Problem is, Lavia isn't worth £60m. Chelsea went completely insane in the last 18 months. They aren't getting anything like the fees back that they spent on those players. Unless there's some dodgy Saudi dealing of course.
Without a shadow of a doubt. We're actually very lucky that he gets so little respect as the red tops and Sky would have been desperately trying to flog him to one of the favoured clubs. The dirtier it gets on the pitch and in the crowd the more he loves it. I hope he stays for many more years.
It also affects the coaching staff's approach to matches. I put it to you that when we had that bad run of results that the spectre of the second points deduction meant that Dyche adopted a more safety first approach to games than he had earlier in the season. He stopped trusting that what he...
I'm pretty sure that loans work by people giving us money and us then paying that back with interest which involves a regular outgoing payment secured against assets like TV money and season ticket revenue but if you'd like to update me I'm all ears.
PSR is only one of our problems, so it doesn't matter if our accounting looks fine if we have problems with cash flow. 777 are loaning us £20m a month to just keep going as a business. When a profit or a loss goes on the books makes no difference to that reality. Most of the money from sales...
So, the off field stuff affects players but has no effect on the coaching staff? This is why I struggle to take this argument seriously. I get that it cuts both ways, those who like Dyche put all victories down to him and all loses to the players and those who don't like him blame him for all...