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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!

Is this true? I haven't seen the actual evidence for it as yet. "Bullying" (etc) wasn't a listed charge. The use of junior staff was a reprimand. This is the quote (below) that relates to it, it doesn't mention tonda - which, given he is named for other charges, is an explicit/interesting omission I would say. To me, that omission suggests that any evidence (if any) relating to pressuring staff / bullying is lacking and/or doesn't actually show tonda is guilty of bullying. Has it instead been added as a nefarious "doesn't this sound bad" to back up / hammer home the punishment without really being proven - because I cannot see any hard evidence of it? Happy to be wrong and shown it? It's feasible this could have been part of a plea style deal for Salt after the fact. The reality is that it is very likely he did the dirty on us after getting caught to save his own skin. The EFL had one oral witness (which is almost certainly salt), and 4 witness statements it total - and someone gave us up for the Eastleigh/Ipswich spying after the initial offence (and Ipswich weren't aware of it) - this cannot have been taylor. Boro only knew about Oxford from the start (on the same day salt rocked up at their training ground). Which we all know was very fishy anyway. The report appears to go on and mention salt (without naming him), and him saying verbally in the his oral witness statement that he felt under pressure. But this is oral evidence after the fact and initial charges, and from someone accused / admitting to wrong doing for the initial charges - it is seemingly not backed up by any messages (text/email) and it's essentially a case of "he said, she said". And frankly, he just isn't a credible witness at this point as he is basically saying whatever the EFL want to protect himself. So as above, I am happy to be wrong on this, but I haven't seen actual evidence that tonda bullied Salt into spying against his will yet 🤷. And yet the story from the media (and Blackmore has said this incessantly ) is that tonda bullied salt. It looks like a further trial by media, and people choosing to interpret the report to hammer eckert. But I'm afraid that in the "bullying" accusations, Eckert has to be given the benefit of doubt and be treated as innocent until proven guilty - and people, especially journalists, and club journalists in particular, should keep that in mind. Sadly it's been a witch hunt since the start.. In fact, it's all a little bit dubious that the report puts so much weight on oral evidence of a whislteblower (again, almost certainly salt - guilty of multiple incidences of wrongdoing himself) to justify such a disproportionate punishment after the fact... Whilst also the same report outright dismissed the oral evidence of our 4 witnesses when convenient. Thats a kangaroo trial in my book.

How do we sit on PSR legacy issues? £53.9M loss 25/26 £5.7M profit 23/24 Total = £48.2M loss Vs a PSR limit of £61M. This season our transfer profit is circa £75M on face value? But for PSR purposes, that figure doesn't consider outstanding player transfer amortization, nor payments by installments for transfers in/out. Next season it's also all change, and we are limited to the new squad cost rules at 85% of revenue.

Well for starters, I meant post January when he switched to a 4-2-3-1, and which was then further supplemented with larin for AA. His return is 14W, 5D, 0L. Which is 2.47ppg, or 113 points in a 46 game season. A run that excludes beating Arsenal and Fulham, but belies the fact we were playing essentially 3 times a week post the international break with severe fixture congestion and against some proper quality sides. Equally, there has been 21 championship seasons since it's inception in 04/05, or 504sides. Only 13 sides have exceeded your metric of 94 points... But why you would judge him on that when clearly the team improved significantly in January with the adoption of a 4-2-3-1, a proper target man, and the turn around in morale / confidence. I.e., If we started the new season with him, you would expect to pick up from where we are now, not picking up morale from a 12point prem season, languishing at the bottom of the championship, and without the right players for his system / bazunu.

Let's surmise again for those that can't process bielsa did more "spying" (scouting) than Eckert did. Players pre Eckert - relegation scrap. Players post Eckert - one of the all time best championship sides. Players: "it's eckert's fault we didn't get promoted" 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️