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Chelsea incurred highest pre-tax loss in English football history over 2024-25, per UEFA report Whatever figures they're revealing they're from the unpublished 24/25 accounts I think. They've done the same with Chelsea. However, without context or further details it's meaningless. Not sure...

It looks like this pre-tax £129m loss figure is from Uefa’s European Club Finance and Investment Landscape report. However, there's obviously zero context around it until Spurs release their 24/25 accounts which won't be until the end of the month. I presume Premier League clubs have submit...

Their game against Ipswich is a pretty good indicator of how they'll set up. They'll likely sit in pretty much all game hoping to catch us on the break. Could be a banana skin.

Without stating the obvious that is the price of playing in the PL though. The best a good chunk of the league can hope for is mediocrity.

Oh dear, there's a lot to unpack here. A high wage bill generally correlates to higher league positions and better, more consistent performance. In the PL in particular, data shows there's a strong relationship between wage-per-minute for top earners and points accumulated. Spurs have...

Spurs won't go bust, no. But I don't think we'd ever seen a club of this magnitude go down, not one with an operational infrastructure their size. Last year they had the third-highest operating costs in all of Europe So it would be interesting to see how that would pan out. They'll likely...

We wouldn't really be left with a massive wage bill though? All contracts would have relegation clauses inserted in them which typically amount to around 40-50% upon relegation. I would've thought similar to Ipswich there would be a player or two that we'd be able to move on for sizeable...

The PL is a different animal to the Championship though. I do think in many ways those that get promoted do have to work from a blank canvas and for the most part start afresh. The majority of our squad isn't PL standard so if we're to be promoted a significant amount of investment is going to...

I'm fairly sure the rules state that clubs are obliged to release players in an International window if they're called up.

I'm not really all that concerned with that fixture to be honest. They've been poor at home as of late.

I don't really doubt Esse's talent however his inexperience is pretty glaring. His decision making on the ball is poor and I think he's got a huge amount to learn about positioning as he's often all over the place. Against opposition where we're likely to see more of the ball I can see the...

Yeah I couldn't really fathom why certain posters were creaming over Esse when he came in thinking he was going to automatically displace Sakamoto. His two goals aside I think he's been very underwhelming and Sakamoto has been a crucial component to our uptick in form. With his workrate he...

Hull are pretty poor at home for some reason. I think it was the same last season as well.

Yes because every single club in the Championship voted for this because they love parachute teams, Birmingham and Wrexham and they want to give them the best chance of promotion. Come on lets tune in our brain here. At a very rough glance, if you look at who's finished 7th/8th over the past...

I'd imagine it was pretty much unanimous. Why wouldn't it be when it gives clubs increased access to the PO spots. I don't really see a reason a logical reason why a club would object against it really.

I'd be very much inclined to disagree. Both Southampton and Wrexham are in excellent form and Bristol's results have been nothing short of inconsistent for a while now. The last time they put together any kind of half-decent run together was at the beginning of the season. So I wouldn't really...

Not that far off £200m over the past decade alone including this year's accounts. Suspect total losses are probably in excess of around £250m since he bought the club. There's been a clear shift in their strategy this season. Huge amount of outgoings and the few fees paid for incomings would've...

It would be a low percentage but not near-on impossible, which is what you've been inferring. Categorically football just isn't as linear as that. Not really sure it's that ironic? Millwall have yet to play Hull, Ipswich and Middlesbrough and have over the course of the season have proven they...

The thing is the form table is telling a very different story. If anything Oxford look the most likely from that bunch to stay up. The Middlesbrough result was pretty encouraging even if they were a bit toothless. Although the game against Norwich not so much, so difficult to actually say if...

Not helped by selling Vyner to Wrexham due to him also having 6 months left on his deal. Although I presume Eile was his replacement and they gambled on McNally returning in Feb.