Charlie Taylor off to West Ham...

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I look forward to reading it mon ami. I assume you have made full use of the club's last Annual Financial Statement ? You can't get into trouble for factually reporting what the club has already put into the public domain.

I'm intrigued by your prediction of £115m revenues this season, without giving too much away from your coming masterpiece, could you give us some idea on how you've come up with that figure ? It's only about £25 million below our peak revenues from the PL era when we had TV money coming out of our ears. Maybe the Parachute payments are far higher than I was expecting, that might explain it, but if our revenue only drops £25 million, we reduce the wage bill, and sell most of our saleable players, then indeed we are in a far better place than anyone could have anticipated. It all sounds too good to be true to me.

I mention "revenues" sinkov and not outgoings: £70 million in so far on player sales, £40 million parachute payment, £5 million on season tickets and commercial revenues. £115 million income gives Mr Pace plenty of "Wiggle Room" IMHO.

[sinkov]

I mention "revenues" sinkov and not outgoings: £70 million in so far on player sales, £40 million parachute payment, £5 million on season tickets and commercial revenues. £115 million income gives Mr Pace plenty of "Wiggle Room" IMHO.

Cheers BT, as you say, with £70 million from player sales and £40 million parachute payments we are a long way from admin, at least in the short term. When is your Magnum Opus due, I have much more to say, but if you're going into the subject of our finances in greater detail, I'll save it for then.

[barrie_burn]

Cheers BT, as you say, with £70 million from player sales and £40 million parachute payments we are a long way from admin, at least in the short term. When is your Magnum Opus due, I have much more to say, but if you're going into the subject of our finances in greater detail, I'll save it for then.

Be careful BT,your "friend" is waiting

[sinkov]

Be careful BT,your "friend" is waiting

BT has nothing to fear from me, and he knows that. Despite our many differences and spats on here, me and BT, we're good.

[ClaretinBudapest]

I mention "revenues" sinkov and not outgoings: £70 million in so far on player sales, £40 million parachute payment, £5 million on season tickets and commercial revenues. £115 million income gives Mr Pace plenty of "Wiggle Room" IMHO.

Cant be that much wiggle room BT as VK admitted at 4.2m euros striker Georges Mikautadze is out of our price range.If after 6 successive seasons in the PL and spending sweet FA in the last 3 seasons we cannot afford under £4m for a striker then we are in deep shoite.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Cant be that much wiggle room BT as VK admitted at 4.2m euros striker Georges Mikautadze is out of our price range.If after 6 successive seasons in the PL and spending sweet FA in the last 3 seasons we cannot afford under £4m for a striker then we are in deep shoite.

Vinny is playing the game and it's good to see CiB.