Transfer Rumours The “What the F**k’s the point in another transfer window thread- Winter 2025 Transfer thread

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Roland Deschain said:
Not about moaning, really, it's clear to all that we are hamstrung not by our owners but by the league/cartel. All I'd appreciate is clarity, really, in terms of basic numbers. How do we "sell" £65m of players, big £65m for Guehi, then actually not have any money?

I presume now with all finances published it's easy to work out who has what to spend, so not even a case of smoke and mirrors. Would be nice if someone could just spell it out - PSR means this, NUFC have spent that, revenues are £xxxx so can only spend £yyyy until Jul 1st.

The PL has proper ****ed a lot of the joy of football. Jan window the latest victim of their desperation to preserve the status quo. Like that Palace news, if I were a Palace fan knowing what's happened at NUFC, I wouldn't even bother reading it, as there's nowt they can do. Even if Bezos, Musk and Gates set up a new sports investment firm, they'd still be in the loan market.
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It's just ridiculous. And they've tied themselves in knots trying to figure new ways to restrict clubs from breaking the dirty six, they can't even make sense of it themselves any more. How can anyone genuinely justify the current financial rules as fair play?
 
Obi Wan said:
It's just ridiculous. And they've tied themselves in knots trying to figure new ways to restrict clubs from breaking the dirty six, they can't even make sense of it themselves any more. How can anyone genuinely justify the current financial rules as fair play?
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Self interest and jealousy.
 
Charlie Dogscock said:
I like him, gets goals and does the impact sub thing well at Liverpool, also makes space for other players.

High wages? He's on £140k a week at Liverpool, so we're paying Lloyd Kelly more...
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FadgewackeR said:
But we didn't pay a fee for Lloyd Kelly. He'd be at least £60m (not Lloyd Kelly!!)

I do agree with your points about being a good impact sub, and being a real handful, but he's too wasteful in front of goal for me to stump £60m on him.
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This keeps being forgotten or ignored.

If we hadn’t “bought” him on a “free” then he wouldn’t be getting that wage.
 
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Roland Deschain said:
Not about moaning, really, it's clear to all that we are hamstrung not by our owners but by the league/cartel. All I'd appreciate is clarity, really, in terms of basic numbers. How do we "sell" £65m of players, big £65m for Guehi, then actually not have any money?

I presume now with all finances published it's easy to work out who has what to spend, so not even a case of smoke and mirrors. Would be nice if someone could just spell it out - PSR means this, NUFC have spent that, revenues are £xxxx so can only spend £yyyy until Jul 1st.

The PL has proper ****ed a lot of the joy of football. Jan window the latest victim of their desperation to preserve the status quo. Like that Palace news, if I were a Palace fan knowing what's happened at NUFC, I wouldn't even bother reading it, as there's nowt they can do. Even if Bezos, Musk and Gates set up a new sports investment firm, they'd still be in the loan market.
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I believe the a deal for Guehi was a loan with an option to buy in the following season. That’s one of the reasons they rejected it.

We didn’t have any money to buy him in summer gone.

And we are at the end of the 3 year cycle in June coming up which wipes out circa 100m of spend off the FFP calcs.

So I think we will spend in Summer but probably not in January.
 
Judge GG said:
He’s not played well this season mind. Palace are in a relegation battle.
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I just don't get fixated on potential signings... whoever comes in will be good and it seems like it'll be the summer.

Newcastle appear to be planning on announcing a new state of the art stadium and to push forward again in 2025.

What's not to like.
 
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Judge GG said:
This doesn’t surprise me but how can they not be in breach of FFP. Unless they sell a **** load of players.

And they might do.
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Their commercial revenue is over double ours. They have an excellent academy that allows for pure profit sales and somehow they can sell hotels, training grounds and their women's team to themselves.

All leads to a big spend capability. they also purchased a load of high value players in the Abramovich era when PSR was but a pipe dream. Overall, there is / was a lot of value in the squad so their trading is much more effective than ours.

Hopefully we will be able to develop more talent and sign more commercial deals to level the playing field.
 
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Roland Deschain said:
Not about moaning, really, it's clear to all that we are hamstrung not by our owners but by the league/cartel. All I'd appreciate is clarity, really, in terms of basic numbers. How do we "sell" £65m of players, big £65m for Guehi, then actually not have any money?

I presume now with all finances published it's easy to work out who has what to spend, so not even a case of smoke and mirrors. Would be nice if someone could just spell it out - PSR means this, NUFC have spent that, revenues are £xxxx so can only spend £yyyy until Jul 1st.

The PL has proper ****ed a lot of the joy of football. Jan window the latest victim of their desperation to preserve the status quo. Like that Palace news, if I were a Palace fan knowing what's happened at NUFC, I wouldn't even bother reading it, as there's nowt they can do. Even if Bezos, Musk and Gates set up a new sports investment firm, they'd still be in the loan market.
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Watch this space.... "Which clubs are restricted by PSR in the January Transfer Window? - part 1" has just dropped on SwissRamble. We're in part 2.

Villa are sailing a bit close to the wind.
 
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