Fox 4 Life Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March But didn't we just prove that they can't make us comply with their business plan as we haven't yet finished our first financial year in the EFL, so on what basis can they apply an embargo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 1 minute ago, Lambert09 said: I think this is the opposite. The prem are telling the EFL to come at us and seeing as they are pushing for their new deal the EFL will do anything they say. They want to squeeze us as hard as possible. It’s outrageous that they want you to comply with financial terms by blocking activity in the transfer window. No club can just sell and not replace in some format Not sure, you'd have thought if they were coordinated, one group would have left it to the other. Instead, you've got the PL threatening action, and the EFL going, wait a second, they're actually in our jurisdiction so we're going after them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambert09 Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Just now, ronnup said: Seige mentality needed i’m fired up. Bristol are going to get an absolute whooping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March A hell of a gamble being successful this season. The consequences if it doesn’t happen are huge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFS Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 22 minutes ago, ramadaone said: Time to lawyer up lads and lasses Bring it on Nick de marco duh duh duh duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretPro Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March **** football, its dead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dahnsouff Posted 22 March Popular Post Share Posted 22 March I am uncomfortable with how we are acting here tbh, it seems feckin clear we broke the rules, but to come on all billy big bollocks is pretty weird. The rules might be a joke, but it’s their rules for their competition and we signed up for it. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxdiamond Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March It is obvious that rather than protecting clubs from possible demise the rules are damaging the game in general and clubs outside the usual suspects. Meanwhile the rich clubs gorge themselves having ensured the ladder has been kicked away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambert09 Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Just now, lcfc_forever said: Not sure, you'd have thought if they were coordinated, one group would have left it to the other. Instead, you've got the PL threatening action, and the EFL going, wait a second, they're actually in our jurisdiction so we're going after them. That takes brain cells and not the feeling that they can do whatever they want. Seems to me like they are coordinating a scenario where we are screwed if we go up and screwed if we don’t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxfanazer Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March We're a social experiment. It's the only explanation 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox 4 Life Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Just now, Dahnsouff said: I am uncomfortable with how we are acting here tbh, it seems feckin clear we broke the rules, but to come on all billy big bollocks is pretty weird. The rules might be a joke, but it’s their rules for their competition and we signed up for it. The fact is they can't both come at us, they need to get their ducks in a row as we haven't finished a full financial year in the EFL so they have no grounds and we are no longer a Premier league club so what is their basis? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hales Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March The EFL don't want us........ TheEPL don't want us........ Little old Leicester are quite the trouble makers! 😉🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 2 minutes ago, jayfox26 said: The current rules prevent anyone outside the big 6 from being able to compete. Whilst I feel that wages and transfer fees do need to come down massively as football has become a shambles in terms of money, it needs to be done in a fair way and not a way that only suits the clubs that have large revenue. I'm not suggesting that we should be able to have the same wage bill or pay the same transfer fees as the big clubs but we have to be able to compete. Yes we've fcked up with our recruitment and the large contracts given out but nobody can say that we haven't made an effort to correct our financial issues, given we only signed Faes and sold Fofana for a huge fee in summer 22. We probably went a bit mad last summer signing Winks, Coady etc but given the money made from selling Barnes and maddison, I can't see how we would have been at a loss in terms of transfer fees. The wage bill has also massively reduced when we lost Kasper, Youri etc but of course there is some way to go and we do still have deadwood like Soumare etc on big contracts that we need to try and shift. Looking at some of the comments, yeah there are rival fans celebrating this but a lot of neutral fans are supporting us as think we're doing this on behalf of the non big 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxy tiler Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March We should go all in and take them to task for unfair anti competitive laws. They really are gonna try and nail us one way or another so the club might as well go down fighting. Still need to sack Rudkin though what an absolute mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Eaton Fox Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March We couldn't sign Sensi because of around half a million pounds extra meant we didn't comply with P&S. I don't even think we've sent any P&S info to the EFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March (edited) 4 minutes ago, Fox 4 Life said: But didn't we just prove that they can't make us comply with their business plan as we haven't yet finished our first financial year in the EFL, so on what basis can they apply an embargo? We proved that they couldn’t ask us to supply our management accounts to end June 2023 in the autumn so they could decide if we were likely to fail psr and be put into special measures (which would likely be a transfer embargo ) but 1st march we had to give them the audited accounts and the club should not be surprised by this development (although they will pretend that they are) Edited 22 March by st albans fox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 26 minutes ago, ramadaone said: Time to lawyer up lads and lasses Bring it on Brother of Beppe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 1 minute ago, Fox 4 Life said: The fact is they can't both come at us, they need to get their ducks in a row as we haven't finished a full financial year in the EFL so they have no grounds and we are no longer a Premier league club so what is their basis? This I know, we are attempting to ‘slip through the cracks’ of the lack of cohesion between EFL and the PL. but this is a short term solution, as wherever we end up, they come at us harder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copunk Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Maybe just me but all of this has completely tainted what should have been, and can still be a brilliant season on the field I'm struggling to care now whether we go up or not, either way we can't win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 1 minute ago, Dahnsouff said: This I know, we are attempting to ‘slip through the cracks’ of the lack of cohesion between EFL and the PL. but this is a short term solution, as wherever we end up, they come at us harder. Depends if they’ve got their ducks in a row legally if we squirm our way out of this on technicalities then you can be sure they’ll want to see everything we’re up to for years to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number 6 Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March 5 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said: I am uncomfortable with how we are acting here tbh, it seems feckin clear we broke the rules, but to come on all billy big bollocks is pretty weird. The rules might be a joke, but it’s their rules for their competition and we signed up for it. It feels like we're just asking them to follow the process defined by themselves? This is just a retaliation because of the business plan stuff, which we were found to be in the right on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Just now, st albans fox said: Depends if they’ve got their ducks in a row legally if we squirm our way out of this on technicalities then you can be sure they’ll want to see everything we’re up to for years to come Not at all. If we go up then the EPL screw us, if we stay down the EPL does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjcW Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Cynic in me says they’ve found out we’ve tried to bring in a free agent and brought this in quickly… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayfox26 Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Just now, lcfc_forever said: Looking at some of the comments, yeah there are rival fans celebrating this but a lot of neutral fans are supporting us as think we're doing this on behalf of the non big 6. Exactly, and every club needs to get on board and challenge the efl and the pl, regardless of whether they are having charges brought against them. The Premier league are going to make themselves look right mugs when they've already gone after forest, Everton and now us and then they will have a decision to make on Man City. Are they really going to treat Man City the same way they have Everton and Forest? If so, then given the amount of charges brought against them, they would have to be relegated. Given them being a "big 6 club" and a huge money earner for the pl, they clearly aren't going to relegate them which will then question the integrity of the whole league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 22 March Share Posted 22 March Sounds like this could get messy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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