The EFL Thread
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4LEX
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True. Portsmouth are probably the most pea brained and deluded support in the country. One good season in a decade and they think they're Real Madrid.
4LEX
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Reported that Leeds will need to make around £100m in sales to conform to the more stringent spending rules in the EFL. I guess they brought in a good few players for the promotion campaign. They have a number of players out on loan who they’re hoping will become permanent sales, plus 2-3 ‘stars’ they might need to sell to balance the books.
Seems excessive on the back of parachute payments.
£25m Leeds United player all but confirms he will not be making his loan move permanent
'I learned so much from this team and will always be grateful to say I was a part of such an amazing club.'www.leedsunited.news
It doesn't look great for Leeds but they've got a lot of high value assets in the current team that will make serious money, plus the players they loaned out.
They'll be fine FFP wise and next season the teams coming down are really poor, so pretty sure they'll be up there.
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I’d have bought a dishwasher from somewhere else if I’d seen this yesterday 
SaintHacker
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It takes a particular kind of stupid to smash up your own town after winning a game.
Well I guess that's me out of this thread and back to the Premier league one. See you again this time next year!
HomerJSimpson
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Not much going on from Leeds fan on our roll up whatsapp group. Were happy to give it the big 'un getting to Wembley but not so vocal now
4LEX
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It takes a particular kind of stupid to smash up your own town after winning a game.
Well I guess that's me out of this thread and back to the Premier league one. See you again this time next year!
I'm a Reading fan and they seem to hold a terrible grudge because we took the piss out of them about 15 years ago.
This was down to the fact when they were spending beyond their means and cheated their way to the FA Cup in 2008, they rested the whole team in their final league game which resulted in a Fulham win and got us relegated on goal difference. We were obviously annoyed and did delight in their demise a few years later.
This season they've been incredibly arrogant, bitter and ungracious in winning the league. Often moaning about teams not giving them 4,000 tickets when a few years before when they were mid table, they couldn't sell out the majority of their away games.
They'll be back to returning tickets next season when they start getting beaten on their travels.
sunshine
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He probably saw some flirty grannies in Devon and decided he needed some time apart from the mrs
SaintHacker
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They're frothing at the mouth that we've gone back up, they really thought they were going to beat us next season. Bless.
HomerJSimpson
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We played magnificently. OK scraped a result against a poor second string
4LEX
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To be fair regardless of that final game, you did the double over us so we deserved to go down. All we had to do was draw one of the games and we would've been safe by 3 points!
I thought we had our revenge in the play offs in 2017 but we even managed to mess the final up!
4LEX
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Things have taken another bizarre turn with the sale of Reading FC.
The buyers in pole position have failed to agree the deal, so talks have opened up with a US/Saudi based group. There's also been talks with another group who are fronted by the ex Wycombe chairman Rob Couhig, the same person who tried to buy our training ground back in March. He's since sold Wycombe to a Kazak billionaire (true story, no Borat jokes). Rob's nephew Pete, Wycombe's CFO was very vocal on Twitter about the sale and suffered death threats and various other abuse so it seems a real surprise
The buyers in pole position have failed to agree the deal, so talks have opened up with a US/Saudi based group. There's also been talks with another group who are fronted by the ex Wycombe chairman Rob Couhig, the same person who tried to buy our training ground back in March. He's since sold Wycombe to a Kazak billionaire (true story, no Borat jokes). Rob's nephew Pete, Wycombe's CFO was very vocal on Twitter about the sale and suffered death threats and various other abuse so it seems a real surprise
HomerJSimpson
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Talk of the ladies side and academy folding completely in the next 2 weeks. Only two ladies registered and no money and not even any training kits https://www.skysports.com/football/...fter-football-association-reject-takeover-bid
The reality is that all ladies teams, full time pro level, are loss making. The bigger clubs can take that hit, for a spell, but clubs where money is tight can not. It's financial reality.
HomerJSimpson
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Talk of the academy as well though
Now that would be very short sighted. The academy can make a club money, save a club money.
4LEX
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A shame but the Ladies team has been a drain and was costing over £1m a year to run, which is a lot when you can't even afford to pay first team players or tax bills on time.
The issue with the acadamy is it's a Premier League set up with running costs of over £4-5m a year. It's produced a lot of talent but they've all been sold off on the cheap or left on frees. Olise was sold for £8m when he was worth double, Richards left on a free and joined Bayern Munich, Bryone Gittens who played for Dortmund in the CL final left for free, then this season Abbey was sold for peanuts to Olympiakos, Holmes to Luton and Macintyre to Portsmouth. If it's run properly it's proven to be capable of providing first team players and if they're sold for the right prices it would make money. A win win situation.
We might have to accept it's a drain at the moment and lose our Category One status, which would be really sad.
Neilds
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EFL fixtures are announced at 9:00 this morning - at least we have some exciting football to look forward to 
4LEX
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Birmingham away on the opening day, already moved to 5.30pm for Sky.
Two biggest clubs in the league
Two biggest clubs in the league
Piece
Tour Winner
Millwall away. 
. Thankfully I'm on holiday.
. Thankfully I'm on holiday.
