I wonder if our results are considered meaningless by Shrewsbury, MK Dons, Port Vale and their like because we spend more money and are lucky that our owner covers debts and uses the losses to legitimately offset to some degree against profits from his other group businesses. All within the rules, all legit, but I wonder if those other clubs agree we operate on a level playing field with even others like Rotherham. I assume Bulkhaul, for example, does not operate and make profit within any of the regimes owned by Man City, Newcastle etc and other similar regimes and that money never ever filters its way into the profit and loss accounts that assist in Boro’s wider picture.
As for rule breaking and cheating, we have done so a few decades back and we lost our PL status for doing so., it just was not a financial rule thats all. I recall Robbie Mustoe saying the players were all against it too. Horrendous decision and cost the club financially.
Anyway, nice to know we are squeaky clean in every way and don’t need to ignore any element of where the clubs money may have filtered down from…. Phew!