Steve Gibson your time is up!!

Ayresome_park said:
Where is your ambition and what's your long term goal for the club?

Them ticket prices are ridiculous for season ticket holders and those who buy match day tickets, where is this money going because it is clearly not going back into the first team and if it is, its the cheapest option possible, it's not good enough!!

Selling our better players and not backing Michael Carrick when he clearly needs it, we have brought in enough money in transfers over the past couple of season's to mount a serious push for the Premier league and now we are awaiting bids for Hackney and RVDB who will be sold at the first sign of interest.

If you can't afford to run the club then sell up and go at least give Middlesbrough fc the chance to move forward because at this stage with no clear intention of what you want going forward this club will end up back where you bought it from.

I await the "who will buy Middlesbrough fc" comments

There will be those out there who will take a chance at this great club and if Steve is as wise as some make him out to be then he will sell to the appropriate buyer!!

UTB!!
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Come on man without Gibson we would have been screwed long ago - and i say that as one of his biggest critics. There’s been a slight increase yes but the clubs running costs also increase and we want to challenge for promotion don’t we. Stick with it because I'm almost certain we are going to make a big push this summer with some good signings coming in.
 
Merlin said:
I'm almost certain we are going to make a big push this summer with some good signings coming in.
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We’ve been given that impression for the last few summers and we’re still waiting.
Akpom millions not reinvested.
Spence millions not reinvested.
Tav millions not reinvested.
SG supporters will counter with covid/increase in running costs. Conveniently forgetting that this cuts both ways. Fans have had to endure the financial uncertainty of covid. Had to pay more for their utilities.

The club passing this onto the fans in the manner they have is nothing short of a scandal.
 
I’m furious with today’s announcements, but I’d not for a second be asking for a takeover. Hopefully a Q&A might help shed some light behind the thinking, cause I’ve not really seen anyone who can understand it.
 
Philly-Red said:
We’ve been given that impression for the last few summers and we’re still waiting.
Akpom millions not reinvested.
Spence millions not reinvested.
Tav millions not reinvested.
SG supporters will counter with covid/increase in running costs. Conveniently forgetting that this cuts both ways. Fans have had to endure the financial uncertainty of covid. Had to pay more for their utilities.

The club passing this onto the fans in the manner they have is nothing short of a scandal.
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The club loses money continuously, it is not a profitable business as things stand, the club also has to balance things with FFP - we are now in quite a good position to be able to spend without breaking FFP rules having lowered our wage bill and benefitted from some useful sales as you’ve pointed out.
 
I genuinely hope you’re right about investment but after years of being given false hope Ill believe it when I see it.

Most championship clubs lose money and aren’t profitable, but most don’t see fit to charge their fans in excess of £500 for the cheapest tickets, it’s indefensible.

If we’re in a better FFP position now then even less reason to price gouge like this.
 
As every season passes we become "just" a middle of the road Champo side. Yet the powers to be still see us in a Robson situation where a premium could be charged. Those premium days are long gone. They are very unlikely to return with Gibson at the helm, We need to understand we are pitching ourselves with any of the mid tables teams.
 
Ayresome_park said:
Where is your ambition and what's your long term goal for the club?

Them ticket prices are ridiculous for season ticket holders and those who buy match day tickets, where is this money going because it is clearly not going back into the first team and if it is, its the cheapest option possible, it's not good enough!!

Selling our better players and not backing Michael Carrick when he clearly needs it, we have brought in enough money in transfers over the past couple of season's to mount a serious push for the Premier league and now we are awaiting bids for Hackney and RVDB who will be sold at the first sign of interest.

If you can't afford to run the club then sell up and go at least give Middlesbrough fc the chance to move forward because at this stage with no clear intention of what you want going forward this club will end up back where you bought it from.

I await the "who will buy Middlesbrough fc" comments

There will be those out there who will take a chance at this great club and if Steve is as wise as some make him out to be then he will sell to the appropriate buyer!!

UTB!!
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Give your head a wobble. Mr Gibson was certainly not the only man to save us 38 years ago, we have Messrs Fordy, Moskowicz and Henderson to thank too. But I do not for one minute call into question the resolve of Gibson to produce a footballing side which has the love, trust and pride of the people of Middlesbrough and the surrounding areas. Gibson's continual investment in the club at a continual loss foregrounds that to me.

I firmly believe that today's season ticket announcement was tone deaf amidst an unprecedented cost of living crisis, and I trust the supporters groups responsible will communicate as such appropriately to ensure that ordinary fans are not ruled out of the equation or denied the ability to fall in love with our club, just as we have. But we cannot use what is at worst a response which failed to take note of public relations concerns as a catalyst to completely destabilise the club we hold so dear.

All we can do over the next three months of the season is continue to support Michael Carrick and the lads, and keep the faith. Up the Boro.
 
Glover_elbow said:
The fact that barnsley have got billionaire owners yes F***ing barnsley means of course we could get investment and theres plenty other unfashionable clubs who have as well
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Barnsley don't have billionaire owners. The wealth of those investing (Chinese-American investors who inflated their own net worth) was greatly exaggerated and that's precisely the reason their previous takeover is currently under investigation by the EFL.
 
Wanting a billionaire owner to take over will get us where, exactly? Gone are the days of ploughing millions and millions into players when you don't have the marketing reach of a top 6 premiership club to recoup your outlay - or at least offset a lot of it. You can't just pump money in to clubs any more because of ffp rules. So how would a billionaire owner benefit mfc?
Cheaper tickets? That just brings less money into the club to balance the books no?
If people think Gibson has lost his passion for mfc, how much passion would a foreign owner offer instead?
 
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