Statement from Day

Quoted from ska face

That’s not the accusation though, is it?

Here we have the crux of it, the players are no longer on furlough, so is Day being careful with his phrasing to deflect from the truth ?

The club’s Directors Loan account has reduced from 2.209 million to 2 million to 1.8 million to 1.55 million in the last four sets of published accounts according to the Companies House website. This year’s accounts are yet to go live.

Quoted from ska face

That’s not the accusation though, is it?

Well it is isn't it? All those that had "been told" about it said Max was asked to find another job back in the summer, when the players were on furlough.

Quoted from Ruston AT

so, are the players on 100% salary or not? if not they should be!

It was put to the players after the Tranmere game that they would be paid according to performances So far they have paid in £3000 and three others have yet to set up direct debits

‘The door is open to Mr Shutes’ provided Mr Shutes stumps up the money to pay for Fentys disastrous tenure by paying him back for his own mistakes and provides detail of the ‘rainy day fund’ that we don’t actually have ourselves.

They always mention they are there to "plug the gap" as needed.

There is no gap to plug, there haven't been any gaps to plug for years, have they? The fans pay over their hard-earned money. The board sets a budget based on that and divide  it out for various expenditure. There is no gap. When things got tough due to covid, we put a clause in the contracts to ensure there would be no "gap."

All he (Fenty) is there for is to plug a fictitious gap which never arises. Nice work if you can get it.

Not a word on how we are going to move forward. Not a word about seeking new investment apart from hoping Shutes might turn up with eye-watering amounts of money to pay Fenty off which no business-minded person would entertain.

It's all smoke and mirrors. Why doesn't Fenty just do us all a favour and sodomist off and let us pay him back in instalments? Put a premium on season tickets with that premium going directly to a pre-agreed fund  (much less than the full amount of his loans for obvious reasons) and let us start again without somebody willing and able to fill a non-existent gap.

He is there for a reason that does not exist. Let's get someone to do the same job, but who has vision, expertise, contacts and a plan.

In other words  if we get 1 mill handout or what ever you call it  only £7.57p is going on players  

Is Day seriously saying that we’re close to paying our first team squad 1.5m, an average of £56,700 per year, per player (this includes Grist etc.)?

I’m stuck between not believing him and believing that we’d really be so stupid as to pay this shower of shite that much.

I am worried that we have the quality (and reliability) of players that we have, are close to the salary cap,  AND are still in a perilous league position.  In the FAC we were beaten by 2 goals by a team at the bottom of the league below us and who had struggled to score any goals this season.

By any standards, these results are way below minimum acceptable performance levels.

Quoted from pontoonlew

Is Day seriously saying that we’re close to paying our first team squad 1.5m, an average of £56,700 per year, per player (this includes Grist etc.)?

I’m stuck between not believing him and believing that we’d really be so stupid as to pay this shower of shite that much.

That’s roughly £1,000 a week. I imagine a lot of the more “senior” pros are on double if not treble that. I personally think it’s in this upper region where we aren’t getting VFM.