ClaphamFox

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.

It wouldn't.

Yes, I heard Rob Tanner last night. He did indeed imply that the EFL is 'baying for blood' but he provided no details whatsoever about what the EFL can get us for and what measures they will be able to take against us. The podcasts you mention all follow the same pattern: dark hints that we're going to get 'hit hard' with something by a vengeful EFL combined with no knowledge whatsoever of exactly how this will happen. I'm pretty sure the EFL will not be able to hit us with a transfer embargo this summer because we didn't breach for the period ending 2023-24 and we won't submit our accounts for 2024-25 to them until the autumn at the earliest. A points deduction may be possible if the PL's arbitration process against us for 2020-23 (the one we escaped on a technicality) ends up being passed onto the EFL. However, as yet it's not clear whether this will happen. As for sellable assets, I disagree about BEK. I don't think we'd be able to sell him for much more than we bought him for, so selling him would have little benefit from a PSR perspective. Much better to keep him. Likewise I can't see anybody dropping big money on Fatawu until it's clear how he's recovered from his injury.

This is almost certainly it. Last year we submitted them just before the deadline and the first news stories reporting the figures were on 3 April. So we’ll likely find out in the next few days.

Slightly odd story. Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre says she has been in a serious car crash and has just days to live: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo.amp But the BBC story also says this: “It remains unclear where and when the crash occurred. “Both the Western Australia police and ambulance services told the BBC they had no records of such an accident happening in recent weeks. “The police later specified that they had located records of a "minor crash" between a bus and a car on 24 March, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.”

Leeds have had two consecutive seasons in the EFL. If we’d have failed to get promoted last season we’d also had to have reduced the wage bill further. I’m not saying we’ll have exactly the budget we had for 23/24, but in terms of resources we’ll be one of the strongest teams in the division.