Mr Popodopolous

Little bit more. Reading are set to meet the terms of their Business Plan apparently. Signed loanees, yet player remuneration successfully restricted to £16m? Targets on wages, FFP losses, amortisation and player sales- who have they sold of note since summer 2021? (Olise granted). https://t.co/9ItHx2uRbE If Reading have cut player remuneration down to £16m how does this compare to our efforts? Because that is where they have to hit for this season. Consolidated wage bill granted but £33.5m in 2020-21. Pre tax loss was about £39,217,107m on a turnover of £15m. Covid period reset to £13m under FFP as they exceeded but adjusted losses falling to or below £26m across last and this season? Let alone the targets on transfer profit, player wages, amortisation etc. If it's the club then it's £13m, £13m or if less that figure then £13m plus any surplus from last season. Though if it's Renhe Sports Management that makes it more complex for last and this season. One more thing, seemingly the plan is to move from punishments after the season to in-season punishments under the new system. Quite right too, real-time monitoring will help a lot. That is the plan under the terms of Independent Regulation.

Release clause for Jackson based on a quick search is £27m. Not cheap! Though it says €25m bid, dunno if Villarreal happy to sell him a bit cheaper? Another report mentions Southampton bid €20m.

They really are, granted it's all relative for divisions, but a bit of a shambles tbh.

Fair. Yeah I see similarities between the two clubs but size is, can be subjective. Size and success can overlap- but it's a good comparison. They can value Souttar at £20-25m but it feels fanciful IMO.

Good article about the Juventus 15 point deduction for financial irregularities. https://www.espn.co.uk/football/blog-marcottis-musings/story/4858715/explaining-juventus-mess-what-they-did-wrong-and-what-it-means I think it is fair to say that transfer add-backs for FFP would be deemed ropey in Italian football but then again Juventus is a listed company over there which brings a while new level of scrutiny as it would here.

Seems the announcement may have been leaked.

It's arguable, haven't they been in the top division both PL.and First Division for significantly longer than us. Won more major trophies, played in Europe on occasion but otoh there isn't a lot in it right now certainly.

Nuno didn't do a lot wrong at Wolves, got sacked for one below par year. Although Tottenham I guess coming in for him as they did

Benitez when sacked a year ago pretty much had a better record. Not vastly superior but 19 from 19 vs 15 from 19 a year on which is now 15 from 20 of course. Had the benefit of Richarlison but also had less to spend, probably.

Gykores. Anyway yeah Leeds 4 forwards (fitness permitting), not sure they'd look to add a 5th in January.

Semenyo? I think they're a bit strongly stocked for strikers now Leeds- Bamford (if he can stay fit), Rodrigo, Gnonto and Rutter. One or two of these can also play wider.

Yeah that's interesting but makes sense. Angry sweary chants can be disregarded to some extent. We don't really hear that one so much either.

In terms of getting on the backs of the opposition and especially officials we do need to do so more IMO. Tunnel behind a goal maybe one step, "S*** referee" lacks the anger of some of the older chants and fizzles our fairly quickly. "The referee's a ******" or "The referee, is full of ****" the latter to the tune of When the Saints go Marching in is more apt. Yes they are a bit sweary but we need to find ways to influence the officials a bit. That's two for a start...

They could well be coming down into an FFP mess if they do. £50-60m fall in revenue, £22m fall in loss limit...plus whatever their losses were in 2021-22 and 2022-23 would eat into the allowance to next season.

Way they've been run the last few years, they very much deserve relegation.

Probably got worse post redevelopment too. The sustained anger towards the officials just dissipates almost as quickly as it arrives- crowd dynamics changing as the game becomes more commercial, moving the tunnel towards a more passive part of the ground probably is nicer to enter and exit via the Lansdown than a tunnel by the home end. Load of factors, some specific and some general. Football crowds seem more passive in general than 20 years ago IMO let alone the examples of before. In fact it's probably become more pronounced as a factor every few years since 1992, will vary club by club of course.

Will expand on my point a bit. 1) Using past precedent the sliding scale can give a guide. 2) Projections in March can tell whether over, compliant or under. 3) Problem I guess is, whether a club may rectify by end of May/end of June- they are bound to have something to tell the League in March. 4) Future Financial Information and or motoring requirements can be a gamechanger. 5) E.g. in T-2 for a club, an aggregate adjusted loss projected within 2 years of £49.1m...that's a £10.1m overspend and an 8 point deduction iirc. Possibly up a bit or down a bit based on conduct and the trajectory of losses. 6) It is therefore incumbent on the club to get their ducks in a row by T+2 when the Projections go in- any kind of suspended deduction to kick in by T+2 if financials still remain over. It's not perfect but there is an appeal system and surely it is largely the clubs fault if they fall foul in March. It would throw a League table into disarray of course.

Thanks. Yep thought so. Annoyed about the rejected penalty claim on Wells but it seems to be par for the course for us.

Once again, does the market swing back in our favour? A few Stoke fans on Twitter say £20m for Souttar, also seen £18m mentioned. *Souttar is 24 but his contract runs until 2025. *Semenyo is 23 but his contract runs until 2024. *Souttar- CB, Semenyo- FW. Conventional wisdom is that the latter more expensive. *Souttar made more of an impression at the WC than Semenyo- this is the post WC window which would ordinarily be in the summer. How does the market move now in in a comparison between the two. PS- one report says Souttar at £25m?? Stoke and their valuation.

Watched it back, the highlights few observations. We were really quite decent Saturday, Brereton-Diaz, what a miss by him! Goal by Bell, yeah correct decision especially with pictures and lines etc but hiw tight in real time! When Kaminiski saved from Wells and we were about to recycle but a foul/infringement was called, what was it for exactly. Watched a couple of times and couldn't see much wrong.

Burnley definitely won't be paying £15m for a striker at this level even though they surely have a lot of headroom and look odds on for promotion. Similarly priced out for Gykores when they were linked with him.

Seemed to happen with Juventus? Either way I take thst point but if a club gambles and gets up, even if a deduction follows them up at worst it's £100m of TV money, plus 2 years of Parachute Payments- £80-90m? Plus an extra £22m in FFP headroom. The League I thought have the theoretical right to hand down a deduction for an in-season breach based on Projections, Future info etc?

That is welcome and surprising- they have been quite difficult (reportedly anyway) in the past?

I would be interested to know, given some of my past concerns which I hope were misplaced, would the SGSA and to a greater extent SAG be on board? The former have often seemed more enlightened than the SAG in this city or would this still be subject to further haggling/approval from SAG in particular.

Which one? Both very much begun outside the box granted. Don't think either was a penalty for a start. Both either are or aren't.