Dan James

Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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An auspicious start to his senior international career. Scores in his first start after just 5 minutes. Time to be proud. Time to hail a legend in the making, one performance, one goal at a time, game by game, season by season. And we almost gave him away for beer money!!!!! Seriously bad business that would have been.

Onward and upward. Cliff Jones was a similar type of player, a tenacious winger that opposition feared, fast as hell. James is in that mold. Let’s not break it. Let’s keep him a Swansea player as long as we can.
 
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ivoralljack

ivoralljack

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As a so-called 'football man' I hope that Trevor Birch will take the long term view....... if he's allowed. With our young players all on board and Graham Potter in charge, this could be the start of an incredible journey for the Swans back to the Premier League....... and sooner rather than later.

He needs to convince the owners of the treasures that the club has with this golden generation, something that will pay enormous dividends in the years to come. Do they have the dream? The vision? Somehow I doubt it but you never know, they might get an attack of common sense.
 
Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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I think a major conflict has been removed with the departure of Jenkins. Conflict within the management/operation of the club.

The guy's an idiot, but he was the resident idiot, and the new owners thought that they could rely on him for local subject matter expertise in the operation of the Club ... they didn't have anyone on hand to substitute and there may have been all sorts of clauses written into the buy/sell agreement, etc.

Chris Pearlman arrived. An astute individual who realized the absolute lack of any business infrastructure and set about building that. If you notice over time, Pearlman's title grew in scope to COO.

Finally, push came to shove and the new owners jettisoned Jenkins. Now they have Birch, somebody with some business savvy within the industry in distressed situations, and someone that they can probably have an intelligent conversation with. From here, I expect (hope) that Birch and Pearlman will get the club on the right track commercially, financially, and with football ... that is if Birch is smart enough to recognize Potter as an experienced architect of football models and supports him. We have an exceptional inventory of raw material ... time to nurture it and let it blossom in the senior game.

If these people can't scan the clubs in the Championship and take note of the City cup match and realize that they are sitting on a nest of golden eggs and that the real financial harvest is getting back into the Premiership and that this squad as the capability to get us there with the odd addition here and there then WTF.
 
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CroJack

CroJack

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Behindthegoal said:
Just asking. With this black hole in the accounts, are we in danger with Financial Fair Play?
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There is no evidence that we have a black hole in the accounts. The accounts for 2017/18 season have not been published yet. It's the owners who have leaked the story about the huge financial hole to the media. Who else has the access to the accounts?? One day it's £30m and another day it's £10m. I can only guess what their hidden agenda is.
 
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CroJack

CroJack

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Yankee_Jack said:
Chris Pearlman arrived. An astute individual who realized the absolute lack of any business infrastructure and set about building that.
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Yeah, but why it took him three years to realize that Jenkins is a fraud and that club operated on unsustainable wages-to-revenue ratio?

The Americans took over in 2016 and already in summer 2017 Jenkins should had been gone and extraordinary measures put in place. Sorry, but Pearlman and the yanks are amateurs when it comes to football business. Ayew and Bony should have never been brought back. Clucas and Baston should have never been bought. And many other players should have never got their contracts extended. Already in 2016 we were a disaster waiting to happen.

No vision on the pitch and no vision off the pitch.
 
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Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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@CroJack ... it wasn't Pearlman's call to designate Jenkins as the village idiot. With the dearth of commercial infrastructure he was probably buried with building that out. The two principals representing the new owners' investment group are the people that Jenkins reported to and should have been the people doing due diligence over what was going on. Who knows what porkies were being told in board meetings. Who knows what the Trust's board representative was hearing, and either complicit with or failed in duty to sound off perhaps due to incompetence, or perhaps did sound the alarm and was ignored by the two principals. If the latter then the stone public silence of the Trust is even more annoying.

Clearly the deluge of bad decision making surrounding transfer business over the last few years, and the selection and firing of new managers and their teams, has wrought nothing but disaster on the Club's financials ... or so we are being told. The financial statements due out now and then again a year from now are going to print a stark story of how not to do things.
 
Behindthegoal

Behindthegoal

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Is there a deadline for publishing the accounts, YJ?
I'm particularly interested in our transfer activity. I get that we pay instalments for buys and factor the revenue for sales, which doesn't sound particularly prudent, but if we're trading transfers at a profit any shortfalls should temporary at most.
Therefore - who's got the money?
 
Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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@Behindthegoal ... there is, can't recall the rule off the top of my head. For FY ending 7/2017, the filing was 12 Mar 2018. For the FY 2016, the filing was in May of 2017. FY 2015 was filed in December 2015. It's all over the place. We should be expecting a filing soon.
 
CroJack

CroJack

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Behindthegoal said:
Is there a deadline for publishing the accounts, YJ?
I'm particularly interested in our transfer activity. I get that we pay instalments for buys and factor the revenue for sales, which doesn't sound particularly prudent, but if we're trading transfers at a profit any shortfalls should temporary at most.
Therefore - who's got the money?
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With all our bad transfers in recent years included, we've made overall profit from transfer activities whilst being in the Premier League. We got into trouble when Jenkins started to give huge wages to our players, up to 85% of our revenue. At one point we had players who didn't make the bench and who were on £40.000 a week. Instead of getting rid of the expensive bench warmers who contributed nothing, we should have changed the approach and either promote the players from our own academy, buy talented youngsters from top clubs or simply buy better players from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Spain for a couple of millions each and give them £20.000 a week. I know that in Danmark there are at least 5 more talented and better full backs than Naughton and Olsson. They cost £2m or less. Peter Ankersen, 28 years old, worth £1.3 m, is an experienced full-back who has played regularly both in the Europa and Champions League for Red Bull Salzburg and FC Copenhagen. This season he has had 47 key passes, scored 1 goal and had 7 assists. In 118 games in Danish Superliga he has scored 18 goals. As a full-back. Our wingers have not been able to score so many goals in 7 Premier League seasons. Montero has scored 4 goals in his whole career in European football. And he was on £45-50.000 a week. That's a f***** joke.
 
Behindthegoal

Behindthegoal

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Yankee_Jack said:
@Behindthegoal ... there is, can't recall the rule off the top of my head. For FY ending 7/2017, the filing was 12 Mar 2018. For the FY 2016, the filing was in May of 2017. FY 2015 was filed in December 2015. It's all over the place. We should be expecting a filing soon.
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Thanks. The first entry on the list will be Gylfi's money, which as we know dragged on and on into August. Hey, was that on purpose?
 
ivoralljack

ivoralljack

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Now reading that Citeh are interested in Dan. Probably non-news as I guess that most of the top clubs will be interested in him as he's young, home grown, won't cost a fortune and has pace to burn. It's a no-brainer that Citeh might regard him as a Sterling MK 2 (great cars as well and very quick in their time :). I had several over the years but the MK 1 was the daddy as they detuned the models afterwards. The MK 1 had the 24 valve Honda engine and, in automatic form, could go 0-60 in 7.6 seconds which was wickedly quick for a big car back in 1989).

How the fcuk did I get on to cars? :LOL:. But back to Dan. I'd far rather we kept him and allow Potter to build a dynasty of young, hungry players around him. But logic dictates that the player would want to go to a big club with all the benefits that would follow, whilst the Wanks must be creaming themselves at the prospect of skimming more millions out of the club. Win win for them and lose lose for the club and the fans.
 
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