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Young blokes who've had a few beers groping lightly clad girls...yep sounds amazingly like the Top Rank Suite on any Saturday between 1970 and err whenever it closed to me. If the blokes were drunk then surely they're not Muslims ???

Because our transfer policy seems to always involve getting more for less. More players signed than leave and for the same sort of amount, thus the quality is susceptible to decline. Morgan wasn't on a great deal when he left, 35K'ish I believe, so replacing him with Clasie and Romeu probably costs us more on the salary front than Morgan himself.

It was a bit over ours in 2014, probably still is but they're a bit better off on the commercial side I think.

No idea but as a percentage of the PL revenues that they brought about they're probably nigh on negligeable. Take Bournemouth, all they fell foul of was the rule limiting losses to 6 million a season. But they're guaranteed some 150 million in PL funding alone even if they go down this time, add on the ticket revenue hike to boot, so if they catch a fine of a million, it's just a drop in the created ocean.

And is being gotten round all around the continent apart from in the SO postal districts. Owners can accept losses of up to 105 million over 3 years by injecting equity, fictional sponsors can be found to increase commercial revenues etc, but if your owner doesn't want to invest 35 million a season we'll then you're not on the same playing field. As I have said many times before the main Liebherr branch could bung us say 20 million for shirt sponsorship, port town, cranes, straddle carriers etc would make it sort of rentable to most eyes,...see commercial revenues, our owner could then make it up to them for some reason or other...consultancy fees etc, all perfectly above board and passable cos it's what Citeh and PSG are doing, however if they don't want to then what can you do..

It's in here somewhere http://news.arseblog.com/2015/08/wenger-ffp-is-gone/ The main problem is twofold, a) clubs with unique owner/sponsors had their appeals upheld after being sanctioned under the original rulings and b) there were threatened civil court cases because FFP rules in their original form prevented owners from investing in their businesses to develop them, cases that would probably have been upheld in any civil court.

Chickenfeed Championship FFP and that allowed them to get to the eldorado of the PL and it's megamillions. They'll get a bit of a fine but what do they care, they're in the PL with special FFP rules for accessionary clubs giving them a virtual carte blanche. FFP is just a joke anyway, anyone with a bit of savvy can get round it. Even Wenger said it's as dead as a Dodo.

Welcome to Portswood chaps.

Wouldn't think he'd want to go to Newcastle anyway. Way off form this season already so he's probably best to stay at Lyon and ride out the bad patch.

Never mind all that, have you ever seen Michael Owen or Martin O'Neil? Heard they're sharing a flat in Winchester!!!

I think it's a joke name, then again I have a pythonesque sense of humour. Then again he has played for dutch outfits in the past so who knows.

It's totally different, 3 points for a win changed everything. In those days you couldn't draw your way to relegation.

We won't get relegated, the gap is already too important for that, I am surprised that anyone even considers it a possibility. We just need 4 wins and a couple of draws from 18 games, those we'll get with ease because there is some right old crap down at the bottom. Sunderland and Villa re already gone, Newcastle,Bournemouth,Swansea and Norwich will provide the other relegatee.

Very few DMs actually are, it depends on the ref, take Barry on Sunday, ref A would have sent him off in the first 10 minutes, ref B would have given him at least 2 yellows and ref C just wagged his finger at him...a lot.

What money? If we've paid a loan fee we won't get it back that's for sure.

Probably because it's made up agent rowlocks.

But as they're under 60 million for the last period of annual accounts they can hike it as much as they like before the next set, in for a penny in for a pound as they say. In fact when you're under the limit it's as best to do it that way.

Well firstly we need to either sign or get rid of one of the two domestic loans that we already have and that may not be so easy, we need Stek but doubt if we'll sign him on a permanent deal and Caulker...well he's Caulker ain't he. If Arsenal are selling or releasing Debuchy what cover would that leave them at RB other than Chambers, I don't know all the minor details of their squad.

Swiss Ramble had it at about (and that's a total figure) 46 million for the year ending 2014. Since then they've signed a couple but I doubt it's much over 60 million in total so that the player element would be below the 60 million threshold where only restricted increase (against TV revenues anyway) can be applied. Don't forget any player trading profit can be re-invested as can increased commercial revenue.. This is one of the strange things about FFP, as long as your player salarial mass is less than 60 million (for the current season, there'll be another base hike for next season) you can increase it by as much as you like. Investors can fund losses of up to 105 million over 3 seasons provided that they increase equity. If they're in FFP grey areas they just need to sell Bolasie, which they'll probably do anyway.

Easily short circuited, doubt if their salarial mass is very high anyway. Far too much is made of FFP, clubs who want to get round it seem to do it with ease.

Highly likely, Palace have got a new investor haven't they?

Well as I'll probably not be inviting him round for tea in the forseeable future I'll go for his value to the team rather than whether he's a nice bloke or not.

No I guessed that but the point still stands, we do not pay enough to attract a top, top manager and keep anyone half decent. Then again few clubs actually do. Pochettino was one of the lowest paid managers in the PL during his time here so he ferked off for a bit more money.

Like we could afford Benitez. Mourinho is also available I think, it's the same difference give or take a few quid.

I thought he made them look better actually, might even have suggested signing him in a similar HCDAJFU version summer 2014 thread actually, probably got slagged off for it as well.