Good Morning Everyone Radrizzani stands to make a flat fee of £100,000 from the FA for hosting tonights England game, not to mention revenue earned from hospitality etc. Not bad for one nights work. Viera was hailed as the unsung hero for the England U21's last night, as they destroyed Scotland 3-1 to progress for the second year running to the finals. He was strong, bullish and was always snapping at the heels of his opponants. Bielsa's location is currently uknown. Could he be on his way to Leeds today? Hernandez - Could this be imminent? What about Stockdale - Its looking increasingly likely! New kit set to be announced! It's gonna to be a busy couple of days!!!!! Pick a player Robbie Fowler or Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon or Robert Snodgrass
Morning all, getting bored now waiting for the manager/coach announcement. Fowler was a better player but not for us, likewise Lennon, in a Leeds shirt I’d have to say Snodgrass and Keane.
Morning all. Isn’t it wonderful. Sun shining and all these amazing things about to happen. Hope not all the one day. The old internet might go into meltdown
And for todays big news, Ronaldo set to leave Madrid this summer. I wonder how well does Orta know him?
Good Morning to Matt and everyone from a dull Bardsey I wish we could afford Maddison but 20m is !8* m too much for us Stockdale will not cost too much as MONK doesn't want himI wonder if there has been friction in the past between these 2 Maybe we can swap with Felix Hernandez should be settled this week along with the new manager Ronaldo has got two big for his boots I noticed he didn't congratulate Bale when he scored his first goal let him go back to MU where he can wallow in the past a great player but a very spoilt one Stringfellow who I met in Leeds and Majorca has past away he was certainly a character but I wouldn't let my daughters near him!Talk about cradle snatching he invented it! Fowler and Snoddy
Morning all,If Maddison is really going for £20 million,it's crazy money,no league one player worth more than £5million IMO.
WBA must be gutted,turned down £20 million for Johny Evans in Jan and now sold him for £3.5 million,lost £1 million a week on his value. could cost them a chance of going back to the prem losing out on that other 16.5 million.
Morning all. Sorry I missed you all yesterday, spent most of the day as a guest of our wonderful NHS. See there is not much happening on the Manager player transfer front. Whatever happens needs to be good after all this hype. On the Stringfellow front, they say don't speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing. Very much looking forward to us playing Villa next season? Just noticed on the official site that our manager is listed as vacant, same name as most of our recent previous managers.
Good morning all,seems to be taking forever the confirmation of the news that we all believe to be true (i hope) let's hope its soon.Snodgrass and Keane for me.
Nice bit of profit, imprtant for finances and the profile of the club to be using ER for other things than football. Vieria just needs to add consistency to his game, he has time on his side for thst to come. We could do with getting the managers job sorted but if it takes a little while longer to get the right man,then so be it. Hernandez maybe waiting to see who the manager is before signing,he may have been told things and is waiting to see if they happen. Meh,regard Stockdale. For us Keane..Snoddy
Championship clubs feel the strain as financial gap to Premier League grows by David Conn The Championship continues to be a financially punishing league, with 19 of the 24 clubs having made losses in 2016-17, according to an analysis of their most recently published accounts by the consultant Deloitte. The enormous financial gap with the Premier League has for years led Championship clubs to overspend on players’ wages and make losses, in the effort to claim the bonanza of promotion. This is despite financial fair play rules, introduced to try to staunch the losses clubs have historically made in the EFL’s top division. This week it emerged that Aston Villa have a £4m overdue tax bill and made heavy losses for the second year running, the owner, Tony Xia, having said the club has “severe [FFP] challenges next season” after losing out on promotion to Fulham in the play-off final. In 2016-17, their first season in the Championship, Villa made a £14m loss, following an £81m loss recorded in their 2015-16 relegation year. Deloitte, in its annual review of football finance, calculated the revenues of 23 Championship clubs – detail at Barnsley is not available because the club files abbreviated accounts – to be £720m in total. That was 16% of the record £4.5bn made by the 20 Premier League clubs in the same year. The Championship total was swollen by the parachute payments the Premier League makes to relegated clubs, a total of £219m, 30% of the league’s total revenue, received by eight Championship clubs. Clubs relegated before 2016-17 received parachute payments for four years; the system has now changed to three years, with £42m paid in the first season in the Championship, £34m in the second and £16.6m in the third. The EFL’s current TV deal amounts to £90m a year – just 3% of the Premier League’s £2.8bn a year, shared among all 72 clubs, although the 24 in the Championship receive the bulk of it. From 2019 an agreed new five-year deal will pay £120m annually. In agreements struck to govern the relationship between the Premier League, which was a breakaway in 1992 from more equal sharing in the Football League, the top flight pays £100m in “solidarity” to lower leagues, including £4.3m to the Championship clubs. However the disparity with the Premier League and internal inequalities with clubs receiving parachute payments mean Championship clubs’ finances are difficult. Burton, Leeds and Reading did record pre-tax profits, as did Nottingham Forest, although this was only because of a £40m credit from the previous owner, the Kuwaiti businessman Fawaz al-Hasawi, waiving a loan as part of the takeover by Evangelos Marinakis. Of the 19 clubs who made losses, some were heavy, particularly those sustained by the three clubs which won promotion. Newcastle, who received the first year of £42m parachute payments after relegation from the Premier League, gambled for immediate promotion, sustaining a £47m loss. Their wage bill, £112m, was £26m more than its total revenues for the year. Brighton, engaging in another push to make the top flight, also paid wages substantially greater than their revenues and made a loss of £39m. Huddersfield did the same, making a £20m loss. Whereas in the Premier League, the quality of clubs’ playing squads and finishing position correlates very closely to the wages they pay players, Deloitte commented on the “outperformance” by Championship clubs of their ranking in terms of wages paid. Neither Huddersfield nor Brighton received parachute payments, and the wage bills of both were lower than many others’, with Huddersfield’s, at £21.7m, the Championship’s 15th highest. Yet Deloitte pointed out that although most clubs rely on the financial support of owners, increasingly overseas investors seeking the windfall of promotion, it is five years since the last Football League club collapsed into insolvency. “While we have suggested that the changing dynamics of the Championship may promote greater stability in the future, the reality is that it may take some time until this translates to many clubs being able to operate independently of the financial backing of their owners,” the report said.
Robbie Keane Aaron Lennon Has to be Lennon for me, remember seeing Aaron playing for England U16's before he made his Leeds debut. Only played around 40 games for Leeds but was a joy to watch, saw him play in his final game for Leeds v Rotherham at ER, a dour game though Lennon was outstanding winning the MOTM award. Much more consistent than Snoddy ever was! Spurs obviously thought he was good enough for the prem where he made over 250 appearances for the North London club, his downfall was he never scored enough goals in his career
Did you see chesh there he was in for the removal of several deeply swallowed hooks. You did well to get them to treat you. Mike and Moe have consumed 99.35% of the annual budget.
There was a guy who was a bit of a pain in the neck maybe that was him. They gave me shock treatment £15 car park fee
