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Would Orion sponsor him ?

:004: :004: Ah ha..... maybe one day we will learn the facts. :symbol_question: So if Marius was only getting 2-2.5 K a week and no sponsorship or extra deal - WHY wasnt that simply announced at the beginning of the season and used to squash all the rumours of large wage bills - or when the fans and the press started creating a fuss - and why did Sutherland use it as an opening "missile" ? :023: Why NOW when the shittt has hit the fan ?

My stoopid Chief Accountant mate has told me that I am too loyal and too naieve :017: :024: He states that a "clever" accountant could hypothetically balance the books of both ICT and Orion by "showing" that Marius got paid a wage of say only 2-2.5 K a week from the club, declared from the books, but Orion could have doubled this but "hidden" it in their accounts in another expenditure. Therefore both organisations would look blameless and squeaky clean !! I told him that I could not believe that ICT or Orion could ever be so deceitful and that he was talking utter garbage like Caley Berk or ymip. And then he said that if it was him - he would save the day by getting Orion and ICT to come to an agreement and peace by Orion saying that next season that they WOULD sponsor Marius Niculae - fer the sake of the club. :001: Then the "warring parties" could make a truce - and maintain their favoured employees - put the past into the memory banks - look like the prodigal saviours and nobody would be none the wiser. AS IF THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN. :023:

Spare me a seat from a no mark who hardly ever watches a game but thinks that he can pass comment - I am my own voice but I have clearly been proved rite this season :023: If Marius performs tomorrow - I will be the first out of my seat applauding and singing his song - and if he scores I will go on the pitch and hug the ******* :crazy07: I just hope the feckin mercenary does perform AWAY from home - fer feckin once.

What utter garbage :012: Well why not just admit tht you have no sensible retort. :020:

A bigger club - YES - We have resurrected his career - he owes us - he can only go higher fer more money - he could get what he wants with us - if he reclaims his place in the Romanian squad - which I pray he does - if he deserts us - HE IS A MERCENARY. If he stays - He COULD become a LEGEND - Spondoolachs or Career satisfaction and/or feckin respect to a club that took him out of the feckin mire ?

Quote Alan Savage - P&J 25/04/08 ?I was supposed to be boss but I was almost a puppet. That was not for me, I don?t need it.?

The best one of the lot is still to come: It will be revealed that Marius has been on just over 2K all season and the rumours of extra money will be denied. :029: A friend of mine wrongly and cynically suggested that it was "cooking the books" before the accounts of Orion and ICT are presented to the general public - i of course told him to watch his slanderous feckin gob.

Through my international connections, I was able to facilitate the signings of players and that is how we got Marius Niculae. - :023: I thought that CC recommended Marius. :018: ?I was supposed to be boss but I was almost a puppet. That was not for me, I don?t need it.? - Is that a printing error - muppet or puppet.

You were 50% right :004: Hagi was never involved OH YES HE WAS. :blah01:

YES - I have never had such wind up fodder. :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

I have watched him - the large majority of my comments have been about his performances and I have been totally honest in my comments - positive and negative. If he stays to fight on - I will remove the mercenary tag - If he goes to a "bigger" club - then he proves that he is a true mercenary.

TWO QUESTIONS: 1.. What has Inverness CT done fer Marius Niculae ? - They probably offered him an unexpected chance to resurrect his career. He has avoided injury - he has clearly got fitter - he has got himself back into the Romanian squad and has a totally unexpected chance (albeit slim) of playing at the 08 Euros. I suspect that he may well have underestimated the speed and tempo of the SPL but his undoubted class has seen him stand out - but only in recent weeks. But fair dos to the guy - I really hope that he makes the squad and I really do hope that he plays again next season - within our wage structure - and I really think that he may flounder at a higher level - Stay in Sneck or go back to Eastern Europe Marius or Scandinavia - and you may just survive. 2.. What has Marius Niculae done fer Inverness ? Inadvertently he has provided us with the most trouble torn season in our history. His signing has been the catalyst of major problems - On the field he gave ZERO in the first three months - a scoring spell in November when he played in our system - more up and down performances until Hibs Away - when coincidentally the Romanian Euro scouts arrived on the scene - He has played two "class" games at home since but his AWAY performances - in general - have been DIRE given the standard he provides at home. Forgetting the off field antics - Give me a Bingham or a Juanjo any day - or prove it AWAY from home - and next season when the motivation of the Euros has subsided Basically - STAY MARIUS BUT YOU HAVE TO FECKIN IMPROVE.

