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Given the £12m received from Chamberlain which will be in this season's accounts (transfer fees received are accounted for immediately, unlike transfer fees paid), we'd have had to have awarded some ludicrous contracts to new signings to go above 93% this season, IMO. Add in an extra £4-5m in TV revenue, increased season ticket revenue with the 30% price rise, increased attendances, etc.

Madejski has said in the press that he won't be renegotiating, saying "a deal is a deal". I suspect he's just desperate to take the responsibility off his shoulders now.

No, those figures were based on last season. They're nearly a year out of date now, and since then we've made a number of relatively high-profile signings and given existing first-team players new contracts.

Reading didn't pay £3m for Roberts, did they?!

Like the man with the orthopaedic shoes, I stand corrected

I don't think Redknapp scored for us in the PL, definitely got one in the FA Cup at Northampton, but no league goals IIRC. Same with Le Saux, scored at Bristol City in the League Cup but no league goals. Beattie didn't score for England, so he doesn't count either. Nor did Kevin Phillips, surprisingly. Peter Crouch Wayne Bridge Kerry Dixon

I wouldn't say that's trolling, it's a fact. If we weren't going for promotion, we'd have taken 1000 to Middlesbrough on Saturday at the very most, the terrace at Peterborough wouldn't have been packed for a midweek game, and even the 600-odd we took to Hull is double what we'd have taken there if we were midtable with nothing to play for.

I think the 13/8 figure is for promotion via any means, which would of course also include the playoffs.

319 was the in-vision football vidi-printer, I believe

That was what Steve Cotterill and David Lampitt said. How did that work out for you?

Don't suppose you kept the one about Reading's new not-in-any-way-identical-to-Gaydamak owner, did you?

Is it just me or has the rumafia website been shut down?

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I would normally stand up for the rights of a journalist - whether local or national - to state his opinion in his written work, whether that's for or against a football club's policies, decisions, etc. However, in true football fan style, I'm going to be fickle on this occasion and say "**** him".

Ian Ayre at Liverpool is the only one who was stupid enough to say it publicly earlier this season. Liverpool's PR since Dalglish returned to the club has been ****ing horrendous I'm sure there are a few clubs who would think they'd get more money out of individual agreements, but there's a counter-argument which suggests that the very existence of the collective agreement which ensures that a large proportion (50% of the domestic contract and 100% of the overseas contract) of the broadcasting revenue is distributed evenly between all 20 PL clubs is what ensures the value of those contracts is so high in the first place. Without that apparent balance (the imbalance we actually witness is arguably more to do with Champions League revenue IMO), the league wouldn't appear so "competitive" to the outsider and therefore not as valuable as a marketable product.

At the moment, Spanish clubs negotiate their own TV deals, hence why Barcelona and Real Madrid are streets ahead of everyone else in terms of the amount of broadcasting revenue they bring in. There's been talk for a while now that La Liga wants to change to a collective deal similar to the one used in the Premier League, but naturally Barca and Real are opposing it as they'd lose out financially.

Peterborough was always likely to be a popular away game, it's the only ground in the Championship with terracing. The only downside to the game is that it's midweek, but we've already shown this season that that isn't really putting people off. Peterborough can't sell tickets in the Moyes End terrace to home fans if the away team don't fill it (and they don't have the fanbase to do so anyway), and when West Ham went there a couple of weeks ago, they sold all 4000-odd terrace tickets in the space of three days, which would suggest they had them all in one go. There's no reason why Posh wouldn't give us all the tickets in one go if we wanted them.

Kappa are Pompey's "retail partner" - basically the club sold the rights to all their merchandise to Kappa a couple of years ago, so they run the megastore(s?) and there's some sort of profit-sharing arrangement.

Worth bearing in mind that, apparently, the reason there are loads of creditors listed on there with no value of debt is that new ledgers weren't created on the club's accounting software when NewCo replaced OldCo, so the creditor list is just a printout of all suppliers past and present. Not 100% sure that's right, but time will tell.

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Greg Halford.

St John's Ambulance owed a further £5544 Monthly wage bill of £1.8m, more than £21m a year!

Neither, he's from the Midlands. Think he might be a Villa fan.