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It's doesn't annul but the cynic in me thinks Morris gambles the EFL are less likely to hit them with another sizeable points deduction after the administration penalty. The EFL must punish them heavily. Even the disingenuous administration statement implies all this wasn't Derby's fault, it was others who connived to bring them low. Nothing against Derby fans but if you are one and cheered and gloated the lying and shyster activities Morris promoted, then don't look for sympathy as you, too, are the problem.

Pearson's selection & organisation to get the job done worked a treat. Players now buying into it & playing accordingly. HNM again outstanding as Pearson believes in him & he has his backing. How refreshing. Thought Cardiff got what they deserved - nothing.

Swazzy.....

If we are to quote figures we should do so against a player's overall liability. In addition to transfer fee, Williams will be subject to signing-on incentives and bonuses, transaction fees and, of course, his salary, which at £600k pa for 4 years is £2.4m. So in the real world Williams will cost City somewhere in the region of £4.0m - £4.5m for his services. No wonder City are in so much trouble.

Remind what percentage of liability is incurred in acquiring a player? Johnson took losses from under £6m per annum to over £30. Unlike the other managers you reference, most have actually achieved something via their spending. Johnson didn't.

Other than the crock Keogh I wouldn't recognise any of them were they stood on my toe. Saturday Blackpool were poor, but our equals. They created better chances than us. Their wage bill is magnitudes lower than ours. That's the true reason players tarry at AG, they're not very good and significantly overpaid. Other clubs fall for than less frequently than us.

You're not related to Scott Parker are you ( What did Khan ever do for Fulham?) Come the next set of accounts I think you'll discover City's net liabilities are in the region of £130-150m. That's Real Madrid territory. I think you owe SL an apology for splurging such a sum to sustain our (waste of) hobby.

A player so good and in which they have so much confidence they threw him a contract until......the end of August.

What's the Euros to do with City? Many a player turns in improved performances when playing alongside talented colleagues. Perhaps the issue is they can't perform when embedded in dross? Kalas & Nagy looked decent in the Euros and whilst I thought Nagy our best player last year Kalas didn't pull up any journeyman trees, did he? Not bothered with reputation or promise, it's performances that count. Penny, Brown, Burns, our history is littered with 'stars of the future' who burned as bright and long as an LED bulb from Poundland. Ask any Blackpool fan Saturday which player of ours they'd covet? Few, that's for sure.

I didn't mention relative comparisons but we'll find out soon. What I did highlight is our squad is largely crap by what traditionally is required to thrive in The Championship. Are we improved from the side that got us here? In my opinion, NO. But there's nothing that leads me to believe (Derby aside who I believe have no players) we're superior to any of those mentioned. Results & performances will inform.

Offset by the many more millions he incurred by signing the likes of... public decency doesn't permit my typing their names. Johnson delivered operational losses in excess of £30m per season. That's the cost of servicing the contracts of the dross he signed. Of the 67 he signed, how many turned a profit? The common assertion is that of the gambler: "I won £100 on the nags today!" "And how much have you lost in the past week?" "Not saying...."

If he was truly so stupid as not to realise that signing dozens upon dozens of utterly useless players on decent money deals meant he'd have to lose his better players, then Johnson is even more of an idiot than I have him marked in my book. Look at the number of signings and their impact on our balance sheet. Problem is we all remember the one or two decent players who sojourned shortly with us. Most struggle to name the detritus that came, dwelled (at grand expense for little effort,) and who are only now being offloaded.

