Stickied Confirmed Signings 2024/25

[SomeMightShay]

Not defending Lew on your budget but making a profit doesn't make you sustainable, we made a profit 2 years ago too.

Can't see how a club with conference crowds can be sustainable in this league unless the budget is tiny.

Maybe someone should suggest to Wrexham charging away fans £3 more than home fans to sit down for more or less the same view. That might help turn them even more profitable.

 

[Gladders]

So in short, Grimsby make a massive loss every year so can't fathom how people can manage a budget and not monumentally fuck up getting out of the league.

We made a profit two years ago son.

 

[Gladders]

Maybe someone should suggest to Wrexham charging away fans £3 more than home fans to sit down for more or less the same view. That might help turn them even more profitable.

Not when only 10 away fans turn up

 

[Southern Shayman]

We made a profit two years ago son.

Spaff a load of money away and make a loss every year bar one*

Better?

 

[Gladders]

Spaff a load of money away and make a loss every year bar one*

Better?

No we made a profit in 2008 too

 

[Son of Cod]

MD, you've changed your tune on Jennings. You were praising him quite highly about a month ago, why the u-turn?

By the looks of things they made a loss last year due to an extra ordinary item of sacking a management team. This year they'll make a profit due to the extra ordinary item of the cup run. So the underlying business, if they have a top half finish in a season is pretty much break even by the looks of things. I'd say it's fair to call that sustainable.

And to claim that "no one can be sustainable in this league without a tiny budget" is utter bollocks. Easy to say this as a reformed club I know, but there's a fair few clubs in this league managing to be sustainable and challenge.

So in short, Grimsby make a massive loss every year so can't fathom how people can manage a budget and not monumentally fuck up getting out of the league.

Again, that article cites Wrexham missing out on the playoffs last season as the main reason for making a loss. Finishing 10th or 17th will be of little difference. I will wait to see figures until it can be proven they're sustainable.

With regards to us not being promoted yet, every season we've been down here a side with a bigger budget has won the title.

 

[pontoonlew]

He spouts off about something he knows nothing about and then gets pulled up to prove what he's going on about and what a surprise, he can't. It begins to look like the infamous Ched Evans thread all over again. But wait.....

He frantically scratches the old brainbox, thinking of a way out of this mess. Beads of sweat dripping off the forehead as he desperately searches for a way out with an acceptable exit comment. With all options exhausted he had no choice but to return to the old faithful and claim "fishing" and looking for "bites".

What an odd post again! You're losing the plot MD.

I do mean what I say, but I keep bringing it up because you're so easy to wind up, as proven again. Bringing up Ched Evans despite a huge part of my argument in that thread actually now being proven right this week with the submission of fresh evidence. Though it's totally irrelevant.

I can quite easily argue until the cows come home about finance in football, I've just started a degree in the bloody subject!

 

[pontoonlew]

By the looks of things they made a loss last year due to an extra ordinary item of sacking a management team. This year they'll make a profit due to the extra ordinary item of the cup run. So the underlying business, if they have a top half finish in a season is pretty much break even by the looks of things. I'd say it's fair to call that sustainable.

And to claim that "no one can be sustainable in this league without a tiny budget" is utter bollocks. Easy to say this as a reformed club I know, but there's a fair few clubs in this league managing to be sustainable and challenge.

So in short, Grimsby make a massive loss every year so can't fathom how people can manage a budget and not monumentally fuck up getting out of the league.

Can you find a post where any Grimsby fan claims to be run sustainably?

This coming from yet another fan of a club who went bust...

 

[Southern Shayman]

Can you find a post where any Grimsby fan claims to be run sustainably?

IThis coming from yet another fan of a club who went bust...

I've never claimed you've claimed that.

Just because you accept it doesn't make it right

 

[Red-Hybrid]

What an odd post again! You're losing the plot MD.

I do mean what I say, but I keep bringing it up because you're so easy to wind up, as proven again. Bringing up Ched Evans despite a huge part of my argument in that thread actually now being proven right this week with the submission of fresh evidence. Though it's totally irrelevant.

I can quite easily argue until the cows come home about finance in football, I've just started a degree in the bloody subject!

Ah the 'I'm winding up' idea. And there I thought it was just that you had some sort of weird fixation on Wrexham spending our own money.

 

[pontoonlew]

Ah the 'I'm winding up' idea. And there I thought it was just that you had some sort of weird fixation on Wrexham spending our own money.

You made some big signings this summer. You made this thing of them being cheap and cried when I disagreed. The fact MD is having a breakdown and you're still commenting shows Wrexham get very touchy about finances, they're the first to bash us about Fenty but the most experienced bucket shakers in this league.

 

[Red-Hybrid]

You made some big signings this summer. You made this thing of them being cheap and cried when I disagreed. The fact MD is having a breakdown and you're still commenting shows Wrexham get very touchy about finances, they're the first to bash us about Fenty but the most experienced bucket shakers in this league.

You seem to have this idea that Wrexham fans claim that our signings are all cheap, when we never say this. We simply have a budget and spend accordingly.

We don't have any money men to bail us out, so this is what we have to do.

 

[GTFC1979]

I've never claimed you've claimed that.

Just because you accept it doesn't make it right

So a chairman putting some money into the club that he loves is somehow wrong?!
Maybe I am missing something here, but surely thats what chairmen are supposed to do isn't it..........?

