Unbelievable

Worse defending than us

Ayoze

Get in!

Willcini are pathetic

Hoping for a win today. We could really do without having to look over our shoulder any longer and I think whether Carver gets the job or not is wholly independent of our results between now and the end of the season.

The clue is in the name.

That defense and midfield

A loss for both them and us please.

Superb article that

sounds probable to me Doesn't fit with the Charnley quote that Ashley hasn't taken money out of the club.

There was talk earlier in the season of Bas Dost moving to Feyenoord for a nominal fee

Still listed as overdue so assuming they have actually filed them in time the system wont update for a few days anyway. Still nothing on the Companies House website? They must be hoping that these slip under the radar and nobody will notice how they have artificially swollen costs in order to report a lower profit. Artificially swollen costs would be a good thing if it meant the club has cash reserves built up. My worry is that the costs aren't artificial and have been incurred from real cash being paid out for dubious services rendered. Fair point HF

Still listed as overdue so assuming they have actually filed them in time the system wont update for a few days anyway. Still nothing on the Companies House website? They must be hoping that these slip under the radar and nobody will notice how they have artificially swollen costs in order to report a lower profit.

He's got the job and he knows it.

Weird. Expected a much higher profit.

Yep

Shalke innit?

Well, there's that too. We have made some absolutely horrendous sales lately. Ben Arfa released for free. Yanga-Mbiwa for 5m was it? Santon sold for 2.8m? We will have to spend big just to not go backwards. Ashley will see those as good sales, apart from Ben Arfa, all profitable otherwise And therein lies the problem. Ashley sees a profit instead of realising that he's weakened the squad significantly by letting three of our better players go for peanuts.

Well, there's that too. We have made some absolutely horrendous sales lately. Ben Arfa released for free. Yanga-Mbiwa for 5m was it? Santon sold for 2.8m? We will have to spend big just to not go backwards.

Operating profit/loss is intrinsic to what the club can afford to do. If the club is hemorrhaging £30m a year before player trading, then players have to be sold to plug that leak. If the club is just about breaking even then players have to be sold before we can buy. If the club is earning £30m, then we can spend that on players before we sell anyone. I understand that. It's just from 2011 onwards we have seen very manageable operational losses (which shouldn't have even been posted if SD paid a market fee for its advertising btw) and significant profit after player trading. We have not see significant investment in the playing squad in that time, and even worse, we don't even seem willing to pay the going rate for an actual manager who could transform the club's fortunes. I just don't see the significance of going from a very small red to black for operational profit you attribute to it. Do you really think Ashley will start throwing the cash (generated by the club itself mind you) around now, when he could have reinvested profits for the past four years and chose not to?

Going over old ground, but I fail to see why you keep looking at operational profit/loss as some indicator as to what Ashley might do on the transfer market, whilst ignoring what actually happens in terms of transfer fees incoming and outgoing?

I agree. I just don't think that's how he will see it, or he would have started doing it already. Paying off his £29m first would back you up. What reason was there for him to repay that beyond a stubborn principle that he had said he wasn't putting any more in after the Keegan affair? I think he'll stick to that though and stop repayments with the £29m satisfied. I don't know the ins and outs of accounting, but didn't the club once come out to suggest that debt was necessary in the structure or something like that? I can only assume the 29m loan after the relegation season somehow is a different type of loan than the one from when he paid off existing club debts. To be perfectly honest, none of the club's actions with regards to finances make any sense to me, and with regards to football it's even worse