FFP

[Stu]

Set to be charged for 3 breaches.

Get out with your April fools!

[Gareth]

It’s all about money and resources.

There’s sod all prize money in the league cup and FA Cup, plus you share the gate receipts with the opposition. While we are trying to build a squad under the FFP cosh, we have to be a bit more selective where we use our strength.

Playing strong in the Prem and europe gets us more money to build the squad and makes us a more attractive destination to players. So it’s no surprise they are secondary at the minute.

Last time I looked, it’s about £0.5m to win the League Cup and £3.5m to win the FA Cup. Compare that to £3m per place in the league and about £15m to win the Conference League.

Item 500 on why modern football is a little s**t

Not disagreeing with your point Dogtanian in any but when it became about just money and 4th (or 5th) being a priority over seeing a cup lifted it is a a lot s**t

[tomd2103]

To he fair, we fielded a pretty much full-strength team against Chelsea in the FA Cup replay.  It was just a poor performance on the night.

[olaftab]

Giving a couple of the kids a game in the cups is a good idea but then you'll have some fans who will get the hump that we haven't played our strongest line up. A few on here said Tim and Rodgers looked out of their depth away at Ajax but that game would have done them so much good.

What about Rogers though?

[rob_bridge]

To he fair, we fielded a pretty much full-strength team against Chelsea in the FA Cup replay.  It was just a poor performance on the night.

It was - a lot of folk had an off night and a fair few of theirs had an unusually good one.

[pablo_picasso]

It’s all about money and resources.

There’s sod all prize money in the league cup and FA Cup, plus you share the gate receipts with the opposition. While we are trying to build a squad under the FFP cosh, we have to be a bit more selective where we use our strength.

Playing strong in the Prem and europe gets us more money to build the squad and makes us a more attractive destination to players. So it’s no surprise they are secondary at the minute.

Last time I looked, it’s about £0.5m to win the League Cup and £3.5m to win the FA Cup. Compare that to £3m per place in the league and about £15m to win the Conference League.

Item 500 on why modern football is a little s**t

Not disagreeing with your point Dogtanian in any but when it became about just money and 4th (or 5th) being a priority over seeing a cup lifted it is a a lot s**t

Don't worry, it will be ok when it grows up...

[liamts4588]

Posted on avfc reddit earlier today

[chrisw1]

Well that's a pile of pointless shite.  Cheers for posting it though.

[AV82EC]

Anyone who doesn’t know how to pronounce Grealish deserves all the abuse that’s about to come his way.

[Chris Harte]

Grehlish.

[Lastfootstamper]

Years ago there's was someone (might've been Woodward, but I'm not sure) who used to do the commentary on the highlights for the OS, and they used to pronounce it 'Grelish', like relish with a 'G' tacked on the front.

[Brazilian Villain]

Years ago there's was someone (might've been Woodward, but I'm not sure) who used to do the commentary on the highlights for the OS, and they used to pronounce it 'Grelish', like relish with a 'G' tacked on the front.

Probably heard that Jack G likes to be on the sauce.

[tomd2103]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68721502

Spurs reporting big losses now as well.  Could someone with a better grasp of this kind of stuff please explain how the annual depreciation charge of £72m on the below paragraph works?  It seems while that is in place then they won't have any FFP issues.

"Tottenham's losses over the last three years are beyond that threshold at £220.7m, but the annual depreciation charge of £72m, which refers to their stadium and other facilities, means they are not at risk of breaching PSR regulations".

[Risso]

Depreciation is a cost relating to the reduction in value of fixed assets, and therefore isn't included in the FFP calculations.

[Lastfootstamper]

It got posted elsewhere earlier, but unfortunately, and I can't emphasise that word enough when it comes to this with these, unfortunately I don't think they're in trouble. They're just cash skint. I'll be gutted if our winning a European trophy helps them out.