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Links are only possible for matters reported online or in the press. I'm giving you actual numbers and facts. For obvious reasons I can't say how I'm aware of them. At the end of the day mate believe what you want. Pretty please.

Links are only possible for matters reported online or in the press. I'm giving you actual numbers and facts. For obvious reasons I can't say how I'm aware of them. At the end of the day mate believe what you want. Pretty please.

Bashing? Conspiracy? Wtf are you on about? I'm giving you facts. Kat paid c£28m from her own pocket at the end of April. Fact. Staplewood was to cost £14m but cost £38m inc £4m of what is described as "waste". Fact. Kat has thrown a fortune at the club since her dad died. Fact. We have a more sustainable club since Nic left. Fact.

Bashing? Conspiracy? Wtf are you on about? I'm giving you facts. Kat paid c£28m from her own pocket at the end of April. Fact. Staplewood was to cost £14m but cost £38m inc £4m of what is described as "waste". Fact. Kat has thrown a fortune at the club since her dad died. Fact. We have a more sustainable club since Nic left. Fact.

No but £75 yes.

No but £75 yes.

Happy with that. We grew into the game and deserved something from it. Bertrand superb. Ditto clyne, wanyama, and Morgan 2nd half. Tadic great in patches, ditto JWP. Pelle had a baptism but held the ball up well and when he had a man playing closer to him looked dangerous. The CB's both did well imo. No glaring errors and very disciplined. We'll do alright this year. Get Ramirez firing, and a proper winger on the pitch, and we'll be a threat going forward.

Happy with that. We grew into the game and deserved something from it. Bertrand superb. Ditto clyne, wanyama, and Morgan 2nd half. Tadic great in patches, ditto JWP. Pelle had a baptism but held the ball up well and when he had a man playing closer to him looked dangerous. The CB's both did well imo. No glaring errors and very disciplined. We'll do alright this year. Get Ramirez firing, and a proper winger on the pitch, and we'll be a threat going forward.

Much of last seasons transfers and staplwood. Our Kat had to fund c£28 mil at the end of April to meet payments due. Nic was playing with Kat's cash.

Much of last seasons transfers and staplwood. Our Kat had to fund c£28 mil at the end of April to meet payments due. Nic was playing with Kat's cash.

City Ranger "We should have had a class CB lined up even if Lovren stayed. So frustrated, CB was our weak point along with GK last year and cost us many points. GK has been addressed but we really need bodies in defence (anything but Maya or Jos for me)." Obviously we did. We tried to punch above our weight and got slapped down to size. Vermaelen would always have preferred Barca to us. Ditto Rojo to Man U. No brainers for the players. I watched layer cake the other day. We're like Daniel Craig in that film. The big boys are like Gambon. In the words of Gambon, welcome to the layer cake.

Franks cousin. You're facts are well off. You say this "There really is a load of mis informed speculative and obviously agenda ridden ****** written on here.... And sadly so much of now seems to be urban myth... " I'm aware of actual numbers. Posting made up numbers doesn't help.

Rojo will make lovren look like a distant memory. It'll be an OK season. The finances will be much improved in safer hands. Onwards and upwords. Coys.

Our wage bill last year alone was £52m. The training ground cost 38m. There were then transfers, club running costs, stadium related costs etc. We have not been self sufficient.

Absolutely. We've had some tough love from Kat this summer which wouldn't have been needed had we been more sensible in the past.

I agree with that but think that we need an out and out winger to suit the new system. Isgrove has a chance but tried and tested would be better.

Agree 100%. The shambles that was/is Osvaldo, particularly the fact that we're resigned to losing a bundle on the idiot, highlights two things: 1. Expensive and/or big name signings do not guarantee success, and 2. There's much benefit in a loan as you can try before you buy.

Also factor in that there is a business to run, debt to pay, training ground to fund, agents to pay etc etc. Also factor in that the headline sales figures are just that. They'll include add ons and installments. We haven't banked 90 odd million as people seem to think. If we did it should be obvious that some of it will be allocated to things other than transfer fees.

Quite right Del. I don't know why I'm surprised that the masses can't see the merits of this deal. It's great business.

Good business this. Decent player. Can slot straight until the team whilst Targett develops. If he does well but Targett doesn't meet expectations then we can exercise the option and have the benefit of continuity. All that without blowing millions on an unknown foreign player. I can't believe some of the comments on here criticizing this deal. Anyone can see he's a good player, and anyone should be able to see that this is a shrewd piece of risk free business.

Good post.

Yes but he's apparently been in London today and earlier this afternoon (pre tweet) and one of his senior team mates was expecting him to complete his move tomorrow. What a farce.

That's an interesting subject. I understand that the bonus structure potentially put us in breach of FFP (ie if we won everything we were in breach territory is my understanding). I gather the club were relaxed about FFP. I had understood that to mean that we were ignoring on the basis that contractual arrangements pre dated FFP meaning that we felt that we were not caught by them. Our lowish wage bill meant that we were more hamstrung by FFP than others. The likes of Spurs, for example, have such a vast FFP cap that they can spend what they like.

That I don't know. I also don't know what the £28m released by KL in April was for.

Behave!