Rebuild summer 2024

Yes, hopefully that will be changing and as MT seems to have got his way over the coaching staff perhaps his opinion will be given more importance. It is also not helped by the way many, if not most, contracts in the lower leagues are two years with just the occasional three year contract. That can’t help.


UTG!

Given we seem to change owners every few years there's not much hope for a long term plan. You do wonder what the latest owners are thinking do they have a long term vision or just tart up the Mem, get us promoted and then sell up? Wael basically giving up and handing over the reigns was a bit surprising.

Imagine the meltdown on here if we lost the Mem to administers and owed a total of £12m to debtors:

theathletic.com/4727680/2023/07/29/peterborough-administration-risk/

More concerning though is the “material uncertainty” noted by the club’s auditor, who draws attention to the fact Peterborough United have net liabilities of over £12million and “the amount of funding required is uncertain and is dependant upon key assumptions” related to match-day income, player sales and transfer add-on payments

The problem is the championship rather than P'boro trying to stay in it.

You get around £10m in additional pay revenue for being promoted but then you have teams like Bristol City racking up yearly losses of £20m to finish 14th. If your budget is £4-5m in L1 you still have to find another £5m just to latch on to the lower reaches of the midfield. It's a huge ask for a club like us, Rotherham or posh. Even Sheffield W can't manage it.

Last time posh went up you could argue that they thought they had a championship striker in JCH but the facts are the disparity between L1 and the champ are huge.

Look at when we played Norwich, yes we matched them up for 45-50 mins a game but the quality and ability to break was so much better than us. You're then doing that for 46 games a year so it takes a wholesale change again in the champ, which, if you get relegated will cause a huge loss in L1.

If you can simply survive the first year there you have a chance to build.

They have got their house in order before getting there with a series of good appointments in Ryan Lowe and Steven Schumacher. Sorted the stadium and training facilities out as well which meant they had a very good playing budget of £5m for their promotion season last year. I'd imagine they would have happily put the full £15m on the table to stay up and spent a fair bit in the summer window on players like Morgan Whittaker who cost £1M +.

Something to aspire too for sure.

2 yrs or so ? They better start getting on with the plans then . 

Sporting Director - Neil Dewsnip, 30+ years experience with the Football Association and Everton etc

Head of Recruitment - Jimmy Dickinson

Scouts and Analyst - Charlie Allen, Luke McCormick, Mark Emerson, Stuart Exton

All did a wonderful job behind the scenes.

I hope Luke McCormick doesn't drive to games.

But if you put all of that structure in place, like Plymouth did and Posh have, and also Brentford and Luton the same, not only do you cover the wages with promotion and player sales but you increase revenue through match days and increased attendances and sponsorship thus you reduce your losses with higher revenues earned.

Yes there is a speculative outlay but as Pirate has said, you can either bumble along with a 30 year old model which is no longer serving its purpose and taking you to a ceiling of mid L1 or you can speculate and build something to break through the ceiling and achieve greater things.

This is what the new owners have to consider to move us forward imo. The ALQ family inc Wael speny £30m in the last 6 years. Even if we put £3m of that into a scouting network and DOF we could already be generating players and income.