Finnegan

You just got 116m. We'll have 80 please.

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More Maori than he's English, you mean?

I think you're overlooking how amortisation of player fees work. We haven't "historically put OTT prices" on our "squad fillers." We just overpaid for players that didn't end up working out and we need to make back the full amount of their remaining amortisation in the year we sell them, otherwise we take a loss for PSR, which we can't afford because our wage bill has been drastically too high compared to our revenue. This is the first summer that guys like Daka and Soumaré will have a small enough remaining book value that we can sell them for realistic prices without suffering significant losses in the seasons books. Rudkin is due a lot of criticism but one thing that people give him a silly amount of criticism for is "being bad at selling players." It's not that we're bad at selling, it's that we're bad at buying. We give players too high wages and spend too much on initial fees which makes it impossible to get rid of them. But to answer the base question, are Leicester players going to be sold to fund King Power's problems? No. Any money we make from player sales will go towards covering the club's losses, else Top's problems will get even worse. If he's going to make any cash off Leicester, it's by selling the club and he'll need it to be in the strongest position possible to do that.

Narh of course not, depending on the asking price there'd be hundreds of potential owners of Leicester City. We're still famous enough, just about, to be an interesting club for someone to buy. Not to mention our seller isn't in a strong position to negotiate. If Top loses his bid to get a new deal out of AOT, I'd be surprised if we don't at very least have new investors, if not majority shareholders, by this time next year.

They're also a big six club with an enormous ceiling.

Taking them too seriously or not taking them seriously enough?

Yeah but that's the problem.

Yeah, FAW's training centre for coaches has been unironically one of Europe's best for a few years now. What IS ironic is the absolute plummeting standards of Welsh coaching development in rugby during the same period.

It's a given at this point that Rohl is leaving. It seems increasingly unlikely he's coming here. To be honest, there was never any real reason to think he was other than people wanted it.

JFC our fanbase

It's tempting to get drawn in to that thinking, especially on internet echo chambers and with the dubious nature of Italian football in general. But in fairness, it's hard to argue Brescia were always going to get a points deduction and Salernitana were granted their request to postpone the game after an outbreak of illness at the club. Neither Salernitana or Samp should ever have been anywhere near that end of the table and both have been grossly financially mismanaged, I can totally see why their fans would be furious in any case. But I don't really think I see an injustice, just a complete mess really.

Don't worry lads, I live just down the road and it's about to start raining. Sorry @StanSP

It wouldn't make as much money, so probably not. It's just as valid as touring Australia these days though. Although that's probably more a dig at Australia than anything else

Tbf it's impossible for a half decent American footballer to NOT be over rated. They go absurdly overboard whenever one of their players isn't crap. Even more than the English.

JFC

I was about to start listing other meme level free agents (Diego Costa and Vincent Aboubakar strike partnership anyone?) when I realised that non other than Max-Alain Gradel is currently without a club and I don't think we've heard a peep out of @Ric Flair #ComeHomeMax

I don't think you want to start an argument about profile pictures with that little edgelord as your av tbf. Although I do get you mixed up with @kingcarr21 a lot.

I think it's worth pointing out that Baldurs Gate 3 is just an incredibly well made game (based on a table top game that blew up over the last five/ten years) that transcends it's genre, it's success hasn't suddenly thrown Divinity Original Sin in to the mainstream nor the work of Owlcat, inXile, Harebrained, etc. And Clair Obscur is very much a gamer's game, isn't it? It got traction initially for it's nostalgia power before it started to go big with younger capital G Gamers. Turn based is never going to be ideal for the vast majority of casual gamers, who the industry makes the most money off. The people that buy every Ubisoft title made without recognising they're copy and pasted slop are going to have limited patience with a turn based and tactical format. FF7 through FF10 are the absolute golden years of Final Fantasy but Square probably did need to change the format up, it was always going to get stale.

Anyone that wants us to sign Calvert-Lewin should be permanently banned from following football.

Sorry pal, he's not Brexit enough for our Sean.

Depends how savvy their owners are. Look at Boehly, Marinakis, Textor, etc. Plenty of clubs just openly waving their dicks at sustainability rules using all sorts of hilarious loop holes in the laws. I mean, even we've done it really except we've done it defensively on the back foot where as they've done it pro-actively to advance themselves. It's not about how much money you have these days it's about how much you're allowed to spend and a lot of that takes whole levels of business intelligence and cunning that we sadly lost in a helicopter crash several years ago.

He'd be an absolute danger to himself signing for an Old Firm club

In fairness, Birmingham have "new" (relatively) owners and aren't ****ing around.