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glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:58 pm
nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:02 pm
glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:12 pm
Forever Blue wrote:glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Gary Madine, was £20,000 a week, since we got promotion he's approx £28,000 a week so I have been it was in his contract, like it went from £2mill to £6mill.
The main point is every manager in football have made costly mistakes, but not every manager earns promotion and brings in hundreds of millions
Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:21 pm
glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:36 pm
Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:12 pm
Forever Blue wrote:glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Gary Madine, was £20,000 a week, since we got promotion he's approx £28,000 a week so I have been it was in his contract, like it went from £2mill to £6mill.
The main point is every manager in football have made costly mistakes, but not every manager earns promotion and brings in hundreds of millions
Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:09 am
Stringfellow wrote:Forever Blue wrote:glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Gary Madine, was £20,000 a week, since we got promotion he's approx £28,000 a week so I have been it was in his contract, like it went from £2mill to £6mill.
The main point is every manager in football have made costly mistakes, but not every manager earns promotion and brings in hundreds of millions
Best quote I seen you make Annis and very true, as for acorn the best thing we did was take the hit and get rid to get him off the wage bill. Joking aside and he’s proved a few wrong he genuinely looked like they ha dragged some guy from the local rugby team and said go for it. I remember being turkey when we signed him with a Copenhagen fan, he said he woke up one morning seen the fee and spat his cornflakes out. He couldn’t believe it. Said he was raw young and doing well but 1-2 million would still have been over the odds.
Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:28 am
glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:30 am
2blue2handle wrote:Forever Blue wrote:glas wrote:nubbsy wrote:glas wrote:Not as bad a signing as Gary Madine.
Madine cost us more, plus his ongoing wages, and we have no hope of getting any money back.
Acorn was 8m on 40odd thousand a week.
Madine was 6m on about half of that.
But I agree Madine was a terrible signing.
But even using those figures, we got £3m back for Cornelius. So he cost us less.
Also, he was only with us for a few months, so even IF he was getting 40K per week, that is still a lot less than the reported £20k per week Madine is still costing us.
Cornelius was young and has gone on to have a decent career, while Madine is at the best he will ever get.
I would love to see Madine come good but here is no real chance of that, despite all his opportunities.
Gary Madine, was £20,000 a week, since we got promotion he's approx £28,000 a week so I have been it was in his contract, like it went from £2mill to £6mill.
The main point is every manager in football have made costly mistakes, but not every manager earns promotion and brings in hundreds of millions
They aren't comparable though.
Firstly Cornelius's 7/8m transfer fee then is probably comparable to about 15/16 million in todays transfer market
Medine was 2m and only 6m if we got where we needed to be ie premier league. If Cornelius was 2m and the rest on us staying up then I don't think many would have complained except for his stupid wages and we then no doubt would have brough in the striker we badly needed that season and not a "project" as Malky called it.
You are certainly right about every manager makes a mistake Annis, most more than one however good people have the decency to admit they were wrong. Malky just laughed in our faces watching us struggle upfrony and refused to admit he had ever done anything wrong and stood behind the deal.
Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:15 pm