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Honestly I don’t think anyone has the answer (FFP either goes too far or not far enough depending on who you ask), clubs especially can’t be trusted because they’re all looking out for themselves (it’s why they can’t be trusted to not vote on a closed PL shop, or the “big 6” to be trusted ever...

But that’s not sustainable (Billionaire Coventry analogy), for example at any point Roman Abramovich could’ve cut his funding of Chelsea during the 00sand the clubs debt to him would’ve bankrupted them into non existence. They never reached self sufficiency under his ownership if I recall...

Man Utd are probably the world’s biggest commercial team, if the glaziers attempted to buy the club now the way they did 20 years ago and saddle them with debt, it absolutely wouldn’t be allowed

the “sticking it to them” eventually just ends up replacing them though, Man City are light years clear of Utd and to a lesser extent Liverpool off field and on in terms of success over the past decade. Any club with an Abu Dhabi, Saudi or Qatar unabated and free of FFP would quickly end up in...

The FFP rules were put in because a large number of clubs were overspending themselves into a black hole, or were reliant on a wealthy owner pumping money in. FFP ensures that clubs can’t just continually take losses, eventually ending up with clubs going bust. The traditional big teams aren’t...

Outside investment is fine all clubs have an owner pumping money in, however using the connections/businesses of your parent company to inflate your income to be spent on field is wrong, and ends up with teams going to the wall trying to compete with fraud teams who just write off costs/losses.

It’s financial doping because in Leicester’s case they dealt with a third party (Telstar? Or something) who had close ties/were owned by King Power so they could artificially inflate their sponsorship revenue. They didn’t have a natural growth in support in 13/14, yet their figures tripled so...

So smaller clubs should be allowed to financially dope and abuse the system that fucks every club below them in pursuit of the “top 6”? who wins in this overall race to the bottom?

Divides in business are natural, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool aren’t financial juggernauts because they rigged the system. It’s because when the premier league became the world’s premier sports league these were the top teams. It’s why their stadiums are massive tourist spots and their club...

It’s the way you go about it. I don’t begrudge teams like Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal monetising global fan bases and turning that into insanely rich teams, it’s the nature of business and those clubs are always going to be in the upper echelon of spending/sponsors on name power alone...

Clubs like ours? Mate you’re fucking repeated financial dopers and cheating scum, nothing alike at all. Owners like yours are just as much a part of the ongoing financial destruction of English football as the “big 6 or 7” you guys were proclaiming yourselves to be apart of a few years ago.

Not worrying too much about losing to be honest, pressure is all on them and I never expected us to still be in the fa cup in mid March anyway. As long as we don’t get absolutely pumped, I’ll be alright. Got a feeling a number of our better players (Haji, Simms, COH, Sheaf etc.,) will want to...

Just caught Haji’s second goal again on the highlights. What a top goal that was. Nice first touch takes it away from defence, then right in the bottom corner from 20 yards out on his left foot too. Nice to see another side of his finishing as he’s scored a lot from close range/follow ups.

They’ve had some big names in that run too. Ranieri, Bilic, Mazzari, Hodgson etc., Be interested to see who they go for next.

Their next permanent manager will be their 14th since MR started his second run with us in March 2017.

The EFL think they’re on course to break their spending/financial rules too apparently. Whether they go up or not, they’ll be getting some sort of fine/points deduction unless they raise funds via player sales before the cut off date. They got fined by the EFL the last time they got promoted...

I remember the season Adam Armstrong was on fire (20 in 40 I think?), always thought he’d go on to do way more than he did, but he was absolutely special that first half of the season.

Upping all the prices on leftover seats for all the late comers wanting to see the mighty sky blues historic promotion push Gotta pay Hajis goals clauses somehow

I’m convinced there isn’t a rule book anymore, just a vague set of guidelines that officials follow or ignore as it suits.