Financially speaking – and the majority of us did interpret ‘trouble ahead’ through a fiscal lens when discussing potential candidates – this could be a tough year for Football League clubs. With a stifling economic outlook, more pressure will be on income streams and it may very well be that a greater number of clubs risk the wrath of the tax man and the authorities still in 2013-14. Indeed, a BBC Football League survey earlier this year reported that more than two thirds of the 41 Football League clubs who responded were worried about the financial health of teams in…
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TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 1 Preview
Following yesterday’s start to pre-season, in which we looked at all 24 League 2 clubs, our intensive schedule continues as we move on to League 1. Tomorrow, attention will turn to the Championship. Bradford City Fairytale Bradford City have added a little sheen to their well built squad as they look to attack League 1 at a canter – Rochdale’s Jason Kennedy and experienced winger Mark Yeates join the standout performers James Hanson, Carl McHugh and the quicksilver Nahki Wells in Phil Parkinson’s promotion winning squad. Much will be expected of Wells’ second shot at this level after a failed…
Is this Tranmere Rovers Vintage the Real Deal?
The general disbelief at Tranmere Rovers’ spectacular beginning to 2012-13 has all the same brought with it a highly pleasurable set of sensations – with most onlookers happily surprised at the Wirral’s finest’s unbeaten start and clear lead in League 1. Even the manager himself has seemed perplexed in front of the microphone – for while clearly confident in his players’ abilities, he is aware as anyone of the limitations placed on a club of Tranmere’s size by budget and resources. Those doubts persist. Ronnie Moore himself, in an interview with our sister site The Seventy Two, during his last spell with…
Swindon Town, Sheffield United and Financial Fair Play
Perhaps the most significant occurrence of these early weeks of the 2012-13 season has been the transfer embargo imposed upon Swindon Town after the Robins became the first to fall foul of the new League 1 directives that a club’s fees and wages should not exceed 65% of its turnover. You’ll recall that a transfer tribunal’s insistence that a combined £340,000 be coughed up for James Collins and Troy Archibald-Henville has tipped Swindon above the limit, much to the chagrin of their manager whose name escapes me for the moment. On first glance, the judgement seems harsh. After all, promising…
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