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ClaretPete001

Absolutely. Going into the season with just Foster and Rodriguez as centre forward options, one unproven even at Championship level and the other proven to be not a real goal threat in the PL was suicidal. Particularly as we signed 12,000 wingers. Typically ridiculous exaggeration. It's 11,996....!

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bfcjg wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:44 pm
A cargo ship full of Viagra couldn't keep this shower of sh1t up.

I've finally found something I have in common with 11 professionals athletes.

Things are looking up....erm not literally obviously!

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We do of course long for Heaton and Pope again, but they were incapable of playing the way we play (and City etc play). The fast distribution, the high defence and sweeper keeper. I’m not convinced having them in our goal this season would have saved us. My Dad has a joke, which goes something alon...

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On a bit of a segway from Merch, I have had a feeling that fan and the local community has been targeted to make up for the lack of commercial growth at the club since the takeover - so I have been looking at the sources of non tv income at BFC, and put together this table - it will be much more in...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:06 pm
are you still enjoying 1996 ? BTW 2024 is crap

I agree, but I'm not enjoying 1996 I'm still savouring 1978. At least we have a cup final to look forward to....!

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Welcome aboard Eugene. Enjoy the ride. In the absence of any evidence of investment and given the choice between between the possibility that these people have invested serous cash or ALK are offering equity in return for brand awareness marketing I would choose the latter not least because of the p...

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I doubt many fans knew what a horrendous financial position we were in before the play off final in 2009, yet we were on the verge of administration. Flood and Co. seemed to escape any scrutiny despite nearly running us off a cliff edge! Yes, but that doesn't justify not holding people to account n...

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We had a previous owner who sold Turf Moor and the training ground to a company based in a tax haven and kept it secret for months until I stumbled across it on a company database. And even after that came out there was just a bland statement. Very few clubs are open about their finances beyond the...

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Just listened to the Kieran Maguire one, obviously nothing revelatory but nice to hear a Brighton fan talk a bit more realistically about how they got to where they are now One thing which was a bit glossed over, possibly because it's just viewed as normal now, is how you need an owner to pretty mu...

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Another good one I will say, on reflection, that I concur with Woody and claretpete on here that there is a danger in people giving what I say to much credence in terms of being absolute truth - particularly when I am not able to produce supporting evidence, though even then others with knowledge a...

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His career earnings I think are around $150 million dollars plus. His final 2 year contract was $35 million dollars. Its mega money for a sports star. Surely His likely return on an investment with us would pale into insignificance. He won't want to lose masses, but I just can't see how this could ...

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The Lost Art of Doff Capping.

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You have to have a bit of common sense. I mean the guy is a great ambassador for the club and I have no doubt he is in great demand because he's funny, handsome, has a six pack and seems knowledgeable about sports. In many ways he reminds me of myself. But like me he wouldn't do all this for nothing...

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this is all true, but what most people are failing to recognise is that ALK/VSL currently hold just over 90% of the shareholding in the club and have likely paid a net sum of less than £60m for that shareholding (after the sale of shares to Vlad Torgovnik) - with only £10m upfront. There are no out...

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They think they bought Burnley at a cheap price. There has been a strange consensus among American investors in the game that English and European clubs are 'under-valued'. This seems to be because they compare PL club's values to those of the NFL franchises. But of course there are a ton of reason...

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to many people in the US 10 million is found down the back of the sofa edit: I've had a look down the back of my sofa and all I found was a stale crisp ! I hope you ate it - waste not want not as me mother used to say....! I've met the odd millionaires and to be honest with you most were so tight t...

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Great interview. Even an old curmudgeon like me couldn't help but love this guy. Still don't believe he paid a load of money for shares though....! If it was me I'd say sack VK tomorrow and appoint him as manager. If he asked me to run up Pendle Hill in a mankini and a straw boater I'd be off like a...

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Vitinho is great, 100% effort and has definitely adapted to the various roles he's been given. But both Vinny an I rate Assignon a better right back than Vitinho and Roberts :D For once we agree. I also think Assignon is a good player. I think he's been a bit unlucky but he's quick got clever feet ...

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It's completely alien to me as well. But I look at Turf Moor as the country club - they've invested in a product they can show off to their friends, bring them over to see the Premier League in action, maybe help make introductions to progress business deals etc. Maybe you are right but I shall rem...

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I agree Pete, seems incredibly hard to believe that anyone would do that. But ALK clearly have a bit of a knack of persuading some people to part with their cash in this way (the likes of JJ Watt, Malcolm Jenkins etc have happily done so). I guess the attraction with a club like Burnley is probably...

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It is a reasonable analogy - though it is not as innovative as you may think - FSG is a similar model, it is pretty common in American sports, though we are starting to see it more over here. It appears that they invest in or join (given the rumours about some 'minor partners' Velocity Sports Partn...

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My horse-racing syndicate theory is based on the assumption that these investors are doing it for the kudos of having a successful football club as part of their diverse portfolio of interests (and have somewhere to use as a bit of a country club to impress other people of wealth etc). A bit like y...

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I've sometimes referred to the ALK model as being like a horse-racing syndicate - people invest for a share in the vehicle which ultimately owns the club. Am I far off the mark with that assumption CP? I'm not sure we know (Chester might) but the problem is if they are giving away equity they are d...

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As I have posted elsewhere on this board this week, I am fairly certain that original takeover group are already in profit, I cannot prove it, but that is what I believe, all because of those that have paid to join their group and of course Vlad Torgovnik. I agree they've likely had their money out...

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Great piece struck the right tone. Grown up talk with an industry leading expert.

