Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by FridaysGhost » 07 Sep 2013 19:43

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Hardly unique to us. Perhaps if a few people pulled their heads from between their buttocks we'd belt up a bit.


So you two are right and everyone else is wrong! :lol:

Wouldn't be the first time we were right and many were wrong

Yes it would!

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by LoyalRoyalFan » 07 Sep 2013 19:52

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paultheroyal So let me get this straight... A Reading Rumours website is stating that the Daily Mail are investigating...


No. Reading fans have approached SI and asked them to look into our finances, as they have taken an in depth interest ever since TSI have been on the scene. A fan has then seen this and decided to post it on a rumours forum, as another has chosen to do so on here. It's not a rumour that SI are sniffing around for a story. It's just ended up being posted on a rumours forum for other fans to see it...


Ah yes, this comes from SpaccerFC__News who's been acting like a spoilt little cunt ever since the window shut.


+1

We actually agree on something winchy.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Man Friday » 08 Sep 2013 11:31

Cobi Anton Zingarevich is being investigated By the Daily Mail 's Sporting Inteligence team who suspect that the Russian owner does not have enough of his own money, and is using the clubs parachute payments to fund the remaining 49% buyout from Sir John Madejski, which is due to be concluded by the close of October 2013.

The clubs reaction to the supporters dismay over the lack of investment in the summer, and indeed the previous three transfer windows, has lead to the club releasing a statement declaring there isn't much money left in the pot due to the 'competitive' wage bill. With record parachute payments over four years, that must be quite some wage bill.

At least spell corektly.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by melonhead » 09 Sep 2013 10:32

cheezy frickin christ on a bike

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by PieEater » 11 Sep 2013 09:41

We all know we need a striker, we also know that according to Hammond we have a very high (or good as he put it) wage bill.

So you have to ask who manages that and where did it go wrong. Is it incompetence or just circumstances that conspired to leave us short of a striker?

Personally I'm going with circumstances, we had a plan and failed to execute it as the players we wanted preferred to sit on the bench in the new more lucrative premier league.

Maybe in hindsight we underestimated the effect of the new prem money and so should of planned differently, but I can't blame AZ, Hammond or Adkins for not being able to predict the future. Now we move onto plan B and find the best loan striker we can get.


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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by floyd__streete » 11 Sep 2013 13:39

Cobi Anton Zingarevich is being investigated By the Daily Mail 's Sporting Inteligence team who suspect that the Russian owner does not have enough of his own money, and is using the clubs parachute payments to fund the remaining 49% buyout from Sir John Madejski, which is due to be concluded by the close of October 2013.

The clubs reaction to the supporters dismay over the lack of investment in the summer, and indeed the previous three transfer windows, has lead to the club releasing a statement declaring there isn't much money left in the pot due to the 'competitive' wage bill. With record parachute payments over four years, that must be quite some wage bill.


I bet that this is true 8)

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Royal Biscuitman » 11 Sep 2013 14:04

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think the chairman and owner have the same attitude to investment in the squad.

The director of football, the accountants and those who look after the money report to the board, headed up by the chairman who has always run the club "the Reading way" and you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I wonder if the message from them is aligned to the message from the owner? - Maybe this was Brian's downfall?

I'm not saying the Reading way is wrong, but if the owner says again there was money to spend which wasn't spent then something doesn't add up.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Ian Royal » 11 Sep 2013 14:21

Madejski is a continuity figure head he doesn't make the decisions or brian would still be in charge.

You're barking up the wrong tree. Our efforts have failed that's all. Probably because we were trying to compete abovee ourselves withojt chucking silly money about.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by melonhead » 11 Sep 2013 15:31

Royal Biscuitman I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think the chairman and owner have the same attitude to investment in the squad.

The director of football, the accountants and those who look after the money report to the board, headed up by the chairman who has always run the club "the Reading way" and you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I wonder if the message from them is aligned to the message from the owner? - Maybe this was Brian's downfall?

