01. GK Marco Silvestri - good signing for 400k so long as he is genuinely injured. Worth a bit more than we paid for him.
13. GK Stuart Taylor - done a decent job as cover.
12. RB Gaetano Berardi - struggled to settle initially but has improved over the season. Was an undisclosed fee. Decent squad player but no more.
05. CB Guissepe Bellusci - 4 year deal and 1.6m spent. Truly awful signing. So expensive for what he has delivered. No better than Tom Lees. With this current situation its hard to see him commanding a transfer fee and could end up leaving for nothing.
32. CB Liam Cooper - 750k failed to step up to the championship and a surprise captain award. Might hopefully look a bit better next season but not worth 750k now.
35. CB Dario Del Fabro - waste of a loan spot. Not contributed.
03. CB Sol Bamba - decent loan signing that has helped us stay up.
14. CM Tomasso Bianchi - 4 year deal for a player that struggled to find a position and then got injured. Undisclosed fee paid but hardly likely there will be a swarm of sides trying to take him off us in the summer. Going to be stuck with his wages.
31. CM Zan Benedicic - poor loan. offered nothing and stupid when we have since found out he was injured when he came. Complete waste of loan fee and wages.
13. CM Casper Sloth - 600k and barely played. Surely would struggle to recoup that money.
06. CM Grandii Ngoyi - another ridiculous decision to sign a player who is injured and not even do a medical. Amateur and a costly expensive waste of wages.
29. ST Soulemayne Doukara - £1.5m and 3 year deal. Started well for a few games but then didnt look interested. Would be lucky to get 250k back on that deal. Terrible!
08. ST Billy Sharp - 600k well past his best days and a poor signing.
34. ST Mirko Antenucci - undisclosed - done ok over the season but wouldnt like to think he was starting games next season
09. CAM Adryan - another complete waste of a loan spot and waste of wages.
26. ST Brian Montenegro - another complete waste of a loan spot and a waste of wages
10. ST Edgar Cani - another complete waste of a loan spot and a waste of wages.
Conclusion :
When people ask where the Ross money has gone look above. There is a LOT of money tied up in these players. Agents fees, loan fees, wages and transfers paid out. The Ross McCormack money was wasted by Cellino and Salerno. Gross mismanagement and total incompetence.
Cellinos signings
posted on 25/4/15
Ross is a quality striker. If you play him upfront, he'll get goals - even in dross teams like Leeds and Fulham.
£11million was a great, great price for him and you can't turn it down. But where is it?
Should be top 6 on that budget.
posted on 26/4/15
The amazing thing to see in hindsight is that signings were made either without medicals or the medicals were ignored. Really terrible decisions that should have sacked Salerno.
posted on 26/4/15
With Cellino in charge this club will go no further, its all alright having the platform, but there is a right way and wrong way of doing things, and having your best buddy as the player picker and coach sacker ain't the right one!..
So, Cellino stays, he's got this season coming to get us up, and what happens if he does?..
Not a lot, if he did get us up and pist about the way he does with the people doing the dirty jobs he'll just keep us ticking over and followers of the club will do what they are the best at, pay and follow!..
That'll be to watch a bottom half/relegation team doing with players what Bates did, and he'll be on a winner if we did drop with Para payments, the Premier do look after those that fall from the gods!..
He might get us up with a lot of luck what at this moment he's not got, and if he does he'll crap it all up by keeping us on the wrong side of everything except his private life and ego!..
Premier league class managers, they wouldn't come anywhere near Leeds with him there, and you can bet, he might have a cat in hells chance against the lower clubs up there, but 9 lives won't go far!..
What a sham it'll be!.
posted on 26/4/15
"Didn't someone suggest that the wee Scottish striker wasn't that good? "
He isn't that good, he only scored 3 yesterday!
posted on 27/4/15
Looking forward to the Prem with Cellino at the helm. Ridiculous how the dimwits have turned on him, blaming him for everything when he is just a victim of Bates and Harvy.
posted on 27/4/15
Not sure you understand the concept of personal responsibility whiterose. Sure, some things can be laid at the door of those twits, and at GFH and Ridsdale, but a lot of things Cellino did himself and dragged the club through a lot of stuff that it did not need:
- signing players who were injured (ie no medicals or ignoring them)
- employing managers who were there merely as puppets of Cellino
- treating his managers like dirt (watermelons, crying like a baby etc)
- signing players for the Championship without knowing the standard of the Championship
- not taking advice from people who have been part of the English game for decades
- spouting lie after lie
- promising to buy ER immediately and then not doing it at all and making up some weak excuse
- being dodgy enough that the FL can boot him out
- being stupid enough to think that spending shedloads of money on lawyers on unwinnable court cases is a good idea
- lacking the integrity to tell Salerno that if he can't take some honest face-to-face criticism from someone who actually knows football he can get out
- making the coach do everything and expect him to be able to produce a successful team and keep him informed on everything
- sacking McDermott before he even owned the club and then reinstalling him
- need I go on?
Cellino needn't have done ANY of those things, but he chose to. They were ALL his own doing.
He came in professing to be an honest knight on a shiny white horse, but most of us have seen through the fake plastic chrome he sprayed on the rust, and that under the saddle is a knackered old donkey
posted on 27/4/15
Well that sounds like a balanced and fair view.....
posted on 27/4/15
LST
posted on 27/4/15
"blaming him for everything when he is just a victim of Bates and Harvy."
Bates its thought is still about, but some don't believe it, so how is he a victim of who isn't there?..
And Harvey, I'm sure if he was called someone else and had a bit of an idea about how to run the con man's league, he'd still give Cellino a hard time!..
Cellino is being dragged through his own crap, and if Harvey didn't do it the way it should be done, how many football teams in the whole of the English league would turn a blind eye?..
posted on 28/4/15
"... blaming him for everything when he is just a victim of Bates and Harvy."
How is he "JUST a victim" here?