duncanjwitham

I don't see what the EFL can actually complain about though (I'm not an expert etc).  Buying back the stadium is going to make no difference to our current and future FFP bottom line (£Xm in cash will go out and an £Xm-valued asset will appear on the books, so there's no change there).  The reason we *had* to sell for the independently-valued price was because it was a non-arms-length transaction (i.e. Mel Morris was on both ends of the deal) - that no longer applies as Morris will have no involvement in the club going forward.  So we can pay whatever we like, providing Morris is willing to sell it for that.  There's no requirement to sell at market value any more. 
The value we sold it at previously has already been signed-off by the EFL's tribunal process.  They've literally already been through the process of having that transaction challenged and it was found in our favour.  Whatever their predilection for revisiting decisions, they can't just re-run tribunals until they get the result they want.

TBH I'd much rather have this guy who says he isn't a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably is, than Erik Alonso who says he is a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably isn't.

TBH I'd much rather have this guy who says he isn't a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably is, than Erik Alonso who says he is a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably isn't.

TBH I'd much rather have this guy who says he isn't a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably is, than Erik Alonso who says he is a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably isn't.

TBH I'd much rather have this guy who says he isn't a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably is, than Erik Alonso who says he is a billionaire but everyone thinks he probably isn't.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

It's perfectly possible to simultaneously believe (as I do) that Mel Morris has run the club in a catastrophically awful way, that the EFL have handled their various interactions with us in a pathetically useless way, and that Maguire is an attention-seeking muppet that doesn't seem to know half as much as he thinks he does.

Before tonight we had the joint best defence in the division. I'd say on the whole the defence is the least of our worries.

I don’t see how that can possibly be true, no one would pay it. But if 7 parties have paid £5m each to have a look, we’ve pretty much cleared half the debts already ?.

The problem here is that most of the people who've formed an opinion of us know very little about what's actually gone on, and are basing their views on sensationalist headlines, untrue and/or misleading write-ups telling only half the story, and what they read on that poo stain of the internet known as Twitter.
All they read is that we've broken some rule or other, that's enough to condemn us. Never mind that we've only broken a rule because the terms of engagement have changed, or that ultimately it's boiled down to one person's opinion overruling multiple others on a technicality.
I think it's summed up by your line about us being viewed as seeking an unfair advantage, we simply haven't - we've sought a competitive advantage, which isn't the same thing at all.
A lot of our actions have been an attempt to even out the genuinely unfair advantage gained by teams in receipt of parachute payments, that gained by those who've blatantly set out to make a mockery of spending limits - clubs like Villa who basically just bought every single sought-after midfielder in the division at one stage - or that gained by a club like Wolves signing Champions League quality players & managers from a closed market (and as such at well below market value) while deferring a massive chunk of their wages until such a point they achieve the inevitable promotion signing those players/that manager would bring. Throw in those with owners of two clubs in separate counties trading between themselves for good measure.
We've doubtless gone too far with it, of course, hence ending up in this position. Nobody is saying we're blameless or that Mel Morris hasn't well and truly messed it up, but an unfair advantage, really? It's nonsense.
In saying "The EFL and its constituent clubs currently view your club with so much suspicion" you make it sound like there are far more clubs who are emotionally / morally invested in our situation than there really are.
The only people to really speak up are Boro, Wycombe & Rotherham. There's little evidence that there's a whole host of clubs baying for some sort of justice - plenty of evidence of fans of other clubs doing so, but they're mostly hypocrites who've forgotten their own club's past misdeeds.
Nobody really seemed to have a problem with us until one chairman went running to them to complain about us after we pipped his team to a play-off spot (because our £4m striker gave us an advantage over them that their £15m striker didn't give them over us!).
Without that and the Kieran Maguire writing letters to the EFL about our amortisation policy it's debatable whether or not the EFL would ever even have opened a case against us.

It's even worse than that.  The only grounds for appeal are if the panel made a mistake in the way they adjudicated the case, so the EFL are actually expressing their disappointment that they're appointed panel didn't sufficiently screw up to make them do it all again.  They are actually disappointed that the panel made the correct decision.

There is no "list" of 23.  We can play anyone who is currently registered at the club, including Bielik and CKR.  What we can't do is sign more players when we already have 23 or more players of professional standing in the squad. 
There is a separate list of 25 players that every club has to submit to the EFL prior to the season (for the homegrown player rules etc). That list doesn't include U21 players.  We currently only have 16 players registered (including Bielik, CKR, Jagielka and Baldock).

There is no "list" of 23.  We can play anyone who is currently registered at the club, including Bielik and CKR.  What we can't do is sign more players when we already have 23 or more players of professional standing in the squad. 
There is a separate list of 25 players that every club has to submit to the EFL prior to the season (for the homegrown player rules etc). That list doesn't include U21 players.  We currently only have 16 players registered (including Bielik, CKR, Jagielka and Baldock).

The huge difference is that the administrators opinion is based on them being experts in the field and with all of the financial information to hand.
The medias opinion is based on nothing other than guesswork. 

There were definitely a few hints in some of the written reports about Mel pretty much refusing to engage with the EFL over this stuff, so I do wonder if they tried to discuss it with us and we just refused (“our accountants have signed it off, so it’s none of your businesses” type stuff).  Hard to know exactly where to apportion blame when both parties seem tragically incompetent.