From Despair To Where?

Franchise FC

SouthDownsRoyal Any update on the takeover?

Yep

Apparently, exclusivity has been extended
Posh are down to 10
GOAL !

I think that just about covers it

Idiots!

Groundhog day

From Despair To Where? Not meaning to be cruel but it's 100 minutes long and, if some people have a face for radio, you have a voice for silent movies.

Nice.

I've have gone with face for radio, voice for print media, but I like.

couldn't give a shit about England I'm more concerned with Reading FC. It's this system which has greatly benefited Reading, picking up and developinh the likes of Sigurdsson and Olise, and getting substantial money for the likes of those young Academy players who recently moved on before they got ...

Paqueta has intentionally gone out to spot-fix multiple times. He will get the book chucked at him. As someone said earlier, it's only a few bookings Unfortunately, it's not a stretch to think that he might extend that to changing a match result by one of those bookings becoming significant to the ...

For as much as I would like to see McKenna stay at Ipswich, I would also like to see Man Utd still their pursuit of 'names' and go for a young exciting manager that has links to the club, like McKenna How the fcuk do you respect the former under-18s coach? I assume by being a professional? Maybe th...

Tbf, EPPP has helped produce players for the national team on a different level to what preceded it, which was the point following our humiliation to Germany in 2010. We're still winning junior trophies and it seems like the pipeline remains strong. Which yay for England, but doesn't adequately com...

Any ideas as to why certain teams out/underperform following promotion? Had a brief look (i.e. not much beyond identifying teams) Any ideas as to why certain teams out/underperform? With Reading FC's 2004/5/6 squad, I just think they were that good. A mid prem team playing in the Champs. Then you h...

ITK Eddie reporting on Twitter the hold up is Chiron want the loans taken off the asking price, sounds reasonable to me. Surely this would have been covered in the exclusivity agreement>? Seems eminently reasonable to me, otherwise its wouldn't have been a loan, it would have been a gift. Thing abo...

it will be interesting to see if Parky gets some approaches this summer if there are big moves in the manager market. if for instance, McKenna goes to Brighton, and Edwards goes to Ipswich, would a club like Luton look to parky? He's got to be hot property. 5 promotions under his belt now, from wha...

it will be interesting to see if Parky gets some approaches this summer if there are big moves in the manager market. if for instance, McKenna goes to Brighton, and Edwards goes to Ipswich, would a club like Luton look to parky? He's got to be hot property. 5 promotions under his belt now, from wha...

Keeping Cat 1 status in L1 is insane.

The fact we've extended exclusivity rather than opened back up with the many (lol) other interested parties is surely a positive sign that the deal has hit a set back, not fallen apart.

Has thr academy retained and released list been published then, or is this a rehash of previous information?

Edit: Seen it has from the Academy thread.

Not surprised to see Jahmari go. Wish him well. Bit surprised by Collins, but as someone else said. We have a lot of keepers. Hope he finds a club.

Olise sell on? No doubt it's bad news if it falls through, but I'd put decent money on that we'd get through next season somehow. I'll take that bet. No takeover = no finish 24/25 season. At least I lost my shit yesterday. I am just glad to be off to New Zealand tomorrow so I can forget about this ...

I'll take that bet. No takeover = no finish 24/25 season. I hate to have to agree but that’s the way it feels Sounds reasonably at face value until you think it through. If Dai genuinely thinks he can get a better price, he needs to keep the club afloat and protect the value of his asset. If he can...

How stupid does Dai have to be, to be frustrated that with each new discovery of damage he's done, the prospective buyers are reducing their offer. Interesting that we seem to be getting a deadline of a week or new talks with someone else. Suggests we should have concrete news within the next 10 da...

How stupid does Dai have to be, to be frustrated that with each new discovery of damage he's done, the prospective buyers are reducing their offer. Interesting that we seem to be getting a deadline of a week or new talks with someone else. Suggests we should have concrete news within the next 10 day...

Good luck to them both.

We're well overstocked on keeper, but if we weren’t Southwood wouldn’t be a bad shout.

Sean Long would be worth a look though. Yiadom is getting on, Abrefa isn’t setting the world alight just yet and we're not exactly overstocked on experience at CB.

It doesn’t look like the takeover will be happening anytime soon. I really fear for the club tbh. Off to New Zealand for 8 weeks to visit family shortly so I can avoid all this drama. I was going to renew my season ticket but not until the ownership is resolved. Saw the post before seeing the poste...

Five over-age players and one over-age keeper: https://www.premierleague.com/news/2677866 However that was for the season 2022/23 when the format was changed from under 23 to under 21 and might have been a transitional phase. Confusing now because the Premier League are also saying for 2023/2024 th...