Will we get a transfer embargo?

[Vowels]

Might be the best thing if we do.

[Lako42]

1 hour ago, sylofox said:

 

 

Just be ready for.

 

Same Old Leicester

Always Cheating

The irony being that we've cheated to achieve absolutely **** all. 

 

In fact, the so called cheating has resulted in a complete collapse as a club and team. 

 

 

Nice

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, Walshy5 said:

We all know a points deduction is coming and the EFL will be sharpening their knifes but does anyone know if there's a transfer embargo aswell?

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think it comes down to when we have to submit a business plan that evidences how we will comply with the spending rules. I can't remember if that's to evidence that we have complied for 2024/25 that won't be due for submission until the end of this calendar year or for the forthcoming 2025/26.

 

I think there's a chance they'll put us under one, if not this summer then by the winter window.

[ClaphamFox]

2 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I think it comes down to when we have to submit a business plan that evidences how we will comply with the spending rules. I can't remember if that's to evidence that we have complied for 2024/25 that won't be due for submission until the end of this calendar year or for the forthcoming 2025/26.

 

I think there's a good chance they'll put us under one, if not this summer then by the winter window.

They can't do it this summer. They'll likely be all over us like a rash when the accounts are due to be submitted by the end of the year, but that won't matter much if we get our summer transfer window right.

 

Ha - I've just realised that I actually wrote the words, "...if we get our summer transfer window right" 

[Pliskin]

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

I think it comes down to when we have to submit a business plan that evidences how we will comply with the spending rules. I can't remember if that's to evidence that we have complied for 2024/25 that won't be due for submission until the end of this calendar year or for the forthcoming 2025/26.

 

I think there's a good chance they'll put us under one, if not this summer then by the winter window.

As @Finnegan said, they won’t be able to touch us this summer, they will try because they detest us in the EFL, but they would be foolish with our legal team, as we will quickly have any restrictions lifted. They will probably look to hit us in the winter window, but by then all business should be done. Thing is, we will challenge anything they do, so there will be a delay to punishment if any at all. 
 

Looking at the figures I can’t see how they can punish us, we spent a fair bit, but we also sold well too, which we will likely do again by selling Mads, Wilf and Sideshow Bob…. So anything they try will be out of spite. 
 

We just need to make sure we spend well, buy good players and have a manager capable of deploying tactics, do that and HMS piss the league might be about ready to set sail 

[Ricey]

16 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

We won't get either. 

 

Or, if we get an embargo at all it'll be a passive aggressive dig from the EFL and it'll happen immediately following relegation, something on the lines of "so NOW can we see your plan for improving your financial situation!?" and we'll sheepishly provide them some evidence of our books and they'll lift the embargo immediately. It'll just be a flex. 

 

I doubt we'll get a points deduction to be honest. We sold Barnes, Maddison and KDH in the year we were in the EFL, massively reduced our wage bill and spent fairly little (adjusted for amortisation) in the summer and famously nothing in January. 

 

It's not about that season though, we avoided a breach for the three year period ending in the summer.

 

It's about the season before, our relegation season. We avoided punishment for breaching in that season because technically we had already transferred our Premier League shares at the date of the breach. Logic then suggests we were technically a Football League team at that point, so it opens the door to the EFL potentially being able to give us a points deduction instead.

[Ricey]

5 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

As @Finnegan said, they won’t be able to touch us this summer, they will try because they detest us in the EFL, but they would be foolish with our legal team, as we will quickly have any restrictions lifted. They will probably look to hit us in the winter window, but by then all business should be done. Thing is, we will challenge anything they do, so there will be a delay to punishment if any at all. 
 

Looking at the figures I can’t see how they can punish us, we spent a fair bit, but we also sold well too, which we will likely do again by selling Mads, Wilf and Sideshow Bob…. So anything they try will be out of spite. 
 

We just need to make sure we spend well, buy good players and have a manager capable of deploying tactics, do that and HMS piss the league might be about ready to set sail 

The figures won't come into it, they know we breached for 22/23 and they know we got off it by claiming we weren't a PL team at the time of the breach (i.e. the final day of the three year period). That's what the EFL will try and punish us for. Whether they are successful or not I guess depends on whether we were technically an EFL club by that date and, if so,  whether the EFL have the ability to punish a club that spent all but a few days of the three year period as a Premier League club.

[ClaphamFox]

6 minutes ago, Ricey said:

It's not about that season though, we avoided a breach for the three year period ending in the summer.

 

It's about the season before, our relegation season. We avoided punishment for breaching in that season because technically we had already transferred our Premier League shares at the date of the breach. Logic then suggests we were technically a Football League team at that point, so it opens the door to the EFL potentially being able to give us a points deduction instead.

This is it. It all comes down to whether the EFL can successfully argue that we should come under their jurisdiction for 2020-23. If they can, then yes, a points deduction is likely. But it's a big 'if'.