I'm not saying the Reading way is wrong, but if the owner says again there was money to spend which wasn't spent then something doesn't add up.


yeah. it adds up to a club in the championship, trying to buy the best championship/low prem style signings, failing because all of those players go to the prem(or QPR).

id imagine we could have gone for more of the old reading way style signings and got them, but the intent was to make a change from that policy.
after so many years operating in that way, its probably not a huge surprise we struggled to impliment that change all in one go


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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by melonhead » 11 Sep 2013 15:35

Yet we still read them, and Ian and Melonhead keep oxf*rd posting on every one with the same fecking points repeated


LOL.

thanks for another namecheck you obsessed div

& how is that different to you posting the same hurtful personal attacks?
like that one.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Victor Meldrew » 15 Sep 2013 19:19

Over the past couple of years there have been many discussions over "where's the money gone?" with numerous explanations from apologists.
Last week we had Nicky Hammond saying about the difficult financial position so I was interested to hear the rumour going around today from those that wouldn't normally spread a rumour just for rumour's sake that AZ has to cough up the £15 million that he owes to JM before the end of this month or else the club reverts to JM for a £1.
This may well have cropped up elsewhere recently but I haven't followed HNA much of late so apologies if it has been mentioned before.
If true maybe this goes some way towards explaining why ,having received £5 million for the hasty transfers of two of our best and most saleable assets, none of that was spent on much-needed reinforcements.
As I say, just a rumour.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by AthleticoSpizz » 15 Sep 2013 19:23

If true, here's 100 pennies from me to you John

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by blueroyals » 15 Sep 2013 19:24

Victor Meldrew Over the past couple of years there have been many discussions over "where's the money gone?" with numerous explanations from apologists.
Last week we had Nicky Hammond saying about the difficult financial position so I was interested to hear the rumour going around today from those that wouldn't normally spread a rumour just for rumour's sake that AZ has to cough up the £15 million that he owes to JM before the end of this month or else the club reverts to JM for a £1.
This may well have cropped up elsewhere recently but I haven't followed HNA much of late so apologies if it has been mentioned before.
If true maybe this goes some way towards explaining why ,having received £5 million for the hasty transfers of two of our best and most saleable assets, none of that was spent on much-needed reinforcements.
As I say, just a rumour.


FWIW this is what I'm hearing too


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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by M Brook » 15 Sep 2013 19:28

Victor Meldrew Over the past couple of years there have been many discussions over "where's the money gone?" with numerous explanations from apologists.
Last week we had Nicky Hammond saying about the difficult financial position so I was interested to hear the rumour going around today from those that wouldn't normally spread a rumour just for rumour's sake that AZ has to cough up the £15 million that he owes to JM before the end of this month or else the club reverts to JM for a £1.
This may well have cropped up elsewhere recently but I haven't followed HNA much of late so apologies if it has been mentioned before.
If true maybe this goes some way towards explaining why ,having received £5 million for the hasty transfers of two of our best and most saleable assets, none of that was spent on much-needed reinforcements.
As I say, just a rumour.


It's not the end of the month that he has to 'cough up'. The actual date was 13th September - Friday just gone.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Nameless » 15 Sep 2013 19:29

Victor Meldrew Over the past couple of years there have been many discussions over "where's the money gone?" with numerous explanations from apologists.
Last week we had Nicky Hammond saying about the difficult financial position so I was interested to hear the rumour going around today from those that wouldn't normally spread a rumour just for rumour's sake that AZ has to cough up the £15 million that he owes to JM before the end of this month or else the club reverts to JM for a £1.
This may well have cropped up elsewhere recently but I haven't followed HNA much of late so apologies if it has been mentioned before.
If true maybe this goes some way towards explaining why ,having received £5 million for the hasty transfers of two of our best and most saleable assets, none of that was spent on much-needed reinforcements.
As I say, just a rumour.


