Spotty's Seriously Sub-standard Second Rate Transfer Thread.

[Jugs]

Too much going on atm to remember everything

[BWFC_Insane]

Explained here.

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/14 ... t_sign_him_/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Our transfer ban does not allow ANY signings. So no frees, loans or suchlike. Nothing. Unlike other clubs who were restricted to frees and loans ours restricts everything due to non-compliance.

[BWFC_Insane]

The one thing that confuses me about our current embargo: is it because we've breached FFP? Or because we're currently under offer for a takeover? If the former, why does ours differ from e.g. Forest's, Fulham's etc?

It isn't that we've breached FFP. It is that we haven't submitted our accounts because they cannot be signed off by directors, because no guarantee for the future can be made.

I guess somewhat similar to failing to attend a drug test or suchlike. We may well be compliant but we've not turned up for the test.

[thebish]

The one thing that confuses me about our current embargo: is it because we've breached FFP? Or because we're currently under offer for a takeover? If the former, why does ours differ from e.g. Forest's, Fulham's etc?

I think it is that we have fallen foul FFP in not giving the appropriate guarantees about future funding of the club - and that is simply BECAUSE of the current uncertainty over the future takeover of the club...

(caution - this might be bollox!)

[Jugs]

What a complete balls up. So while some Championship clubs are signing players for £9,000,000, we can't even sign someone who's willing to play for free.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What a complete balls up. So while some Championship clubs are signing players for £9,000,000, we can't even sign someone who's willing to play for free.

(Major caution - this might be even bigger bollox than the bish's*) (*= caution, not bollox)

It might have something to do with the fact that he knows that he can't sign up as explaining why he made such a generous offer in the first place. I've heard of Formula One racing drivers driving for free and even some who paid for a seat, but I've never known any footballer at a professional club playing for free. I doubt it's ever happened. Do disabuse me of this silly idea if I'm wrong, but currently I don't think I am.

[Enoch]

What a complete balls up. So while some Championship clubs are signing players for £9,000,000, we can't even sign someone who's willing to play for free.

(Major caution - this might be even bigger bollox than the bish's*) (*= caution, not bollox)

It might have something to do with the fact that he knows that he can't sign up as explaining why he made such a generous offer in the first place. I've heard of Formula One racing drivers driving for free and even some who paid for a seat, but I've never known any footballer at a professional club playing for free. I doubt it's ever happened. Do disabuse me of this silly idea if I'm wrong, but currently I don't think I am.

I share your scepticism. It's a bit like when folk make a philanthropic gesture toward their fellow travellers whilst they dial the local rag to tell them what they're doing.

[thebish]

if that's the cynical case... then I would have loved to have seen his face as the club says - thanks, Shola, fortunately there's a loophole that enables us to take up your generous offer!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

if that's the cynical case... then I would have loved to have seen his face as the club says - thanks, Shola, fortunately there's a loophole that enables us to take up your generous offer!

maybe we can still pull it off, pretend to be the club, capture it on camera and get it on YouTube, and donate all the clickhit payments to some worthy cause like, errr, buying the club.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

[Lost Leopard Spot]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

Financial fair play is a hell of a way
To get footie fans bothered and flustered
If you don’t follow Amoebis a swallow
I’ll mark you down as a fxcking great bustard

You see, neither rhyme nor reason.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

Financial fair play is a hell of a way
To get footie fans bothered and flustered
If you don’t follow Amoebis a swallow
I’ll mark you down as a fxcking great bustard

You see, neither rhyme nor reason.

It's a sad old world without any rhyme...

[BWFC_Insane]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

Because without the piece of paper nobody can tell if we are compliant or not. So we could be way over. Or not.

It is like not showing up for a drugs test as an athlete. You may have just forgotten but equally....

[Lost Leopard Spot]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

Because without the piece of paper nobody can tell if we are compliant or not. So we could be way over. Or not.

It is like not showing up for a drugs test as an athlete. You may have just forgotten but equally....

So to take your analogy and run, baton in hand, with it, I shall rephrase AT's question. Why is it that Boltonia Wanda having forgotten to turn up for her drug test is banned from all competition for six years when Queenie Parkranger who deliberately took the drugs in front of the race officials only got a slap on the wrist ban of two years?

[Enoch]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

Because without the piece of paper nobody can tell if we are compliant or not. So we could be way over. Or not.

It is like not showing up for a drugs test as an athlete. You may have just forgotten but equally....

So to take your analogy and run, baton in hand, with it, I shall rephrase AT's question. Why is it that Boltonia Wanda having forgotten to turn up for her drug test is banned from all competition for six years when Queenie Parkranger who deliberately took the drugs in front of the race officials only got a slap on the wrist ban of two years?

You'd be better off putting that one to Rio.

[BWFC_Insane]

So, if we haven't breached FFP, I'd like to know why our punishment for simply not submitting a bit of paper with some words is somehow worse than QPR spending the GDP of a small country and sticking 2 fingers up at the Football League

Because without the piece of paper nobody can tell if we are compliant or not. So we could be way over. Or not.

It is like not showing up for a drugs test as an athlete. You may have just forgotten but equally....

So to take your analogy and run, baton in hand, with it, I shall rephrase AT's question. Why is it that Boltonia Wanda having forgotten to turn up for her drug test is banned from all competition for six years when Queenie Parkranger who deliberately took the drugs in front of the race officials only got a slap on the wrist ban of two years?

Partially because once we rock up with the piece of paper we will be unbanned immediately assuming that we are compliant.

If not then clubs who were over would have little incentive to submit their accounts for inspection I suspect.

[Jugs]

Oh, and Swansea also took Ngog off our hands the thrifty, shit bastards!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Oh, and Swansea also took Ngog off our hands the thrifty, shit bastards!

But, but... that was a good thing, no?

[thebish]

according to "reports"!!

Preston are in need of a winger and have been linked with a move for feeney along with Charlton but it appears that wages will be a big stumbling block for Preston.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

according to "reports"!!

Preston are in need of a winger and have been linked with a move for feeney along with Charlton but it appears that wages will be a big stumbling block for Preston.

Psssst Preston, there's this guy name of Shola. Not quite a winger as such, but wages aren't a problem....