Jon the Hat

To deserve respect for listening they’d need to admit they got it wrong and listened. Unlike Labour canning winter fuel allowance then pretending they found the cash down the back of the sofa to bring it back . For example.

The statement from SW seems to contradict that - offered 40M plus some addons if and when they make the premier league. I doubt he can afford to accept that, probably more debt against the club personally that he needs to repay.

They had very little choice in the matter at the time. Lots of politics involved, and it was not acceptable to be seen as taking too large a share when the other party is the state. They had a decent deal, then the AOT saw them making "too much profit" and demanded an increase. KP were making a fortune so not well placed to deny it, and political pressure saw them essentially forced to accept the deal which they are now rightly going back and saying doesn't work anymore.

Kingy doesn't have to be ready to manage at his age, plenty of managers work as coaches and mature into their 40s and then find success.

Yes, particularly when that money could be quickly used to solve most of the already known issues which the enquiry is supposed to identify.

its not impossible the numbers pick up again.

If you step back for a minute, retailers negotiating a reduction in their "rent" is a very normal thing. I don't expect - unless KP have managed to piss off all their connections in Thailand - this to result in a bad outcome.

Annd we will have a pre-agreement with Dyche as we didn't think Rohl would be available a month ago

Assume this is something to do with the benefits changes? The stats show a massive multi billion pound increase in people signed off for mental health reasons since the pandemic. We seem to have enabled a lot of people to become reliant on benefits who don't necessarily need to.

They literally cannot say anything without triggering the costs in this year, hence the silence.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you get relegated unfortunately. Had we refused to put a reasonable clause in his contract he would not have signed.

I'm not sure anyone knows yet to be honest. Although it seems very unlikely Iran would not have at least moved some of its Enriched Uranium, and have other sites working on something so important.

Literally my point - the post listed all these little actions a "good CEO would take", while completely ignoring the really significant one they are actually taking. Yes its a bit of a nuclear option, but if your "rent" is actually a % of turnover, you need to remain at a certain level of turnover to maintain your footprint, and if the AOT are not delivering the footfall (it is not the responsibility of the duty free operator to deliver the tourists is it?) then the AOT should absolutely share the pain.

I keep doing that, I think there are several. Sorry Mark! Trying to stay on topic.

Yes, but we don't need to be profitable to be sold. Hardly any clubs are actually making a profit.

Its on a different scale of course, but my point is it is quite possible to sell a club with debt, and indeed in a loss making position. Lowering the wage bill would help of course, but the Macquarie 130M is largely irrelevant to the sale.

Really? Have you not read the dozens of posts and now media articles explaining they cannot announce anything until the start of the new accounting period in July?

If they have actually got away with bombing Iran's nuclear program without any really significant consequences, then its hard to argue with. The problem is we won't really know for a while. Possibly years.

Chelsea have lost a billion quid.

We have losses whatever league we are in tbh.

It will no doubt end with either dodgy Middle Eastern oil money or dickhead American financiers.

You can also renegotiate contracts with your main partner, the owner of the airports, who are taking a huge cut of your profits. Anyone know if they have done that?

Honestly given the legal battles they have won through in the past this might well blow over too. It looks like it is no-one's best interest to let KP lose their position. I would expect announcement of revised contract terms in a couple of months. Funnily enough the higher rates they are paying were if I am not mistaken as a result of the AOT deciding KP has too good a deal, and a bit of political pressure later they went up. All fine when the Tourism sector is booming, but not sustainable on an ongoing basis when numbers fall. AOT need to realise they cannot take that kind of cut when the business is struggling.

Hmm, Yorkshire or Miami... tough one.

And for local journeys, massive increase in capacity. And now they are going to reduce the speed anyway. Rubbish comms.