patcham seagulls
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Ok so NSC is alive with rumours gus is off to reading.
For me, the timing is hardly co-incidental. Fresh from comprehensively beating local rivals 3-0, and well placed in championship to finish in the play off positions. What better time for gus to flex his muscles.
I believe there is a battle of power going on behind the scenes. Between gus attempting to maintain current wage spending and establish a substantial transfer budget, and the new chief executive who is on obvious strict instructions to reduce current spending.
As stated previously, last years financial results were at best poor and many other clubs in the championship also find themselves in similar positions. Gus being ambitious to manage at top level, has been flirting with the media and big clubs since he arrived. Overall his record as manager is largely positive and he is very aware of his own market value.
Inevitably he will leave, whether in 2/3 years as a success or a failure. What will determine the timing of his departure, is to what extent the club can continue to underwrite loses to support him.
What club officials have to decide is whether they can safely continue or increase spending on the first team squad. Having spent years trawling around the bottom divisions, and the uncertainty over getting permission for the amex, over stretching and risking doing a Leeds, Portsmouth, Coventry, wolves, Bristol city, Plymouth etc is the unpalatable alternative.
No evidence of any of this
Just a hunch
For me, the timing is hardly co-incidental. Fresh from comprehensively beating local rivals 3-0, and well placed in championship to finish in the play off positions. What better time for gus to flex his muscles.
I believe there is a battle of power going on behind the scenes. Between gus attempting to maintain current wage spending and establish a substantial transfer budget, and the new chief executive who is on obvious strict instructions to reduce current spending.
As stated previously, last years financial results were at best poor and many other clubs in the championship also find themselves in similar positions. Gus being ambitious to manage at top level, has been flirting with the media and big clubs since he arrived. Overall his record as manager is largely positive and he is very aware of his own market value.
Inevitably he will leave, whether in 2/3 years as a success or a failure. What will determine the timing of his departure, is to what extent the club can continue to underwrite loses to support him.
What club officials have to decide is whether they can safely continue or increase spending on the first team squad. Having spent years trawling around the bottom divisions, and the uncertainty over getting permission for the amex, over stretching and risking doing a Leeds, Portsmouth, Coventry, wolves, Bristol city, Plymouth etc is the unpalatable alternative.
No evidence of any of this
Just a hunch
