Holloway wants some cash

Ian Holloway has warned Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston that Blackpool cannot expect to hope competing for Barclays Premier League status unless they started investing in the team.   He would like to see more rewards for existing players given that the average weekly wage looks likely to drop to £10,000 a man.  That is still over £400,000 a year but below the highest levels in the second tier.

Ian Holloway has warned Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston that Blackpool cannot expect to hope competing for Barclays Premier League status unless they started investing in the team.   He would like to see more rewards for existing players given that the average weekly wage looks likely to drop to £10,000 a man.  That is still over £400,000 a year but below the highest levels in the second tier.

Holloway told The Times, ‘We are a skeleton compared to everybody else and we do things on a shoestring.  We need certain things in place because of the moment we;ve had to beg, borrow and steal. I’m almost not looking forward to those chats [with Oyston] because he gets on his high horse and starts bellowing about how “they’re all wrong, everybody pays more than they should”.   But I’m not here to break the bank.’

Oyston told the Blackpool Gazette before the play-off final that he was comfortable with the role he was sometimes portrayed in as pantomine villain.   The country would be in a better state if the banks were run on the same lines as Blackpool FC.

He commented,’If bankers had been paid on the same basis – on results, rather than in other ways which defy logic in the way they have been calculated – the economy wouldn’t be in a mess and the whole country wouldn’t be feeling the pinch like it is. Incentive-led payments are absolutely understandable and sensible, particularly in this industry.’

Prudence has its place, but sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate.   Blackpool don’t have to bust the bank, but they could spend a little more.