[Pita]

1 hour ago, Walshie is God said:

From what I've seen we are going to comply with the efl psr, so no points deduction or transfer embargo, just more shit signings

Rudkin at his finest. The worst DOF ever

[The Horse's Mouth]

An embargo hasn’t be suggested has it? A pointless deduction is pretty much certain 

[ClaphamFox]

18 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

An embargo hasn’t be suggested has it? A pointless deduction is pretty much certain 

It’s very far from certain. Possible, yes, but not certain. 

[OadbyBlue]

Feels like we’ve had an embargo this year anyway.

[filbertway]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

I think it comes down to when we have to submit a business plan that evidences how we will comply with the spending rules. I can't remember if that's to evidence that we have complied for 2024/25 that won't be due for submission until the end of this calendar year or for the forthcoming 2025/26.

 

I think there's a chance they'll put us under one, if not this summer then by the winter window.

Jon Rudkin on 1st June

[coolhandfox]

Highly unlikely.

[Royston.]

we've been under a transfer embargo since January, The EPL let us buy one but only on the conditions he was shit

 

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[filthyfox]

17 hours ago, Pliskin said:

As @Finnegan said, they won’t be able to touch us this summer, they will try because they detest us in the EFL, but they would be foolish with our legal team, as we will quickly have any restrictions lifted. They will probably look to hit us in the winter window, but by then all business should be done. Thing is, we will challenge anything they do, so there will be a delay to punishment if any at all. 
 

Looking at the figures I can’t see how they can punish us, we spent a fair bit, but we also sold well too, which we will likely do again by selling Mads, Wilf and Sideshow Bob…. So anything they try will be out of spite. 
 

We just need to make sure we spend well, buy good players and have a manager capable of deploying tactics, do that and HMS piss the league might be about ready to set sail 

There will be no pissomg of the league this time.  (It only just happened last time- 5 more games and we would have been caught).

 

It will be a grind.

[mozartfox]

A transfer embargo with Dufkin and the current Retirement Team still in place, would in fact be a Godsend.  It would stop the pile of deadwood becoming greater and force any new manager into playing players born after 2008 instead of players born before 1985. EFL get it done.

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

A transfer embargo with Dufkin and the current Retirement Team still in place, would in fact be a Godsend.  It would stop the pile of deadwood becoming greater and force any new manager into playing players born after 2008 instead of players born before 1985. EFL get it done.

A transfer embargo would force us to cling onto many of the disinterested players who we desperately need to leave. It would prevent a full clear-out and make it impossible for us to stop the rot and start afresh. It would be disastrous for us. 
 

Thankfully it’s not going to happen because the EFL has no grounds to impose one. But it’s extraordinary that some people actually believe it would be a good thing if we were prevented from buying players at precisely the moment we need a major overhaul of the squad. 

Edited 12 March by ClaphamFox

[teblin]

20 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

They can't do it this summer. They'll likely be all over us like a rash when the accounts are due to be submitted by the end of the year, but that won't matter much if we get our summer transfer window right.

 

Ha - I've just realised that I actually wrote the words, "...if we get our summer transfer window right" 

To be fair it wasn’t too bad in the summer before the champ season. Not great but not too bad.

[ClaphamFox]

2 minutes ago, teblin said:

To be fair it wasn’t too bad in the summer before the champ season. Not great but not too bad.

Indeed it wasn’t. And I actually think it will be decent this summer. 

[mozartfox]

22 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

A transfer embargo would force us to cling onto many of the disinterested players who we desperately need to leave. It would prevent a full clear-out and make it impossible for us to stop the rot and start afresh. It would be disastrous for us. 
 

Thankfully it’s not going to happen because the EFL has no grounds to impose one. But it’s extraordinary that some people actually believe it would be a good thing if we were prevented from buying players at precisely the moment we need a major overhaul of the squad. 

Outgoings should be fine??

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

Outgoings should be fine??

There would be hardly any outgoings if we were not allowed to replace them. 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

I hope we do in some ways because it will pile pressure onto those at the club and it’s almost like it will protect us from signing more shite on big contracts.

[ClaphamFox]

31 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

I hope we do in some ways because it will pile pressure onto those at the club and it’s almost like it will protect us from signing more shite on big contracts.

Pressure to do what, exactly? On the contrary, it would give them a ready-made excuse for the inevitable collapse that would follow. And besides, when we were last relegated our summer signings included Hermansen, Fatawu, Winks and Mavididi - all of whom played a major part in our immediate promotion. Steve Cooper has left the club, so there will be no more Ayew/BDCR/Skipp-type signings. 

[Motty]

On 11/03/2025 at 08:21, ClaphamFox said:

Would it be a good thing if we got a new DoF in and his hands were immediately tied, forcing us to keep disinterested players that we badly need to offload? 

Think the embargo is for incomings