Lots of players take all the set pieces for their clubs, not many are as good at it as him though which is why he's joint 3rd for assists in the league. He's a limited player but he gets so many assists because he's very good at that part of his job.
Guys with this amount of money do not leave anything to chance. If there was a whiff of issues relating to FFP then they very quickly made their first appointment not only a very experienced CEO but a guy who helped write the FFP rules.His first statement was along the lines of "clean slate" & "No issues with FFP"They must know things we dont
I don't think we will be.Everything about the Noses 12 point penalty seems to me to be brought about by their aggravation of their rule breaking, by not only violating them, but putting their fingers in their ears to the EFL's plan.We are losing Whelan, Elmo, Elphick, Jedinak and Hutton as a matter of course. I wouls imagine thats anywhere between £7-8m in wages.
How devasting would it be to be clobbered by FFP and still be absolutely shit.
Quote from: Ads on February 17, 2019, 10:06:54 AMI don't think we will be.Everything about the Noses 12 point penalty seems to me to be brought about by their aggravation of their rule breaking, by not only violating them, but putting their fingers in their ears to the EFL's plan.We are losing Whelan, Elmo, Elphick, Jedinak and Hutton as a matter of course. I wouls imagine thats anywhere between £7-8m in wages.Sadly that’s not correct. Our very clear problem is far exceeding the maximum permitted losses of £39m in 3 seasons, being 2016/7, 2017/8 and now 2018/9. We have done nowhere near enough to slash the wage bill and sell players over the past 12 months and have effectively stuck two fingers up to the EFL.Maybe we gambled on going up this season (which wouldn’t have saved us as the PL and EFL have now committed to enforce each other’s sanctions). Maybe the club has relied on new owners wiping the FFP slate clean (no, that doesn’t work otherwise a sale of a club would always be a get-our for reckless behavior). Maybe the board gambled on selling Grealish in January (which his injury scuppered and selling anyone in the summer won’t work because it’s our accounts to 31/5/19 which count, and the window doesn’t open till 1st July. Maybe Purslow thinks selling the training ground for an inflated price will wipe out the FFP losses before 31 May (the EFL will be all over the value attributed to any such sale to ensure that it is a fully arms length price).I’ve been astonished at our transfer activity (or lack of sales) in the past 12 months. I’ve been even more astonished at our signings of loan players on high wages. We’ve done nothing to try to comply with the very clear FFP problem. Rocky waters ahead, but there are few similarities with Blues’ position.
Quote from: Captain Sensible on February 17, 2019, 10:25:35 AMQuote from: Ads on February 17, 2019, 10:06:54 AMI don't think we will be.Everything about the Noses 12 point penalty seems to me to be brought about by their aggravation of their rule breaking, by not only violating them, but putting their fingers in their ears to the EFL's plan.We are losing Whelan, Elmo, Elphick, Jedinak and Hutton as a matter of course. I wouls imagine thats anywhere between £7-8m in wages.Sadly that’s not correct. Our very clear problem is far exceeding the maximum permitted losses of £39m in 3 seasons, being 2016/7, 2017/8 and now 2018/9. We have done nowhere near enough to slash the wage bill and sell players over the past 12 months and have effectively stuck two fingers up to the EFL.Maybe we gambled on going up this season (which wouldn’t have saved us as the PL and EFL have now committed to enforce each other’s sanctions). Maybe the club has relied on new owners wiping the FFP slate clean (no, that doesn’t work otherwise a sale of a club would always be a get-our for reckless behavior). Maybe the board gambled on selling Grealish in January (which his injury scuppered and selling anyone in the summer won’t work because it’s our accounts to 31/5/19 which count, and the window doesn’t open till 1st July. Maybe Purslow thinks selling the training ground for an inflated price will wipe out the FFP losses before 31 May (the EFL will be all over the value attributed to any such sale to ensure that it is a fully arms length price).I’ve been astonished at our transfer activity (or lack of sales) in the past 12 months. I’ve been even more astonished at our signings of loan players on high wages. We’ve done nothing to try to comply with the very clear FFP problem. Rocky waters ahead, but there are few similarities with Blues’ position. My point was I don't think the Noses would have received a recommendation for 12 points deducted, but for promising new sources of income, which didn't materialise and then deciding to sign players while embargoed. Our wage bill dramatically reduce plus we have saleable assets if needs be.
Agreed. Simply failing the financial loss threshold is punishable by a fine as has been the case in the past. The EFL are looking to throw the book at the noses by, amongst other things, signing a player under embargo.
Well Purslow doesn't seem to think there will be a problem so let's wait and see shall we.