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Come on Posh!  :wotjump:
Might pop to a pub to watch.  :pint:

Last time they played the other week the scummers won 5-0

I have a nagging inkling they will end up winning the playoffs

Amazing what a bit of investment in the team and stadium does….

We are in enough shit ourselves to worry about those fuckers anyway.

I won't watch them but will probably watch the National league play off on Sunday to see who our opponents will be next season between Solihull and Bromley.

Aren't Oxford losing 7m a year?

Yeah, I don't want to be like that thanks.

Ambition is fine, but that's just ludicrous and not at all sustainable.

Some sort of middle ground would be nice.

Just over 6m in the last financial year presented, with 26m owed to Group Undertakings, so this is not financed via Equity like some others.  I'm intrigued about how they get around the FFP rules given their Cost of Sales exceed Turnover, which usually means the wages are very high for players.

I'm pretty sure they pay Brannagan something stupid like 15k a week.

12k a week

Owned by billionaires though and not by a plumber

Will they want their money back is anyones guess

I can't see anybody being content with 6m per year losses unless they think they have a realistic aim of getting to the Premier League. Or if they think this new stadium is going to make it back in the long term somehow.

These playoffs are vitally important. Every year they spend in league 1, the deeper shit they get in as a club.

In the Championship it only takes a half decent campaign and you can sell players for 10+ million in todays stupid market. So fingers crossed P'boro dump them out.

Looking back with slightly rose tined specs I wonder if Andrew Black sometimes kicks himself that he pulled the plug on PdC's excessive spending when he did as we were in a prime position for promotion at the top of league 1.

If he stuck with it and we could have taken the next step up and finally started making money with the mad Italian in charge and the rich Englishmans ownership.

Just look at where Bournemouth are now.....sigh.

I think about this almost weekly. Sigh.

Even if Black really did want out asap. A few months & he would have been selling a back to back league winning side with the most momentum in the whole football league.

That in itself would have made it a much more valuable sought after business to sell…
Anything he would have lost between Feb - May he would have got back in increased value

And instead he sold to the first in a long line of chancers in Jed McRoarrry and the rest as they say is history.