Mashed Potatoes

Didn't Mbappe leave PSG for nothing ?

Whether something is illegal is determined by the courts, not the press - but even if things do go against the Raos here I can't see it being anywhere near enough to enable the EFL to act. There is at least one Premier League club with owners who practise torture in their own country.

I think to the owners it's a matter of principle - they are ,to put it mildly, extremely unwilling to provide funding if they have to put up the guarantee as well.

At Reading there was non payment of taxes and wages . For the authorities to be trying to enforce a sale of a club requires there to be very serious infractions - not dissatisfaction from supporters.

Long term if they don't send money over there is a lot to worry about unless the annual cash deficit can be covered by transfer dealings - but in the immediate term I would expect us to get through the next year ok.

I don't think the transfer moneys due have run out - because some of them have yet to be received. Per the club's accounts at 30 June 2024 there are football related debtors of £12.29m falling due more than 1 year after the date of the accounts - ie from 1 July 2025 onwards. Therefore I think we may be looking here at a short term cash flow problem which can be addressed by a short term loan from the bank.

What are you contacting those bodies about ?

So just like you ?

He made a mistake. You never have then ?

Could you elaborate on what those two instances were ?

Yes, he made a mistake but I think in part the post to which you are replying was in answer to the ludicrous suggestion that the referee in question should never be allowed to referee again.

Given that 2 years ago he ended up signing a 1 year deal with Norwich I suspect nobody was offering him a 2 year deal

Strange then that it is the most popular on global TV.

We got £2.5m plus contingencies for Phillips so hardly nothing. There will have been a settlement for Finneran as well. I think there is a degree of luck here in how fast players develop. Ideally you want a player through your academy to be very good indeed but not to have proven that until they are 18+ and so have been put on a long term contract rather than picked off earlier- as was the case with Adam Wharton who unlike Phillips, Tygon and Higgins didn't play for the England youth teams. Presumably that may be true of Boro players as well, certainly true of Spence.

See my post above

Isn't Balaji Rao's son at university in the UK ? When does he graduate ?

No doubt Glen will speak for himself specifically on this but yesterday his Twitter feed had a statement by the Coalition which included the following statement : " The very notion that anyone except the Rao family and Suhail Shaikh are to blame for their calamitous stewardship of the club should be rejected out of hand by the entire fanbase."

We've had pretty good managerial appointments since he arrived so I'm not sure that's completely fair.

He was 18 in March

A couple of points : 1. Average attendances in the Womens Premier League are down by 9% this season. I'm not convinced that the interest level is quite what some in the media would like us to think. 2. It's not just Blackburn Rovers who are having second thoughts. Wolves won the tier below the Championship but declined to apply for promotion because they were uncertain as to whether they could justify having to cover the increased costs arising from the new rules applicable to the Championship - and that is a Premier League club with all the massive level of income that they have.

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter. As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

Completely incorrect.

The level of funding is determined by the owners. The management at Ewood Park have to work according to what budget is made available to them and decide how that budget is best spent.

From the Guardian article it appears that certain changes are being imposed on the Womens League Championship division which will lead to a substantial increase in costs - notably the requirement that players are full time professionals. That appears to have prompted Ewood Park management to have a long hard look at whether it is worth it. The level of investment required may be substantial, maybe enough to deter new investors. If one looks at the Womens leagues every team in their Premier League is in the Premier League proper, and of the teams in their Championship only Birmingham, Charlton, Bristol City, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Sheffield United and ourselves were not in the Premier League proper (there is also London City and Durham in the league).

The two matters are totally unconnected. If the club feel the Ladies team is no longer viable - which principally will be because not enough people go to watch - then closing it down is justified.