:001:

Yes - Popescu and Hagi - Romaninan yoof - was I not ridiculed. :009: :029: ROUND SIX - Lets hope Sutherland and Savage knock each other spark feckin out.

Yes - It is a sad reflection of the times - but we idolise self fufilling mercenaries across the world of football - and one thing that really got under my skin for most of this season was that although Niculae's performances and our management tactical ineptitude were clearly major reason fer our preformances - many posters vented their wrath on players who have been very loyal servants. :024: Still perhaps Marius may surprise me again - and give me one thing that he definitely hasnt done this season - an above average performance AWAY from home - where at times he has been dire.

ONE QUESTION - What started all this upheaval off ? :018:

593 to be precise :001: I am enjoying this - its surreal - its a forum full of IHE's - 6 months too late as usual. :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

:rotflmao: And to think most of you slagged me off fer saying the things that you are saying yerselves now - Still we cant all be gifted.

He appears to have been practically sainted in the last few weeks - well not by IHE. He is an established professional - He must have known that he was being played too early - He must have felt the atmosphere in the dressing room - He must have known that he was way out of form - At the end of the day Marius Niculae was always - and still is - looking after Number One. Some may say that isnt anything strange these days - TRUE - but it is at ICT. Marius is a mercenary who has got what he wanted and now will move on - and I predict that he will fall. Lets not forget that if it wasnt fer Gretna the signing of Niculae and the standard of his play for the majority of the season would possibly have taken us into the SFL.

Fill your boots...people have knocked a lot of what you've said this season and you have been and are about to be proved right on a few things. I just have a feeling that this is one that could come back to bite a few people on the butt (me included) so I'm biting my tongue on it until I have more information. Bit ma teeth fer once and have got pished instead - fer once - But Inverness Caley Thistle's major shareholder David Sutherland has told BBC Scotland the club cannot afford the wages of Romanian Marius Niculae. Sutherland says the club needs to raise around ?500,000 in a new shares issue if it wants to keep the striker. Caley Thistle said former chairman Alan Savage had been paying the striker's wages - a claim which he denies. "At no time has the Orion Group or Alan Savage made any payments to Marius Niculae whatsoever," he said. Doubts arose over Niculae's future when Savage resigned from the club. However, he had previously said he would pay Niculae's salary for the forthcoming season. The new statement issued via Savage's company casts doubt over where such funding would come from. "I'm sure the statement from Alan Savage's Orion Group will confuse the players, the fans and the public," said Sutherland. "I think Mr Savage is setting the record straight that neither he nor Orion payed Marius Niculae's wages over the past 12 months. "As I understand it, Mr Savage injected around ?270,000 of share capital to try and ease the contract payments." Now Sutherland says that the player's wages, in the region of ?4000 a week, are too high to maintain. "No matter how good he is I come back to the point of sustainabilty, and no matter how good he is I don't think we can afford it," said Sutherland. ALL the Board are to BLAME - get the main feckin "players" the feck out of it !!

i wonder if it is becos he is a two faced, arrogant ******* who splits the dressing room and the fan base ?

GET A FECKIN GRIP - WHEN DID THE TAWTS IN CHARGE EVER CARE WHAT WE HAVE SAID OVER THE LAST YEAR ?? If ya thought I had a feckin super-ego. :018:

ALL I KNOW IS THAT CC OPPOSED IT - and there is lots more to come. - It is possible that the fall out will bring this club into disrepute - just wait fer ma next thread - feckin ban me if ya want :023:

Is that what we the fans have been led to believe ?