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Another interesting thing in Soccernomics is that the stats say that defenders do not make very successful managers. Oh.

So if you won the euromillions every year, you could give the club 50m every year? Not that you could of course because you may well have succumbed to cocaine poisoning and sore knob syndrome in the first 6 months.

True. But if it brings the wages of the less good players down to a level that more clubs can afford them, that would increase competition below the rich surely? I think we can assume that the top 7/8 clubs in the PL are way above everybody else and can be effectively ignored for the short term...

There has to be a limit on gifts though. What's to stop the same person gifting the club 50m every season?

I believe that the answer is no, it is not allowed. They could invest 50m in youth development, the stadium or other fixed assets or the community scheme, but they cannot give the club 50m to spend on players/wages or other ongoing operational costs.

Didn't you do a presentation on it though? What was the reaction to that? If you don't mind me asking of course... Do you think the club is on the right track? As things stand, I think the one they are on is the least likely to lead to ruin, assuming TB does not keel over in the short term.

Extremely interesting, not quite finished it yet - am reading the bit about the Ajax and Barcelona academies which is the model we need to follow, but that is for the very long term. The part at the beginning about clubs not being a normal business (ie they rarely disappear, they just get their...

Your first paragraph sums it up. The last ignores that for the last 2 seasons we have been in the play-offs, so whilst getting promotion is extremely difficult, it is not unachievable. It is too early to say whether the current squad can get to the play-offs this season, or whether this is a...