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It looks like Sheffield on Monday might be a case of what's open sadly. Any Belfast recs much appreciated.

RE: Belfast Anyone got a Taxi tour operator they recommend?

What about the lack of goals in the same period? Somehow we are less of an attacking threat currently.

Joe Aribo, Jamaal Lascelles, Stephy Mavididi, Caleb Okoli, Ricardo Pereira, Oliver Skipp, Jakub Stolarczyk, Luke Thomas, Jannik Vestergaard, Fran Vieites, Harry Winks, Dujuan Richards, Silko Thomas 13 first-teams in full fitness for training at the moment including two keepers Begovic, Aaron Ramsey, Harry Souttar 3 in process of injury recovery and Kristiansen long-term injured

It's one and the same though. It's about customer behaviour. We've all become consumers. Football was one of the last entities which avoided that.

I don't think this is necessarily a Trust or anything but its' sad how much buzz a 'negative' tone post creates to a 'positive' tone post - literally 150+ comments compared to zero.

Re: Effect on the players. The occasion when the chants cross a line of acceptability successfully powered the players to a comeback win at Norwich!

The Dorking series is made by a company called Bunch of Amateurs - they release episodes on YouTube every Sunday at 7.30pm

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWZUN1KCZQS/?igsh=MXZwYWRkeHVzMmppcA== Trying to find this clip on a different platform but Marc White, of Dorking Wanderers, talking about how business/football clubs constantly have to evolve. Exactly what we’ve need and exactly what we haven’t done

When you get deeper into the recent Chelsea verdict, it's very annoying this is not being made more of. There is still a FA Charge on going let's hope they hit them properly.

One of the most confusing info releases they have ever done. An article a week ago mentions 29th April as a deadline. Then a week later it's the 20th April. It's not very clear, there is a distinction of non-DD and DD payers. I don't want to needlessly speculate here but there's suggestions they really need the cash here or the guarantee of cash. Any sensible business after failure would just send that deadline back a couple of weeks. Only have to look at the recent new Brewdog owners how they are going about trying to regain trust. On top of that just noticed a new season ticket holder could be paying anywhere up to £834 for a League 1 football or PSR squad restricted Championship football. Make it make sense.

They did ZERO coverage of Non League Day

I enjoyed Saturday at St Andrews with the Trust. Sometimes I personally tend to step away from Step 5/6 cos the quality is a poorer and the grounds a bit more basic. But Step 3 in particular is now a very high standard with very built-up stadiums. It's sometimes nice to go somewhere you walk all of the way around the pitch, sit in the clubhouse whilst the game is on, just do all different bits.

Market Harborough/Kibworth or Rutland/Stamford in most cases. They love it for a couple of years or so.

No issue here. Literally to perform you need to balance work and life. Two to three days doing that is far better than Rudkin ****ing off to Thailand for his bosses wedding in the middle of the January transfer window.

Anstey Nomads were 11 off the top at the start of this week. 3 wins later including beating top Carlton 6-0 and 3rd Basford 4-0, they are now three points behind with six games to go

Seen to effectively be the team of Loughborough. They did very week off the sale of Luke Varney, strong youth set up, good ground. Just proper non league club who’ve used their monies for the long term

The line about PSR is a little head scratching the more I think about. We know that we breached PSR by £20m with an allowable loss of £83m. Over those three years our accountable loss (not PSR) was £201.6m. Which suggests a PSR ratio of roughly 2:1 Now the latest three years, same allowable loss of £83m. Our accountable loss was £180.1m. Now based on the previous verdict that would suggest the club needs to find approx £10m extra PSR head room on a 2:1 ratio. Looking forward if you do the three year period including this season, we have an allowable PSR loss of £63m. Now we are two years into the accounts and we have £90m already tallied up. A similar Championship season to the last would see £20m financial loss. So squeezing underneath the allowable loss range; albeit this season is a lot less incoming transfer money and incoming £10m off Chelsea but rather two managers sacked in the financial year. This is fag pack PSR maths. It’s far more nuanced and detailed but it looks like major accountancy work would have been required on the latest PSR submission back in December

There’s a theory that the leagues can’t act upon any breach at the moment until the existing charge is finally resolves

Link on the main LCFC article.

Since the year end the Club has invested £273,000 in its facilities. During the summer 2025 transfer windows the Club has contracted for the purchase, sale and loan of various players. Since 30 June 2025 the Club have entered into a short term discounting facilities with Macquarie bank to bring forward the proceeds from the sales of Mads Hermansen, James Justin, Kasey McAteer and Tom Cannon. The net income of the purchase, sale and loans of various players occurring since 30 June 2025, taking into account the applicable levies and contingent fees but excluding value added tax is £40.9m (2024: net expenditure of £66.7m). These transfers and costs will be accounted for in the year ending 30 June 2026.

The charitable bit again enlighting The Company has made total charitable donations in the year of £12,000 (2024: £518,000). The Club supports various charities through its own charity, the VS Foundation (formerly the LCFC Foxes Foundation). The Club provides free administration, management and accounting support. The Club also has several match-day collections during every season. Collections for St John’s Ambulance, The Royal British Legion and the VS Foundation have either been undertaken in the 2024/25 season or will be undertaken in the 2025/26 season.

Worth letting it digest and read the full accounts, a very interesting line about the club anticipates PSR compliance. Some chunky bits about loans as well. Since the year end the Company has entered into a five year loan facilities totalling £28m with King Power International to finance the working capital requirements of the Club for the next 12 months in addition to short term discounting facilities with Macquarie Bank to bring forward the proceeds from the sale of four players. The company continues to hold its loan facility with Macquarie Bank and is in compliance with the facility covenants.

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Why we would just do that with money we are paying an extreme (well exceeding the DoE rate) amount of interest for? To allow it to sit in the bank on lesser interest? We'd be losing x % of its value in such a move.