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True but there are constraints and loose ends to tie up. I think by BCS Gilligan had just honed his craft completely

BCS is so masterful it makes BB look a bit slapstick imo

Cooper pay off, promotion bonuses, wage rises and possibly RVN's as well

£375m figure is from multiple years I believe - not just the one season but I'm not that financially literate!

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£153m wage bill - I hadn't put that into context until now. Inter's estimated wage bill is £117m btw. Coventry's is £17m. So last year, unless I'm missing something really obvious - we spent Inter + 2x Coventry's on wages. It's staggering. I've always chalked up our disaster to incompetence but is it more nefarious than that?

Well, firstly don't pay stupid wages. We're supposed to believe Soumare and Daka, probably not even on £25k would only move for 3-4x their salaries? Sell the players and pay a proportion of their wages for a year or two - structure a deal so the PSR amortisation threshold is met but we pay 30% for a year or two - still works out better for us. Pay Bertrand up, don't renew Vestergaard. We breached by miles anyway so it's not like we felt we were hemmed in by PSR, had we framed the nettle it would have been short term pain for long term gain. Instead we're in short +long term pain for no gain at all.

King Power don't look as if they're in a position to lend any money nor would the new astute CEO allow it - given the previous loans have been converted into equity. Top I doubt is personally wealthy or liquid enough to inject tens of millions. He just has to sell before we go into administration - our cost base is too high, revenues too low and ou committed spend is still inordinate. Hopefully the not-stupid acolytes in his circle are having a word.

The fact we moved none of them on early enough (or at all) is the bigger problem. Bad signings happen, that's football but you have to respond and course correct. By the end of 21/22 it was apparent they weren't up to it, Daka aside, at that time. Yet they're all here bar Soumare who left for a seemingly nominal fee. Probably something like £55m in fees and probably another £45mm - £60m in wages. So probably all told Soumare, Vestergaard, Bertrand and Daka will cost us ~ £100m, yet some people blame the EFL/PL/PSR for this mess .

The owner and DoF are idiots that can't abide by any statutory requirements, the Chief Executive was the financial controller about two and a half years ago. There is a hell of a lot resting on McCarronas almost everybody above him has abdicated their responsibilities for years, or they don't have any experience.

I can see that but I don't like Tennis either because the barrier to entry is fairly high ability-wise. I enjoy badminton more than any other racket sport

A very real prospect they go down still, what then? Can't imagine he'll want to be in the Championship. However if he does stay they'll get 110+ points

I don't know why the concept incenses me so much but it does. Think it's the LinkedIn, Hyrox, wellness club aspect.

It's like we clear one PSR hurdle and think that's it we've cracked it for the foreseeable. The summer 2024 window was extremely reckless as it gives absolutely no headroom in the following periods. It's almost like they haven't thought "What if we get relegated?" at any point. We signed a few players with no resale value and the players we could turn a healthy profit on we can't (BEK and probably Fatawu). So for 24/25 - 26/27 (assuming we stay up) we're allowed £61m in losses for this 3 year rolling window. Discounting add backs for the minute, we've already breached a three rolling year window in year one. We're nor going to be turning a profit anytime soon either so more breaches to come. The summer 2024 window was flagrant stupidity - the net spend should never have been that high and if it was it should have been spent on a greater number of players with lower fees. The Skipp and Ayew deals were absolutely ludicrous as it was obvious we'd never even recoup 25% of those total fees. Not to mention the lazy managerial recruitment increased the odds of going down and the likelihood of a managerial pay out too. Then, the successor is lumbered with expensive players we they don't want - I remember specifically posting on here about that, surprise, surprise it panned out that way.

Bassment Jaxx were great

We’ve never done anything in January besides the 2023 window (panic/necessity). If they were concerned then we might have sorted things since. Signing Ryan Bennett was just the usual incompetence - nothing to do with FFP, that was just convenient

Had we spent no money at all in the summer of 2024 - we’d be in a far better place both with the squad and finances. Instead we ploughed money into Skipp, Ayew, Okoli, Reid, Golding & Edouard. Our second highest net spend on that crock of shit. They've never once tried to get the finances in order - last summer was the first time we stopped spending when it should have happened 3 years prior

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He seems to get more of the brunt for the club completely declining in every aspect, it's difficult for a player to go against the grain when everybody around is worse. In his first PL season he made 23 apps, started 13 games, scored 5, made 3 assists. Reasonably good record. Started 13 league games the following season, 4 G, 4 A Last Championship season, started 15 games, 7 G, 5 A Last PL season, 6 starts, 1 G, 0 A. This season he's on 16 starts, 3 G, 3 A - so not very good at all but who has been bar James and Fatawu? He's bereft of confidence and has an eye on the door because his contract is expiring, the circumstances aren't very good and he seems to get it in the neck more so than Mavididi, Winks, Vestergaard etc. He's a striker and they're more visible but playing in a shit team with shit managers isn't going to have him scoring a goal every other game. I can't wait of for the sorry episode to be over and neither can he - probably.

Only started 8/26 for Lorient this season but scored 4 goals and has 2 assists. Scored 14 goals in 14 nineties in Ligue 2 last season. just tuned 25, worth having a look

Plays for Pogon Sczezin (sp) would be cheapish, small sample size though

sickos_yes.jpg finally found a good stats site with decent coverage https://per-90.streamlit.app Gibson Yah - DM playing for Volendam, only has year left on his deal. Progressive 6 with strong defensive capabilities is exactly what we need. Transfermarkt says 1.93 cm which is 6'3 or 6'4 too. Volendam's average sale is about £750K

We've tried player a winger up front most of the season with Ayew, doesn't work. Playing an even more anonymous option there won't work, not even worth trying.

Calls for him to play upfront are so dumb - he’s consistently been the worst finisher at the club this season (yes, worse than Daka),