Strachan's transfer dealings

Firstly Strachan (or O'Neill) doesn't have anything to do with the wages.

Secondly if the board didn't trust Strachan he would have been sacked a long time ago.

The reason Strachan can't attract players on a high wage like Larsson or Sutton is because our wage structure can't allow it. O'Neill was enabled to make those signings by a wage structure that Strachan does not have.

 

Couldn't comment for sure on that but I'd imagine per member of the top tiers of the squad that the wages are lower. Larsson, Sutton, Lennon, Petrov, Hartson, Balde, Valgaeran perhaps a few more were on wages Strachan can't tap into.

 

Yeah you'd be right on that, i think its that we have a bigger squad now than we did then

 

all great having a bigger squad but most of the squad go straight to the reserves an are not given fair chance 2 show wat they can do, so why buy them just for backup??? we had back up in the form of O'Dea and Balde at CB and O'Dea is a CB. So why spend over the odds for Loovens just to sit on the bench aswell. Bad mangement at board an coach level knowing we had a problem at LB for two seasons but thought we had more trouble at CB wen that quite wasn't the case.

 

People say WGS's signings have been poorer on the whole. Surely this must make him the better coach then when you look at the statistics when it comes to getting the best out of his players. He beat the same team to the league that MoN couldn't.

 

gordons signings have worked.

 

I'M not saying i do agree with it. But having a smaller wage structure now is less risky especially in these times,

I agree though that signings like hutch, doumbe, killen, sammy,mccourt, mcginn are an absolute waste.
Even though their fees would have been low and wages pretty small id say their bleeding the club of about 2.5-3million a year,
Think of how many season tickets and jerseys you have to sell to get that back

 

well all in all wgs made only a few big money flops! his transfer policy (that is if it if wgs makes the policy) has been pretty solid!

 

When it comes to amount spent remember that:

1) MON spent around £15m in his very first year as manager, compared to Strachan's total of around £7m. Surely it's a big advantage for a manager to get their players in early.

2) The value of transfers globally soared from 2000 to today, and whilst most clubs will be spending far more nowadays than they did in say 2000, our spending kept steady, going against the global norm.

This means that either a huge majority of clubs in the world have decided to inject a much higher percentage of the club's cash into transfers, except for Celtic, over the last few years, or that Strachan is working at a lower percentage of the club's income than MON was.

(Point 2 is pre-credit crunch)

 

Arthur Boruc 800,000.................brillant
Maciej Zurawski 2.2m.................good first season,other wise flop
Naka 2.7m................................very good
Mo Camara free.........................not worth the wages
Paul Telfer 200,000....................value for money
Adm Virgo 1.2m.........................flop
Jeremie Aliadiere loan..................flop
Du Wei trial................................flop
Mark Wilson 400,000 ...................good
Roy Keane free...........................done what was asked
Doin Dublin free ..........................was fair
Kenny Miller free .........................made profit
Gary Caldwell free.........................good signing
Derek Riordan 150,000...................flop
Jiri Jarosik 1.5m............................flop
Evander Sno 80,000......................fair considering price
Jan V of Hessellink 3.4m.................good
Thomas Graveson 2m ....................flop
Lee Naylor 800,000........................fair
Steven Pressley free.......................decent
Mark Brown 100,000........................flop
Paul Hartley 1m..............................good
Scott McDonald 700,000..................brillant
Scott Brown 4.4m............................very good
Massimo Donati 1.2m........................his goal against shakthar brings him to fair
JJ Perrier Doumbe 400,000 ..................flop
Chris Killen free .................................flop
Koki Mizuno 400,000...........................decent
Ben Hutchinson 300,000.....................not scene enough off
Andrius Hinkel 1.9m............................fair
Barry Robson 1.1m..............................good
Paddy McCourt 100,000.......................not scene enough off
Georgios Samaras 1.2m........................decent
Marc Crosas 400,000 ...........................good
Glenn Loovens 2.5m.............................not scene enough off
Shaun Maloney 1m..............................good
Neil Mcginn not sure ...........................not scene enough off

 

That's a rather strange way of looking at it

 

One thing you shouldnt forget is altho both men spent around the same money MON already had half a team to build around so he could afford to spend big on a few players.
WGS in his first two years in charge had to buy many more players as celtic changed the pay structure and most of the old team left so his spending was spread out over more players.
He had to make his money go further if you like.

 

Why is Aliadiere listed, he was only here for like a couple weeks, then he decided to * off back to England after Artmedia
Not enough time to really list him as a transfer imo ahahaha

 

spent on transfers according to my source

prices are in €; huns spending numbers in blue

Season 00/01 31.225.000 € (SPL won) 42.875.000 €
Season 01/02 10.675.000 € (SPL won) 17.250.000 €
Season 02/03 6.035.000 € - 7.900.000 €
Season 03/04 525.000 € (SPL won) 1.375.000 €
Season 04/05 0 € - 16.175.000 €


Season 05/06 10.300.000 € (SPL won) 2.250.000 €
Season 06/07 16.395.000 € (SPL won) 8.400.000 €
Season 07/08 17.125.000 € (SPL won) 15.775.000 €
Season 08/09 9.880.000 € on top 23.650.000 €

 

What is € :bbpd:

 

I don't know, we don't use that strange symbol either :icon_mrgreen:

 

how so??

I think that is garbage and without foundation.

 

Nonsense.