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I think you've misread the situation... We weren't locked in INTENTIONALLY. It was just a particuarly well organised door that we couldn't break down. We did send Daka off to find the key but it was in the goal so he never did.

He bitches and moans about the health of his players yet makes two subs that are also like for like in a game where the system isn't working.

We've gotten away with one here with this group of fixtures.

The Dolphin!!

I've never been a massive Glasgow fan. Or any city for that matter. Probably due to the fact I've spent my working life until 7 years ago commuting to it. I was there the other night for a gig. I like living an hour from Glasgow. Let's me enjoy it when I want to but keeps the grind of it at arms length.

That's like calling wwII a playful scuffle. Genuine question, how much time have you spent in the West of Scotland?

You don't. The Leicester way.

I was thinking something similair except more like the MLS. There is a flat salary cap for like 22 player but 3 spaces that exist outside that who can be paid whatever...

They'll introduce this with the understanding that any club charged with rule breaks within the last 2 years will still be punished but any longer than that and they won't. It'll then take them 2 years and a day to get around to charging Man City.

Does anyone know how much KP pay us for sponsorship/stadium naming rights and how it stacks up to teams around us?

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE... If for whatever reason we didn't go up (points deduction this season OR just a general implosion of results continuing) we have an embargo, and have to sell players to balance the books at least we have the likes of Alves, Braybrooke, Raikhy, Nelson, Silko Thomas, Stolarczyk, Marcal and Cannon to fall back on.

Scotland No.2 John Carver has said we will be staying loyal to the squad that got us to the Euros and won't be looking to poach Gordon/Barnes/Gray/Livamento etc. If they ever want to switch allegiance, they can do it at the start of a qualifying campaign.

Leaked Scotland home.

Scotland kit for the Euros is just the right blend of hideous and stunning to be a classic!

I think that's mainly because he's playing on the side of that inverted FB. If the RB is gallivanting around CM, he will have to be a little more switched on to protect that RB area in case of a quick transition by the opponent. I don't think it is coincidence that there has been a notable increase in his defensive duties recently since Hamza has been playing RB. That's not a dig at Choudhury but his ability to read a game isn't at the level of Ricardo's so he is being caught out of position more than Ricky would, leaving Abdul to step into that area of the field to help him.

Something high energy, high press, forward quicker. Basically the opposite to how we play. I'm not saying that we should completely change to a whole new style. I'm saying we should have an alternative for when what we are doing isn't working.

What's that? 3 weeks till our next game? Time to get them drilled on an alternative style of play, a different approach/formation that we can at the very least change to because this one is getting pedestrian and predictable.

That depends on how much they pay us for stadium naming rights and sponsorships... Is it a fair market value? (I genuinely don't know this,) could it be higher to increase our revenue?

Look at it this way... Let's say you set a shopping budget 10 years ago. Do you think you would still get much for that same budget these days after the price of everything has went up? Same sort of deal... we are trying to adhere to FFP rules from over a decade ago that have never been amended to consider how much more expensive it is to run a club these days.

Ndidi is out of contract, is he not?

Okay... I think I follow. When were the financial reports submitted? Any idea?

That doesn't make much sense though, does it? If it was purely our finances from THIS season then "we were in the PL" wouldn't be a viable defense which it clearly is, given that an independent panel have sided with us. Also, if that were the case, the EFL wouldn't now be looking to change the rules and sync their financial report times with the EPL. ...So it MUST account for at least SOME of our finances whilst in the PL, no?

So essentially what you're saying is, their projections on us breaking the rules by the end of the season are all based on our last financial report which took place whilst we were still in the PL and don't account for any finances from this year?

I wonder what an "EFL business plan" would entail and why we are so against it if it's imposed to prevent us breaching FFP? I also wonder what our alternative to a business plan is?

WTAF is going on? I expected this entire thread to be full of comments like " what a silly question" and "close thread" but instead it's full of people who would actually prefer to win the cup! If we won the cup, we would HAVE to cash in on some of our better players and it would restrict us on the players we could sign. Europe or not, we would have a weaker team next season than we do right now JUST to satisfy FFP, in turn, hurting our chances of going up next season. Going up eases our financial burden significantly and gives us a chance to improve on our squad.