Saint86

His board room confession was certainly very good for boro and hull.

Sadly, i think nearly all legal avenues we could pursue are holed below the water line thanks to the way we've handled the independent hearing. I just can't see us winning case with the EFL for £80M-100M, which is what we would reasonably be owed from a loss of chance perspective alone.

Agree with this bar the last part. Saints were completely stitched up throughout the process and ultimately given a totally disproportionate punishment. No small part of that is down to Parsons handling fumbling of the whole thing (based on the reports at least), and if true, he is significantly responsible for the weakened position we are now in. However on your last point - in the grand scheme of things, any compensation saints may or may not win via future legal avenues is completely dwarfed by the significance of whether or not the FA allow us to keep our manager (a manager that SR may well sack anyway). The two bodies (and any sanctions) are entirely separate. Saying that, blood is in the water and the FA know we are an easy mark for further punishment (again thanks to Parsons / SRs management of this whole thing) - i therefore fully expect them to take the maximum amount of time to reach a decision on Eckert, and then Ban him... Ultimately maximising the potential for yet more harm to the football club. I suspect there are many in the halls of power who live to enforce draconian punishments on clubs, and who wouldn't be happy until they've forced football clubs to their knees and been through administration and relegated etc.

Did anyone expect different with Parsons at the helm?

I would expect the club to maximise saleable assets - partly to balance the books, partly to free up funds for reinvestment. I reckon Scienza and Jander will both be sold, and for at least double our initial outlay which is much needed from a PSR perspective - reasonable to expect £40-45M for those 2 i think? Charles will also be sold due to contract situation, hopefully another £15M. That's a likely £55-60M for those 3. Ramsdale for circa £10-15M if we are lucky. Plus £100k/wk (£5.2M/yr) wages. A potential £65M-£70M if we sell Ramsdale If anyone will give us a profit on THB then i expect he will be sold as well. The reality is that having a £20M CB is a luxury in this league - i rate him and think he's a brilliant CB for the championship, but if someone offers us £25M to replace him and strength elsewhere, we will take it... So potentially £85M-90M sales just on those 5players. Rumours of a sell on fee for Fernandes - so hopefully a small bonus there as well. Against that, we need to offset a circa £15M drop in parachute money this coming season. Plus we need to make sure we balance the PSR 3year loss limit of £61M - for which, we don't know where we stand for the season just gone. All in all though, i think we could have a tidy pot to reinvest this summer. Larin for £3-4M isn't a bad buy - but crucially he will have no resale value. And Stewart will be similar in that he's going into his final year on his contract. Having those 2 as our strikers leaves us staring at an issue in a couple of seasons where we may be needing an entirely new front line and have no parachute payments etc., to replace them. If any championship teams are in for Ballard, given our sell on fee (discount) we should at least be considering joining them...

The defence doesn't need major work. Bree, manning, Wellington, roerslev, Stephens, wood, quarshie, THB (sold and replaced?), and sansa coming through. Doesn't have to be flash for the championship. Bazunu is left. Ramsdale will leave. A new first choice Keeper is a must. Preferably Peretz 🤷. Midfield sadly I fear for us a bit quality wise. Charles and Jander (both sold and replaced) are almost certainly gone. But at least we'll get paid well for them and they should get replaced with a similar quality of our scouting holds up. It leaves us with Bragg and Downes - clearly lightweight for a 46 game season without major strengthening. Azaz, matsuki, fellows, scienza (sold and replaced?), edozie, and Robinson is okay for the attacking mid/wings - but for me we need one more for quality depth even with scienza staying. Should archer be included here? CF - Larin (signed), Stewart (extended), downs, BBD. It's not bad for the level in truth? But being greedy I'd want one more. Can tonda get the best out of downs? Anyone know whether there are any more good youth prospects coming through?

Presumably, if Tonda stays, we get Peretz back. Putting the band back together so to speak...

Now you've done it...

The FA can absolutely sanction the club. If the want to be really heavy handed they can bring in external oversight of our scouting and analytics departments for example.

Peretz is on record as he loved playing for tonda, and that he wants a few days to sort out his thoughts. One way that can be read is, Peretz is waiting to see if tonda still has a job at saints in parallel to seeing what other options are open to him...

AC Milan could come and clean our house. Stranger things have happened.

Salt has far more years experience as an analyst than Eckert has as a manager 😌🙃 Should have known better, I'd say. We need to look after and protect junior and inexperienced staff like Tonda, 6months experience as a manager and he's been hung out to dry 😥

Do players that dive get sacked? When clubs like Everton, west brom, Leicester, forest overspend by tens - hundreds of millions are they forced to sacked all the related staff? Do they all get subsequent football banning orders? We scouted some other teams training sessions inside an arbitrary window that doesn't exist in any other major league, we did it a handful of times... There is already the precedent of bielsa who did it for an entire season and did not get banned or sacked.

Tonda admitted doing it 🕵️‍

Surely they'll struggle to get significantly more that we did? He's in exactly the same boat with west ham as he was with us contract wise, except he now has back to back relegations on his CV. There was a rumour of a low release clause in the event they got relegated - hopefully that is not the case!