Blues Update

We like all clubs are surviving and didn’t have much of a squad to save costs. Don’t forget Blues are one of the rare clubs who had turned a profit for the last 3 years. How many other clubs are self-sustainable?

I am aware of some businesses giving money to the club to tide the club over and it was more if you can do anything to help, please do.

If the Club did not prepare for the season properly I am sure there would be a strong legal case of negligence from players if they got badly injured! That could cost a lot more than testing.

Excerpt from premiership regulations on salary.

"Academy Player" means any Player who, as at 1 September 2018, is between 16 and 24 years of age (inclusive) and whose total Salary for the Salary Cap Year 2018-19 or any previous Salary Cap Year does not exceed or has not exceeded £30,000 at that Club. For the avoidance of doubt, if total Salary paid to an Academy Player is, in any Salary Cap Year, in excess of £30,000, the Academy Player shall be treated as a Senior Player for the purposes of the Regulations. With effect from 1 July 2018, where any Player of a Club ceases to be an Academy Player of that Club and becomes a Senior Player of that Club, or where any Player of a Club was first employed by that Club as a Senior Player, in either case that Player will at all times be treated as a Senior Player of that Club and shall not at any stage be capable of being or becoming an Academy Player of that Club;

There is a good chance that these have been updated in view of recent irregularities by some clubs....... don`t mention the ...........