Watching Tadic the other day and I really long for the days of him and Pelle. But time moves on and I don't think we should be looking at former players... That being said there's currently a striker at Az Alkmaar who, if you squint, almost looks like Pelle. It's the Greek striker Vangelis Pavlidis. He had a pretty good season and is moving into the final year of his contract. So whilst not bargain basement and without the history of playing in the PL, he would at least allow us to reminisce about when we had Pelle.
Would definitely take a punt on Pavlidis, although he does feel quite Brentford after they sell Toney to me, apropos of nothing.
Onuachu will not come back to England according to his agent, wants to stay with Trabzonspor on loan or permanent
The wording sounded more like he will refuse to come back and will force a move, specifically to Tranzonspor
He said on TalkSport that we would spend the maximum that FFP would allow us. But no one knows what that amount is. And looking at the promoted clubs last season I’d still have no clue. Burnley spent £92 million net, Luton £20 million and Sheff Utd £7 million. Would like to think that as we were only out of the prem for one season it would be a fairly decent amount??
There was an article I read that said £132m was the golden number and very few promoted teams that spent less than that survived, maybe like 2 in the last decade. Think it took into account wages as well though, I’ll try and find it
Here it is, misremembered a couple of things. Only went back 6 years with just one team surviving with less than the £133m total bill for the survival season (so entire squad wages and transfer spend) https://www.givemesport.com/leicester-ipswich-southampton-cost-premier-league-survival/
We also just went through a season where we played in the Championship with the wage budget of a PL side, which is going to have a carry-over effect on our finances and FFP compliance.
Yeah I have no idea how it’s calculated but saw my Ipswich mate the other day and was asking him about any incomings etc and he said all he’s hearing is they basically can’t spend anything because of FPP and having 2 seasons in League One in their last 3 means they are completely hamstrung The major plus for us I guess is the player sales last summer (I know we spent big the previous season but some of that should be offset against PL revenue for the season). Be interesting to know what the FFP figure is for us. I’m sure someone could work out with reported transfer fees/wages/turnover etc
It's incredibly convoluted...I'd like to think that I have a decent grasp on football finance as a whole, but any sort of precise estimation of FFP figures is beyond me, particularly when you introduce factors like relegation. Kieran Maguire is the best resource; guessing he'll put something out before the season begins.
Which is why FFP is such a ludicrous, and largely unfair load of cobblers. Imagine doing what Ipswich have done, getting back to the big league, then being told you can’t really spend any money to try and stay there.
I mean if I was them/us I’d just say **** it and spend anyway. Then just point to the punishment Forest received, which is directly comparable to both clubs having just been promoted. Getting a -2 but having the squad they have is far better than keeping the squads us and Ipswich have and no deduction. Obviously don’t know about any further punishment Forest may receive whilst that summer is still in their FFP period, but so far the punishment is 100% worth the crime
