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The answer to your question is, as I understand it, you can't have that sort of injection of cash. Once FFP is bedded in and we have seen the first round of sanctions, then we may all have a better understanding of how it is going to work.

And you, what's left of it!!

Don't forget the cost of running the academy, as I understand it, falls outside FFP. So TB can fund that until, hopefully, it is self funding, or as near as it can get.

I'm not saying you should just meekly toe the line. By all means complain about things that the club can try and address, whether that be ticketing, catering etc but don't expect the club, or any club for that matter, to give you the accounting detail you seem to crave.

Look at Southampton and the money they have raised from selling home grown talent, Walcott, Bale, Lallana etc. Palace are another that have made money from the sale of their academy players. The fact that we are category A means we can poach players from other academies rather than the other...

I cannot believe the short-sightedness of that comment!

No, just being facetious. What right do you have to know the minutiae of the clubs accounts? Perhaps you believe you have the right to know the details of players contracts, or the fine print in all the catering contracts? We know the club have spent big and the vast majority of that has come...

I doubt any are making a profit but the problem is chairman who chase the dream with other people's money and then they disappear, the club goes into admin and creditors lose dosh. What should change, and was posted earlier, is that the rule about football debts being paid in full first should...

Because we are spending more than we are earning and we have competed for promotion in the last two years, the evidence is there to see, on the same basis. As far as I'm aware, level headed fans do know this and know it it going to be difficult. What we don't know is how other clubs are faring!