Snake wrote:Replacing Kelvin with your own kids, fans raising money to fund players and DIY decorations to the stadium like flags and a bit of yellow, raising prices above inflation or keeping them stable when a 5% VAT reduction occurred, reducing the wage bill, youth over experienced loanees when injuries hit, and above all the situation with Wilder (like him or not) must have saved a few quid.
While IL still runs a ‘big name’ Rugby club the Minchery Farm setup has become an expensive and fanciful distraction/hobby with no escape route other than selling low as he’s not going to get those millions of pounds back now – and the longer this situation goes on the further away from the promised land Oxford United become as the financial gap increases each year -
http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... david-conn
To be honest I think the guy refuses to admit he’s failed, cuts his losses and moves on. He paid £2m (plus a quid) for the club, but it’s probably now worth half of that given the licence deal he authorised his solicitors to sign on 21st March 2006.
you can add andy melville to your list.
there's a difference between corner cutting and cost savings. reducing the outgoings of an organisation, particularly one that has been regularly losing the sums that OUFC has been for the last few years, is not something to dismiss out of hand. the question is what is then done to carry out whatever job that outgoing was intended to achieve. so if the youth players coming through are as good, or better, than the loan players we've had in recent years, i'd say that's cost saving, not corner cutting.
whatever IL thinks of the job he's done at OUFC so far, i can't see him moving on. the reality of the situation is that he can either write off the money he's put in (unlikely IMHO) or hope someone's nuts enough to give him that money/a good wedge of it (very unlikely IMHO). if not, he's going to have to try and bring the club's books into some kind of order and deliver success on the pitch.
at its core?