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First step on the road to healing!! There's hope yet (just like with our club). A mate of mine was adamant (no not Prince Charming) that Bulut had quit last night in a heated meeting at the club... By all accounts reported on another less reliable message board... Yet there he is, taking training (with Rambo included)... Hopefully a striker and defender incoming soon... Probably from Reading as part of the takeover I guess
Just thinking aloud, is anyone else starting to get the feeling that VT may just be trying to tread water and outlay as little as possible between now and any potential payout via the Nantes/Sala legal cases, possibly in the hope of a significant amount of money getting 'returned' to him and thus making it a good time to sell up and walk away having mitigated some of his losses??
Maybe but you’d think as a businessman he’d consider that the sale price goes up the more successful a club is and vice versa ie speculate to accumulate.
I think he's as much afraid of breaching the sustainability rules and the potential penalties involved through committing a lot more money. Current player values on the balance sheet must be zero through amortisation right now. It's a gamble spending decent money on more players and watching their values depreciate to zero through their contract term as a result if they don't bring the desired success - unless you can sell them on for a profit of course. I know City had set aside a prudent Balance Sheet contingency of something like £21M over the Sala affair most of which has since been paid out to Nantes but not included in the P & L for the year to May 2022. If the club as alleged have borrowed money to do that, it would have to appear in this current year to May 2024 P & L when eventually published. Bear in mind, we haven't had the May 2023 accounts yet (due to be submitted in March). If Tan gets anything back from the Nantes court case it'll be a huge bonus, but unless an early out of court settlement is agreed, it won't be included in this years accounts to May 2024 either. Any further big spends on players and their committed contract wages would only make matters worse. That's not to say I don't want him to buy , but for all his faults and despite those that think he hasn't got any, the man is very aware and a very shrewd operator financially.
City pile it on..................... https://www.skysports.com/football/...-willie-mckay-five-years-after-plane-disaster
It's a sad indictment of the game that "agents" find a way to be even dodgier. Pay up Willie...you owe Vince £20m. Just hope for the family's sake that this whole debacle is concluded soon.
This is potentially very, very good news for City with regards their ongoing litigation against Nantes...................... https://www.skysports.com/football/...ch-settlement-five-years-after-plane-disaster
I assume that implicates McKay in dealings with the transfer. It certainly puts Nantes on the back foot with their denials. Let's hope things can be concluded swiftly.
Wouldn't mind betting that McKay has agreed to admit involvement with Nantes as part of the settlement.
Looks like it only needs the " T crossed and the i dotted " before Tan gets the settlement he deserves.
