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One main issue for me - and whilst I agree we haven't been as good as we could be at the back - if we had someone decent up front (maybe someone like Ross Stewart) we'd be promoted automatically imo. I think it's as easy as that.

@AlexLaw76 Think you've been spotted!

This guy 😂😂😂

Thank God I bet on a draw/loss. Not good enough defensively.

Do I think so, no. Do I want to, also no.

That will be interesting as they'll need to move money around, but it's not insurmountable. If Hunt was clever he'd use the Non dom money on the NI cut. Agree with the rest.

And he's one of the better ones...

If you're a massive racist uncaring cunt, I can see why you might.

It depends what the losses are (they need to be football related). Share increases are also not taken into account, and I think Covid losses can be written off as well. I think we'll be OK but only because of the sales made last year (which is what I was telling everyone when fans were losing their minds over how many players we were selling - we had to due to FFP).

Because they're disguising their losses through commercial earnings or share increases, and amortising transfer fees over very long contracts (in Chelsea's case).

But obviously you can't do that around the world? So it just means any decent player will go and play in another country. In no sports do you have a wage limit for players. You have salary caps for the whole club, which could work, but then you need a full re-structure on transfer fees (ie get rid of them), young talent - essentially you would need a worldwide adoption of the NFL model,which is just not possible.

Doubt we'll be able to...looking at those numbers, even with what we've brought in this season in transfers we may still fall should of FFP.

Oh absolutely, the same as being at the bottom end of the PL. We always lose decent young prospects. But yes, I know what you're saying - however in a vacuum I am really enjoying this year, and that's what enjoying football is about.

Not sure why everyone is so harsh on him tbh, I've always like Elvis Costello. "Hamas's Army is on its way..."

I'm enjoying this season more than any season since Koeman tbf.

I would assume the sales last Summer should cover a lot of the next years liabilities. Tbf, this club's awful transfer record over the last 5 years has really come back to bite.

I would assume a proportion of it will - I wouldn't have thought teams are paying the full amount of wages - but also we have quite a few players out of contract that are on high wages (McCarthy, Adams, Armstrong), so on their own that's approx £10m pa.

How much in wages do we think we'll get off the P&L this Summer?

You can see why SR wanted to recoup as much money as possible last Summer, and didn't want to lay out much on new purchases.

I don't really want to get bogged down in the Brexit thing, as it seems odd that people seem to ignore obvious statistics to show it has hampered us, but we can have large borrowing because of the pandemic AND suffer from poor government financial control and economic issues from Brexit.

How many of those cities have we built so far then - must have missed that?

It's using stats from the ONS, which you literally just sent me a link to, to prove your point???

The why are we the only country to really suffer: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/30/uk-is-only-g7-country-with-smaller-economy-than-before-covid-19 Not really sure what the ONS thing is proving, the economy is 4-6% smaller than it should be due to Brexit: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/14/brexit-has-sliced-5percent-off-uk-economic-growth-goldman-sachs-says.html https://www.london.gov.uk/new-report-reveals-uk-economy-almost-ps140billion-smaller-because-brexit#:~:text=UK real Gross Value Added,in 2023 under this scenario. Etc, etc.

Didn't think so.

Absolutely it is, you'll have to ask the Tories where all the money has gone because it seems to be nowhere to be seen. We have seen a reduction in GDP of around 4-6% due to Brexit, so that doesn't help, but it also may be reducing that highest level of tax and loading it onto the lesser earners in society.