Someone help me out on this: 1. Chelsea go on a ludicrous spending spree, clocking up in excess of £500m in transfer fees on the face of it. Further scrutiny explains that they wouldn't be in breach of FFP because they were handing out 8 year deals, which thus meant spending £107m on Fernandes was actually like spending about £15m from their annual budget. So whilst it was a bit crazy, it was a way around it. 2. Newcaslte, with hugely inflated guaranteed future revenues, zero debt and a wealth of new sponsorship, spend £65m on Tonali on a 6 year deal, roughly £11m from the annual budget. But we get constant reports about how, if we're lucky, we might be able to afford Kyle Walker-Peters as our new first choice CL-ready full back. So what I'm confused about is why the media choose to make a host of allowances for Chelsea, whose money/success comes from THE most questionable sources (see Matthew Syed's blood money comments if you want context), but for Newcastle we're stuck with massive budget/FFP restrictions. The point is, how is it one rule for some and a completely different rule for others? Not suggesting we can do a £500m splurge, Chelsea obviously have years and years of CL revenue, loan deals, etc., but it's the interpretation that I just cannot ****ing understand.
I always reckoned we’d get four elite players then youth. I have a funny feeling we aren’t going to go with a DM, I think Howe is going to build on the things he was trying last year, where the RCB advances more.
Announcement won't be till July. Same as Botman it's so the profit/loss goes into next years ffp year
Telegraph: "Apparently, the versatile defender is valued at £30 million but Newcastle are hoping to sign him for half of that amount. Newcastle already submitted a proposal to sign the defender in a player-plus-cash deal involving Ryan Fraser." £30m when he's only played 2 PL games? Really?
Yeah that's too much of them to ask but to clarify the guy was Chelsea academy player of the year 2 years ago. This is an academy who have been the best in the country in the past decade. When he left them (at age 18 two years ago) pretty much every club was interested, had an injury but played 28 games the season before last. I'd say for 12-15m he's probably worth a punt but more than that seems too much. He apparently covers left-back, right-back and centre-back.
