The way relegation and promotions are looking, the Championship could be a lot less northern biased next season. The Champiuonship could lose Burnley Sheff Utd Boro Huddersfield Blackpool Wigan and be replaced by West Ham Bournemouth Southampton Sheff Weds Plymouth Ipswich all based on current posit...

On the business plan side - the total wages excluding the social security and pension costs was actually 22.4m for all staff. So for wages to playing staff I can't see how we didn't get under 21.1m unless the wages for 210 non-playing staff came in under 1.3m for the year, which would means we woul...

Could do with someone doing a proper breakdown as I’m not capable What’s the 5,243 figure? Is that payments were still making for player transfers? Presumably Puscas/Joao/ejaria if so No wonder accountants need a degree to read this stuff This is the cost of player contract "amortisation"...

i think I'm the only one who actually doesn't mind Dai, yeah he's made mistakes and been a bit naive at times. But he saved the club. The thai's couldn't afford to keep us going, they were desperate to find a buyer. He's paid for our training ground and invested heavily in playing staff (too much o...

the return submitted on 1st March will relate to this season. The accounts might not be publicly published for 9 months but would have been available to the EFL much earlier. Don't expect EFL would have agreed all the signings in the summer if we were in breach of the season 21/22 business plan. As...

Pretty impossible to do when accounts are only published 9 months after the season finishes and the money doesn't have to route through an independent regulator. That, imo, would be the ideal solution. All player wages go through the PFA or an independent regulator, all transfer fees and registrati...

YorkshireRoyal99 Although I accept that Boro are streets ahead of us as well.

it's amazing what a good managerial appointment can do though. Carrick appointed towards the back end of October and have been on an upward trajectory ever since having been in the relegation zone when Wilder was sacked

People understand that perfectly, Ian. What we are annoyed about is the EFL seemingly going back and inventing new ways to punish us for the things they've already punished us for. The principle of ffp also needs to be changed so clubs can be sanctioned at the time or at least during the same seaso...

The accounts that are due to be published relate to last season. Those were already taken into consideration when we were sanctioned last season. For this year we will be giving updates of income and expenditure, forecast through to 30 June, the financial year end. I think we’ve probably broken the ...

Michael Hector is now a Charlton Athletic player. Must admit the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul inspired announcement gave me a chuckle. Glad to see Hec get a contract somewhere, he's got a lot to offer especially in League One. Get him match fit so we can sign him in the summer once Moore and Dann ...

Shane Long brought more to the team on his own than Carroll and Joao did. Poor selection up front for today. Think I’d have been tempted to go with the Long / Meite combination as Meite would have offered Rahman a bit. Ore protection down the left than Joao will ever be able to (and I’m not getting ...

Sutekh Marc McNulty has signed for Orange County SC in the American USL

Blimey - that's worse than playing in Scotland in terms of standards

The key is the in the same league or above. So, Long and Carroll clearly have played in the Prem. Hutch and Sarr played plenty of Champ football. however, both NGW and Bouzanis may not make the criteria as their careers have been at lower league level. I assume Mbengue’s games in France make him a p...

See Jamal Lowe has gone to QPR on loan. He could do a decent job for us next season

With this injury Moore could very easily go out of contract in the summer and not be picked up by another club, given he will be 30. If Ince is still around he may offer him a 2 year deal on, say, £8-9k per week and I think Moore would need to seriously consider that offer, or run the risk of being ...

Would like to have Rino still as an option, especially to bring on when battling to defend a lead. Had hoped Tetek could be that player but his injury record is killing his career

I think Joao will leave English football. My bet is he will go to Turkey, or even one of the Arab leagues.

For me we just seem to be playing the type of football many sides have played against us for a number of seasons, while we were trying to play pretty football. How many times did “functional” teams come to the Mad Stad/SCL, sit deep, let us have the ball, play in the counter/attack off of our mistak...

let's also not forget the huge amount of defensive work that Tom Ince puts in as well when compared to Swift from previous seasons and a good defence starts from the front

We don't ever see Lumley make any really great saves. He has done OK but no more than that. Agree with this. I’m not a goalkeeping coach or expert but his footwork seems slow to get into position and he takes ages to get down to low shots. Reminds me of when we had Mannone. Nothing particularly bad...