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Surprised to see the transfer window this summer is open from 10th June to 1st September.
Will be interesting to find out where we are and what, if anything, Corberan will have to spend.
Contracts expire at end of season for: Griffiths, Pieters, Ashworth, Rogic, Livermore, Mowatt and Fellows
Plus you have to ask questions about Button, Grant and Bartley for the future.
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(13-03-2023, 12:58)Stairs Wrote: Surprised to see the transfer window this summer is open from 10th June to 1st September.
Will be interesting to find out where we are and what, if anything, Corberan will have to spend.
Contracts expire at end of season for: Griffiths, Pieters, Ashworth, Rogic, Livermore, Mowatt and Fellows
Plus you have to ask questions about Button, Grant and Bartley for the future.
Bigger question is who will be sold to raise funds to fill our £35 million missing parachute payments.
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(16-03-2023, 14:34)Blue Baggie Wrote: Bigger question is who will be sold to raise funds to fill our £35 million missing parachute payments.
You don't get parachute payments in the Prem 
Seriously though to follow your logic, if we did have to sell to fill a £35M gap you would have to be looking to sell a lot of players, make you own selection. I suspect there are some questionable values on this list, these are our squads values on Transfermarkt:
Josh Griffiths €1.00m
Alex Palmer €500k
David Button €350k
Dara O'Shea €4.00m
Semi Ajayi - €3.50m
Kyle Bartley €900k
Kean Bryan €900k
Erik Pieters €400k
Conor Townsend €2.20m
Darnell Furlong €3.50m
Taylor Gardner-Hickman €1.20m
Okay Yokuslu €3.00m
Nathaniel Chalobah €2.50m
Jake Livermore €900k
John Swift €4.50m
Jayson Molumby €1.20m
Adam Reach €1.50m
Tom Rogic €1.20m
Grady Diangana €6.00m
Jed Wallace €5.00m
Matt Phillips €1.00m
Daryl Dike €7.00m
Karlan Grant €6.00m
Brandon Thomas-Asante 800K
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Those values seem rather low, I wonder if they are pre season values. I also notice that your finger slipped and you added a K to the value of David butter fingers Button, surely it should read £350.
I would put Palmer up a few million as a championship No1 goalkeeper, and several clean sheets under his belt, same for Josh he's a No2 and has kept clean sheets, must be worth more than £1m. There are others as well, performing okay in a team with squad issues, usually individual mistakes.
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Without promotion pretty much every player will be for sale. It's simple we need £30 million from somewhere. We could save up to £10 million in wages but the need to generate finds via sales is a certainty.
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We are going to be struggling financially for a while. Promotion looks beyond us. Let's look to the future. Players at the end of contracts will be released and players with a value may well have to be sold.
On a positive - we have an excellent manager if he stays now his team building is restricted.
But so are every other side in the EFL
Our younger players will have to be introduced and become part of the squad.
Even when we were in L1 it was an enjoyable time, mainly because we were winning.
Football is evolving and we are caught up in a game that for 80% of clubs is financially unviable. The other 20% don't need the money generated. That's the world we live in.
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We are in a dilemma our owners refuse to invest and we continue to slide further into debt. I can't see anything but administration to get rid of our owners. The sooner the better IMO
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(08-04-2023, 09:22)Blue Baggie Wrote: We are in a dilemma our owners refuse to invest and we continue to slide further into debt. I can't see anything but administration to get rid of our owners. The sooner the better IMO
I've never thought about what 'being in administration' REALLY means...... does it take a club out of the hands of the owner and make it available to the highest bidder, for example?
Simply put answers only, please! 
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(08-04-2023, 11:42)drewks Wrote: (08-04-2023, 09:22)Blue Baggie Wrote: We are in a dilemma our owners refuse to invest and we continue to slide further into debt. I can't see anything but administration to get rid of our owners. The sooner the better IMO
I've never thought about what 'being in administration' REALLY means...... does it take a club out of the hands of the owner and make it available to the highest bidder, for example?
Simply put answers only, please!
MSD now being owed £25m (Inc interest) could insist the club is wound up if it fails to repay it's loan payments. If we failed to pay let's say the £7.5 million owed to Hudds for Grant that would end up as transfer embargo situation. Failing to pay taxes can result in administration where all assets could be sold to the highest bidder. The probable outcome IMO is that MSD will will take control and find a new suitable owner who has funds to pay them and financially secure the business.
Where we are then who knows, but IMO we will be at the lower end of the table or relegated
We can join many other great clubs that have fell from grace.
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