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Dire if true. What a wasted opportunity after the reasonably positive financial results the year before. And ultimately just to end up being relegated again.

Now please don't sit back and invite pressure. Let's get another one!

Get in!

As soon as we start applying a tiny bit of pressure you can see how nervy Stoke are at the back

Awful tackle by Ricardo, ref waves play on 🤣

I want Cov to not go up more than I want Leicester to stay up.

Been out all afternoon and literally just started watching as they took that free kick for the goal, FFS 🤣😭

On 95 minutes, even if you foul the player in the corner like he did, stand over the f***king ball to stop the quick free kick which leads to the goal. Braindead.

He was reported as being out "for at least a month" by Cifuentes on 23rd January. So earliest return would be Middlesborough away on 24th Feb, but more likely Norwich at home on 28th, or Ipswich away on 7th March.

Always enjoy these kinds of posts from you. I'm clinging on to the fact that James and Ramsey should be back playing from March onwards. Hopefully that's enough to see us over the line.

13:53 Daniel Orme Pearson not on Leicester list Leicester City have not made contact with former boss Nigel Pearson as they continue their search for a new manager. The Foxes are on the lookout for Marti Cifuentes’ replacement after he was sacked earlier this week. Fans have clamoured for the return of ex-manager Pearson but Mirror Football understands that club chiefs have not made contact regarding a second return to the King Power Stadium. Pearson has already enjoyed two productive spells with Leicester, earning promotion from League One and the Championship. He has also worked for the club’s King Power ownership with Belgian side OH Leuven. Pearson has been out of work since leaving Bristol City in October 2023. Andy King is set to take charge of this weekend’s clash with Charlton Athletic. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfer-news-live-man-utd-36633577

I'm unclear on League 1 PSR – I don't think the same rules apply. Birmingham spent £15m on Stansfield alone when they were down there.

Admittedly this is very rough, back of a fag packet calculations, and I'm prepared to take abuse for this being wildly wrong and holes being picked throughout it. Using some basic known metrics from our 2022/23 season Premier League financial results, and a comparison to 2024/25 Premier League season, I've predicted our broad figures: 2022/23 Turnover: £164m Wages: £190m Transfer amortisation: £77m Sales profit: £75m £90m loss for annual accounts 2024/25 Turnover: £174m (+£10.8m from 22/23 – based on £10.8m additional prize money for finishing 18th compared to 2 years prior) Wages: £120m (-£50m from 22/23 – this is my own, calculated guesstimation based on players that had left between the two seasons - Tielemans, Praet, Barnes, Maddison, etc... - for what it's worth I feel I overestimated slightly) Transfer amortisation: £50m (-£27m from 22/23 – again my own guesstimation, but tracked from the published figure for 2023/24 based on players sold/left as well as single season amortisation for players we signed such as Skipp, Ayew, etc...) Sales profit: £4.5m (-£70m from 22/23 – only Cannon) predicted £53.5m loss for annual accounts I fully understand this is simplistic and there are way more variables – including ticket sales, non-playing staff costs, running costs, energy prices (Seagrave) – way more. But it's as reasonable guess as I feel we'll get to these key figures at this time. For the 2023 to 2025 cycle PSR calculation the predicted £53.5m sits alongside 2023 (£90m) and 2024 (£19.4m) – so £163m total losses. For the 3 seasons 2021 to 2023 combined we lost £215.5m (£33m, £92.5m, £90m), but we know that the true (accepted by PL) addbacks for that period were £91m (this document confirms we were deemed £19.5m over the £105m threshold at the hearing). Even going with a conservative, lessened £80m add backs for 2023 to 2025, we should sit at around £83m losses after addbacks – exactly what the allowable losses are for us in those 3 years. It's going to be tight, but I'm thinking we won't be in the same ballpark of a huge breach as we have been for other years.

Fingers crossed there isn't another charge coming relating to 2024-25!

Not sure if you're joking... but this is distance travelled geographically across the country to each game. It's why the teams on the coast are top and the midlands teams are all at the bottom.

If he was going to drop to The Championship he'd surely go back to Coventry

Because he died 10 years ago today?

I said similar about a game a couple of weeks ago too. Top has drained the life out of this club.

It's surely coming any day now. Timed to cause maximum transfer window disruption (again).

No press conference?

17 hours since the last post on a pre-match thread a day before the game shows our current collective level of apathy.

The top of page 3 in this document confirms from one of the previous hearings that we exceeded the 3 years ending 2023 by £19.5m after allowable losses had been deducted. The calculation for the 3 years ending 2024 sees FY2021's £33.1m loss come off, and FY2024's £19.4m loss replace it (+£13.7m). Our allowance for that period is reduced by £22m because of being in the EFL (notwithstanding the potential argument at next week's hearing for the interpretation of "T" in the rules). Some of the addbacks will change, but our breach for the 3 years ending 2024 should be in the region of £28m. Now, if De Marco is going down the "T" argument route, and is successful, we'd be looking at a loss in the region of £6m.

This isn't true, we haven't exceeded it by £120m. That figure is before allowable losses have been deducted. After addbacks / allowable losses, we're likely to be in the region of exceeding the £83m allowable loss for the 3 years ending 2024 by somewhere around £20m to £30m. We still deserve everything/anything coming our way, but it's important not to spread misinformation (even unintentionally, as I'm sure yours was).