Having offered his initial thoughts, Esk has now looked deeper into the numbers.
It's a long read and the numbers are scary...
Once the headlines are out of the way and the carefully prepared media statements are published, a more balanced view of the accounts is called for (in my opinion) plus within the details confirmat…
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Grim reading Andy, although Paul the Esk was not quite as clued up on our transfer business as he claimed to be a few years ago, but, he does have a good grasp a balance sheet. It really is terrifying that a lot of fans are still lauding 'Mosh Man' and discussing the tens of millions we will be spending in the summer. We are really In a dark place both on and off the pitch, and, whether by poor judgement, in appointing incompetent people to do the day to day running of the club, or, an owner showing reckless disregard for the advice those people are giving him, or, as I'm inclined to believe a mixture of both, we are heading for oblivion if this is not addressed immediately.
It you have a look at the transfer window thread, for example, it is like fantasy island. So many people seem to believe that if we can manage , by some miracle, to comply with financial regulations a then we will be able to give Lampard or his successor, all of the money raised by the sale of our better players to rebuild the squad. It doesn't seem to register that this is a business which is losing well over a hundred million pounds per year and, irrespective of financial compliance or not, the cold hard facts are that we are heading towards recievership.