Speculation at this stage until we hear something official from the EFL. Most of the speculation I have heard seems to suggest it will be a postponement of FFP, not a 'write off your losses this year everyone, it's fine'. Ie, the losses we make will still be counted, but probably a season later. As I say though, we'll have to see, all speculation. Either way, it seems pretty likely the club is going to decide it needs to sell players, whether it's FFP, or Venkys reluctance to fund us with meh results and their own business being increasingly uncertain. And yes, I know that's also speculation, but I'm sure we all have the sense that there won't be any money unless we sell.

I agree he won't attract a Prem club yet, I wasn't suggesting otherwise, I was just saying if it did happen (you never know in football). As soon as he starts being able to put in crosses even reasonably though, you're probably talking eight figures because Prem clubs probably would be interested then. Personally I think he'd be fine in our team if we went up though...assuming we got a real winger so we stopped relying on our fullback to put crosses in, and maybe got strikers who actually know how to get on the end of crosses anyway. I'd expect us to sign competition there obviously, and that may or may not be someone better in the end, but I don't think he'd be getting embarassed defensively by relegation-battle Prem standards. Not that we are going up of course either.

Well no, I offer him a new contract obviously. Partly with money I didn't spunk on giving pointless extensions to players who never feature, and the pointless signings of Gallagher and Brereton. In fact I'd have had him on the 4-year contract (3 years, extra year in our favour) I'd have signed him on last season so that no wage bump was needed now. But in absence of all this, yes I'd try to get his contract extended first and take it from there if we couldn't. Tbh the club are big on 'and another year in the club's favour' so I won't be surprised if we have that clause in Nyambe's contract already. Nobody knew Bell had one until well after it was activated. What sort of club do you think is paying 5 million for him in this climate, in this league? He's a full-back who doesn't score and doesn't consistently assist, and everybody is feeling the covid pinch. Elliott Bennett has sat in front of him for stretches of the last two seasons. We got 3 million for our talented keeper who played every game for 2 seasons. So again, who in the Championship is going to want to pay 5 million for him right now, even though I personally think he'll go on to be worth a lot more? If you can name me a club with the money, the need at RB, and who would consider him the right option for them, I'll be surprised. Prem teams being relegated will likely be happy with what they've got there, or just go and buy the 3 top-rated RBs in the league. Yeh I hope we get a King windfall, that would be a big help right now.

If a Prem side did, you could probably look for closer to 10 million tbh. If they were serious and not just looking for a development project (they've paid more for less developed projects though). Selling to Prem sides is an entirely different market. It's precisely because I can't see a Prem side coming in, which is purely because of his limited end product, that I put the values down there. Clubs in this league would probably start the bidding at 1.5 or some derisory crap. Aka, probably Gally's wage and bonuses (appearances, not goals...) for one year. What's the point?

Ok but how much do you think we would get for him? In the current climate, and with 12 months on his deal, we would be lucky to get 5 million for him (and I wouldn't entertain selling him for that personally) which would make almost no difference to our FFP situation. We would also need to buy a replacement with that. It's probably more likely we would get about 3 million, Raya style. Look how that turned out. It's true we will see what happens with FFP but as things stand, this just wouldn't cut the mustard and would very likely leave us weakened in the weakest area of our team, defence.

But, who can afford him, at his age, in the current covid climate? He has had a fine season but it's not like he has scorched the league. Probably on upwards of 20k per week. Nobody is going to pay that right now for a lad who is 36 this month. He is probably going to have to nearly half his wage demands whether here or elsewhere.

I'd settle for someone who just doesn't play as poorly as Gallagher and Brereton.

Yearly, at that. Keeping category 1 status means continued investment, you literally can't just rely on investment from years past. If you don't spend a certain amount each season, the rules say you lose the status. One of the few things they've done right.

I'm not talking about the entire books. I'm talking about getting straight with FFP.

Well, since Nyambe probably wouldn't fetch much and would leave a glaring hole at RB, who would you sell to balance the books this summer?

Travis should be captain.

Bit that got me the most was when Arma got shoved in the area and ok, one of those that can go either way a lot of the time. About a second later they got a free kick for a similar level of foul. Now if you're not giving the first at least let the second go. Then two players shove Travis in the chest over it right in front of the ref and no cards. Decisions didn't screw us today, but it was still the usual amateur hour officiating.

The eternal question. But in this case, precaution against injury to JRC. We could have moved Downing there though.

Yeh it's not like he assisted the second goal.

I love that little lad!!

What an assist that would have been from Travis! Shame Samuel is...Samuel.

Maybe we were spoilt by how exceptional Mulgrew's are though.

3rd bite of the cherry for Samuel but he has done it!

Is that the only thing he says in the dressing room? He can't even get on the bench, nevermind the pitch.

Reckon if we had an actual winger Nyambe wouldn't need to overlap so much, nor would his poor crossing be as exposed.

Jesus Samuel! That's meat and bread for real strikers and you didnt even get a fucking shot off!

Oh my, how surprised I am to see us 1-0 down inside 15 minutes. Yawn.

It got pulled away from him. He was looking the dog's bollocks for a patch but couldn't break into the team for some bizarre reason. Now he is looking just bollocks and gets in no problem. Weird. You have to play players when they're in form. Maybe it would have just been a purple patch, maybe it would have been the catalyst, who knows now.

Nah, I'm pretty confident we can sign 6 or so CMs and strikers to fill those roles.

But his manager's office would be Waggot's office... if he goes in there he's more likely to end up firing his load than being fired.