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Have they announced the price yet?

If Burnley lose tonight then likely to be relegated - could be a bad night for Everton

AJ v Usyk looking likely for June

Now coming to Bristol that weekend and to be honest I hadn’t thought of attending the game due to POTD being £30 plus for each of us. An end of season game with nothing to play for was certainly not attractive. At these prices I must admit we’re more likely to attend.

One of those is playing - will let you watch the game to find out

Nice gesture: Forest tribute to Hillsborough victims Nottingham Forest v Liverpool (18:00 GMT) Nottingham Forest have left 97 seats vacant for tonight's game with Liverpool to honour those who lost their lives because of the Hillsborough disaster. The clubs are meeting for the first time in the FA Cup since their 1989 semi-final

Fancy Forest to beat Liverpool today , be good to see a championship club in the semi final. Looks like Fowler’s enjoyed the pre match bar looking at his eyes !!

Bielsa would be a fantastic appointment , the improvement of average championship players such as Alying, Dallas, Bamford and copper would be welcome here. But simply he comes at a premier and we a). We wouldn’t pay it and secondly Leeds are a big club and had a draw to him us and many other clubs simply don’t have

Be waiting a while for him to reply

Maybe something we could try at corners

This is the guy on the FBC podcast who comments weekly that he likes debate and doesn’t engage with people who make childish comments? Isn’t that what he’s just done? Slightly ironic isn’t it what a ?

It’s bollocks , no contact would give a salary of an employee. I’ll ask at Tesco tomorrow the security guard to advise the salary if the checkout lady

I completely agree , I take it your the guy who challenged the comment?

Someone on sound of the city said on Monday he was one of our highest earning players. I really find it baffling when people quote how much a player earns with no substance to their comments. It’s a PRIVATE matter between employer and employee. I’m sure this numpty quoting salaries would not like his income stated on a public forum.

I wanted Pearson and wanted him pre Johnson and again when Holden was appointed. The mess this club is in right now we need an experienced manager, I believe one of the reasons Pearson has stuck around is the promising younger players we currently have. The club is a mess and for that the blame has to go to the top, how do we not have a recruitment scout is amazing. Is Pearson without blame? No he isn’t, we appear to lack organisation and our defending at times is awful. A number of these players in their comfort zone , good wages, good lifestyle and been here too long; O’Dowda, Palmer, Vyner , Moore and Bakinson (although on loan) all players who go back two managers to when they were signed. We’re heading towards league one unfortunately, Pearson is part of the problem but the problem is much bigger than him. If he were to leave , who’d come in? We’ve got no money to entice and a squad low on quality

But for some reason it’s not considered the impact on finances going forward!! It’s a debt against the club that we have to honour and will reduce our capacity to be used for other reasons, new manager / coaching staff or new players

It was mentioned a week or or so back by @headhunterwe could pay him monthly as we did with Johnson (apparently). If we pay Pearson off monthly it reduces our budget to both bring in a new manager and also improve the squad. If we’ve only got £10 a month and Pearson is due £6 then it means we can only pay £4 to a new manager / coaching staff. Financially we’re in a right old mess , we’ve got players in the squad on good wages who aren’t being selected and we can’t move on.

Correct, people think if Pearson leaves we suddenly become a better team - we may get a bounce but these performances have been here for a number of seasons now. The club has been mis managed from the very top for a number of years now IMO - we’ve given good contracts to average players and therefore it’s a struggle to move them on. The Lansdowns have taken their eyes off the pitch and we’re now in this mess. It may be old news but why did the club let that number of players end their contracts , what activity did we do to try and get some money in, considering our losses anything brought in by selling these players (however small would have reduced our debt). The club has to look at its pricing next season, we’re in a period where utilities / food etc are all going up the club can’t charge £40 to go to see football as a walk in, especially to watch poor performances. We face a huge summer, if we get it wrong we’re relegated but with no money to spend and having to sell to buy it’s going to be difficult. As you say some don’t seem to get it or want to, we had people saying the club was going to buy six new players in January!! I personally don’t think Pearson will be here next season, something wrong with our club and it’s difficult times ahead. Despite those calling for him to leave there’s no suggestion of a replacement

Chelsea today asking for cup game against Boro to be played behind closed doors as can’t sell tickets to their fans l.

