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I know we didn't - and look how that turned out. I know we're all down on the owners and everything, but given the utter shit show of this season, I'm just not convinced they'll adopt exactly the same policy of targeting a sub-standard manager on the basis that they're out of contract and therefore free.

We won't hear anything at all from the club until relegation is mathematically confirmed.

I have no idea whether we're likely to get Rohl or not, but I think this assumption that we won't pay any release clause is flawed. There's a good chance that our preferred targets will be in a job, so the chances are we will have to pay compensation for somebody.

100%. And after Enzo left, the two top names on our shortlist were Graham Potter and Steve Cooper - two completely different types of manager. If we'd have appointed Potter, we'd have gone in a completely different direction with transfers. The fact that our entire transfer policy hinged solely on whoever came in as manager does indeed speak volumes.

Indeed. This idea that Maresca would have just turned out to be an Italian Russell Martin has no basis in reality, but that doesn't stop people from mindlessly repeating it. Maresca is a far better and more pragmatic manager than Martin - there's no comparing them. If Maresca had stayed we'd likely have had a new DoF and other technical staff last summer, we'd have had a much better transfer window and would very likely have stayed up this season. His decision to leave for Chelsea threw us into a tailspin from which we still haven't recovered.

Yes. If we breach PSR for the current period, it will very likely fall upon the EFL to determine the punishment next season.

It won't be easy to shift them, but it's not quite as bleak as this. The players will have clauses in their contracts that reduce their salaries in the Championship, which may make them more inclined to stay. Plus a number of them have been here a few years and have either low or no book value, which means we can accept lower fees without making a PSR loss. We won't get rid of as many of them as most of us would like, but I suspect a fair few will leave the building.

Even more foolish than losing 14 of our past 15 games? Than being only the 4th side in English top flight history to lose seven consecutive games without scoring? Than being the first PL team to concede the first goal in 25 out of the first 30 games? Keeping RVN is not saving the owners' faces - it is actively damaging their brand. Every time we lose without scoring it makes them look even more foolish. Nobody would judge them negatively for sacking RVN given our record under him - it's what any other club would do.

Because the EFL will have responsibility for overseeing our accounts next season and they’re even bigger ***** than the EPL?

He’s been poor since he returned from injury and I don’t think we’ll get anywhere near as much for him as we were hoping a few months ago. With Fatawu’s ACL ruling him out of a big money move, it looks like we may really struggle to generate funds from transfers this summer.

Would money spent on Viagra count as an allowable loss for PSR purposes?

It will be interesting to see whether they hold firm again next season.

That was the figure at 30 June last year. Since then KP have converted a huge chunk of debt to equity, which would have wiped most of that off.

Ayew left Palace because they told him they couldn't guarantee him first team football. He apparently is one of those players who wants to play every week and gets very frustrated when he isn't picked. I'm not sure he'll fancy being a squad player in the Championship.

When we bought Bilal Liverpool were apparently also interested in him but were put off by the £21m price tag, which they considered too much. I'm not convinced he's done enough to push it up to £30m and I don't think we'd sell for that anyway.

We'll hardly make a profit on BEK. Pointless selling him. Even Hermansen will probably bring in less than people expect.

Well there you go, then. That clears that matter up!

You'd imagine Danny Ward will drive away from Seagrave at 120mph the moment his last training session ends and will probably never set foot in Leicestershire again. Iversen needs to play somewhere and he isn't going to get that with us, so he'll be off.

From a PSR perspective, we'd need somebody to offer £35-40m for Bilal to make it worth our while. Nobody is going to offer that.

Why on earth would we loan him out? There would be zero logic in doing that.

What does ‘understands the club’ mean? The fact that he once played for us has zero bearing on whether he’d be a good manager for us.

Nothing has changed. I’ve repeatedly argued against any suggestions we may get a transfer of embargo this summer, but I’ve never ‘shot down’ claims we may get a points deduction. Our case is different from Sheff Utd’s because they were punished for defaulting on payments to other clubs and we have not been accused of anything like that. However, we are still in an arbitration process with the PL over our PSR breach for 2020-23 (the one we avoided on a technicality earlier this season). It is possible that gets passed onto the EFL to deal with, in which case we may get a deduction next season (although nobody seems to know whether this is likely to happen or not). None of this is new. I’ll be surprised if anybody offers north of £35m for BEK and I think it would take at least that to persuade us to sell him. However if I’m wrong and a big offer comes in for him, then yes, I’m sure he’ll go.

Sickening, isn't it? Plenty of us wanted him last summer and he would probably have been available for £4-5m. That was apparently too much for us, so we went for free agent Cooper instead - before dropping £20m a few weeks later on Oliver Skipp, who now can't even get in our 20-man matchday squad....

I've captained him in my FPL team. My only regret is that I used my triple captain chip some time ago....

Most reports suggest otherwise.