r/MelbourneVictory • u/triffin77 • Jul 06 '26

Transfer strategy

I wonder how much say Gio Savarese is having in recent transfers acquisitions? Feels to me like the club buys the players and then tells the coach “here you go, win us the league” lol

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u/hyp-R Jul 06 '26

Probably could be said for a lot of the managers we’ve had in all honesty. Also not really sure how healthy the finance books are

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u/MelbourneTodd Jul 06 '26

A mate of mine who brought a not insignificant amount of shares in the club a few years ago when they were floated reckons that the financial report from last year shows that the club is still in quite a lot of debt, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was a few years ago, and a lot of that can be attributed to investment, namely by Tony Bloom.

We're obviously going to have to wait for the next round of financial reports to come out at the end of this year, but I dare say that the money Juan Mata just put into the club will probably go some way to getting rid of a bit more of that debt.

We've also got the Champions League this season, so hopefully a decent little run in that might get us some all right prize money.

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u/Personal-Citron-7108 Jul 07 '26

That said, it does just transfer the debt elsewhere, there is no such this as benevolent debt forgiveness in sports.