Ghost of Clough

Now a good tackle from Sibley is a freekick to them

Derby's first foul and it's a yellow. Bristol Rovers had to commit 3 of those and a couppe of small fouls to force the ref to book them

Excellent passing move ruined by the lino with wonky eyes - Sibley cross across goal found Gayle who poked it in.

Gayle played it out wide, then attempted to make a run into the box. I say attempted, because he was being dragged back the whole time

2nd very late challenge. Neither worthy of a yellow according to the ref

Very bright start. 1 good opportunity came to an end when the lino incorrectly flagged offside. Calls for a penalty ignored. Tasty freekick from Ward whizzes across the box infront of our attackers.

4-1 FT

Robinson is better, but also covers RB and CB.

60 mins. 2-1 down. Osayande equalised (Eames assist), then conceded 1 min later

U18s vs Blackburn Price IGordon Banks Osayande Cox Hawkins McAndrew Agustien Eames Gough Oguntolu

Barnsley lost £4m last season and it'll be similar this season

Ah, that's the bit I missed. Yes, £8.6m would be more accurate than £7.3m based on 42% of £20.44m. Dom states 36% though. That £8.6m excludes: social security, pensions, loaned out players (Bielik), U21 and other academy players. With all of these included, I estimated all contracted and academy players to cost approximately £12m. That would leave all other staff costs at approximately £5.2m, which would be in line with most Championship Cat 1 clubs.

I still don't see where that figure originates from. This article by Leigh Curtis from yesterday morning says "understood to be £7.3m", which again doesn't provide any evidence for the figure.

I missed that bit. Where does it say that?

FIFA compensation rules from Festy. Something like £180k plus 1.25% of all future transfer fees. We came to an an agreement with Werder Bremen, but I expect closer to the upper end of what we would have been entitled to under FIFA rules. Roughly £325k (plus a further £65k in summer 2023). Then there's an unknown amount for Ebiowei. As he was only with us for 1 full season, it wouldn't be much by domestic standards. The rest will be a loan fee for Bielik (a wage contribution).

Not quite. The rule didn't exist, they still charged us, we were eventually punihsed for it, then they re-wrote the rules to stop others doing it.

I think my estimates for the year weren't too far out on the important details considering I didn't have much to go on - only 5 year old accounts and predicted changes due to relegation. £500k overstatement on our losses when ignoring the 1 off impairment charge. An overestimate on the turnover by £1.3m (mainly due to commerical/hospitality) and £1.3m underestimate on the wages (half of which down to SP's pay). Comparison of 22/23 estimate/actual and revised 23/24 estimate:

Post balance sheet events are usually transfers in the summer period following the accounting period. In this case, it's summer 2023. Almost all of that £1.6m book value will relate to Bielik who was sold for an estimated £500k. Knight as the only other summer sale being the remaining £1.6m received. The £264k is anyone's guess, but I think it's likely a 25% sell-on was agreed with Werder Bremen for Buchanan.

According to Whoscored: Devante Cole has 17 goals and 3 assists so is only 2 behind Mendez-Laing's 22.. May, Rhodes, Jamie Reid, Bishop and Mason-Clarke next, all on 18 According to Transfermarkt: Mendez-Laing is on 23 May is on 20 Mason-Clarke has 19 Paddy Lane and Poku are on 18 (along with the others listed above)

A few extra highlights starting at 6:55

Taking what I day at face value, Ricky-Jade Jones is a very poor finisher. Almost half of Morecambe's goals last season came from Stockton and Weir, so I'm guessing the main reason for their high goals vs xG was down to them. 9 of their 21 goals were scored from outside of the box. Weir was regarded as a very shooter from range within Brighton's academy, and he carried that form into last season. Stockton also scored a few long rangers, but I can't comment on if that was the norm for him or just due to a purple patch. However, you'll be familiar with long range strikes being worth low xG probabilities. Good shooters from range will naturally outperform xG. A high proportion of goals from distance, with a small sample pool (one of the lowest scorers in the lewgue) will also swing the balance. A further 4 goals were from Stockton's head, which highlights them engineering chances specifically for one of their main strengths - again this will likely result in above average goal vs xG.

So, EFL said Leicester are forecasted to fail P&S for the period ending 2024. Leicester said no. The panel they were referred to agreed with Leicester. From reading the judgement, it appears to me that it came down to a mix up between the rules saying 'T' = season 22/23, and Leicester thinking it's 23/34 (mostly due to the next bit...) There was a part where Championship clubs submit financial data on 31st March (to the EFL), but Leicester wouldn't have been obligated to do this until 31st of March THIS year, so the rule the EFL are trying to act upon isn't valid yet. Expect the rules to be updated again soon.

It does look like it clipped to edge of his toe. I'm not sure how dubious goals are awarded if the player who got the last touch was offside though

Peterborough returning to form is largely down to the return of Poku. 1 win and 4 points in the 5 games he was out injured. 3 wins and 9 points in the 4 games he's been back. They've only lost 2 league games since Spetember the 2nd with Poku in the side.Let's hope he was rushed back and picks up another injury.

Skip to 37 seconds for Brown's goal