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Either way, it's a grim development. Even if 777 fall through and this is the back up plan to tide us through until the stadium opens, it just leaves us with another corporate vulture feeding off our emaciated remains and makes eventual sale to someone credible even less likely

They definitely have no security over our assets or income streams but there has clearly been something preventing Moshiri from walking away up until this point. Even allowing for a healthy dose of hubris and idiocy, I struggle to believe they (and now the administrators) have no levers to...

It's difficult to believe the loans made by 777 didn't come with some description of covenant requiring full repayment by Moshiri or any alternative buyer in the event the 777 deal collapsed and the club ended up in different hands. Even if they didn't, I really can't see the 777 administrators...

Has been for months If they do go under, which looks increasingly likely, everything gets somehow even more complicated for any mooted restructure at this end. US administrators and civil courts are a law unto themselves. The £200m owed and any notional value within the contractual rights...

Fair play to him. That was a horrific set of circumstances to be managing us through and a fine achievement in the end. Still don't want him to stay though, certainly not past the end of next season.

Definitely sweet seeing those calls go our way for a change. Even sweeter watching them explode as a result post match.

Neither we nor 777 are making a deal of this nature from a position of strength. We'll also be selling the minority interest to hard nosed investors rather than a tamed oligarch. So the value assigned really isn't going to make pretty viewing (relative to the debts incurred) given the known...

Probably not yet scanned by Companies House. I struggle to believe even we would miss the deadline given current circumstances

Which is correct but was actually the right decision to make. It would have been (another) complete circus had we held on to those arrangements. So there is some mitigation but get into bed with dubious Kremlin liked characters and ultimately this sort of mess can unfold. Spending £7m sacking...

There's nothing particularly new or frightening that I can see at first glance, so in that respect there's nothing further suggesting we are screwed........other than the mountain of evidence already before us. On the downside there is nothing remotely reassuring in these numbers. This is...

We've had 9 months of complete boardroom paralysis since the end point of these numbers. It suggests the 2023/24 numbers aren't going to be any prettier.

Summed up to perfection. The fact the CEO and Comms team thought this statement would help in any way just leaves me even more concerned about those running the show.

It's the one thing about the club that remains genuinely 'big 6' comparable.

We're in a grim place already but the stasis this must be causing behind the he scenes really doesn't bear thinking about. Transfer window opens in just over two months. Those we are competing against will already be months ahead in their planning. We have absolutely no idea what resources will...

Well, we can't pretend we didn't know what we were signing in Dyche.

Good job Tarks has some credit in the bank. If it had been Godfrey or Keane this place would be ugly. We're still in this. United are ghastly.

Been a decent start all told

I'm weirdly optimistic about this one. They have no identity, minimal resilience and their crowd hate them. Grab a goal from a set piece and it should look after itself

It also depresses the value of any we might seek to move on. Just a weird thing for a manager to be saying. He is however sadly correct, the quality of the academy is, in common with most other football related operations at this club, a bit of a shambles currently. We used to be the go-to...

The problem is, all that thought went in in 2017-2019 when they expected the design to cost £350m -to £500m. We now seem to be £800m deep with another 10+ months of construction to follow. The debate of box versus other corporate provision is a bit of a moot point. It's the total corporate...