Saint86

Shows we haven't learned from our handling of the EFL charges though. Really isn't rocket science from the club to respect the overseeing organisations FFS 🤦‍♂️

Slightly worryingly, I don't think Scienza hasn't looked particularly happy in any of the preseason footage so far? Considering he is also one of our star players and the fans' favourite, I'd say coverage has been fairly Spartan of him to date. Could be reading into it too much, but when combined with the news of potential moves to Italy / prem / Brazil (I.e. no smoke without fire) it's not clear that he'll be here come October.

Agreed. Seems a sensible move for him. Hopefully we include a good sell on fee as I can see him doing well there and then earning a bigger move in a couple of seasons.

I know right, and the best part is that we're not in the running for it 🤣😂

Eh? That's a significant ban and would likely derail the entire season. I would hope the club take legal action if he receives any kind of meaningful physical ban.

The backpedaling generally from Boro is fairly amusing to see. They knew about salt in advance, had their media team there ready and waiting with high powered lenses to snap a young lad (who was down the other end of the training ground on his mobile), managed to magically identify him (a junior intern from a club 500miles away) and have evidence of him spying at Oxford 5months earlier (all within hours) for them to report it to the EFL that sane afternoon... The club were stupid and broke the rules, but there is no denying that Boro basically just engineered the entire thing for an advantage in the playoffs and with a long shot of getting a bye to the playoff final... I.e., cheated. And then (despite losing to saints over 2 legs and surely not being oblivious to all the above shenanigans), their entire fanbase was entitled enough to assume they had a right to take Hull's playoff spot... Thankfully they did an early Argentina and failed to register a shot on target. Now, after all of that came to naught, they are trying to row back on it (hellberg) and their fans are trying to play it down and make it all about our fans. But the reality for them is, like it or not, they have got it coming from saints this year and they can't row their way out of it... Reap what you sow etc. 😂🤣

Molina is on video punching one of the Spanish players in the chest as he ran past him - this started the entire brawl.

They will absolutely walk the league with that kind of budget and Nuno at the helm. Very unfortunate.

They have a net circa £16M coming in, which will be in installments as per the Rodgers transfer. So assume £4M per year for the next 4 years... So they can likely outbid us should they want to drop it all on 1-2 players.

Yes, but there is no guarantee that if Leicester go pop (which is not that unlikely), anyone will cover their substantial debts (£100M) and counting. At this point, I will be surprised if they don't go into admin - they have taken out advance payments on next season's parachute money and future transfer installments. All they have coming in, is effectively the league 1 tv/prize money payments, merchandising and commercial deals, and gate receipts. Against that they have their outstanding transfer fees that they owe, legacy high wage players with no league 1 relegation clauses, a rumoured £15M per year maintenance fee for their ridiculous training ground, and feck knows what other skeletons in their closet. Selling to them is a risk.

The head of the analyst team left the club pretty promptly following that debacle.

I would be very concerned over whether they ultimately go bust and we wind up getting pennies on the pound.

Very sad but not unexpected given his illness. All the best to his loved one.

Boro set to land and absolutely massive windfall for the rovers transfer...

I think you are being overly negative here hypo. We are suffering a 15M loss of income from parachute payments this year. The mere fact that we spent prior to June 30th means that we haven't breached psr last year - so we had money to spend. Given we made a £57M loss the season before that, that implies a degree of confidence going forward -albeit, we need to see the finances to confirm this. Now we are under SCR it's a new game. But our wages have shrunk significantly, and on paper we have built a very competitive squad for this level where the vast majority of players have an obvious role to play. The likes of ramsdale, bazunu, bbd, edozie, sugawara etc are largely surplus to requirements (although a couple of those could be utilised)... Shifting them raises funds against the £15M, and notably saves significant wages (on top of the likes of macca, aribo, smallbone etc. leaving - which alone must be £5M a year saved in wages). Add to that the £6M on Fernandes. None of us really know our wage to turnover ratio currently (last year's accounts will be very revealing). But: We have spent circa £9M on Dobbin, and £6-8M on Larin and Peretz. All for a fairly minor increases in wages (I assume just dobbin basically). We will sell at least one big player (I e., Charles for £25M). We need to cover the the £15M parachute payment loss. We raised £6M via Fernandes. The above listed players will raise not insignificant funds and clear a couple million of the annual wages. Dragon can, if he chooses, pump in £10M. In summary - I don't think we are that badly off. I think we will see 1 big sale without further squad additions, or 2+ but with major squad additions. Eitherway, I am fairly relaxed currently.