Babylon

Are we actually comparing 90 minutes of professional football with a stroll?

The people who run the club, who do you think? Doris the tea lady?

It's a fire sale, all must go. Get them off the books at all costs to make us look more attractive for a sale, whilst also trying to avoid administration. Makes losing money on players more attractive when the alternative is oblivion and KP getting a big fat ZERO from their investment.

If we've turned down a bid from Man U, you have to keep in mind the head space the kid would be in currently. You wouldn't be happy would you, I'd imagine there is far more to it than what he said.

What the **** are you talking about.

Well it is true, we aren’t other clubs and we’ve not released them anywhere near this early for a long time. 25/26 - 28th May 24/25 - 10th June 23/24 -5th June All clubs have to post realised lists to the leagues by a certain date. So that’s utter nonsense also that we’ve not released one.

Whilst I have zero faith in them doing anything remotely good, the retained lists are posted around the time the contracts end, and not mid may. So expecting that now will always lead to disappointment as it's just never done. In terms of communication on the manager, what do you want? A statement saying we are still looking for a manager, would you actually be happy with them stating the blindingly obvious. I'd wager a rather large chunk of time has been spent figuring out our financial position, the new rules etc. Because we all know they aren't going to have planned for this.

The problem is, whilst very skeptical about Glover. He's being handed managers of totally different styles, who all want different things. If a manager comes in and wants "experience", you are buying players on a downward trajectory, unless you have huge amounts of money. So Glover is left scrabbling around for has beens who might do a job. I doubt he's been handed the keys to build the team as he wants, almost like Walsh and Pearson had time to. That's the reason behind this new guy above them all hopefully, he's hopefully going to be given the time and space to have a consistent strategy, with managers and players. But he's totally unproven, so who knows what we're going to get... or whether those above will even allow him.

You have to go back to the Pearson route of recruitment. Hungry players with something to prove, players with a decent mentality. And in terms of skill, focus on certain assets where a player excels. They might not have the total package, but they all bring something a bit different. Whether that's a player with extreme pace like Dyer, or tricky skill like Knockaert. Height and power of Howard. An extreme grafter like Okazaki. The crossing ability of Albrighton. Dead balls and the passing of Gallagher. So often players had flaws in other areas of their game, but very often that had one thing they excelled at, so that as a group, you have players that present the opposition a different problem. That gives you options and makes it hard for the opponent.

Until they change the rules, this will continue to happen to us and every single other club lower down the pyramid. It's not unique to us.

They might soon

Kingpower need to take over the loans, get the club back to running on income, scouting up and coming talent for future sale at profit and and pray for a premier league return at some point to claw some cash back. You know, the basics.

There is nothing inherently wrong with doing it. There wasn’t then, when first discussed and there isn’t now. All clubs barrow money they don’t have to be paid back later against some sort of security. For example, when you get promoted you don’t just get a big cheque for £150m. The money is paid in bits and pieces with a large chuck tied to appearances on TV and where you finish etc at the end of the season. So clubs will borrow money in some fashion, and then pay it back at the end of the season when the money comes in. Like you or me using a credit card and paying it off at the end of the month. The problem here is that we’ve stopped paying them back. We spent the money on other things by the looks of it. We’ve then accumulated even more loans from them in the mean time. The situation is now very very different looking at what we know (we never know for sure being a year behind in the accounting). Plenty of clubs continue to borrow money without being in major financial difficulty. Borrowing money isn’t the issue, the total lack of financial responsibility and planning is, along with an apparent change in KP’s ability or want to take a loss. Getting promoted was the out handed on a plate. Yet we decided to not take it, spend that money on a load of rubbish and dug an even bigger financial hole. The mind actually boggles as to what they were all thinking. I can honestly only think that Top has gas lit everyone that KP is the backstop and will always sort the finances, and they are told to not worry. Because I can’t believe so many people would be this moronic.

When he was quiet you kind of hoped he wasn’t out of his depth… the second he started speaking up more it became perfectly clear he hasn’t got a clue and is being spoon fed a load of tosh.

The clowns should have taken that hit when we got promoted. Should have banked the money, taken the hit and started the championship in a better position.