 

[iesty wfc]

come on now lads, no need for all this bickering is there

yes, us Wrexham fans have probably been jealous of having a chairman like Fenty who has been able to more or less self fund his team through but there is no need for sour grapes. we aren't in a position to comment at our finances as we are only going off word of mouth at the moment from members of the board until the AGM finances get published.

our signings are balanced out as when we make a signing a player or two goes out on loan on the same day more often than not. Cup run has helped us this year. we were also hoping from potential monies from sell on/appearance clauses in place with Swanseas Neil Taylor and Liverpools Danny Ward but nothing as of yet

it is not like fenty has 'done a crawley' or 'done a fleetwood', he has stuck through thick and thin. and there was no animosity at the FA trophy final (apart from at the knobber Brodie) so lets stick to the friendly rivalry

its like Luton are back in this division FFS

 

[Joe.]

We have signed Mark Gower on a free transfer as Dean Rance is going to be out for a few weeks. 36 but will job at this level I'm sure.

 

[Deuce_Bigalow]

Eastleigh have signed Deon Burton till the end of the season after his release from Scunthorpe.

 

[Railway Blue]

We made a profit two years ago son.

Was that with or without Fenty's £500K?

 

[BeesKnees]

Was that with or without Fenty's £500K?

The operating profit was £150k and so no-one put money in to cover any losses. Fenty covered 450k losses in 2013, £220k in 2014.

 

[pontoonlew]

Was that with or without Fenty's £500K?

The money from Ryan Bennets transfer made us that profit. Our finances get put under scrutiny about 3-4 times a season on here (TFF) and we all come up with the same questions and the same answers. Whilst the money is coming and not being asked back, we can afford to do it. He could throw down silly money and get us promoted, he instead just keeps us afloat on a budget that isn't going to see us sink into mid table. With a promotion and the council finally ending their vendetta against the club and allowing us a new stadium we'll be on the way to being sustainable in the league. You could argue that we're actually less sustainable in the future if we settled for a small budget in this league and just pottered about down here for years.

 

[Luke Imp]

Is the Stadium any further down the line? Seems to have rumbled on for about 10 years!

 

[Son of Cod]

Is the Stadium any further down the line? Seems to have rumbled on for about 10 years!

Well, all the old plans are dead and buried after the council kiboshed the previous attempt years ago. Any new talk of stadium plans, which we're told are going positively, can kind of be viewed as fresh impetus. I'm a bit out of the loop, but the last I read about it (towards the end of 2014) a year long window of opportunity for the club and NE Lincs Council to strike a deal for us to relocate to a plot off Peaks Parkway was about to expire. However, I think the club were hoping to extend that window to 5 years. Quite why there has to be a window for merely coming to a deal in the first place is something that I don't really understand. I'm sure someone else on here is more up to date than me, though.

 

[Gladders]

Was that with or without Fenty's £500K?

We are a PLC you can find out all the information you want online, our accounts since 1980 and numerous other stuff is all on a website.

http://www.extra-gtfc.co.uk/accounts2/

 

[Master D]

MD, you've changed your tune on Jennings. You were praising him quite highly about a month ago, why the u-turn?.

Not really a 'U-turn'. When he was linked with a move the other week I said he works very hard, good technically and gives everything. I wouldn't want to lose him ideally but wouldn't lose any sleep over it if he did go. He is a striker that hardly ever scores, I'm sure that is replaceable. It's looking increasingly likely that his purple patch at Macc was just that.

 

[SomeMightShay]

Speaking of such things saw in my local rag today that Dean Hoyle the Huddersfield chairman has spunked £37m into Shuddersfield over the last 6 years. Yet when i tell their supporters that they are just a bank rolled league two club they tend to get a bit arsey with me

 

[SomeMightShay]

Not when only 10 away fans turn up

That dig wasn't aimed at Grimsby....

 

[B2TF]

So a chairman putting some money into the club that he loves is somehow wrong?!
Maybe I am missing something here, but surely thats what chairmen are supposed to do isn't it..........?

No, he's supposed to run his company, i.e your club, properly.

 

[Railway Blue]

The money from Ryan Bennets transfer made us that profit. Our finances get put under scrutiny about 3-4 times a season on here (TFF) and we all come up with the same questions and the same answers. Whilst the money is coming and not being asked back, we can afford to do it. He could throw down silly money and get us promoted, he instead just keeps us afloat on a budget that isn't going to see us sink into mid table. With a promotion and the council finally ending their vendetta against the club and allowing us a new stadium we'll be on the way to being sustainable in the league. You could argue that we're actually less sustainable in the future if we settled for a small budget in this league and just pottered about down here for years.

Okay the only reason that I quoted £500K per annum is because it's what your supporters tell me when I've been to Blundell Park the past 2 seasons and from previous years when we used to win there.

 

[GTFC1979]

No, he's supposed to run his company, i.e your club, properly.

Well you would know all about that eh, your club has always been run wonderfully well, before going bust and starting all over again of course....

 

[B2TF]

You're absolutely spot on, club spends more than it has coming in, chairman covers the loss, clubs carries on spending more than it has coming in till chairman can't cover it anymore, trust me this is how it starts. You've been warned, the countdown has begun.

 

[Chris FGR]

But unlike you, they'll actually have enough people who are arsed to stop the club going pop.