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It's worse than that. 10k a week per player is a few million more than the average for L1 over the season. TV rights just 2m. So if you just have 4 players averaging just 40k a week that's half the budget gone. Add to this the running costs of the club itself. It's quite substantial ATM. Then a lot of your supporters are going to stay away (I'm in agreement) in protest to what's happening with your club. 10k a week isn't sustainable in the current climate.

I said myself Rushworth in goal and Onyeka made the difference. When the player who gets player of the season is the GK you know you should do well. It allowed us to attack knowing the other team had to get past Onyeka then Rushworth. We've scored 93 goals so far, the next is Ipswich clear second with 77 goals. Defence we're level best with Middlesbrough on 45 goals against. Just one more clean sheet for Rushworth and the golden glove is guaranteed. Up front we have 7 players with 7 goals each or more. If Torp scores again we will have 5 players on 10 goals or more. Us having faith in Onyeka and Rushworth meant we could attack. We suffered for years in the GK position. We finally got a good GK then he got injured when a Sunderland player came flying in. He has been out injured for over a year.

You need to look elsewhere. You have players easily good enough, but they only seem to get motivated when playing the better sides. They just don't care enough to give full effort for the smaller sides. It's as though they don't care. The Championship has slowly got stronger. More teams coming down with the money and others building for several years and making stronger sides. We got what we needed. A midfield general in Onyeka and a great GK in Rushworth.

Those still backing the owner and other incompetent people ruining your club should consider this. Our record signing is 7.7m. Our highest earner is on about 1/3 of yours. We still have players from our L1 and L2 days. Good luck for the future and hope you manage to get rid of them a lot quicker than we did with our oxygen thieves.

Depends who the main debt is to. There would be very limited ways of him doing it, but after our fiasco with SISU nothing would surprise me. If you're after the better players in L1 it wouldn't be expensive. We were league 2 in 2018 without any money. It didn't take too long to get to the Championship, but improving after that was a slower process although we finished higher each season. We've been knocking on the door to the Prem for a few years. Most of us thought we wouldn't see the Championship for a very long time and could never see us reaching the Prem ever again because of the parachute payments.

I'm not so sure. We went into administration and took a big points deduction. It wasn't even to do with any debts we had. It was so our owners could break the contract of the stadium and nothing else. They chose the administrator for the procedure. Our owners made another company and sold our club to themselves. So our club had to pay for the process and take the points deduction just so we could play our home games well away from our own city. This isn't the time or place to write a novel. Our climb back up the league was all because of Robins. They kept selling our players to cover the running costs of our club. Robins and SISU came to an agreement that he could keep half of what our players were sold for. Eventually he raised enough to pay a total of 2.2m to buy Gyokeres and Hamer. Luckily our present owner took over with them still at our club or they would have sold them for a fraction of what we sold them for. Our striker Wright is our record signing. We paid 7.7m for him. It isn't how much money you have but what you do with it.

Football is becoming a financial mess for most clubs with the majority making a loss. It's the only business I can think of that is happy to have more expenses for employees than income. Something needs to happen. Just a fine? That would just add to the debt. To me there should be a maximum a club can lose, but if you go over this the owner should make a cash injection which isn't a loan. If you can afford to play with the big clubs then do it, but you shouldn't be able to jeopardise the future of a football club. Would you have got into this mess if Top had to make a big cash gift each year there was a big overspend?

An absolute disgrace. The FA let him pass the fit and proper test. When they find out they're completely wrong they keep hitting a club that an owner obliterated with points deductions, and are now saying that they would have to offer him about another 60m to take the club over or they will hit the club with yet another big points deduction. They let him take the club over. They should take some of the responsibility.

Me? 🤔

I fully agree. We even had support for our owners when they took us away from our own City for home games. That was crazy. We even had physical attacks from those who followed us to Northampton on those protesting outside. But the shock of ending up in L1 will bring many to their senses. The problem is that those who can read the room stop going and those that can't see sense will continue to go making it look like a decent amount still back the owners.

Which was partly my point. First move needs to be get rid of those going through the motions for the wages they steal. Keep those who give 100% even if not that good. You will get the better L1 players because of who you are. Sign for Leicester or Doncaster? Let the flops go on a free. Hopefully other teams would take them on and work out a deal that takes their wages into consideration.

These rules changed at the start of the season after Birmingham and to a lesser extent Wrexham took advantage. Birmingham bought a 15m striker in L1 amongst other players. Now there's a limit on how much can be put in. They didn't count in the Championship FFP constraints. But you don't need a massive cash advantage to win L1.

There's a good chance it will get worse before it gets better. When we were down and out the best thing that happened to us was relegation to L2. Getting back to the Championship was just a dream at the time. What happened for us was Mark Robins. He picked us up from the gutter and got our players believing again. We climbed back up still having owners that didn't care. One season they even sold our best defender after the season started because we needed a new pitch in a ground that wasn't ours. But we got a siege mentality and continued our climb back up whatever our owners did to us. We even won L1 when we didn't play a home game all season as we had our 'home' games in Birmingham. A lot of your players have been a disgrace, but letting your players know this hasn't helped. Would your performance at work suddenly improve if you were constantly told how crap you are? There's a big split between your own supporters. This needs to end. So does any defending of your owners. They also need to be seen totally different from your club. You will end up with players playing for your shirt again. They might not be brilliant but will give 100%.

A lot of clubs have hit this wall and know how it feels. We know what could be ahead. But whatever happens keep it up. The fond memories of your climb back up never leave you, like for us playing 46 games away each season and travelling to Northampton to stand on a hill where we could see half the pitch. But my favourite still is when little Yeovil came to our place. A win and we get into the playoffs for League Two 🥳🥳🥳 They beat us 2-6 🙄

Easy way of keeping an eye on Ipswich, but also your club that half my family supports. Thanks for getting the point for both sides 👍