Blackburn, Leeds and Nottingham Forest handed transfer embargoes

[TSB]

In the last accounts.

A lot of that was due to bonuses for achieving FFP targets.

Sure was, chief. No-one knows his salary (except, maybe, El Pres)

 

[Bold Seagull]

Banking aside, I wonder which other industries you can get rewarded so handsomely for racking up debts of 8 and 13 million respectively? Football is a strange game.

Depends what those debts were forecast to be. If they were forecast at say £15m and £20m, then I guess you'd be pretty please with the person that has saved you a tidy sum.

 

[8ace]

Forest have just won the SkyBet transfer kitty of £250k.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...ttingham-forest-awarded-sky-bet-transfer-fund

Nottingham Forest have won the Sky Bet £250,000 transfer fund.

 

[Greavsey]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...ttingham-forest-awarded-sky-bet-transfer-fund

Nottingham Forest have won the Sky Bet £250,000 transfer fund.

What the f is that all about then? A similar concept to the Coca Cola competition that "we" won?!?

 

[leigull]

Had to be one of those 3 Can be put towards the wages of a loan or free transfer though.

 

[rippleman]

Not really an "embargo" when there are still ways to recruit players (albeit with restrictions), and that's before considering the legal challenges. And the only reason why the clubs will have broken FFP is to assemble the squad they want. Will having restrictions - not an embargo - on January transfers really impact on those three clubs when their squads are (presumably) as they want them.

I'm still embarrassed that the club - having droned on and on about FFP then changed their minds at the last minute and agreed to the most recent changes. At least Barber should have had the balls to make a principled stand and not bottle it at the eleventh hour.

And speaking of Barber, in what other organisation would a CEO still have their job (let alone be paid bonuses as suggested earlier in this thread) when the organisation he runs:-

1) Is selling a totally crap product

2) Charges top dollar for that crap product

3) Treats its customers with total and utter contempt

4) Sees "customers" walking away - maybe never to come back (see 1) & 2) & 3) above)

4) Is presiding over massive losses that are just going to keep on growing

Nearly half a million a year for failing! I can fail just as easily at 10% of what Barber is being paid.

He just doesn't appear to understand the basic rules of any business:-

Rule 1: Keep the punter happy.

Rule 2: There are no other rules.

A happy punter is a paying punter and one that will keep on coming back.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The Yorkshire Post are reporting that despite a "transfer embargo" Leeds will be able to sign 4 players in January and a couple more if they can offload two high earners for decent transfer fees (we're allegedly interested in one of them , Rudy Austin)

 

[jamie the seagull]

The joke that is FFP just keeps giving..........

"Having breached those stipulations Blackburn were fortunate to discover that players who have been on season-long loan can be acquired on a permanent basis so long as the contract is signed before the embargo is activated on New Year’s Day, so Rovers acted sharply in securing Steele’s signature for the permanent move."

http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/blackburn-rovers-complete-signing-of-middlesbrough-goalkeeper-jason-steele/

 

[Bladders]

This FFP has more holes than Swiss cheese by the looks of it

 

[sparkie]

The Yorkshire Post are reporting that despite a "transfer embargo" Leeds will be able to sign 4 players in January and a couple more if they can offload two high earners for decent transfer fees (we're allegedly interested in one of them , Rudy Austin)

Maybe our interest in Austin was Burke Era, and not Hughton Era.

 

[edna krabappel]

Or Joao Carlos Tex era?

 

[spanish flair]

This FFP has more holes than Swiss cheese by the looks of it

Which begs the question that if our management team were really on the ball with regard to FFP and it's loop holes, why did we let it control the strengthening of our squad so badly?
Were other clubs managements just more clued up?