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The point is he's fine at giving very broad analyses of club finances - arguably more in the PL - but that's probably where it ends. The chap that heads up my accountant's firm is exactly the same, not one for detail at all. He's clearly very qualified, but he's far from being the football...

Even Swiss Ramble gets bits wrong but if you compare his content to Maguire it genuinely is chalk and cheese in terms of depth of knowledge. Maguire is competent at marketing himself and found a niche in the media where he is able to apply rudimentary financial analyses to an industry whose...

So one journalist claims... You have to wonder if they actually have, or whether that's a tactic to put themselves in a more favourable negotiating position in an attempt to up the fee given how many PL clubs are seemingly desperate for attacking midfielders and are actively looking at El...

There are legitimately dozens upon dozens of examples of strikers who have had one respectable season and done absolutely nothing else for their entire career afterwards. If you're going to die on any sword don't let it be for Ellis Simms.

They can't afford to spend significantly on transfer fees and wages will still be an issue due to having several high earners still on the books. Along with the loans from Macquarie, all of what they've received so far in terms of fees will have been earmarked towards payments of owed transfer...

A lot of Leicester fans are resigned to thinking all they'll bring in are loans at this stage, if that. Seemingly the money just isn't there, despite raising £50m thus far.

That's a pretty huge loss for them really at this stage of the window.

They shouldn't be really. They're seriously lacking in numbers in certain areas. And despite it being reported that they don't have to sell any further players as they're temporarily in the clear with PSR, (which I find difficult to believe) El Khannouss, Fawatu, Faes and Okoli are all being...

I was about to say, he's a walking sick note. Not impressed by that signing at all.

Leicester is a real unknown I think. They've cut their squad too thin to the point where youth players will probably have to play a significant role this season once inevitable injuries and suspensions start mounting up. Recent performances have also been concerning. Some of the senior players...

It's not that he isn't qualified to speak on these matters, I think he's been a lecturer at Liverpool Uni for nearly 40 years alongside the above you've mentioned. But if you read my post properly I've explained why you should take things he says with a pinch of salt. He has a habit of trying...

I think posters are being a bit overly disparaging about Edwards. He showed last season he can become a decent defender at this level, he's still young and has some excellent attributes. Returning to QPR seems like a bit of weird move but I'd expect him to do well there and push on. I'd...

I'd take anything pushed by Maguire with a sizeable pinch of salt. He's very good at marketing himself as a football finance expert but his general insights on scenarios are more often than not based on guesswork, and as such he regularly gets things wrong. Doesn't help his cause that he wants...

I was about to say I would bet my mortgage on the fact it's ridiculously priced. I go probably 10+ exhibitions at the NEC per year and every single client who exhibits there at various shows complains incessantly about the cost. The CBS being a not-so-great exhibition space aside it really...

I still wouldn't have thought it's that much of an issue. I suspect why the CBS gets overlooked is because it's not a great exhibition space generally. Its exhibition area is really only big enough to cater to small to medium sized exhibitions - and even then they often spill out into the main...

I'm sure there's over 120 bedrooms at the CBS Doubletree, then there's the Novotel which is only up the road and I think they have probably 4/5 others at least within a 10 min drive. Personally I wouldn't have thought that poses that much of a problem for them. The exhibitions hosted there...

Forest also need a RB as competition for Aina. It'll be a long season being in Europe.

I think people are very much still in the SISU mindset. As a club I don't believe there's a definite need to sell anymore, not unless it's for the right price or if a player asks to leave / his contract is running down. Hence why no owner with half a brain would ever operate on the basis of...

Boddy was very much a L1 CEO. He had absolutely zero imagination or knowledge of how to generate extra revenue for the club beyond traditional means. Against his counterparts in the Championship he was massively out of his depth. But what he was good at was providing consistent communication...

NDAs i would assume.