Exactly, let's be realistic he is a barrister trying to persuade the court to lift the restriction. He's hardly going to stand in front of the judge and say it would be good if you could lift this, it's not really a problem but would be nice if you did. Of course he's going to be passionate, beg and lay it on as thick as possible. Any barrister worth their salt would. Waggott and Co have been very careful in how they've worded the no impediment thing, as legally, there is no impediment or restriction. The issue is they need to match every £ with the same amount in a bond / guarantee. So legally they can send as much money as they like, practically it makes it very difficult for them financially.

Hahaha 😆 I remember that time he ran, that was quality 👌

It was always very cleverly worded by Waggott and as usual just a smokescreen, to yet again, hoodwink the fans into believe that everything is okay and the wonderful owners we have, will continue to fund us. Some, of the fans, accepted the no impediment line, but some knew better and saw that there was one huge impediment and here we have it today, confirmed in court that we were yet again, lied to.

Across a squad it's not that many for training, getting up and down as a keeper is exhausting so any finishing drills will need at least 2 keepers rotating in and out, you don't want that to be your numbers 1 and 2 as they'll blow a physical gasket

As flagged in the September hearing, what Pasha and Waggott are saying to fans/media is the total opposite from what Venky's are arguing in court. They say no impediment to funding, lawyers say there is an "immense financial burden". Elliott Jackson needs to call that out as at the moment he's taking the club's word for it that the bond is no issue for Venky's despite all evidence to the contrary.

Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

Season tickets back on sale this morning with the price hike. Club reckons they have sold over 8k, looking at the seat map it doesn't look anywhere near that. They have killed the Blackburn End, loads of good empty seats that would have been snapped up usually, looks to be around 50% full. Sad times.

Come on, he's trying to get restrictions lifted altogether - he's hardly likely to argue in Court they aren't really a problem! In reality there ISNT any real impediment to funding as it stands now - they merely have to cover monies sent with other funds which would merely affect their liquidity at the Bank a bit - but only if they're down to their last £20m or so. My guessing is they still won't send any funds even if any and all restrictions are lifted.

Please please can we not refer to how selling a player will provide more transfer funds. It won't as has been proved - simply being pocketed by Venkys. Would keep anyone that isn't a bad influence just as a body. Trading players is not giving us anything back financially.

I agree I don’t mind hedges, along as there is someone better in front of him 👍

I must admit he did look wiling to assume the position 😁😁

They will get desperate because in usual fashion they've left it to chance let it rumble on and now go into panic mode because at some point in the near future the club will run out of money. All that has been obvious all along to all but the Venky cheerleaders in the fanbase. That means panic sales, expensive external borrowings etc OR they have to pay the tariff to send money OR ...SELL ! I cannot see this ending well for anyone tbh unless the judge bends over.

This one is a new ‘appeal’ with the sole intention of removing the guarantee requirement. It’s at the top of the queue as the listing system starts with new matters, then goes on to ongoing matters and then final matters. How a final hearing ever gets heard is beyond me!

I might be wrong, but isn't the one in August a different case to this and still scheduled?

If they managed to rush this to the front of the queue when it was arranged for August maybe things are even worse than we thought behind the scenes. The noise around the women's team finances, back office staff redundancies and then the larger than expected released list further strengthens the view.

I'd say it's because it then stands as a 200 million investment on the company portfolio that will guarantee a return when - IF- it ever reaches the Prem. Even Venkys will have to answer to their own bankers etc occasionally and despite how it's run like on a whim the club is actually a company investment not a personal one.

I'm amazed about that really, I thought they would trigger him and Vale just to have bodies around for pre season before shipping them both out again. The retained list seems a bit more ruthless than usual, which I am a fan of. I'm glad we are getting no return on him, pointless at this club. I'm not a huge fan of Hedges, but he's a much better option that Markanday.

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He’s wrong (I’ll let others judge whether intentionally or otherwise) - I don’t have the figures in front of me but it’s about £210 million ‘loan’ and £90m shares. The shares includes their initial purchase of the club, I imagine the rest of them are simply to comply with FFP rules.

I'm sure they could try and claim that technically they can send funds if they match the guarantee, but that would presumably undermine their legal argument that the guarantee/court case is an impediment to sending money to the club. If we assume they have set aside £20m in liquidity each year to fund the club (as so often alleged by Suhail et al), their argument would be that if half of that goes into the Central Bank bond rather than the club it is an impediment, and for whatever reason they cannot or will not match a guarantee that would require £40m to be set aside just for the club (including the guarantee). The court would probably rightly argue that the guarantee should not be an impediment to a billion dollar corporation who are alleged to have avoided tax. Either way Suhail was still lying when he was talking about "no impediment/restriction" to funding the club as it is demonstrably not the case, and they are arguing in court that there is an impediment. As a further point, rewatching the 3 amigos interview, Suhail mentioned that the £300m is a loan from the owners, not a liquid injection. Does anyone have an explanation why they might be doing this for tax/business purposes?

A schoolmate of mine was a big Sheff Wed fan inspite of living in Rochdale. His dad was quite wealthy and had managed to get him a match worn shirt that had been worn by his hero Tony Kay, the Sheff Wed captain. Then over the Xmas holidays Kay was unexpectedly signed by Everton and when we came back to school my pal was now an Everton fan ! He gave me the Sheff Wed shirt, saying “ You might has well have this, my dad will get me an Everton one this season. “ I wore it for training for years until it wore out. It was a really good shirt with the blue and white stripes sewn in and a red No 6 sewn on the back. I lost touch with my pal for decades. One day I was reading our local paper and I saw he had died. So I attended the funeral. During the eulogy the vicar mentioned what a staunch Man Utd fan my old pal had been !

Exactly this. Has the same feeling for me as Elliott Bennett, who at least has the bonus trivia of being the only Rovers player to have 4 lots of double-letters in his name.

I’ve said to you before, that argument means Jason Lowe should never have played below Championship level. He made his debut in the PL and was picked regularly by 7 different managers.

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They’re dancing on the head of a pin. Yes the owners can send money but the far more important factor is they won’t (either because of the guarantee or they don’t want to and the guarantee is a handy excuse).