A popular topic of conversation and one that will no doubt crop up a few times this season.
FWIW Chris Phillips recently stated that the club was not currently under an embargo
This article may be of interest. It's from a few years ago but the bit about needing to submit a budget, that the fact of a club being under one is confidential (meaning Chris Phillips presumably has no way of verifying if someone is telling him porkies). With a few changes it could easily be one of Ron's missives
"The league correctly imposes these sanctions to look after its clubs and encourage sides to spend within their means or at least have a clear budget structure planned and outlined from the beginning of the season."
I'm sure that won't have caused any issues - we did after all manage to file our 2018-19 accounts by 2nd August 2021, so we're on top of such things.
Still, some eyebrows (not those one) may be raised at how come a club who isn't embargoed were unable to register Lewis Gard, Miles Mitchell-Nelson and Eren Kinali for Wednesday's night Premier League Cup game, but I'm sure there is an innocent explanation.
Ricky Holmes' on-off transfer has also attracted speculation as to why Ron hasn't sanctioned it when he's seemingly sanctioned every other crock (and for that matter, crook) we've signed the past 5 or so years.
Announcing a player joining on loan who has been training with us for over a month and played in six out of seven friendlies when their loan deal is still subject to FA clearance seems more a case of curious timing - rather like when Akinola was finally announced last season - everyone knew that was a deal done some weeks earlier, but an unfortunate injury kept him out until Sam Hart was also able to join. I'm sure FA clearance is a formality but why announce the signing now and not just wait for the formality of FA clearance to be received? It's not the language used when announcing other loan signings like Olayinka, Sterling and Hackett-Fairchild last season. It was however used to describe Jordan Green's signing in August when the club was under embargo (subject to EFL and FA approval in that instance). Fortunately if there is any ****-up over fielding a wrongly registered player again we're not subject to a suspended points penalty - we've been relegated out of the Football League's jurisdiction and it was the late payment of wages for which we received the suspended points deduction, not the fielding of an ineligible player and that penalty is now served (talking of penalties - what was the outcome into the FL investigation into calling off the Cambridge game?).
FWIW Chris Phillips recently stated that the club was not currently under an embargo
This article may be of interest. It's from a few years ago but the bit about needing to submit a budget, that the fact of a club being under one is confidential (meaning Chris Phillips presumably has no way of verifying if someone is telling him porkies). With a few changes it could easily be one of Ron's missives
"The league correctly imposes these sanctions to look after its clubs and encourage sides to spend within their means or at least have a clear budget structure planned and outlined from the beginning of the season."
I'm sure that won't have caused any issues - we did after all manage to file our 2018-19 accounts by 2nd August 2021, so we're on top of such things.
Still, some eyebrows (not those one) may be raised at how come a club who isn't embargoed were unable to register Lewis Gard, Miles Mitchell-Nelson and Eren Kinali for Wednesday's night Premier League Cup game, but I'm sure there is an innocent explanation.
Ricky Holmes' on-off transfer has also attracted speculation as to why Ron hasn't sanctioned it when he's seemingly sanctioned every other crock (and for that matter, crook) we've signed the past 5 or so years.
Announcing a player joining on loan who has been training with us for over a month and played in six out of seven friendlies when their loan deal is still subject to FA clearance seems more a case of curious timing - rather like when Akinola was finally announced last season - everyone knew that was a deal done some weeks earlier, but an unfortunate injury kept him out until Sam Hart was also able to join. I'm sure FA clearance is a formality but why announce the signing now and not just wait for the formality of FA clearance to be received? It's not the language used when announcing other loan signings like Olayinka, Sterling and Hackett-Fairchild last season. It was however used to describe Jordan Green's signing in August when the club was under embargo (subject to EFL and FA approval in that instance). Fortunately if there is any ****-up over fielding a wrongly registered player again we're not subject to a suspended points penalty - we've been relegated out of the Football League's jurisdiction and it was the late payment of wages for which we received the suspended points deduction, not the fielding of an ineligible player and that penalty is now served (talking of penalties - what was the outcome into the FL investigation into calling off the Cambridge game?).
