The actual detail of this is still to be released, I would expect that to be in August/September for it to be made public. Over the past 2 years the wage budget has been reduced substantially and after the departures I think we are probably now at around 75% and have a wage budget available of around £50k per week possibly more.

Yep they can increase to £20m a season without needing to sell the rest of the training ground etc. The issue will be the wage budget and keeping it under control or substantially increasing turnover in the next couple of years.

The agree new EFL rules are slightly different. From next season (not the one starting on Saturday, owners can fund £60m of losses over a 3 year period as long as injected as cash. Wages will be maxed at 90% of turnover reducing by 5% a season over 4 seasons to 70%. All of the players we have been linked to so far are paid around £5k a week and signing them is comfortable within our wage budget of up to £15k. Our transfer budget does seem to be £9m or thereabouts and we can spend on 4 year deals so long as they don't break the wage budget and there is a logic of pushing through the deal for Styles, Brannagan and Bowler but it is difficult. Now in regard to Davis he was affordable for a 12 month loan but difficult for a 4 year deal at our turnover levels. With regard to BBD with his 12 month extension and being between 2 new regulations it doesn't make any difference to our FFP regulations if we sell him this summer or he leaves for free next May.

Remember, FFP changes next summer, so a sale is not necessarily required.

It's a possibility and funds are there to do it. Although I am told by a friend at Oxford that we have made a bid for Brannagan. Still no forwards being linked though but it's nice for once to be building from the back with a plan based on what we need for a system to work

I just can't get my head around that amount per week and he's not been that good for 18 months or so.

I wouldn't rule out JPVH signing permanently by the end of the window.

Transfer fees is not the issue, transfer budget is £6-9m plus can be increased if a special case comes along. The issue is can we get them all in our wage budget. So far we are going after players who are on comfortably less than £5k a week at present club so are more than likely going to be ok on £10k or so here.

Looking at things from yesterday, Brittain was close for 2 weeks, so it may well be the same case with Bowler. It seems GB is being very careful how we spend the cash and getting the maximum out of the budget

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.

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

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

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%.

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

Yep which is why I struggle to figure out our pricing policy

Crowd numbers is very important to attract better sponsors and advertising prospects.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.