City transfer thread

Barton ----> West Ham is off.

Could they still be tempted by Hudd.

 

(1) I'd wait until the end of the second season before selling, only if the striker scored 15 or less and we were in the same division for the first & second year.
(2) Brentford really don't want to sell Gray, which implies they'd be taking a punt on this unknown replacement for a known entity. Both have not played in this division. Let them take the bigger risk, not us. If he scores 20 for them, he'll score 20 for us. 3 million for a better chance at a very large prize is peanuts.

 

Chicago Fire are now out the cup after losing 1-0. I wouldn't be surprised if they are now open to selling Maloney as they no longer have anything to play for. Judging by Twitter reaction he had a bit of a shocker, lots of fans hoping we come back in

 

He had a shocker on purpose

 

See, they are reasonably law abiding.

 

He'd look pretty funny if it wasn't.

 

What do we do after one year?

 

Maybe they wont tell us who he is until they sign him.

 

Their fans would call it off because he used to play for Tottenham.

 

Read my follow up posts.

 

I've just got out of bed and going through the posts.

 

We know who he is. Some 20 year old kid in France.

 

I would suppose that football clubs look at things on a P&L A/c basis. They'd have each players wages and the proportion of the transfer fee spread over their contract as a cost for each month. They'd look at the future with some estimates of likely additions and departures. I think they understand transfers and wages. I assume when they talk about budgets they mean it by how I have described.

 

We should sign him. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe the other 10 kids they have to sign to make sure they sign the right one?

 

I have no doubt that's how they do it, especially with FFP amortising transfer fees over the life of the contract, my point was more that the standard response of "Well sure, the transfer fee is lower, but the wages would be higher." Doesn't always cut it when you actually do the Maths.

 

It's interesting looking at what different clubs are prepared to pay. Southampton's match day income wouldn't have been a lot higher than ours but they would have got more revenue due to higher place in the league which is a chicken and egg scenario. They can sign Long for £12m and presumably pay him higher wages than us and yet only play him for a few minutes a match.

 

Their revenue is a lot higher than ours because of player sales though. They run their academy as a profit-making enterprise.

 

NINE consecutive posts on the same thread must be some sort of a record Peter - I don't think OLM (OurLordandMaster) has come close to that!

 

Don't think you can count!

 

I better start aiming for quality not quantity.