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I think it was Eddie who absolutely nailed Gestede in a podcast about there only being a limited window of opportunity to reinvest due to FFP rules. Gestede couldn't answer that and merely kept repeating a lame excuse about how the transfer budget for the year was unaffected no matter how many sales were made. Which is utterly bizarre when you think about it.

A lot of our players sign reasonable contracts. 2-3 year deals with an option are pretty standard these days, but we just can't get them to renew. We seem to be operating with a mindset that players will routinely renew within the final 6 months of their deal on similar terms (if not worse terms). That just doesn't happen these days.

Because most of the money has been spent on wages and other running costs. Admittedly most of the little that has been spent has been wasted.

To add to my previous post. Our recent operating losses have been reasonably constant at around £17.5 million. £17.5 million x 3 = £52.5 million Allowable 3 year loss for FFP = £39 million player trading profit needed for compliance = £13.5 million Bare with me 😁😁 Venkys London accounts have player trading profit for 23/24 + 24/25 at a combined £36.8 million. Based on those ‘back of a fag packet’ workings, we could have a net transfer spend of circa £23.3 million this year and still be FFP compliant. That’s before you take into account the removal of exempt expenses such as ground maintenance (ha!). Clearly those figures won’t be bang on but hopefully it demonstrates how far from breaching FFP we currently are. Of course if we spent that much and didn’t go up it would come back to bite us (as the Wharton and Sammie money disappears from the calculations).

Absolutely incredible to think about the degradation of the squad after selling two players for a total £40m. The reinvestment has been absolutely appalling, and has left us with very few saleable assets (Alebiosu and maybe Gudjohnsen). There is absolutely zero legacy from selling them.

If he is going to come good in a sub-championship league, we should have held onto him.

There's some mental gymnastics going on there to try and shift blame away from Ismael. So what is it that makes you think he's doing a decent job? Because we're (currently) a few points outside the relegation zone? Will you change that view if he takes us down?

I actually thought De Neve had a decent game by his standards at Hull he's far more suitable for pressing high than defending. Creatively though we must have the worst forward line in the league.

I'm saying the club could have said to Ismael you can't bring in another striker as you already have 4.We want Tyjon to be part of the squad this season. Gueye we didn't get a buy for him I think it is logical to think that Gestede wouldn't have wanted him sold at a loss as it would have reflected badly on him. Quite clear In the managers thoughts he only had 2 CAPABLE forwards. Tyjon hardly involved and when Geuye did get a chance he spent it straying offside or throwing his hands in the air at his teammates.

But a minute ago you said we had 4 strikers. You're contradicting your own points and having lost the argument you've nothing left to fall back on but resort to insults. I still can't see what it is about this guy that makes you leap to his defence. He almost couldnt possibly be doing any worse than anyone else could he, whether it be League position, performances or the state of the squad.

FFP is a rolling three year cycle. Wharton was sold during the 23-24 accounting period so 25-26 will be the last year to include his fee. Sammie was sold during the 24-25 accounting period so 26-27 will be the last year to include his.

Nope that was pure Nixon spin the fee is alleged to be c1 million Euro's which is presumably about what was paid for him. No doubt plenty add ons involved so i look forward to many future payments when he suddenly turns into this mythical goal machine in a sub championship standard league.

It looks a bit odd to me, as if the players have been superimposed on the background, typical of AI, and I don't think it was 1966 as I'm sure the V-neck shirts had long been replaced by round neck shirts by then. Liked Mike Harrison. Saw him leaving the bookshop at Sudell Cross and getting into his VW Beetle circa 1967. Natty dresser and trendy car at the time.

Why turn down a transfer offer from Arsenal then if the CLUB not Ismael didn't expect him to play a part. If we don't sell him this window we will get fuck all for him and the only chance he was going to sign contract was by getting first team chances .Sorry but he looks far away from being able to contribute at championship level

Chris Brown was a similar kind of player, playing in a team that played more to his strengths with Conway being an assist machine and he scored 0 goals and his only notable contribution was a red card against Newport County! Gueye is admittedly a donkey but got half a dozen goals and a number of assists last season, goals that won games at that. It’s not revisionist to suggest he’s been better for us than Brown (never mind the likes of Edinho Junior, Fode Koita and many others)

Yes its all ismaels fault. Gueye is shit Tyjon is far from ready to be playing championship football. And Leonard was a club decision I am not having that Ismaels idea. Seriously your thinking is warped. Its not the owners fault its Waggotts. The owners gave a hefty budget to be used in the January of Mowbrays last season but Mowbray turned it down.

How have they been pushing for Tyjon to have more minutes? He had two strikers he was prepared to use.

We don’t even have to do that. During the winter window players can play whether they’re on the squad list or not:

Some people like to drag them out for days, i know you won't - you own the ban button 🙂

Keep the fans placated for a whole month then make it ten times worse by the end of January when 2 forwards don't sign? Sounds like nonsense to me Do you still think Cantwell wasn't really injured? Also after the window closed he did have 4 forwards Gudjohnson, Ohashi ,Gueye and Tyjon.The club turned down a bid from Arsenal in the summer they obviously were pushing for him to have more minutes.And Gueye did get minutes he didn't perform

They might have been, but they weren't when they were here. So much for 'I'll argue on this no more, I've made my point'. 😃.

The key to these arguments is read the actual debates not just throw out the same old 'but he scored more than him'. If we are judging on goals then why hasn't Gueye been a regular starter or sub recently, seeing as he was such a goal threat last season. Why did the other two have long careers in the second tier and a multitude of clubs employing them despite not the best scoring records ? Quite simple really they were better more effective team players.

2 strikers. He has CHOSEN not to utilise Tyjon and clearly never rated Gueye in the first place so wasnt prepared to play him. He also CHOSE to ostracise Leonard and sell him for peanuts.

Can anyone confirm that after bringing in circa £40m in transfer fees for Adam, Sammie etc that we are now in a different FFP cycle and all that money now means fuck all in terms of being able to make some significant investment for once?

But we had better squads.... Chris Brown 278 championship games, 13 Premier League Luke Varney 339 championship games, 8 top flight. As i said i wouldn't want any of them but it's cast iron that they'd get picked now before this seasons version of Gueye, goals last season or no goals. He'll score a few in China and disappear into the football wilderness abroad, i'll happily be corrected if not i wish him well. I will argue on this no more iv'e made my point.