Hi guys
I have been a season ticket holder most of my life and am shocked at the decision making currently at the club.
From a business perspective, it is terribly short-sighted for three reasons:
1. Financial Fair Play is a classic prisoners dilemma. It only works when you have cooperation across all clubs. When we are seemingly the only top-end Championship club overtly complying, it gives all our competitors a huge advantage in buying players and pushing for the Premier League.
2. It has a huge impact on player recruitment, evidenced by Ward and Burnley. If we are seen to be penny-pinching it makes negotiations longer winded and vulnerable to last minute grabs, a la Burnley. Ward will have set the perfect blueprint for future targets.
3. It affects the morale of the fans who pay a large proportion of their disposable income to watch the Albion. Yes - we care about the long term but there is no future if the present feels so precarious.
The above are a vicious circle as the worse we play on the pitch (due to competition being stronger (1) and our weakness in the playing squad (2)), the crowds will decrease (3) which then means less money that worsens (1) and (2) and then (3).
I am surprised that we are being so long term when it is the short term that in some way guarantees the long term.
Just want to point out that I am not prematurely wetting the bed - it just doesn't add up from a rational business perspective which is what I'd have thought is driving the three B's thinking.
FKalinx
P.s. I am not an MBA student - now that is a WASTE of money.
I have been a season ticket holder most of my life and am shocked at the decision making currently at the club.
From a business perspective, it is terribly short-sighted for three reasons:
1. Financial Fair Play is a classic prisoners dilemma. It only works when you have cooperation across all clubs. When we are seemingly the only top-end Championship club overtly complying, it gives all our competitors a huge advantage in buying players and pushing for the Premier League.
2. It has a huge impact on player recruitment, evidenced by Ward and Burnley. If we are seen to be penny-pinching it makes negotiations longer winded and vulnerable to last minute grabs, a la Burnley. Ward will have set the perfect blueprint for future targets.
3. It affects the morale of the fans who pay a large proportion of their disposable income to watch the Albion. Yes - we care about the long term but there is no future if the present feels so precarious.
The above are a vicious circle as the worse we play on the pitch (due to competition being stronger (1) and our weakness in the playing squad (2)), the crowds will decrease (3) which then means less money that worsens (1) and (2) and then (3).
I am surprised that we are being so long term when it is the short term that in some way guarantees the long term.
Just want to point out that I am not prematurely wetting the bed - it just doesn't add up from a rational business perspective which is what I'd have thought is driving the three B's thinking.
FKalinx
P.s. I am not an MBA student - now that is a WASTE of money.
