Huddersfield Town Q&A: Finances, John Smith's Stadium and Michael Duff

More of your questions answered, with even more to follow, you lucky people

We covered the first load of questions on our podcast Q&A - you can listen to that here if you’ve not already.

There were so many that we’ve decided to split this written section into two parts, because it’s about three times the length of what we would normally publish on We Are Terriers, and that’s too much to expect any of you to read in one sitting.

This is the first one, covering your financial, stadium and tactical queries. We’ll release the next part, which will focus on the transfer-based questions, on Monday.

Thanks once again for all your contributions! If we’ve not covered yours below or in the podcast, it’s probably because we’ve addressed it in the course of answering a similar question or because we already have a separate piece dedicated to the topic planned in the not-too-distant future.

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Andrew Moore: Kevin Nagle has advised that there will be no staff layoffs after the relegation? (Even built new offices for the expanding team). My question is what is the financial situation in League One? Lots of conflicting info on what can be spent and what can’t…and what implication does this have on signing players?

SC: Some of you may be aware that in the Championship, the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules effectively mean that you can’t makes losses of more than £39m in any three-year period.

Things are different in League One and League Two, where the EFL is more concerned about making sure clubs don’t run into cashflow issues, because it’s cash problems and not profit/loss that lead to insolvency. As a result, the EFL has devised different FFP rules for the third and fourth tiers, known as the Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP).