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Bit shock on inflation going down this morning

Enzo pretty much playing out exactly the same way he did at LCFC

22/23 - Bad Loss - financial account reports £89.7m loss 23/24 - Championship - reduced loss allowance of £13m 24/25 - You'd think we do okay As I have just said in an edited post - the difficulty is the next period 23/24 - Championship - reduced loss allowance of £13m - reduced revenues - decent parachute payment 24/25 - You'd think we do okay 25/26 - Championship - reduced loss of £13m - reduced revenues - a lot smaller parachute payment Every decision you make from the summer of 2025 affects the above. People question how can Ipswich spend all this money - the signings they made are far more easy to return money from than what we've signed.

The £92m loss on the financial loss is not representative or the same calculation of the FFP loss. Particularly in a season where Covid breaks were given in FFP calculations. We know between 20/21 to 22/23 we were £19.5m over the Premier League loss allowance of £105m. We will still be carrying two years of that on our next FFP calculation with a reduced loss allowance of £83m plus a season of significantly reduced revenues from the Championship (23/24). However what kills us more with relegation is that we can't get away from the three season period of 23/24 , 24/25 & 25/26 where we have a FFP loss allowance of just £61m. Every decision made next summer would have to bear this in mind. You can't spend because of what's coming ahead and you can only sell. Hence why the squad profile and the signings of SKipp, Ayew, Reid, Coady, Vestergaard et al really become an utter pain because no one is signing those players. Alongside that, in 25/26 we receive a significant drop off in parachute payments. As we have returned to the Championship with the three year period of which parachute payments apply. It would be a literal do or die season in the Championship 24/25 with a point deduction due to a near certain FFP breach and the FFP calculation after requires a complete firesale to avoid another punishment in 25/26 regardless of division.

Given Dundee’s use of loan players, I think the conservative approach by LCFC might have been wise. They’ve had some great successes on loan but they also loaned about 8 players last season and some of them barely played.

I’d imagine a combo of loan and academy manager.

Someone doesn’t understand FFP. Particularly how the loss limit reduces substantially

Ahh extended contracts for Vestergaard (unsuitable for the Prem) and Choudhury (not good enough on his way to Sheff Yoo). The allowance of signing Oliver Skipp for £20m. That’s going to be a total pain on FFP calculations going forward. The hire of Steve Cooper and the compensation due there. The total burden of Ayew and Reid; after all they play the same position

I don’t think that’s in question. What’s pissing annoying is the organisation whereby he’s played in a poxy EFL Trophy game and therefore he can’t go out on loan again.

Hearing the Market demolition is full of such wisdom as well speaking to someone whose about to join the project team.

Bear in mind the news today has little to do with the inactivity this window - the overall PSR picture is still tight as along as we have the Championship season on our calculation. We've had to choose making a big gamble at £3 million for example at right back rather than being a bit more ambitious in our choice.

It was something some of us discussed at the time and I am happy to be clear on my thoughts at the time. No doubt the reputation point was thought about long and hard. It was the alignment to the FSA as much as to the club - and therefore the Trust has the ability to feed into the FAB as the recognised supporters body. When we started the FAB structure was still on the table as well. As a member of the Trust, you can utilise what the FSA have to offer - a topic brought up yesterday which I am gladly was announced was banning orders. FSA have a good history of helping individuals in such scenarios. That said I don't think having more fan groups is a bad thing at all - particularly when you compare to other clubs of a similar size. Anything which extends the reach of engaged people is huge.

I hated the Cannons but I loved being tall and using my advantage to catch the shirts, so little kids couldn't have them.

The annoyance is how well we did that on the whole during Summer 23/24 and then started handing out contract extensions before setting off a summer of signing Bertrands led by Cooper. The best signing of the summer exactly fits that bill you describe.

I've made my dis-satisfaction with the board on this loud throughout but if I was them I'd be going after Matt Hughes from the Guardian who released a story on 1st January, released at exactly 9pm (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/01/leicester-at-risk-of-another-premier-league-psr-charge-over-latest-accounts) which will have had very probable cause to affect our January transfer window. This started the alarm bells ringing and it's been proven false. It's as if maybe some other party might have informed this information to cause problems

You can argue that's a failure of the Trust to present themselves better and communicate better (hence my final comments on the evening) but equally the low numbers hinge on the participation of people willing to attend and use their time. When I started on this whole campaign, I attended a Union FS open evening, they had 80 to 100 people say they would come and in the end 30ish turned up. The biggest challenge of any LCFC fan group is apathy and people actually getting involved. That's the biggest obstacle in my opinion. Typically I've put myself forward to give it a go trying to jump over it! I honestly think the same issue would strike up for any fan group at the moment.

Such a shame - I was looking forward to the scran vans, the mill towns and the trench away ends of the Vanarama North

Those words Bulgarian Split Squats just make me shudder alone. Absolute killers they are

National League were as good bribed themselves - they got a tidy sum of money to take part in some nonsense National League Cup feature U21s PL teams. Think League 1/2 teams were partly glad they didn't have host replays in Round 1+2 which lost them money

Fair certain the club have a number of flats in the development next to the City Ground. Tete used to give us daily updates of the River Trent.

As Clapham mentions, the process is a carry on. The PL charge and level a point deduction. The independent panel which is made up of actually really high ranking solicitors makes the points deduction smaller. It's most as if it's a whole game to make it look like the PL have control and teeth when they don't. If the PL had confidence in their own rules, they would allow an independent auditor to do the FFP checks and report to a legal independent panel for there. If they did that though, they would be perceived not to have control. I think the club are fools but this whole show about FFP is a ****ing joke. If you going to implement something like this, do it properly.

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Well he tried breaking Ricardo in half for Villa when we were hammering them 4-1

Itching to sign.

In addition he holds a role at other clubs which has the expressed responsibility for signings, wages, contracts etc. If the club were willing to be somewhat more willing in communication, the fans might have clear ideas on his role but instead they are comparing his role to what other clubs do hence the responsibility for bad transfers is on him. That’s my nice way of putting it