Players costs are recorded on the books are spread out over the length of the contract and include wages. It's a lot more complicated than we spend £50mill this year and recoup £50 mill so have £50mil to spend. Also agent fees and crap come out of each sale. A £100mill transfer that results in a 5 year contract would be recorded as £20mill +wages for each of the next 5 years on the books. A cheap player on high wages gets counts for more than an expensive player on low wages. Who knows what our books like and how much we have to spend? It's probably a lot more complicated than Henry telling Klopp he has £200mil to spend.
Money is irrelevant. None of our recent transfers have gone ahead just because the price was cheap or failed because the price was too high. If it's the right player and he's available to buy and wants to come then FSG will pay.
Well Man City have spent ridiculous money in last 2 years.. heck even clubs like Burnley stoke out spent us on net over last few years so I think we’re pretty good for s while yet. Especially if we get get rid of Markovic, Sturridge, Mig who are high earners.
Too many Championship Manager players on here. Who gives a **** about the bank balance ffs? I only care about the team and what signings we make
It's a rolling period of 3 years this cycle started in season 2016/17 to 2018/19 So.... whatever that's worth....
In 2016/17 we were 39M in black after tax so easily meet it in year 1. Can only assume we met it 17/18 with ease too.
it is complicated but for FFP its over a rolls 3 year period. so if you've 2 good years like we have say.... you can go mad in year 3.... this is in terms of "losses" made in the year. hence the odd city sponsorships we all wonder about. If LFC say spend 300mil this year... well it might be ok. I don't know. this is based on not spending 2 last yeas but then we might find that in 12 months time we cannot spend as we have only one good year and one whopper of a year so need to be frugal.
I think, if we bought a player for £60mil. And he had £10mil per year wages on a 4 year contract he would count as a £25mil expenditure EACH year (£60 / 4 + £10) not £50m in the year he was purchased. So, after his third year looking back in FFP he would count as £75mil in expenditure.
lol well maybe not your description of Hendo but: tidy on the ball = hendo king of side to side passing can play a through ball = he doensn't do it often but hendo has put in some neat throughballs winning the ball back = okay hendo doesn't do this very effectively covering large space = one of hendos strengths is that he can run all day long like milner.
Tidy on the ball doesn’t mean just passing sideways. It’s about being confident in possession, not ****ting yourself when pressed and playing quickly and passing through lines. Whilst Fabinho isn’t Alonso, he can hold his own. Hendo can occasionally play a through ball - granted. Fabinho is a really good ball winner, excellent tackling and tracking. Hendo isn’t great in that respect. Covering large spaces isn’t about being able to run around. It’s about being positionally aware and blocking passing channels to prevent a pass even coming near you in the first place. This is arguably his best attribute - great intelligence and awareness. Not to mention the fact that he’s stronger and better in the air.
Just a question. does fabinho blindly lump it into the box from deep right midfield and call it a through ball?
no thats not how it works. It is how you might amortise yes but its not how FFP looks at the finances. If you managed to get a club to take their transfer fee that way then sure great but if you pay 70mil upfront to southampton then that 70mil off the books right then. Same for if coutinho got with two installments to get to 120mil or whatever. it could be 100mil in now. writing down the players value over the lifetime of a contract is not the same as the profit and loss which FFP is all about. This is why PSG "loaned" mbappe this season and didn't buy. They will buy this summer but in effect they kicked the FFP issue down the road. The only losses The rules allow are those related to capital investments and such like our stadium. IF you double your wages in a year it hits FFP. If you build a 90k stadium it doesn't. Buy a 50mil player it does, buy a 50mil training gorund no.
LIVERPOOL TARGET €60m CILLESSEN Liverpool are interested in Barca 'keeper Jasper Cillessen, reports Mundo Deportivo. The Reds are keen to bring in a top shot stopper this summer after Lorus Karius’ calamitous display in the Champions League final and Roma’s Alisson Becker and Atletico’s Jan Oblak have both been linked with a move to Anfield. Now Mundo Deportivo reports that they are also keen on Cillessen, who has been the second-choice 'keeper at Barca since making the move from Ajax in 2016. Barca have been made aware, via a British agent, that Liverpool are keen on the Netherlands international, but they La Liga champions insist that he is not for sale. Cillessen, who is under contract until 2021, has a €60m buyout clause.
Isn't there a provision in ffp for one-off investments? I seem to recall that while limited, it was possible.
