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Was the integration with the community more important because of Ashley though? The City owners have done a pretty good job of that without the need of a Rafa, I'd have confidence that the momentum of a takeover along with a Staveley/Reuben led PR push would give the city its club back and the manager just needs to 'get it' and build us up. We kinda needed the snaps by Tynemouth Priory with Rafa, not sure we would in a new era

Was indeed

Thought I'd sex up this thread as well

He's not delaying them this year though, he's changing them. And they were always filed by April/May time until last year when they were early June. So slight difference in approach

247 pages and 3 posts are people asking why the thread exists tbf

Nothing has changed with the accounts for donkeys years. He's normally late or right on the wire for filing them but that's it

Disagree, One way or another its likely that the accounting date change is takeover related, its just high on impossible to work out what, and if it's positive or negative

With Gerrard and Lampard only retiring 5 years ago (about the same time as Bale effectively retired ) there is no way he is the best British player in the modern era. Unless of course the modern era is 2017 onwards and the award is for the best sitting on a bench

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It's £150 fine for filing late, doubt he'd care about that

Possibly, but with Southampton pushing £20m of revenue into 2020/2021 due to the games last July I can't see how you build that much cost to also push in. Wages for the likes of Rose up to 31st July, writing down contract values for anyone we released on a free either last summer or who didn't feature in last seasons squad maybe. What was the timing on signing Hendrick and Fraser last year in particular - probably significant agents fees involved there. I'm totally convinced something is going on where an extra month last year makes a difference, I just can't work out exactly what! I'm still convinced that it hasn't been done 'just because he's a WUM' or because he wants 2019/2020 to look 'good', would be better to get the accounts team to pull their finger out and get 2020/2021 done quickly

As soon as Mbappe didn't step up for the first 3 you knew he was number 5 expecting to be the hero sending France through. If it had been 4 4 then he would have no doubt scored as well.

I saw that, but it's not been enacted yet has it? I could see UEFA using this as mitigation for a year or 2 rather than ripping the whole rule book up

Just had a thought, and it's the opposite of your last paragraph... Don't the FFP rules allow a couple of years profits to be taken into account for the current year spending? So if the new owners have indicated high spend this summer they would need accounts for 2019/20 to be as good as possible for this purpose. I'm not up to speed at all with fair play regs but I don't see any reason for moving the accounting date other than some devious plot. You would get away with a loss in 2019/20 and just put 'Covid' in every explanatory note

Aye didn't spot that so you would get 7/38 more games in the years results. Timing is still odd though

Moving it from June to July has no impact on this. 1st July to 30 June includes all 38 games of the 2020/21 season already, you'd need to move it to August to have any of 2021/22 included. Even then you would only show a proportion of the income anyway, if you assume you get £38m for the season that's £1m a game so you would only have £1m x the number of games before your year end. It wouldn't be worth it

He's have 8 months to do it if this was just to change the filing date. Although it's easy to change the date, you don't do it without a reason. If nothing else the timing is odd

There isnt an obvious reason for the change, sports direct has an April year end so its not to align there and July has no operating activity that would influence the accounts - you wouldn't be able to show any income from next season as no games have taken place. Potentially divided or tax purposes related to the takeover, especially if previous years tax losses are expiring. Have to say though I'm not a tax expert but I think that there are mechanisms in tax computations that prevent accounting dates being used to manipulate tax, other than for timing of payments. On balance of probabilities if say its to manage longer term tax positions or to manage dividends for the takeover

Well an assist is generally where you supply a ball for a team mate to put it in the net, but good for him

It'd be a little disappointing if they go for the cheap pop of the grandad collar with a 95 feel. Unless of course it comes with a takeover and billions spent on players

Ahead of the only player to score for us so far?

Always said that twitter is full of tweets made by twats. Should be their strapline really

Why would they go to fucking Luton for any other reason? Luton.

I want Staveley involved, PIF are going to be pretty hands off and I think she'd be a really good go between for them and the club/fans. We'd still need a really sharp football guy but there has to be a role for her in the new era (plus she likes Rafa)

I don't see how you would get the £340m plus the costs for a reduced sale price, more likely to be the difference between £340m and the lower sales value. The issues here are (a) there is no other offer so losses equal £340m and (b) a reduced sales price puts a marker on how overvalued premier league clubs are. That's not going to be popular with the greedy 6, or indeed good for the PLs business image. Basically unless they win the PL are in a right mess. Tremendous