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We can’t announce retrospective deals for 23/24 if we do deals for next season then the value has to go into next season in the accounts Very odd that the training ground wasn’t sponsored at all this season - even if king power did it for one season for a few million it helps the numbers. I wonder if if there’s a limit on how many different sponsorship deals the owner’s business can apply to their club.

Won’t be next season ……….

That must be start of 2025 for the 2026 season

Good point that CF Normal loan with option to buy agreements is that the loan ends 30 June and the possible sale happens 1 July. However, seeing as we knew we would need deals done by end June, you’d also have expected the loan deal to have been put into place with the sale done by end June - I mean that would be the sensible approach ……

Gosh they’re desperate to get back those voters that are dripping away to reform

Anyone in business wouldn’t try this approach ? the worst that can happen is we say no! they’re probably thinking that as we’ve been promoted we could afford to lose a couple million and have the fee as per his amortised value - so not losing any money

Given the length of time it takes to design etc, he wouldn’t have much affect on a new team until season 2026. So he could well take a few months off early 2025. I wonder if he would buy out his contract so he could leave earlier?? This looks like he won’t have further input on red bull’s F1 car for 2025.

I expect we will see Bouba pre season for enzo to decide if he thinks he can manage him. He wasn’t a bad presser but he was naive. He often went high when he shouldn’t and vice versa. In the PL where opposition are clever, they will lay traps for him and exploit that trait. could enzo help to solve that ? Rodgers either couldn’t or couldn’t be bothered to try. Maybe he’s been coached well at Seville to rectify that?

One thing to add to the discussion re alternative approaches to games would be to recognise that enzo hasn’t had a ‘creative’ midfielder to call upon I assume mcatee was supposed to fill that void. perhaps with that type player being available we may have seen some bigger variation in approach. if alves kicks on then he can be that player aswell.

Just to add that his statement that he has no intention of leaving the club he’s been at since he was 8 could be 100% that or it could mean ‘if the club think they’re going to sell me against my will without weighing me in big time then they need to think again’. I’m sure he wants to get as big a fee as he can to help us but at the same time his agent will have advised him that he is holding a lot of cards

Sadly most of those (apart from praet who is out of contract and JJ who is all profit) would not bring in enough money to cover their amortised values so of no benefit to our psr position I reckon if we sold all of those we would be positive £15m to 20m max (and making those sales pre June 30 just isn’t happening without that 15-20 becoming 5 ) so short of the 30m that kdh brings alone

They’ll give it to Canberra !

On a couple of occasions

I assume we get punished in proportion to how much we break the rules. if we make no further efforts to get our numbers down then we can expect a v large fine and I think we also open ourselves up to a legal challenge for damages from Leeds if they finish third and miss out. selling kdh and failing be a reasonably small amount would hopefully mean any legal case would struggle because whether we sold him last summer, in jan or in June makes little difference to the overall breach.

There’s a second place trophy?

So what takes precedent? the anchoring or the 70%? it won’t help the poorer clubs spend more but it could put a ceiling on what the rich six are allowed to spend. I reckon with that in mind, the end result will be 6 times the lowest figure.

Going to be an interesting vote once the detail is available if this anchored spend is going to replace the new 70% spending limit then I don’t understand how that will work? Clubs would clearly fail the uefa tests so anyone qualifying for europe away from the rich six would have to pay a fine in order to play European football. Surely the other leagues would challenge this financial sanction ?? if the anchored cap does become the basis of psr then club owners would have to weigh up if they really want to be stumping up hundreds of millions to try and compete with the rich six. I’d be quite surprised if 14 owners are happy to do this

Once we’ve lost the out of control players I don’t agree with this but if we recruit well then we might do

Were we ever more than three points behind first place with the same number of games played ? did we only lose top spot on the basis that the soton game was postponed??

He can keep rudders as dof because I suspect he isn’t ready to drop him on many levels but he could bring in a sporting director who oversees everything and would have day to day authority over Rudkin. That may be the decision that’s politically expediant.

It’s a strategic call to sell him or keep him if the club look at what’s going on with the proposed psr rule changes and judge that we absolutely have to be in the PL for the next five years because the new rules offer the club a chance to spend bigger and therefore compete better within the top 10 then maybe we take the risk of smashing championship psr this season and take the fine (or deferred points deduction if we’re relegated next season which would be disastrous re getting back up again). of course we’re stronger next season with the player I doubt he gets offered an sig better package at a Brighton or Fulham than he’s on here already. like you say, if a rich six club or villa/Newcastle come in then it changes (but I’m not sure either of those two clubs will want to be trading pre July 1st.) Until the club have clarity on the new psr rules it’s pretty much impossible for anyone to make an informed decision.

Chelsea need money in before end June but then we don’t want to be spending anything before the end of June! having said that, they’ll probably need to make more academy sales next season too so if we want him and he wanted to come here then I suppose there’s a deal to be done in July

VK - if we get the €15m then we will add a couple million into the pot daka - we need to clear approx £10m to put anything in the pot soutter - we need to clear approx £10m to put anything into the pot ward - he’s all profit (like kdh) but who is going to pay more than £1.5m? praet - he doesn’t belong to us after June so you can see why selling kdh (or academy players/ those who have been here > 4 years) is so vital re putting dosh in the psr pot

Tribute to fatawu ……..

he gave the club two hundred boxes of wheetabix after the Plymouth defeat - made all the difference!