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Thracia said:
The Hugill money "disappeared" into funding additions to the squad for the next 2-3 seasons - this utter myth that it wasn't reinvested in the squad needs to stop.

In the same way, "the Osmajic money", if he is ever sold for a profit, will go towards funding multiple low-cost squad additions, as well as covering past loss-making gems like Okkels.

Transfer profit only ever "disappears" into our transfer budget - our main problem is, there's so little of it.

I think the club are likely to sell because they haven't had a significant sale for a long time, and they need more than the standard IoM budget to get through this summer's recruitment, and because I bet incidents like Bitegate didn't go down well within the club.
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Yeah, the Hugill money was spent poorly on a few transfers and wisely (but not to any end purpose) on the extension of a few key contracts.

Hopefully lessons have been learnt from that saga. Dont fund the direct replacement with less than 8% of the transfer value attained for the lost prized asset.
 
SoccerHQ said:
Most likely I think is if he's sold then half would go on Greenwood signing full time. However you can't just replace Osmajic with Greenwood as they're completely different profiles of forward player.

The big issue always in 2022 was scepticism that any of the 7m was actually going to be re-invested in the team given the Hugill money disappearing was still fresh in the mind. It wasn't as easy as just thinking Archer was going to be signed permanently, indeed the two forward signings that summer were Ben Woodburn and Troy Parrott on a year's loan so typical bargain basement from the club in a summer transfer window.

The other side though is Riis then getting an ACL a few months later which has decreased his value so perhaps that will play on club's mind if they get serious interest in Osmajic during the summer.
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Whilst the Hemmings are putting money in, which they consistently have been, all transfer revenue must be going into the club. (i.e. the great black hole of ill thought-out contract extensions and wasted transfer fees).
 
stf4ever said:
Yeah, the Hugill money was spent poorly on a few transfers and wisely (but not to any end purpose) on the extension of a few key contracts.

Hopefully lessons have been learnt from that saga. Dont fund the direct replacement with less than 8% of the transfer value attained for the lost prized asset.
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Yep, there's definitely an argument it was spent poorly - and that Trevor should've strategically put in more for transfers when we were flush with cash, to give us a real boost, instead of just letting transfer incomings pay for transfer outgoings - but it was spent.

We don't know how the new owners will deal with having significant transfer profit, because they've never had any since Ridsdale appointed himself Head of Recruitment/DoF.

But I expect they will remain hands-off and let Craig and Peter play with it as they see fit, and I expect those two will remain allergic to transfer fees over £2m.
 
Thracia said:
Yep, there's definitely an argument it was spent poorly - and that Trevor should've strategically put in more for transfers when we were flush with cash, to give us a real boost, instead of just letting transfer incomings pay for transfer outgoings - but it was spent.

We don't know how the new owners will deal with having significant transfer profit, because they've never had any since Ridsdale appointed himself Head of Recruitment/DoF.

But I expect they will remain hands-off and let Craig and Peter play with it as they see fit, and I expect those two will remain allergic to transfer fees over £2m.
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😂 👍
 
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He looks , erm , really pleased with that 2nd goal 😳😆🤣
 
Reminds me a bit of Michael Robinson (back in the day)
To sell him would be a catastrophic mistake and short sighted. We should be building a team to support him. He is the one player who could fire us up the table.
We need to add some quality and try and get some momentum, upwards.
I will be honest, I didn't see last nights result coming but very welcome.
 
Advice to milly…don’t bother trying to place your shots just blast them into the net
 
IrishNorthEnder93 said:
I think if Milly gets the right service from the Wing Backs like last night with Meghoma, he could potentially get 15 goals in a season, we need to build a team around him.
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I reckon he could get 20+ considering he’s already on 10 does not start or finish every game and had an 8 match ban that’s good going..he should be starting every game ahead of Riis but not sure why Riis was starting ahead of him until recently
 
When you think about the strengths of Riis when he’s on form…he fast, dangerous when running with the ball and hits the ball very hard.

Osmajic now does all of that with the added benefits that he’s better at holding the ball up, more streetwise in terms of drawing fouls etc., has now realised how to make himself a handful for defenders, generally a pretty efficient finisher (eg last nights first) and better in the air.

Choosing him above Riis is a no brainer for me. Better still, when on form, both of them.
 
bkfu76 said:
I reckon he could get 20+ considering he’s already on 10 does not start or finish every game and had an 8 match ban that’s good going..he should be starting every game ahead of Riis but not sure why Riis was starting ahead of him until recently
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11

3 v Harrogate (a) L Cup
2 v Charlton (h) FA Cup
2 v Watford (h) League
2 v Watford (a) League
1 v Cardiff (a) League
1 v QPR (a) League

Also hit the woodwork v Harrogate, Sun'lun (L Cup).
 
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