Re strikers - guess still time for Loader; seems to be at least in the discussion for the first team at Porto Do like the look of Ehibhatiomhan. Probably more interested in him than any other striker in the last 6-7 years other than Loader Guess it’s always easy to compare to Brentford - but they ar...

Sounds about right

Spotted that Birminghams wage bill for this last season was 31m. They lost 25m last season overall on top of previous losses of 18m and about 6m the season before (which included Bellingham’s sale) Expect they are sailing close to the wind again in FFP though prob just squeezing under Bit of a mess ...

Haven’t got off lightly, it’s been a painful and grim struggle for the last 3 years or so since Gourlay went nuts with Dai’s chequebook.

It’s still pretty crap that you can be punished continuously 3-4 years after the actual misdemeanours

Yep the club have communicated out as much as I expect they can, and tbf they did it the day it all blew up Can’t have Bowen or ince coming out and saying a load based on rumour etc Expect it is a debated case. Prob something marginal Good point on inflation above btw, obvs energy costs will have sk...

I do think it’s difficult to moan about the general ticket pricing tbh. It’s very generous overall

Interesting to see Everton just been reported for FFP failings. Wonder how that’ll turn out

I’d far prefer watching lower mid in the champ to upper mid in div1 We’ve had some dire years but still some good highlights in there - games like Blackburn, Norwich even sheff utd this year when we’ve mixed it with some good teams Again most of that Pauno season 1 was decent, just weren’t there to ...

Feels like the fix for the financial mess that is the Championship is for there to be a big rethink on the distribution of money so the Premier League gets less and the EFL gets more, thus allowing parachute payments to be stopped at the same time. Ergo it will never happen. They’ve ruined the cham...

Thought all the lot in ‘failure’ left at the start of that first Stam season (cooper on loan)?

Might be wrong though

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Not sure I’d take much heed on anything he says on anything

Nope he was just ranting tbh.

Did he blame a random referee for our poor handling of finances?

He doesn’t know. He wasn’t here.

The strange thing is even P.Ince kept going on about the Thursday deadline, so either he's been misinformed or the club have no idea what's happening lol :D PInce has nothing to do with the finances or background running of the club, so never paid any heed to what he was saying about it. Not sure I...

Tbf Kelly wasn’t awful that second season either, not for an academy kid who was still finding his way a bit. Obvs questions about the management of him

Think for the sake of general fairness you can’t leave it too late. Even with just 8 games left that’s pushing it imo

I have sympathy for him in year 2 tbh. We turned out some really weak sides at the usual injury crisis etc (the 0-7 we had Tetek and Bristow at Fb, Drinkwater and Camara in midfield along with headless TDB) And of all the people to blame for our current predicament (which really isn’t as dreadful as...

Most annoying thing was we were good for just long enough that I had to concede Paunovic wasn't awful, only for him to immediately flip and starting trying to prove that he was. He certainly managed to prove it in the end Difficult with Pauno sometimes - prob the best team we’ve had since relegatio...

Yeah truth in that. Actually get quite surprised when I speak to someone who is born here.

Whilst no one is going to choose to move to Sunderland

He’s only played there once this season! Away at Watford which, coincidentally, was one of his better games In fact he’s only started 13 league games all season. As ineffective as he’s been, he hasn’t played much really Only started there once this seaosn. We’ve switched to a back 4 in games at tim...

I had the impression that BT also had some part in that decision making to let that lot go +Fosu but might be wrong

I think that deadline was for new offences, not suspended

Granted taking this from the foul cesspit that is Twitter so maybe nonsense

My own opinion that giving us this any later than now would be somewhat harsh mind you