I have listened to most of the "price of football" podcasts which explains lots of the financials of football. The one or two seasons in the Premier League "and all its riches" does come across as a bit of an urban myth. It seems as soon as you get your Premier League cash, everybody is knocking at your door for bonuses, higher wages, infrastructure improvements, player purchase clauses costs and a whole host of things. It's a broken model I'm afraid. * That's also with the hope that owners who have blown £10's - £100 million dont want any of their cash back!!

When you read those figures there surely can't be a sport hemorrhaging money like the English game. Surely we aren't far from a break away big boys Euro/World League then wage and spending caps for the rest to protect the future. A future that come next season will highly likely start without a few clubs.

Looks like Sunderland may have been bought off the back of future parachute payments. It sums up the absolute mess that football is in at the moment. Clubs need people to lose money to sustain them, how much longer can people expect owners to fund the huge losses with personal wealth (I'm not defend Donald btw). https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/huge-repercussions-sunderland-sale-accounts-18225749.amp

As others have said, well researched news content is chargeable these days and seen as a move from old school newspapers. The LT gain content from literally scouring Twitter and Facebook all day, then asking the picture owner (usually Lancs Police / Fire and Rescue) to use their picture. If all else fails, a good old google earth image will suffice! I do actually find Rich Sharpe's content pretty decent, certainly not £5 a month's worth though.

It's over, trust me it's over. In its current state this club pays out an extra £34 for every £100 of income how can any fan of any club expect anybody to fund that. Reading FC now hold the unenviable record for the league of paying well over £200 of every £100. The fans are no better off, the clubs are no better off. Clubs cannot afford the wages, clubs cannot expect the answer to be to find somebody new to come in and lose a load more cash, something must change.

Our friends down the road have admitted they face a £50m black hole if the season doesn't finish. £5m from home fixture lost revenue and £45m from TV. If that's how grim it is for a well run club (that isn't nice to say!), then how screwed are everybody else!! They may not be so quick to gloat soon.

Well another hideous set of financial results for the club. £18.2m loss for the year, wages at 134% of turnover, wages rose by over £5m. This sport is absolutely shot to pieces!

Massive disappointment all around, I still struggle to believe signing players is as hard as Mowbray makes out, surely anybody inside the club can see we have major problems with certain areas that don't ever seem to get improved. Another huge disappointment is that football has allowed itself into the pits that money is more important than actually playing the game, I look at some of our players here, and other clubs wanting to earn money out of whoring out their youth players to the highest bidders than the best for their development.

I’m sorry but how can anybody be in any way surprised that this is on the horizon, the management of the club have amassed a playing / coaching staff which costs 140 god damn % of income. Whilst amassing a hideous wage bill the club has a playing staff with one major asset (now injured) and a couple that could provide sticky plasters to prevent a FFP breach. Financially the writing is on the wall, I’m sorry but that is an absolute fact! Football has allowed clubs to get into these positions with rogue owners and they have absolutely no answers to it. We are on our own!

I’ve been the same for a few years, but for me the most hurtful thing is that the club is on life support financially, paying 140% of turnover to wages for the pleasure too!!

This is the huge failing for me, we could all see it and he could see it yet didn't act after saying he would. We have to watch that, and now weekly watch strikers playing on the wing and listen to him saying we can't carry our aging striker (the only one that can score) as he isn't mobile enough for our new system ... the system Mowbray chose to implement. Oh and we don't appear to be very good at carrying out said new system of play with or without Danny Graham.

That’s my point, Rodwell at Sunderland is my thought. We will never know for fact whether he did or didn’t refuse to play but if he did then surely that forms gross misconduct and with this as a test case could Sunderland have looked to sack.

Wonder if this starts the ball rolling for clubs being able to sack players that refuse to play or other in house discipline breaches.

Regardless of being worried about who the next appointment would be, I simply cannot get away from the fact that nobody in the away end, on this message board or just a Rovers fan in general was in anyway shocked that we blew a 2-0 half time lead. That should scream alarm bells to anybody connected to this club. It proves there is a mentality issue, it proves the manager has had an inability to see and react to the opponent managers tactics. It’s not a one off!

The whole episode is fast turning into the horror shows of previous regimes we have had in charge here under the owners, a boys club running the whole thing. We are hard working honest folk around these parts and really don’t take too kindly to being lied to! Mowbray simply cannot hide behind his “football experience” to say that our transfer policy hasn’t been anything short of appalling, the defence needed improving (he said so himself), we don’t score enough (he said so himself) so he spent fortunes on non scoring forwards and not enough defenders. We haven’t uncovered any hidden gems like most other clubs in this league. The man cannot get away from the fact he has been given more cash than anybody would have expected over the last two years, and I would rather confidently say we have a better Academy than half of the Premier League never mind this league ... what have we to show for it? The buck stops with Mowbray no ifs no buts!

They are 4 of the weakest, spineless goals you will see defensively. Awful all around and Mowbray has some big questions to answer, he won’t need to answer any though as his mate is the chief exec and the owners couldn’t give two hoots!

Sums our set plays up, we have a corner and 6 seconds later it’s back with our keeper without Forest touching the ball.

Watching our strikers trying to cross has a similar feeling to hearing somebody drag their nails down a blackboard (chalk board for the kids!)

Just so frustrating to watch, really struggle to see what Gallagher must do in training to look like he has any ability to play out wide. Dack has been shocking too. Whilst I don’t miss his woeful defending I think we are missing some of Mulgrews set plays!

The Neville's can't do anything due to their Salford ties.

Bolton given another 14 days.

I'd have preferred far less first teamers playing if he did.

After watching tonight all I can confirm is that we have spent nearly £15m on Brereton, Gallagher and Armstrong but they surely can’t come close to starting before a combo of Graham and Dack. Oh and we can’t defend or make saves!

I have no idea, that’s why I asked the question. People usually have some reason behind writing cheques for £9m+

That is an incredible sum of money if it just to keep us within FFP. Hopefully it’s for a few new defenders. The shear amount of money (self inflicted) that has to be pumped in annually is absolutely frightening, football finances are crazy!