If that was the case then you'd wonder why they signed 3 players on big contracts and didn't cash in on players who were actually much more valuable than the 2 that did go. McCarthy would have brought in the 5 million on his own and left us with a decent set of keepers still.

If it was a clause in the contract it was also something AZ would have known about for 18 months so why he would have left it until the last minute to try and flog players (and risk Kebe having to take a proper medical and Mariappa deciding he wanted more than 1 more season in the PL).

Interesting theory though...but has anyone ever heard a conspiracy theory that actually held water ?

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Victor Meldrew » 15 Sep 2013 19:40

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Victor Meldrew Over the past couple of years there have been many discussions over "where's the money gone?" with numerous explanations from apologists.
Last week we had Nicky Hammond saying about the difficult financial position so I was interested to hear the rumour going around today from those that wouldn't normally spread a rumour just for rumour's sake that AZ has to cough up the £15 million that he owes to JM before the end of this month or else the club reverts to JM for a £1.
This may well have cropped up elsewhere recently but I haven't followed HNA much of late so apologies if it has been mentioned before.
If true maybe this goes some way towards explaining why ,having received £5 million for the hasty transfers of two of our best and most saleable assets, none of that was spent on much-needed reinforcements.
As I say, just a rumour.


If that was the case then you'd wonder why they signed 3 players on big contracts and didn't cash in on players who were actually much more valuable than the 2 that did go. McCarthy would have brought in the 5 million on his own and left us with a decent set of keepers still.

If it was a clause in the contract it was also something AZ would have known about for 18 months so why he would have left it until the last minute to try and flog players (and risk Kebe having to take a proper medical and Mariappa deciding he wanted more than 1 more season in the PL).

Interesting theory though...but has anyone ever heard a conspiracy theory that actually held water ?


Don't ask me m8,ask Anton.
Presumably with £12.5 million of Sky parachute payments and our season ticket money he thought it politically and financially sensible to keep our best player at least until January when he could be worth £10 million or more.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by M Brook » 15 Sep 2013 19:45

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Victor Meldrew Over the past couple of years there have been many discussions over "where's the money gone?" with numerous explanations from apologists.
Last week we had Nicky Hammond saying about the difficult financial position so I was interested to hear the rumour going around today from those that wouldn't normally spread a rumour just for rumour's sake that AZ has to cough up the £15 million that he owes to JM before the end of this month or else the club reverts to JM for a £1.
This may well have cropped up elsewhere recently but I haven't followed HNA much of late so apologies if it has been mentioned before.
If true maybe this goes some way towards explaining why ,having received £5 million for the hasty transfers of two of our best and most saleable assets, none of that was spent on much-needed reinforcements.
As I say, just a rumour.


It's not the end of the month that he has to 'cough up'. The actual date was 13th September - Friday just gone.


September 13th deadline confirmed in this article - http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... st-4192022

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by Nameless » 15 Sep 2013 19:50

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Don't ask me m8,ask Anton.
Presumably with £12.5 million of Sky parachute payments and our season ticket money he thought it politically and financially sensible to keep our best player at least until January when he could be worth £10 million or more.


I can't ask him ,he's refusing to take my calls !

I'd have thought McCarthy was at the peak of his short term value this summer, what with the England call up and a decent Premiership season behind him. Hard to see how his value will rise based on a season at a lower level and in a window when teams are more likely to be looking for goals than a new keeper.

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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by sandman » 15 Sep 2013 20:01

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Don't ask me m8,ask Anton.
Presumably with £12.5 million of Sky parachute payments and our season ticket money he thought it politically and financially sensible to keep our best player at least until January when he could be worth £10 million or more.


I can't ask him ,he's refusing to take my calls !


He's making a habit of ignoring attempts at communication from fans.
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Re: Anton To Face Fans Backlash?

by AthleticoSpizz » 15 Sep 2013 20:04

The man is a weasel i'm afraid

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