So are the club using FFP as an excuse not to buy or is there truth in it?

Personally I haven't a clue so has anyone done the Maths in order that we can put this hotly debated subject to bed once and for all;along the way giving some insight into how it's calculated please without it becoming Einstein's Theory perhaps more Duckworth Lewis?

Assume the calcs are based on our accounts.

Bring back Brolin

Neither am I

It's an excuse club is far of hitting it plus there is ways you can do things to get around it.

SP himself has even messed up few times letting it slip it's not ffp which is problem.

the issue is sp is trying to run the club so it's balanced we bring in say 100m he will only spend 100m you can't do that if you expect business to grow.

I also think something iffy is going on with the books anyway and SP appears to be taking fair amount out of the club with his so called separate companies offering services.

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Not many do things for the fun of it and you can hardly call running a football club where you have endless employees taking money for not producing anything of note, fans moan at almost ever decision you make etc etc that much fun I would say.

So the option is to have someone close own a catering company and use them, someone own a travel company and use them, etc etc etc.

Who knows if it happens but let’s be honest the hundreds of million that swirl round football must make a lot of people seriously well off.

If you think it’s all legit then we might aswell say this world will carry on just like it is for another thousand years let’s not lower our plastic use etc etc. No bleeding chance mate!

So, i have been told, but do not have exact details, that Parish has property, in soho under the company name 'smoke and mirrors'. That is his. He then rents this out to CPFC, they rent this office space and pay 'smoke and mirrors' nicely for it - but it's the chairman's office. The chairman, Steve Parish.

That's an extra way parish gets paid by CPFC. Then there are obviously shares, bonuses, a basic wage.

I do not have any issues with parish making money out of the club, so long as it's reasonable - is this reasonable??

Let's look at the squad - is Sakho really worth it? for what we want to do, is he the only option? Same goes for Benteke, Wickham, Schlupp and Reidwald.

Do we need 2 number 1 goalkeepers? Who is on more? We can't find a younger keeper to grow and challenge or an older head happy to take the back seat?

There are plenty of players we could poach from champ sides, relegation threatened and mid table periferal players that would suit us,

This was once a quality forum....

Totally agree. Think SP is losing interest.
Ashley?