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Just this bit, Pete. You are misreading BDO's "material uncertainty" note that they've included in their audit report. The most important thing is that they have signed an audit report that is not qualified. BDO confirm that "going concern" is the "true and fair" basis for the accounts. Yes, they'v...

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Bumba, ClaretPete001 let's see come the end of the summer transfer window and see if your predicted fire sale happens To be fair, you asked the question who said the club was going to sell. And I answered it. So, let's differentiate between what has been said and what has not been said. Do I think ...

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Fair enough, we have created problems for ourselves but I don't think they are necessarily caused through this tactic alone. Concentration, poor marking and decision making are the biggest problems. Yes but it's very poor management when you are exacerbating the problems that exist by insisting tha...

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Player's like Twine, Mcnally Brownhill will be sold for little or no profit player's like Benson or Zaroury would be priced out of a move to the championship, Premier league team's won't come in so it's European club's and do they have the money to buy them they won't go cheap compared to what's ou...

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How many of these late in the half goals have been conceded through playing out from the back? I don't know. As I said, you'd have to have a second criterion with some kind of judgement on how many goals were caused by the style of football. I would say that anecdotally, almost every pundit I've li...

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I mean stats can be difficult to prove anything one way or another but my feeling is that if Dyche had asked Pope to play out with his feet Popey would have conceded at lot of stupid goals and would probably be playing for Rotherham Utd now not Newcastle United. It wrecked his England career in 90 m...

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Just had a look at those minutes conceded. We are not outliers from minutes 30-45. We have 8 scored and 12 conceded. Similar to several. Don’t know about just the last few minutes of the half. However where we ARE outliers (with Sheffield) is minutes 76-90. We have 6 scored and 18 conceded. But our...

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AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:15 pm
They can ask all they want but they all have long contracts the club hold all the cards, they decide if the player goes not the player

Not if there are relegation clauses in them...

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AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:18 pm
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Yup that's the problem right there

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Sheff Utd and Luton. For reasons already said - I think we'll be better than both next season. To anyone thinking we'll be closer to the relegation zone than the top - give your head a wobble. Look at where Leicester, Leeds and Southampton are in the table. The gulf between the Prem and Championshi...

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AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:43 am
Have you online links to:

Auditors saying we can't afford to keep this squad if relegated

The player's having to take 50% pay cuts

https://media-cdn.incrowdsports.com/bc7 ... 9f58f8.pdf

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Juan Tanamera wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:54 pm
I have no idea why the image is so large.

I have no idea why it's dull so clearly I qualify....!

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signed 16 last season and it didn't happen. Bucket loads you can throw at VK (like playing Foster on the wing wtf) but player concentration is farcical I don't agree. If you play a possession game with players not up to it then they will lose possession, give away silly penalties and start to floun...

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You have two choices on is the one in the OP. Where you use Brownhill as the number 10 instead of Amdouni and Odobert breaking the lines through the centre and arriving late in the box. This is the team I would have played from the start with a midfield 3. I thought Brownhill did that ok last season...

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Just imagine Berge sitting in with Defour breaking from the middle - Odobert and JBL out wide and Fofana and Foster running the channels. Everton fans wouldn't be crowing about Branthwaite that's for sure...

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Liked today's episode especially the analysis of much of our front four playing out of position inexplicably for the last 2 winless games. All through the season I've called Vincent, who I like a lot, the Tinkerman Reborn. An affliction of many clever, but not as clever as they think, people. He ca...

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There, I've picked out the big words you clearly didn't read the last time I posted them about 6 posts above.... 'We draw attention to note 2.4 to the financial statements concerning the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Should the forecasts, which include receipts from player tradin...

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Because we can't afford to keep this squad together - Says who ?? A lot want to leave - Again says who ?? A lot will ask to leave - another load of fake news Some aren't good enough - I agree but these will be out of contract and will be let go anyway like Cork, Rodriguez 1. Because we can't afford...

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Traff did similar at Luton but it deflected wide. It's not worthy of a 3 in my opinion - it was a bad mistake in a huge game but the severity of the game surely can't be used here in the rating? I think it can arguably because of a term you use a bit, which is in-game management. It's part of the p...

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The Asset Match Admission statement has been partially updated - it has still got a number of errors and issues: - The date of the Submission document remains as December 15 2023 and there is no indication that the document has been updated -surely such changes have legal consequence - Section 3 no...

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I don't have an opinion on what player contracts will be worth if we go down. I think you're confusing me with someone else there. As for the auditors, what they actually said was that if player sales don't generate much cash, the owners are confident that they will find funds from somewhere. They ...

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An absolute nonsense. 1. Players will join whoever pays them the most money. And we heard last week of a well regarded player leaving Champions League PSV to join us on a free in summer. 2. Players with any resale value are approaching the end of their contracts… who exactly? Cork & Jay? Brownhill ...

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Dsr is right, any professional players number 1 need is more money, they want to earn as much as possible. If we are paying more, they'll join regardless of the pitch time. look at top players like Henderson. "legend" a Liverpool, could probably have got in most other premier league squads easily, ...

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Been discussing with my lads (16 and 18) tonight the next 2 seasons... I said my dream would be for us to finish 3,4,5 or 6th get through the playoffs but lose at Wembley in the final for 2 seasons running. I know there will be financial implications via parachute payments and the fact we have a de...

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We were mid table when Coyle went to Bolton and we had a dreadful run to get relegated /. Bolton were in the bottom 3 when Coyle took over who finished mid table /. Coyle became the most hated man in Burnley We were mid-table but if I recall we were top 5 at one point. We then lost Chris Mac Cann f...

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