There is this Defoe to Spurs from Portsmouth one being floated about now, he's been retired 18 months and the transfer was 14 years ago. Nothing like being on the ball.
We'll back to investigating Cloughie's motorway service stops at this rate!
"That's a bag of ginsters, young man."
I doubt it. Losses in the last 3 years in the Championship totalled £88M, basically £21M in 19/20 and 20/21 and then £46M in 22/23. Of that last figure though £20M was promotion bonuses which are excluded from FFP. Then you have to do a bit of guesswork as there are no published figures for academy costs, women's football and other deductible items, but say the academy is £5M a year and you also have about £2M of depreciation (investment on infrastructure) and other bis and pieces, that takes you to a overall FFP loss for the 3 years of £51M.
You are only allowed to lose £39M over 3 years in the Championship so it looks bad, but in these years we had the whole Covid thing which included a whole season behind closed doors. The EFL implemented rules that allowed you to write off a total of £12.5M of losses against Covid for this 3 year period which just bring sus nicely under. It is tight but I think we would have made it, especially as this ownership have been very big on FFP since arriving here and I'm sure will have been keeping a close eye on the limits. We have always been close to the line but that suggests we have always understood the rules well.
That sounds remarkably like you're accusing the club of exercising a fair degree of financial competence, which is a bold claim to make about Forest.
I guess it depends on your definition, but I'm pretty sure they have a good eye on FFP, how it works and balancing within it, so they definitely tick some boxes there. Mariankis also has pockets big enough to absorb the huge waste of money through 4 years of going nowhere waiting for a miracle, which fortunately happened in year 5, which helps too and was a problem for some predecessors.
Don't we just not need to be in the top, say, 10% of hat stand?
Depends how much standing on a chair, waving our arms, and shouting "look at all this shiny" that we do.
Manchester City are ludicrously good. Movement, technique, composure, strength, pace, press, controlled aggression - they've got the lot. Pretty much unplayable.
Liverpool are one of the best sides in this league and they look a couple of levels off what City are showing.
Those 115 financial irregularities buy you something.
Would appear so.
The second Bournemouth goal v Sheff U was really something. The BBC commentary reckons Sheffield United have been awful, and it really does look here like Foderingham has given up.
Fire up the 12 point klaxon.
Luton get their first win and Doucure stretchered off for Palace in the same game.
Do Everton not count?
First home win, I guess.
