Davefevs

That’s not what’s in the EFL guidelines though, so not sure where that came from. I can only assume that in a normal year there are some costs to creating that revenue, and that they must be taken into account, e.g. revenue down, but some costs also down. Heres a yearly summary of the revenue streams (Holdings): Shading: red - down from 18/19 green - up from 18/19

Small period of pain, large period of gain. I recall that Rooney rant at Poll in an Arsenal / Man Utd game.

Problem is their wages are more than the tv money already.

I actually feel transparency would help.

That’s kinda why I was a bit “meh” about the top 6 forming a Super League….if it meant them leaving domestic football.

£33.3m close enough ?

By all means move COD on if that’s what you think, but there’s no real link / dependency on Mitchell to the COD decision. One is a first teamer, the other is u23 squad.

Defo penalty. you can see that Dasilva is not falling until contact in these 4 pics. You see Reed’s leg go through Dasilva in pics 3 and 4…no contact on the ball, zoomed pic 5.

Essentially, PPs distort P&S / FFP, and FFP stifles investment as it only allows an owner to cover losses up to a set amount, which is way below PPs. The two can’t work together, they contradict each other. I do think the concept of a salary cap works. I like the idea that financial penalties are penalising, and that the money from those penalties is shared between the clubs that do comply. There needs to be electronic real-time reporting of PAYE, and any club paying players by an alternate method are given a points deduction like fielding an unregistered player. The EFL and clubs will need to brainstorm against loopholes.

The previous draft salary cap proposal was that each team could have a squad of 25 @ £720k p.a thus £18m total. £720k p.a was the average Championship salary in 19/20. Relegated teams would have in contract players over the £720k counted as £720k, so if a player was on £50k p.w his £2.6m p.a would be counted as £720k. You may argue, how is that fair? But wait ? So, if all 25 players were above the cap, therefore counting as £720k, firstly they can’t bring anyone in. Secondly if they sell a player, they can only replace with a new player up to £720k p.a. So they can’t buy big. Also as contracts expire they have to fall within the wage cap, so that £50k player has to accept £14k p.w or his club gets a fine / points penalty, depending on how far it goes over. I’m sure in the early seasons they have to put a moratorium on all existing contracts, but again over time as players renew they’d have to fall in line. It wouldn’t stop you pay 10 player higher than £720k, as long as the other 15 are paid low enough to keep them under £18m. I think it has a lot of legs. The amounts might need reworking but I like the principle. Whether there is a need for PPs or not I’m not sure, perhaps save the money so if they get promoted they can invest in their squad. Ideally I want to do away with them.

Blige we had some chances.

Just saw it on twitter. Only one side of the story, but explains the Wycombe / Boro stuff well.

I’m guessing he wouldn’t be going straight into their first team.

No he didn’t, but I think CR might well be ITK here.

Sad news, but glad news in a funny way. Just had a little one havent they, so hopefully he’s done enough over the years to be relatively set up for life. Best wishes Bakes.

Comments from a guy who was recently in the Wigan Recruitment team.

Really? Probably off on loan? (Guess)

Nethsniel most likely.

It’s why I’m surprised Atkinson didn’t start on Saturday. I feel like I have our defensive set-pieces the kiss of death with my recent analysis of our corner set-up.

A moot point now, but did Mel think minus 9 would threaten their hopes of staying in the Champ, therefore why not go the whole hog, take minus 12, and then start again in Lg1? Because as it stands minus 9 would be a completely different ball-game!

Alex Scott and Tommy Backwell, both ex-Saints, maybe same age-group? Is Louis Carey still there?