A BBC investigation has uncovered new evidence about the corrupt deals that made Roman Abramovich's fortune. The Chelsea owner made billions after buying an oil company from the Russian government in a rigged auction in 1995. Mr Abramovich paid around $250m (£190m) for Sibneft, before selling it back to the Russian government for $13bn in 2005. His lawyers say there is no basis for alleging he has amassed very substantial wealth through criminality. The Russian billionaire was sanctioned by the UK government last week because of his links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr Abramovich's assets have been frozen and he has been disqualified as a director of Chelsea Football Club. The Russian billionaire has already admitted in a UK court that he made corrupt payments to help get the Sibneft deal off the ground. He was being sued in London by his former business associate Boris Berezovsky in 2012. Mr Abramovich won the case, but he described in court how the original Sibneft auction was rigged in his favour and how he gave Mr Berezovsky $10m to pay off a Kremlin official. BBC Panorama has obtained a document that is thought to have been smuggled out of Russia. The information was given to the programme by a confidential source, who says it was secretly copied from files held on Mr Abramovich by Russian law enforcement agencies. The BBC cannot verify that, but checks with other sources in Russia have backed up many of the details in the five-page document. The document says that the Russian government was cheated out of $2.7bn in the Sibneft deal - a claim supported by a 1997 Russian parliamentary investigation. The document also says that the Russian authorities wanted to charge Mr Abramovich with fraud. It says: "The Dept. of Economic Crimes investigators came to the conclusion that if Abramovich could be brought to trial he would have faced accusations of fraud… by an organised criminal group." Watch Panorama Roman Abramovich's Dirty Money is on BBC One, Monday 14 March, at 20:00 GMT and on BBCiPlayer afterwards Panorama tracked down Russia's former chief prosecutor, who investigated the deal in the 1990s. Yuri Skuratov did not know about the secret document, but he independently confirmed many of the details about the Sibneft sale. Mr Skuratov told the programme: "Basically, it was a fraudulent scheme, where those who took part in the privatisation formed one criminal group that allowed Abramovich and Berezovsky to trick the government and not pay the money that this company was really worth." The document also suggests Mr Abramovich was protected by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. It says law enforcement files on Mr Abramovich were moved to the Kremlin and that an investigation by Mr Skuratov was stopped by the president. The document says: "Skuratov was preparing a criminal case for the confiscation of Sibneft on the basis of the investigation of its privatisation. The investigation was stopped by President Yeltsin … Skuratov was dismissed from his office." Mr Skuratov was sacked after the release of a sex tape in 1999. He says it was a stitch-up to discredit him and his investigation. He said: "This whole thing was obviously political, because in my investigations I came very close to the family of Boris Yeltsin, including via this investigation of the Sibneft privatisation." Mr Abramovich remained in the Kremlin inner circle when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. The document contains details of another rigged auction two years later, involving a Russian oil company called Slavneft. Mr Abramovich formed a partnership with another firm to buy Slavneft, but a rival Chinese company was planning to bid almost twice as much. Many powerful people - from the Kremlin to the Russian parliament - would have stood to lose out if the Chinese won the auction. The document says that a member of the Chinese delegation was kidnapped when they arrived in Moscow for the auction. "CNPC, Chinese company, a very strong competitor, had to withdraw from the auction after one of its representatives was kidnapped upon arrival at Moscow Airport and was released only after the company declared its withdrawal." The kidnapping story is backed up by independent sources who did not know about the document. Vladimir Milov was Russia's deputy energy minister in the run up to the Slavneft sale. He didn't comment on the kidnapping story, but he said senior political figures had already decided that Mr Abramovich's partnership would win the auction. "I said, look, the Chinese want to come in and they want to pay a much bigger price. They say it doesn't matter, shut up, none of your business. It's already decided. Slavneft goes to Abramovich, the price is agreed. The Chinese will be dragged out somehow." There is no suggestion that Mr Abramovich knew anything about the kidnapping plot, or played any part in it. His lawyers told the BBC the kidnap claim "is entirely unsubstantiated" and he has "no knowledge of such incident". Different factions had been fighting for control of Slavneft and there was widespread opposition to the Chinese bid. Whatever the reason for the Chinese withdrawal, Mr Abramovich's partnership had the only bid left on the table. And they bought Slavneft at a knockdown price. Mr Abramovich's lawyers say allegations of corruption in the Slavneft and Sibneft deals are false, and he denies he was protected by Mr Yeltsin.

Think Weghorst is an upgrade on Wood personally. Mee is a huge loss for them

Can’t see Burnley getting more than two wins in their remaining games

Can’t put a run of results together - yesterday was a big defeat

Instead of who?

Bad result for Burnley yesterday, just don’t seem to be able to get a run together and not taking advantage of their games in hand. Leeds have to win today (Norwich h), Everton (wolves h) could be a tricky game.