So frustrating to see other Championship sides like Huddersfield getting loan players in during the first week of Jan. No doubt we'll have to wait until the last hour of the last day of January to see what crumbs are left. That'll be another whole month gone - and who knows how cut adrift we'll be by then. Grrrrrrrr.
I think this thread has the perfect title as things are unlikely to change, at least not until the very last minute.
I think even the clickbaity so-called sports 'news' sites can't be bothered with us anymore, it's that dry.
I can't believe we've ****ed this so badly. We should be out of the bottom 3 but instead we're staring relegation in the face. Worst time to get relegated with Sky money increasing and coming out of the 3 year FFP cycle. Important we really try and stay up but that requires investment which could be a dangerous gamble. Would really like some transfer noise though.
If we dont get in at least a couple of players somehow to help then we may as well give up and admit we're down.....cos this squad is not good enough or deep enough. Cant expect anything better by just constantly re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
Surely the FFP thing is a rolling cycle, so year 4 replaces year 1 etc? Either way, we still have nothing to spend!
You're right. However, we have a bit of headway next year as the overspend of three years ago is wiped off the start of the cycle, and our frugalness since starts to pay dividends - if the owners are willing to dip in to the coffers and spend, but I won't be holding ny breath on that.
We start afresh next year. We could overspend in year 1 and have to recoup it in years 2 and 3, which is pretty much what we did in the last cycle.
Wrong. From the EFL website... Financial Fair Play The CFRU has remit over all the EFL’s Financial Fair Play Rules which are different depending on which Division a Club is in: Championship Clubs follow Profitability and Sustainability (“P&S”) Rules which dictate what losses Clubs are permitted to incur over a rolling three-year period We are allowed to lose £39 million over a three year period. I don't know the actual figures, but say we lost £25mill in 21/22, and have kept within budget over the next years 22/23 and 23/24 (i.e max loss of £14mill) then next year we have that £25mill buffer to play with. Lose less than say £15 mill next year and the buffer stays £10mill clear...go stupid and spend over £20mill and don't significantly improve (i.e promotion) then we're in the **** for another three year cycle. The extra cash from the new TV deal will help (if we don't get relegated) but it's still a balancing act that's heavily skewed in the favour of the relegated teams from the PL with their parachute payments
People think this is as bad as it gets. It can and probably will get a lot worse. When Holloway took us down he started with virtually no squad but you could build one then for a pittance. We’re going to have next to nothing and have a few kids who have barely played men’s football and the old ****s injured half the time who we desperately threw long contracts at.
Maybe we could put Sunak in charge of us. He could continue to lie on a daily basis - tell us we're in the Premier League, that things are much better than they were before. All the while, dumping on us from a great height. Daily Mail readers would lap it up