So a keeper who's a decent shot stopper but who has no command of his box, interacts woefully with his defence and who every time the ball gets pumped into the box has us on the edge of our seats. Vyner, defensively weak. Going forward? He doesn't, because he can't. Atkinson, not seen much of him. Could be OK but no athlete from first view & recalls Flint (who to remind was awful, excellent, then awful in equal measure.) James - we might get something from him - defensive ain't that difficult to play. Offensive he ain't, his best years are long gone, and will he last? Williams, I thought Rob Edwards was sicknote personified until Williams appeared. Don't care how good a player he is as he'll deliver **** all from the treatment room. Semenyo, has showed what he can do. Flipping burgers for a living and earning a few bob turning out for an 8th tier outfit. If we're placing our hopes in him Pearson should have the decency to throw in the towel. Extensively proven he can't do it in lower leagues; why persist? Palmer - flat track bully. Of use only when 2 up with 10 mins to play at home. Talented yet gives the ball away at will. Were that in offensive attempts I'd understand - it's usually in the direction of our goal. Overall liability at this level, which is why nobody else fancied him. Wiemann. Flaps like a chick about to leave the nest. Plummets to reality like the chick that left the nest but didn't make it. Nearly gets there, never does. Career record of 1 in 6+, which given one or two useful years earlier in his career doesn't bode well for us. Reduces us by one when his name is on the teamsheet. Wells - £ for £ the biggest waste of time and space ever to appear at AG ( & we've had some donkeys in my time.) I'd like to think of something positive he brings to the squad , but as that isn't pace, movement, touch, retention or ability in front of goal, I'm reduced to that fact he's possibly a 'joker' or 'good in the dressing room'. In which case I'd concur. It's a joke he's still here; his best position is in the dressing room. And if that's our best XI Div1 and lower is fully deserved.

Believe me, they are. That's why they're at the Ashton Gate Retirement Home for the Incapable. Nobody else wants them.

Around the time I left Bristol I was sporting a Pop Group ' We Are All Prostitutes & We All Have Our Price' T-Shirt. When Pearson appeared on the horizon my first thoughts were we shouldn't touch him with a bargepole, my personally loathing who he is, what he stands for and his intolerable arrogance. But he gets results, I'm a prostitute, hence he'll do for me. Notwithstanding the sewage farm Johnson left in his wake Pearson isn't getting results, neither is he openly showing signs that he's a plan so to do in the near future. Not sure whether we can't (or shouldn't) question alternatives but his reputation already wears thin and might potentially be wholly displaced. Hope it isn't, though we might soon find out. If he does so from the comfort and distance of the stand, I won't be holding back.

Unfortunately the Carousel Of Crap he left behind didn't, were on expensive, long contracts & sensible clubs (unlike us,) had no desire to take them. I don't blame Holden. I blame the sh*te squad Johnson built in his image. A multitude of players who wouldn't look out of place in a pub team.

That's what I find myself asking? Was he really so detached from his players at other clubs, or given his pronouncements last year, that the majority of City players were fortunate to be professional players earning a living, is his distance somewhat more telling? Now I can understand why he might wish to sit on high at AG, but FGR? What's to be gained? The reporter said one of NP assistants had to take the earpiece from his ear to give to TM such NP could say whatever it was he thought worth saying. All whilst, at low level, NP was 15m distant. That to me reeks of Lumsden sat on his own the far side of the pitch at Forest shortly before it all became too much for him.

Are we? IMHO were bang on track given that 'talent' (sic,) at our disposal.

We don't and therein lies the problem.

So why is he talking to Taylor Moore through earpieces when 15m away? If a boss did that to me I'd have sweet FA respect for him. The fact the reporter at the game questioned WTF was going on speaks volumes. Pearson came with a curmudgeonly reputation. He's doing nothing to disabuse that. Works fine if he's getting results. And what when the losses came & it started to fall apart?

The shower of sh*te we are is BECAUSE of Johnson, he's the cause of this present debacle. Wouldn't wish that Muppet on my worst enemy.

I’m not saying Pearson has been perfect Until he gets his a*se out the stand & into the players faces, even though he (correctly) doesn't rate those Johnson left in his wake, I'm not for giving him the benefit of the doubt. He's there to manage. He's not doing that in the public arena, why the hell should I assume he's doing so in private?

Did he do it previously by speaking to players through earphones when less than 15m from them? WTF is going on? Perchance he might do a Coppell?

Not particularly interested in the farce that is FFP. I reckon from previous accounts and trading issues the club will lose circa £40-£45m last year. Our outgoings won't have reduced much and income is signally down.

All true, but I wonder how much further football (possibly The Treasury) will allow what is to all intents and purposes, flouting of financial controls. Debt to equity sounds grand, as did Loan Charge Arrangements to the self-employed and look what happened when they were corrected realigned as deliberate avoidance. Only the deluded imagine SL believes he will ever be repaid any loans or equity investments in full. It may not technically be 'cheating; In spirit it is.