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phili

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  1. I am pretty sure Sharpe is just guessing based on rumours. So far we are keeping everything we are doing under wraps, so he has as much idea as we do.
  2. It wouldn't surprise me if he was. Below average wage and they were in a bind when they signed him. It's just a shock to us with being out of the premier League for 12 years
  3. Yep can't argue with the lack of stadium maintenance. I am not sure why they don't spend on this, perhaps they are not asked, only want to spend on players or maybe they don't see point in maintenance and want to replace with new. I have no idea
  4. I don't think it is. All Championship clubs have agreed to new FfP rules, owners can fund club losses with cash to £60m over 3 years. Clubs can spend a maximum of 90% of turnover on wages next season, falling by 5% a season to the new uefa guidelines of 70%. Unless we substantially increase our turnover there is not much wriggle room. Last set of accounts we were at 130% or something similar. After all departures this summer and last we are probably now at 90%.
  5. Supposedly we rejected a £1m+ offer from Bet365, so the decision to go with our shirt sponsor is probably costing us £15k a week in lost wage budget
  6. Yep which is why I struggle to figure out our pricing policy
  7. Crowd numbers is very important to attract better sponsors and advertising prospects.
  8. So we need to potentially cut up to half our wage bill this year as presently 130% of turnover down to 90%. That is going to be some ask and our available wage budget is probably 10-20k a week following the departures to comply with this.
  9. Administration cleared all of their debts, new 26 year old billionaire owner as well as the ffp rules in league 1 means they can spend quite a bit this season and have no issues.
  10. From what you are seeing, is this summer a lot more difficult for all clubs to bring in new players? Spending certainly seems to be way down on previous years. Assume clubs are working more on retaining their best talent this year?
  11. Also to comply, pretty much no club now owns their stadium or training grounds. All sold to comply with FFP to a club owners or other property companies and making the clubs weaker.
  12. Pretty much. If a fan was to buy Rovers today, there is not a lot they could do to invest without significantly increasing turnover. I think I would bring catering, bars etc back under our control and reverse all outsourcing. Then reduce ticket prices to increase footfall and benefit from what fans spend in the ground. But it would be some time before you could make changes on wages etc sadly.
  13. Although with Nyambe and Lenihan now both on £20k+ neither are in our price range. For centre back, Charlie Goode is probably ideal for us and I am sure Brentford would be interested in selling. The only issue is he has a young family and they have stayed based in Northampton, so not sure he would join base on that. I expect a loan to buy offer The Barnsley lad may be more difficult to get on the cheap but probably in the £2m - £3m range.
  14. I might be or 1-2k out but it is around that figure. What worries me is if we have to implement the can't spend more than 70% of turnover on wages rule. Unless we could drastically increase turnover, we'd have a total wage budget of £7.8m.
  15. Not a surprise though, he would likely have been a squad player here so chose guaranteed first team football at Derby which at his age I can understand. I think from all bits of information we have a transfer budget of something around £6-8m so reasonable. Our issue is our wage budget, we have the same as last year, so with all the players that have left we have around £45k a week to fund 6-8 players.
  16. It's one of the reasons Championship clubs are not that interesting to investors, you can't actually spend any money once you take a club over. The clubs of interest and likely to be sold are league one clubs such as MK Dons. Get them into the championship you can spend £45m in 2 seasons trying to gamble to get promoted to the premier League, if fail sell some players. As pretty much all Championship clubs are owned by Billionaires, I am not sure why they haven't got together to scrap FfP, and allow them to go and sign players they want, build up interest and improve the TV deal. Just think of the interest in the Championship if we signed Ronaldo and Stoke signed Messi, the TV deals would be through the roof and all of the Football League would benefit. As it is now no one can, the step up to premiership is to high and we get yoyo clubs as well as a 2tier championship.
  17. I don't think Nyambe will be that easy. We've spent 5 seasons trying to sign a competent left back and still haven't, I am not sure right back will be so easy.
  18. At the moment Cantwell is on around the same weekly wage as Lenihan, Rothwell and Nyambe combined, so we'll need a lot of leeway from Norwich to look at signing him. It would be far cheaper to have just increased the 3 salaries than try and sign 3 new players of equal or better ability.
  19. That may well be the case as this year's accounts are not out, but we certainly did owe HMRC according to last year's accounts.
  20. Administration is very unlikely. It will be sold to one of their friends with Venky's getting some of their cash back. I always wonder how they get a £15m overdraft every year without fail and what collateral they require for it. The amount of hoops I have had to go through to extend my business one this year is horrifying, never mind what we must go through.
  21. Signings need to be done as soon as possible, otherwise the new players are always playing catch-up on fitness and how you want to play. A good preseason normally dictates a good season. When you have issues in preseason yourl normally know the season is going to be a struggle.
  22. We owe the tax man around £7m in the last set of accounts. Bank of India is just an overdraft.
  23. Our main creditors are Venky's, Bank of India and the tax man. Derby was more to Michael Dell and Mel Morris than anyone else. Our smaller creditors and Derby's will be similar. Morris wrote of £200m in loans he gave the club on admin as well as selling the training ground and stadium for a fraction. The new owners had to pay most of the Michael Dell loan back.
  24. Giles I could never understand. The thing is while striving for a play off place, it's never a good time to try and train a player to play in a new position. He really had no idea what he was doing or how to play. That's what preseason is meant to be used for
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