FFP

[Rory]

Someone’s posted a stat up on Facebook saying we’ve sold £262m of players in the last 13 months.  How on earth are we still not able to spend?!

Because wages to income ratio is the current issue, from what I understand?

Problem being that when we also need to break even on ingoing/outgoing player transfers, the most saleable assets are our youngsters who are at maximal potential and also on the lowest wages.

So every time we sell a low-wage squad player, we have to sign a player at the same level from elsewhere who is (understandably) holding out for higher wages to sign for us.

We as fans hope they are a sufficient improvement to justify the additional cost, but ultimately the wage bill will likely go up.

As others have said, we could really do with an outstanding crop of youngsters to come in and fill some places in the squad, if not the team.

[KevinGage]

Someone’s posted a stat up on Facebook saying we’ve sold £262m of players in the last 13 months.  How on earth are we still not able to spend?!

While the entire system does feel genuinely rigged we don't help ourselves when we sign the likes of Onana for £50 million and Maatsen for the best part of £40 mill.

[Rico]

This is the point. The system is rigged to protect the so called big 6. A similar system applies in European competitions to protect the European big clubs. We're just trying to play catch up and negotiating the rules as they are now. They're not fair and heavily biased against the likes of Villa, Forest or Brighton.