AFC Wimbledon were charged £26 and then Brighton £32. Hopefully we’re in the lower range, but they are trying to claw back their £1billion spent.

The Andy Cole saga tells us all we need to know about this man…..something about a leopard and spots. Add in the training ground saga more recently and the bloke isn’t to be trusted in the slightest.

Ha yeah it’s so bad. It was sent 4 hours before kick off too, how can you be that wrong at that stage.

Racking up the mileage on Swags new coach, resale value plummeting.

I’d imagine a 4k+ allocation, beware they charged £32 tonight for a Carabao Cup match. Chelsea the 12:30 Saturday game before it so I’d imagine we’ll be a Tuesday night match on Halloween! With Fulham, Everton, Liverpool, United all playing Sunday they’ll be the Wednesday night matches

Ooofff - we’ll stuff them then draw Port Vale / Mansfield winners in the QF!

United away or Port Vale / Mansfield at home please.

From what I’ve seen it should be Siggy, Szmodics and Moran behind Leonard (if we continue with this formation although I’d rather 3 in midfield as we’re often overrun). Dolan behind Markanday and Hedges when fit.

Perfect, thanks for that. Assumed it would be something to do with the timings.

Yeah I think with Edun too it was close to £5m anyway. We spent £800k on the keeper so would suggest what £4m on other signings (German striker + loan fees). That seems like a lot of money, but again it might not take account instalments, and it might be nothing to do with the summer transfer window anyway, although it does suggest it is.

I found this part interesting from Maguire (the bottom highlighted part)… Net transfer fee of £20k since the balance sheet was submitted. It would suggest quite the fee for the non-league German lad (no idea how it accounts for instalments but I’d have thought Kaminski + Phillips would account for more than Wahlstedt and Telalovic)

90%+ of the league are in the same boat. PNE have very similar finance sheets to ourselves. QPR lost £24m last year, West Brom are teetering on the edge, Birmingham are yearly looking like points deductions (Bellingham basically saved the club) with half a stadium in disrepair. Stoke lost £18m when you take away the owners wiping debt last year and Bristol City lost £29m (they actually lost £39m the year before too)! Cardiffs parachute payments ended and revenue dropped from £35m to £20m meaning they lost £29m! Reading took a few years to burst but it got there etc. etc. Essentially parachute payments mean you're okay for a few years taking a gamble, then it's impossible to not make a loss in reality bar selling a once in a generation player (Bellingham), it just varies how big that loss is, unless you're a bigger income team perhaps (Leeds/Sunderland could operate to profit if their wages were controlled) What we need to do is improve our commercial operation (ST sales are a drop in the ocean on our wider balance sheet so actually try and do something different like PNE / Bolton have done), and actually sell our assets when they're at their peak (Diaz, Rothwell, Lenihan)

In your last 4 or 5 match day threads you’ve gone from Pears to Wahlstedt to Pears and now back to Wahlstedt. I’m a fan of JDT but it’s criminal he’s still playing an Euxton Villa level goalkeeper who is only a professional through nepotism, ahead of someone he spent our paltry transfer budget on. Hopefully that’s the end of it, at least now all those who were insistent Pears somehow deserved to start have their eyes open now.

Pears wasn’t even decent last year. Cost us multiple points end of season which ultimately cost us the playoffs. Not good enough for our bench.

Potential debut for Sigurdsson off the bench? 🎵 He’s Icelandic, Now he plays in the famed blue and white kit, He makes the rest of the league look like they’re shit, Arnor Sigurdsson (copyright superniko and Noel Gallagher) Give it bells everyone down there! ….Now to try and squeeze Sammie Szmodics into Supersonic. Nervy 2-1 to Rovers

JRC plays 20 minutes in CM with quite possibly the worst front 3 Rovers have ever played in front of him, and Garrett alongside him and we get this nonsense 😂

Leonard to start for me. His goal scoring record was at a higher standard of opponent than what Telalovic was in Germany, and the latter looks miles away from JDT high press and quick football fitness levels. I see the 100m sprint time has disappeared from wikipedia now, as it was complete nonsense. Looks like he runs through treacle. (Early days and we've barely seen him with the ball at his feet so no judgement on his quality, just that it'll take time to get up to JDTs standards so don't think he should be starting yet). Brittain was our best player mid-week, be interesting to see what JDT decides with him and JRC long-term.

Not sure how you incorporate Szmodics into that without being really overrun in midfield (and he is 1st name on the team sheet currently). Leonard, Szmodics, Moran + 1 on the other wing until Sigurdsson is fit for now (IMO) - personally don't think Dolan (every one seems to agree), and Hedges (good squad player) are up to starting in a team with expectations. Do we try pushing either Brittain or JRC higher up on that wing? or maybe 4-3-3 instead to bulk up the midfield.

We’re back on the LWLWL train now too!

See Arteta with Raya - you play your best players. Otherwise why did we use our only paltry budget on a backup keeper?

What’s Top 6 got to with my post stating they’ve looked ordinary tonight? Tony and Sunderland are blessed with a decent wallet, £10m for Clarke, £4m for Bellingham etc. You’re blaming the wrong horse here if you’re snapping at JDT relying on our academy, free transfers, and the dregs of Mowbrays signings for us (Markanday, Pears, Dolan, Pickering).

They’ve looked pretty ordinary to me. Penalty and a swipe from the edge of the area through loads of bodies. Open game and they’re controlling it well now, but I think that’s mainly down to just how useless our 11 on the pitch are, I can count at least 5 that are league 1 at best.

Look at what the bloke has on the bench. Markanday - can’t get a game at Aberdeen Dolan - probably wouldn’t get a game at Aberdeen either Garrett - should probably be on loan at Aberdeen Telalovic - German 4th division part time league. Absolute non-game changers. Venkys fucking us over again and again. Pull all our budget, don’t say a word to fans, no explanation, not been seen for 10 years. All whilst we have a comical commercial operation running alongside. Amazed JDT is hanging around.

Greg and Venkys have done JDT dirty here the fact he’s got to rely on Dilan Markanday as his impact sub.

Hook Wharton for JRC at half time.