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That in itself is a ridiculous arguement. Owners will always look at ways at bypassing rules. Stamping out rogue owners altogether from the game is a near-on impossibility. However, you can minimise the amount of rogue owners, or owners that dangerously overspend year on year. Your logic is...

It's not a ridiculous arguement at all. The support for FFP is weirdly naive for the reasons I've already stated. Rogue owners either constantly look at ways (more often than not successfully) of bypassing the regulations or outright ignore them and overspend anyway. As a preventative measure...

Agreed. FFP is actually a terrible deterrent as rogue owners either just openly ignore the various frameworks of the regulations throughout the pyramid or just attempt at finding loopholes in order to bypass them. A new system of financial control which will give clubs more freedom over their...

Reading reports of how Robins dealt with him during his loan spell was interesting as I suspect (admittedly speculating here) that he largely let him do as he pleased whilst he was here because firstly, he wasn't our player and was only here for the short-term, and secondly, because he was...

This is what I can't fathom about Bright signing. I remember speaking to Robins once about Nazon during our League Two season and he was relatively open regarding his dislike for him as he often sulked and rarely listened in training. He basically in lesser words said he just can't stand...

Just to put it into perspective, in the first 3 years of their stewardship, Leicester's owners invested more into the club than Mel Morris has done in 6 years (over £200m) at Derby - if you include Leicester's owners buying the club and stadium along with writing off debts and player/club...

I'm not wrong at all. The owner has consistently invested hundreds of millions into the club both on and off the pitch (including a £100m training facility) which has allowed them to achieve European success and grow as a club. In his first couple of years whilst Leicester were in the...

I don't actually agree. Even clubs like Nottingham Forest who incur huge losses season after season have owners who are more than willing to write blank cheques with little to no interest rates attached. If Championship club owners moved on and sold their club I suspect most would likely write...

In what way? Their net spend over the past 5 years is terrible and even prior to the pandemic they're run at a loss. BSB is right, they just have a willing owner that is more than happy to pump hundreds of millions into the club.

They are, and I agree with you on that but there's very little that can be done at present. The best that can happen is governing bodies work more closely with clubs in a more positive fashion, especially in the financial reporting aspect which is horribly outdated even in PL clubs -whereby...

McCallum was of course the better player but personally I think the reason why he was bombed out so suddenly was also driven by the formation change, which made McCallum the better option. I don't think it took Robins long to realise that as obviously McCallum was performing well in that role.

That's not going to change though and frankly I think we're at the point of no return with regards to that. Too much money has been pumped into the game to change it anytime soon IMO and the potential risks new and tighter regulations could pose to the game far out way the benefits. If too...

He wasn't in poor form at the time he was given a contract though which is my point. He was quite clearly in form up until then. Whether in hindsight it was premature to offer the contract after such few games is an entirely different arguement though. But how he was bombed out was very...

It's very much a Schrödinger's cat scenario though isn't it? You're also talking about an entirely different set of regulations that need to be improved upon, which is the Fit and Proper Owners Test - which again is about as airtight as using a wotsit to bolt a gate.

Look back through the treads during the start of the 2019-20 season. Granted it was probably only 6-7 games at the very much but the majority were delighted he'd signed an extension. Not really sure what point you're getting at.

They do anyway. FFP is horribly outdated and is designed to safeguard the elite clubs' status within European football. Equally, the majority of clubs who have access to competent lawyers/accountants are able to find loopholes within the rules so they need to be reformed on a wide-scale anyway.

It can mould or relax the punishment to suit their own agenda though - which they did with Sheffield Wednesday. It reduced the 12 point deduction when there was absolutely zero grounds for it to be and the reasoning they gave was pathetic. If they find anything untoward in their accounts then I...

And you're horribly naive if you don't believe that.

They're a brand that the EFL feels is within their commercial interest to keep in the division. Both due to club size and the fact Rooney is in charge. It's as simple as that unfortunately.

He suffered a torn hamstring against Watford I believe and then was out until mid-September but came straight back into the side after his recovery. Most had him as their player of the season in that short spell up until the Rotherham game then the wheels just fell off.