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Tobes said:
Every club has racked up operating losses during the pandemic. The bigger the club, the bigger the losses. It’s hardly rocket science. As if you’re losing circa £3m in revenue for every home game during the period, plus reduction in TV revenues at the start and sponsors wanting a claw back, then it is what it is, and clubs need to cover these losses, whether that be from cash reserves (rare), increased bank debt (most likely) or owner intervention.

The impact on player acquisition will depend on the club concerned. I keep explaining how this works from a fiscal perspective but it doesn’t seem to land. A club could spend £200m on players this window, on say 4 players, all on 5 year deals. The cost of this spend to their profit and loss account for the current year i.e. what ffp is based on, would be £40m in amortisation plus the wages, signing on fees & agents fees.

These costs would obvs be offset by any sales, both in terms of the wage bill, but also the amortisation. So for example, if the same club sold a player who was either a homegrown or had been at their club for longer than his initial contract length, then his balance sheet value would be £0. So if they sold him for say £20m, that £40m amortisation cost would be halved to £20m

Yet all you’d ever see in a scenario like that on SM and the like, is Club A spent £200m on players yano.
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Not my area of expertise, but that's easy enough to understand. But in order to have the complete picture you'd have to have access to all the figures you've listed, and we rarely do, so it's easier just to point and yell foul.
 
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Tobes said:
Cash flow can be managed by borrowing against guaranteed future income, which many clubs do during the summer, as the first Sky payment isn’t paid until the end of August iirc.
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True, so the question is how close are some of these clubs to the end of that road when it comes to wanting money for buying players rather than regular cash flow to pay wages etc.
 
You guys do know you can buy things like yachts and speedboats? You dont really need to east all of the 20mil compensation.

A couple super cars and then a mansion and then staff and security and I'd probably be looking to steal another living at another club just to pay the Bill's.
 
organic red said:
Rumours Citeh are to offer £94m for Grealish <yikes>
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Mental if true. Wouldn’t even get into their starting 11. Would piss pep off most games by holding onto the ball too long and trying to win fouls rather than actually making the simple pass.
 
InBiscanWeTrust said:
Mental if true. Wouldn’t even get into their starting 11. Would piss pep off most games by holding onto the ball too long and trying to win fouls rather than actually making the simple pass.
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And freekicks aren't a massive advantage to then either. Seems pointless
 
Imagine grealish actually having to create something lols.

Hilarious.

Still, theres always taking pot shots and hoping for lucky reflections as well as falling over.
 
I think Grealish is decent tbh, if he was on a top team, he’d be better again. Maybe not £94m decent but that’s not his problem really.

the real concern here is that at a time that most clubs are financially strapped, City are going to spunk a few hundred million to strengthen. <yikes>
 
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DiogoJotaSuper said:
Shaqiri is dreaming of staying Liverpool by play very well in Europe. We are not going to buy it.
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80k per week til 2023 and he is now 29 and will be 30 in october.

why would you want to go anywhere to get less?

Its not in his interest to leave, 50k a week or whatever over say 3 year deal?

30k per week over 2 years = 3million quid.

If he holds out til next summer he can still move and get a 3 year deal somewhere at age 30.
 
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