Ryan

Fair

“Just remember that Andy Tayls will trigger another year on his contract if he plays again. I’d advise you don’t do that as it’s a significant wage that will reduce your budget for next season when he’s clearly not good enough if we want to challenge for promotion.” “Morning gaffer. Hunty’s agent has been touting him about behind my back trying to get him a move to a better club with a higher league position. I know it’s not Rob’s fault and I used to do this thing all the time as an agent but it has pissed me off so he won’t be able to play again until I put my toys back in the pram and decide he can come off the naughty step.” ”But Absy he’s one of the first names on my team sheet and we’re still in with a shout of the play-offs.” Do you see how these two things are different?

Come off it, that’s not the same as what Abdallah’s doing. Emailing the gaffer saying who he should play and banishing players to the youth team because they(/their agents in the case of Hunty) have done something to upset the regime, regardless of their ability/importance to the team, is in no way comparable to making a financial decision to avoid playing a player who is deemed surplus to requirements. If what you’ve described with Downing is true then that’s what happened at Latics with Andy Taylor last season - I had no problem with that because he was shite...

Really surprised by this. It shows Scholesy really does love our football club if he’s willing to stump up this kind of money to secure our long-term future. #Bottler

Yep, really. At present, which well run clubs employ this tactic to force players out of the club?

Examples of healthy well run clubs where this type of thing happens?

Jim Bentley will keep Morecambe up, he always finds a way.

Don’t understand how he’s earned a move to an ambitious club in the league above. Has nobody shown Barton the AbsyStats mistake data for last season?

Apologies, misread your original post. Still though, it became Abdallah’s obligation once he purchased SC’s shares.

It is OAFC’s liability which Lemmy took on when he purchased the limited company. The charge was on the accounts long before Abdallah got involved so to try and claim Corney hid it from him is ridiculous, all of the fans were aware of it.

Wildy was already head ‘coach’. The idea that we are following the continental model with Mo as our sporting director is laughable. Firstly, there is no pressure on ML to do a good job, his job is completely safe regardless of the quality of signings he makes because he is a relative of the owner. In the European model the position is highly scrutinised and clubs aren’t afraid to change the individual if they aren’t recruiting a good standard of player. Secondly, the powers of the sporting director vary between clubs with some having complete autonomy over transfer dealings whilst others just simply act as a negotiator on behalf of the gaffer who identifies his own targets. However, in all instances the head coach still retains complete control over team affairs from tactics to matchday selection which clearly isn’t the case at Latics. Can you imagine Pep putting up with Txiki telling him who to play and having senior players banished to the naughty step whilst forced to train with youth team? Haha!

Great group, that. Big Ste Party is my personal fav but Halliwell is a belter too, both ban anybody who even slightly questions Lemmy.

Where has he even plucked that from? I’m genuinely interested...

Shucky has rattled a few of Abdallah’s minions with this one. New accounts aots, great effort!

If the owner can justify re-signing Vera and offering Benteke a contract within the parameters of the current playing budget then Clarkey was definitely worth another 2 years...

Oops. My apologies

Why didn’t Absy refute the figure when questioned by Sportsmail?

What do you want? Pictures of contracts? When Abdallah was questioned about Queensy’s wage he replied saying he wanted to treat the fanbase. If it was untrue surely he would’ve burst out laughing before refuting such a ridiculous figure. Lots of good people with insider knowledge who care deeply about the club are all singing from the same hymn sheet about these things, they can’t all be lying and/or misinformed.

I was only confirming the part I highlighted with bold text and not the rest of LOF’s post. There’s proof that we’ve paid over-inflated wages for Abdallah’s players. £4,000 p/w for Mo Maouche, £12,000 p/w for Menig etc - these simply aren’t anywhere near their true market value.

There is 100% proof of this...

All we can afford. Unless of course they’re from abroad, we can splash out on ridiculous wages for those lads...

Thoughts on Trust Oldham and the Oldham message board?

Apologies

This simply isn’t true. When you look at the most successful non-British teams on the continent in recent times they have all had a consistent leader for a number of seasons. Ramos, Godin, Lahm, Iniesta, Zanetti etc