Nicky Maynard

[spyinthesky]

Apparently Bristol City suffered a trading loss of £11.5m last year, a similar deficit the year before and £6.5m the year before that.

 

Primarily down to high wage earners and the ongoing cost of delayed move to a new £90m!!! (30,000 seater) stadium held up by a bunch of Stoneham type protestors!!

 

Makes you wonder how keen City's owners will be to keep Maynard (and others) post January, as a fair few of the City players are out of contract in the summer.

 

Interesting to see if we continue our supposed interest

[SFC Forever]

Is he the best available to us or wanted by Nigel?

[View From The Top]

Apparently Bristol City suffered a trading loss of £11.5m last year, a similar deficit the year before and £6.5m the year before that.

 

Primarily down to high wage earners and the ongoing cost of delayed move to a new £90m!!! (30,000 seater) stadium held up by a bunch of Stoneham type protestors!!

 

Makes you wonder how keen City's owners will be to keep Maynard (and others) post January, as a fair few of the City players are out of contract in the summer.

 

Interesting to see if we continue our supposed interest

 

City have told him he's not going in Jan and that he can go for free in the summer.

[doddisalegend]

City have told him he's not going in Jan and that he can go for free in the summer.

 

By which time depending on how the season pans out he might not even be in our plans anymore....

[labibs]

City's owner is minted and essentially bankrolls the club. The loss of say £2.5m from Maynard they may get from selling in Jan, is more than offset than the potential loss in finances that they would get should they drop into L1 (with no guarantees that they would come straight back either). I think, I remember football finance bogger 'the Swiss Ramble' doing a blog post on their finances a few months back.

 

Basically unless silly money is offered, 6 months of Maynard's goals are worth more to City than any fee they would likely get for him in January.

 

FWIW I think Maynard is a quality player who has the potential to do a job in the prem. His goals to appearances record at City is very, very good. I do worry about him fitting in with our team ethic, should we sign him though. He also has a bit of a history with injury problems. I'm sure NA is looking at the striker situation and will make the right decision for us moving forwards in Jan.

[david in sweden]

City have told him he's not going in Jan and that he can go for free in the summer.

 

and I seem to recall some article stating that,,, "we had not bid for him in the summer, anyway...?" (maybe just a paper / agent's story..?)

[david in sweden]

City's owner is minted and essentially bankrolls the club. The loss of say £2.5m from Maynard they may get from selling in Jan, is more than offset than the potential loss in finances that they would get should they drop into L1.

 

I don't think they are likely to get that sort of money for someone who only has 6 months of his contract left. Maybe if he was a top Prem.player..but not otherwise. Wait till June and any club can sign him for nothing..and pay him well instead !