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I’d add Pring to TC and JW.

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@Exiled Robin ran a twitter spaces this morning. My point was our squad next season is gonna be a bit of an unknown until 1) we get to see retained list (end of this week hopefully according to TR and LM), then 2) hiw we deal with ins and outs.

Swansea’s accounts lodged at CH, not uploads yet.

I guess the purple bit is due to circulation cut off?

As per Tom Rawcliffe interview on @3 Peaps In A PodCast this morning: FFP reported at BCFC Holdings level (BCFC plus AG) Might be internal recharging, but everything like hospitality goes into FFP / P&S, inc concerts. Wants fans to think of football and stadium as one club 3k for women to break even at AG. (I’m guessing that’s just running the ground for a game) Don’t have a break-even point for men’s. No plans / priorities to renovate / expand Atyeo. And some other stuff we knew re add-backs, inc covid ones. Mentioned that LM said “we need to be ambitious”, so wants money, but we’ll be sensible within budgets. Have loads of FFP headroom.

Update from Tom Rawcliffe on @3 Peaps In A PodCast this morning: “Just shy of thirteen and a half thousand now, and at this stage you’d normally be between 90 and 95 percent of your sales, and I’m hoping that by the time the season ticks round we will be around the fourteen thousand mark, which is really good for us as a club”. Other thing, which we all knew anyone, all clubs report tickets sold (not people in the ground). South Stand is 98% season tickets, last season, but that wasn’t 98% full.

Beautiful summary @Silvio Dante

Thanks for your kind words. Just a small part of a great forum / community.

But Timmy, you might have me on ignore, but you continue to try troll me. How does that work? Borderline obsessive behaviour I’d suggest.

Yep, can filter by those currently injured.

Not blocked by SL, and JL actually follows me…and I’ve been critical of both on X. Tins blocking was surprising (to me anyway)…but as for Exiled Robin, I find astonishing. I think you might overplay any influence you think my tweets have! Just a fan with an opinion, hopefully an objective, balanced opinion.

I wasn’t far off was I re Tommy getting us points. Didn’t expect it to be from the spot though, neither did they need to be stonewallers either.

The bonkers thing is that the people inside the club thought differently! Maybe it’s not the fans playing Football Manager.

Short-term signing…til end of Jan.

I can provide that: Based on injuries reported by club, not rumours. I introduced a “match fitness” category for those players who were playing u21s games as part of their rehab.

Mike is @1960maaan. Thought “everyone” knew that.

Made this point on X earlier. Depending on how much they made on Bellingham’s sell-on (not mentioned as post-account events) they are gonna be taking some baggage down with them financially. Whilst they can invest equity under SCMP they can’t go mad because that gets ignored if they come back up. Ipswich went down with small losses. Marcus Evans did something good. Birmingham don’t appear to be in anywhere near as strong a FFP / SCMP position to buy their way out of League 1.

Just Lez again.

The problem with that model / approach is you need top, top, top recruitment and a manager with a football identity to recruit towards. We didn’t have that. Luton did. They exploited a market of undervalued players that fitted their style of football. You could see clubs like City having a snobbish attitude to buying someone like Elijah Adebayo for example. Also, assuming you churn those players regularly, you only make a profit against their book value. That becomes harder the more better established players you buy. No disrespect to players like Weimann or Hunt, especially Weimann, but you were unlikely to ever get the money back on them. Their fees were sunk. you also need a steady stream of Academy players too, because they are pure profit. You can’t do it all on “buy then sell”. Someone like SL should know that “having your eggs in one basket” (one method) is poor investment advice. Squad building is an art. Very few get it right, very few get the time to get it right.

Could’ve sworn a regular banned poster told me he’d had his fun with OTIB for a few months. Over to you mods @Ian M / @phantom easiest one yet!

If I was really cynical, I might suggest that turning a business with £9m in debt to one with £200m might counter some of that positive feeling?

Was quality on debut…having not played for months, but LJ flogged him to death.

Dunno

Hasn’t played since Feb, was seen at Shrewsbury last week, catching up with his former loan teammates.