SimonD

This is pretty much as I said on here when the last season's accounts were released, and in my analysis of the season's before for that matter. The comment about having dodged the same bullet next season is weird, unless he has got his timeline confused.

Are you saying that T-1 and T-2 are not capped as they have already been punished for them in the Premier League version of FFP? The breach of circa £17m suggests that they are with the 22-23 loss alone being £89m.

I guess if 14 clubs were seriously concerned about breaching next season then it would be a shoo-in. If there aren't I can't see why they would vote for it as it would be allowing others to get away without making the same level of "sacrifice".

Who? Regardless of the answer, I'd put that is the same category as those who say that the thresholds need to be increased in line with inflation. Totally missing the point!

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There must be a strong possibility that some Villa fans are not aware of UEFA's convoluted way of allocating payments from their competitions and simply believe that it is performance based. It presumably is in the public domain somewhere.

Not relevant to FFP any more but Reading are apparently selling their training ground to Wycombe Wanderers. I can't be easy supporting Reading these days.

This season they sold Barnes and Castagne I think, but bought a few too

Leicester will have the sale of Fofana to Chelsea to help with the accounts due out shortly.

With regard to qualifying my (well Swiss Ramble's) estimate of disallowable costs, I was looking around for typical costs for the various levels of academies and found this on Swansea. The full extent of Swansea City's substantial academy saving revealed and the innovation club legend Alan Curtis will spearhead - Wales Online Does this sound about right to you? Level 1 £6m-£7m per season Level 2 £2m per season.

Yes, definitely the Holdings accounts. We'd have no problems with FFP on the other set......

Thanks for this. 1st March makes more sense as it give the EFL more time to act, although that is not their specialty. I did think that I'd read/heard that they were looking to move the date to 31st Dec, but that can't be right. it has to be after the transfer window closes. To reply to a couple or so comments over the last couple of days (I was quite busy!) "This bit for example, smacks of the formation of an excuse. It seems weak with respect. Blaming the Covid impact upon the market is a bit rear view mirror" I disagree, but this is me purely commenting on how I see the terrain, not an official QPR line. There were very few transfers between Championship clubs in the Covid aftermath. "Not that impressive in all honesty." Nor me! Letting Beale dictate transfer policy was stupid. One sale in that summer (assuming there were any offers for our players) would have have allowed us some breathing space this season. "The original piece last February did have a bullish estimate about the loss falling by £5.5m in one year" Sadly true. I was just looking for a scenario which matched the stated position (as I'm sure you guessed)

I heard / read that Everton's second breach was just for the season following the three they previously got docked points for. Having been punished, a line was drawn and they were allowed to lose £35m in that season after allowances and lost more, which knocks all of the "punished twice for the same seasons" complaints on the head. I do recall a similar clause in either Birmingham's or Sheffield Wednesday's resolution document.

Unless you know something I don't, we were not under any measures per se, we just knew where we stood with FFP and were not in a position to make any signing. Dozzell was one of the higher earners (I use the term loosely) at the club, I believe Birmingham in effect just took over the remaining few months on his contract, freeing up some funds. With regard to Begovic, he opened up a football school in the area and so was happy to come to the club at a cut down rate. We knew our what our position this season was going to be at the start of last season; if we have breached FFP by this January's windows activities we will deserve what ever punishment we get.

Ours (QPR's) were out pretty late last year, very much towards the end of February. I'm not reading anything into that.