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We promote next decade

This would be the same Kolo Toure that was part of Rodgers' support staff? I'd rather glue my balls to my eyelids.

They do have the Kersal Massive though, that's got to count for something

We should swoop in, he's a perfect match for us considering we're wanted at the Hague for crimes against football.

Notts County lost to Coalville three years ago, now they're facing us. It's going to be a season full of 'fun' facts like that isn't it?

Bit like Daka in the opposition half then

A special place in hell for West Ham for ruining objectively the funniest scenario in the history of football Today proved they were more than capable, but they threw away a LOT of wins earlier in the season, and that's ultimately why those vile willy pullers in North London have clung on.

Two leagues below Hull and Cov, fold the fuching club

Ahahahahaha, so much for the legal challenge then

What about the camp little thing they do with their wrists? 'you're getting mauled by the tigers ~ uwu ✨🌼🐅'

Are the teams in WSL2 professional for the most part? I honestly know nothing about how far the second tier has come. I can't see our women's team folding completely, but with the cost cutting that's going on I struggle to see them justifying full-time contracts for any incoming players. We're a relegated team with known financial issues that could barely draw 3000 in the top flight. At the very least a number of the current squad have surely played themselves out of a long term future through their complete failure. It's one thing saying that nobody would want our men's team players but the pool of interested clubs in the women's game who can offer professional contracts is far, far smaller. A number could have thrown away their career today.

God please no, I can't stomach 12 more months of this squad

It would be so us to hire the spy

Football is such a shit thing mannnn

Just realise Woyo Coulibaly is playing for Sassuolo. Just made a massive defensive header to prevent a Lecce winner. Three minutes left...

Udinese equaliser... ruled out! Pure drama And that's Vardy's shift over... fingers crossed this is how it stays... now a late Sassuolo winner would be LOVELY... but that's surely asking too much?

YESSSS 2-2 SASSUOLO They'd just hit the crossbar too... rule that one out ya bastards! Now all up to Cremonese to hold on...

Red card rescinded? Yeesh

Yeah, that's absolutely right. Forest's transfer policy after promotion was to throw as much shit at the wall as possible and see what stuck. Annoyingly it worked. Then again, we've had countless managers now who have point-blank refused to use the best resources at our disposal, right back to Rodgers' personal hatred of Soyuncu and insisting on using Amartey instead. We could have had 50 senior players and the likes of Cooper, RVN, Cifuentes and Rowett would all still have stuck with a core bunch of 15 chancers and the odd tweak here and there. I think I'm more worried about the off-the-field stuff than the playing squad - really, at this point even if we're forced to throw the kids in next year (as we all wanted to see far more of this season), it can't be any worse than our worst 2nd tier points tally in 142 years. But there is the small voice in the back of my head telling me that if we don't go up at the first time of asking, and those parachute payments run out, the cashflow issues are going to be huge even if our wage bill is slashed. It will dwarf what Derby went through, and there was a very real risk of them going the way of Bury and Macclesfield at one point.

Ruled out by the killjoys

This is a rollercoaster

SASSUOLO EQUALISER 🗣️🗣️🗣️🚨🚨🚨

Lecce also go ahead

You sly old dog

Thing is, even a 50% cut on 40k is still a 20k salary, which is astronomical for the third tier. Two players on that much would surpass the base level TV deal on their own. TWO. We can't afford to have even one player on more than 10k in my opinion, and they would have to be a talisman to justify it. That's how far up shit creek we are financially. The numbers from matchday revenue are going to become massively more important without TV money. We made £20 million this season just gone, and that's likely to be lower next time around with less demand for hospitality and more general sale tickets. Season tickets are the only guaranteed income and 22k sold would bring in around £11 million. At the last count our wage bill was supposedly around £45 million per season. The majority of that is condensed into 10-12 high earners, some of which will be off the books (Ricardo, Ayew, Daka, Lascelles were all reportedly on £30k or more per week and Lascelles is the only one we're likely to even consider extending). But there are plenty left who are still in contract. So yeah, a fire sale of the likes of Choudhury, Vestergaard, Skipp, Souttar, Fatawu, Winks, Faes - ideally with some hefty transfer fees for one or two - is the only way we're complying with the rules in League One - which have tightened overnight with the recent vote. Loans with wage cover or an obligation will not be enough. As it is we likely need to halve our wage bill to have any hope in hell of meeting the 65% cap and avoiding sanctions. Personally, I can't see a situation where we don't end up with some sort of fresh points deduction or transfer embargo being imposed on us, if not next season then the one after if we don't go straight back up. Edit - re: Fatawu, he's reportedly not one of our high earners, but I've included him as despite how shit he's been for the past six months, he's still one of the only members of this sorry lot who we could possibly get a sizeable transfer fee for.