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Most of the main add ons are easily achievable much cheaper just to pay up even if that means borrowing the money

Maybe it has ffp consequences. I’m sure the accountant bods will find a way that the add ins can be structured in the accounts to then minimise the ffp implications.
 
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Disappointing because he was there for the taking. Jude wanted us but we f*cked it simply because we decided to wait and wait for him, neglect our squad, then ultimately fall out of the CL and then leave ourselves with a big rebuild to do.

This is a blessing in disguise because it sounds like we will get 3 midfielders for the price Jude. And it seems that lessons have now been learnt.

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Not sure can fully blame lfc. Dortmund weren’t selling last year and nothing could do about that after they lost Haaland. So we had to wait this year. Should the club have spent on another midfielder in the mean time? Hindsight says yes, but then we didn’t know team would drop off a cliff. Even if we did go and spend 100m on him last summer we’d still be in a position where we’d need to spent another 90m on 2 more midfielders this summer anyway.

Maybe could have spent 30-40m on a midfielder last summer, they’d help get top 4 but it’s all iffs and butts.
 
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But the selling club can demand what ever they want. If no one pays then fine player doesn’t go unless the selling club agrees to lower the fee.

Im not sure who you’re angry at? Brighton haven’t asked 70m for him because he has a release clause. If he didn’t they ask more and that’s totally their prerogative.

much like we asked for 120m for coutinho.

Well they can but in the it's counter productive for a club seeking to get in players who want to progress.

Brighton barely pay the average prem wage and have a small turnover thst is dominated by tv money.

we cannot compare what Brighton have to do to progress to what we.might want to do as lfc.

we never wanted to sell coutinho we demanded silly money.

the same can be said btw of Southampton. they felt "bad" that mane went for 34 mil. so when we turn up tapping up vvd they dug heels in, demanded big money and jumped up and down.

I won't go so far as to say that's a reason for their decline but it might be a small part of the thing as players might have been thinking twice.

same for spurs. I'd say a lot of agents don't really want their players going to levy's club due to the obtuse nature of their set up.

Brighton are doing well in spotting talent but also doing business and getting the thing progressing.

I'm not angry at anything, I'm merely pointing out that if clubs want to demand fees that are larger than a stadium build for any old player then the whole game is unsustainable and ordinary fans will be even more priced out
 
huh.

and here I am looking at the rather large wage bill that over rewards the bulk of the squad and socks up all the money.

but there are sensible and well run eh?

there must be a reason why we won't shift nat Phillips beside the 65k a week contract and him not taking a pay cut.
 
huh.

and here I am looking at the rather large wage bill that over rewards the bulk of the squad and socks up all the money.

but there are sensible and well run eh?

there must be a reason why we won't shift nat Phillips beside the 65k a week contract and him not taking a pay cut.
We have (well had) a relatively high wage bill because it's highly inscentivised. The wage bill for 2022-23 will be much lower because we didn't win anything.
 
So sounds like 35m plus about 20 in add ons is the cost. Decent value, should slot in nicely.

That’s the Gini replacement. Now for the henderson box to box role
 
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