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Weird with Moran. He looked great when he first started but has struggled since.

More people will stand to be unemployed with things continuing the way they are. Fortunately I have the ability to think beyond the end of this week.

Venkys won't pay the appearance bonus

They're under the microscope and have been since 2021. The investigation is at a "nascent stage" and the ED really don't seem to like them. I think there's a lot more to this than a couple of unpaid tax bills. There's been tentative accusations made that they're laundering money for a long time. When you read about money laundering in sports and football in particular they tick a lot of boxes. Now they're under investigation and have already been done for tax fraud. To send money overseas it has to be rubber stamped by the ED. They refuse to grant permission and so they have to go to court to be allowed to send over funds. The first time they were granted permission was when the club received the threat from HMRC for winding up. They were granted to send ~3.4 million to pay that bill. The last time it was for the ~11 million. These court cases get postponed all the time. I can't remember exactly but I think one of them was even postponed because they were going for lunch or something. When the case was postponed in October they took out the loan against Brockhall to cover the bills. I am still doing the timeline but I've been under the pump for the last week so haven't had any time to work on it.

Competency? 🤷‍♂️

Who hopefully denies their request.

John Coltrane - Òle

We could do with a player like that....

Agreed, I think he's a dick head but would never wish I'll upon him. Hopefully he's making a speedy recovery.

We're going to get proper bummed here.

Looks promising.

And they get away with people thinking everything is just incompetence because they are so fucking useless. As useless and thick as people like swag are, they know how to complete a transfer. I was about 95% sure the O'Brien deal was deliberately sabotaged and I'm now 100% all three of these deals were pulled deliberately.

The Beatles - I Am The Walrus

Or liver failure

The biggest record fee ever received was by us for Shearer. 15 million. Which equates to about 400 million nowadays. That will never be beaten. This whole scenario is totally disgusting. We sold our best player for half of what he was worth and will not spend a penny of the money. The only hope I have from this is that the court cites it as precedent to not allow the owners to send over funds.

No excuses.

The court date could easily be postponed again also. Maybe they will cite the Wharton sale as evidence the club can generate its own funds and deny them sending over money. Bring on the administrator I say.

They've had over 10million worth of assets seized already and the investigation into them is only just getting started. The ED are strongly opposed to allowing them to send money over. From the very beginning people were saying that things didn't look right and look where we are now.

That first season of his is still one of my favourites. I'll never forget that Sheffield Wednesday game. And the 4-0 smashing of villa. It's a shame it all turned to shite, a lot of issues that were pre existing and a lot of ego's he struggled to manage. Then made some poor signings and some good ones that struggled to make it in the English game. I reckon if he'd have come back after Hughes left we'd have gone on to win more silverware. Unfortunately he was the right manager at the wrong time. I'll always have time for Roy. A top top manager and a top top man.

At least four deals have not gone through under his tenure. Three of them were quite crucial to our progression. Given that one of them we know was scuttled by the owners and the other three were "administrative errors" I'd reckon there's way way more than we know about.

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Hopefully he'll be fine. Put yer feet up mogs and get on the lemon drizzle.

He'd actually started to get into some good form before the knee injury.

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