scores now.

There’s no way we didn’t include a sell on, it has been clear over that last few years that that’s just standard procedure for us and most other clubs. We even negotiate sell ons for guys we let go for nothing.

I’d tend to agree with the above, I can only see him ending up at Celtic.

So i think it’s safe to say that it was Turnbull’s agent who leaked the stories of Celtics bid being accepted and him turning down their terms. Maybe it would have been more prudent of both clubs to to stay quiet until a deal was done, and let the papers print what they want. Fans are going to piss their pants either way.

Maybe we should just not loan folk from hearts

I have to assume that there is enough interest from other clubs to prompt him to hold out for better offers. I agree that we should have just released the statement to say we accepted the bid then left it at that. Fans are going to moan either way, that’s what we do, and they should have waited until things were signed and sealed before trying to justify it. in relation to that, I have found the comments from Burrows, Wilson, and our friendly journalists about how great a deal this is and how lucky we are, and why we should be grateful, to be really cringeworthy. I don’t think anyone has a huge issue about us selling our players, in this case the issue is who it was to, the timing, and the manner in which it was communicated that pissed some folk off.

A moat would be great for preventing pitch invasions, and we could have floating advertising signs, like a more laid back version of those annoying as fuck electronic ones with cars on them. I’m sold. Now looking forward to the exclusive in the sun.

FWIW Burrows also mentioned the 3m+ figure on the twitter, and has been answering some tweets, so not exactly hiding. but this all still fucking blows.

This sucks ass

A higher budget doesn’t guarantee success, unless we’re talking about out-spending the city clubs, which we can’t do because you can only spend what you have. We also tried that and the club almost died. Our player budget should always be a percentage of our regular income. Gambling the clubs existence for a slightly better chance of finishing 5-6th isn’t sustainable.

This is the market we work in, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. Rarely are we going to sign a player that we all know and are going to get excited about.

I mind we did one on here back in the WTFC days, pretty sure flow was the one behind it. I’m surprised it has taken so long for the club to do something like this.

That rumored guy from Northampton has signed for crewe

I can see the initial class being a mix of guys from different eras, but the names above would be no brainers for me.

Motherwell launching Hall of Fame - https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2019/06/06/launching-the-motherwell-fc-hall-of-fame/ Who’d be your stick-ons for the first class?

I don’t think we have to do anything with it in the near term (unless there’s some critical repairs or upgrades that have been put off). We rely on the well society for extra funds when things are tight, so this would give us some security for a few seasons. I could see a modest increase in the wage budget, but we should be basing that on our general income to stay sustainable.

I’m going to guess that most clubs who can afford 3 million plus probably see their development system as better than ours. The only slight glimmer of hope for a loan back is that it looks like multiple clubs are interested, so someone might bite now to make sure they get him. I’d also guess that loaning him to us might result in less add ons. I’m pretty sure that he’ll be gone by January at the latest, but I think selling him now contradicts our model and messaging. We’re all about “it’s better to stay here and develop instead of rotting in the reserves at a team we don’t like”, but if a good fee comes in that whole development schtick goes out the window.

McCormack released by villa

Announcement expected at 7pm

Squad updates: https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2019/05/21/update-on-playing-squad-for-2019-20/ notable points would be Cadden yet to sign a deal and tanner has been offered a short term deal to prove fitness.

How much money would we lose if kids were just free all the time?

Robinson just said the standard stuff, i.e. coming here to compete, adding competition, etc. Haven’t seen the guy, so don’t really have an opinion on him, seems to have a fair few games under his belt at least. We need competition in that area, so hopefully this pushes Livingstone to take his opportunity next season.

This defensive play would have us 3-0 down to anyone. We played some good stuff but didn’t make anything of it, and we were playing with a level of confidence at the back that we’ve never earned. So frustrating.