Newcastle selling Elliott Anderson to Forest for £35m and signing Vlachodimos from Forest in a separate deal Newcastle also selling Yakuba Minteh to Brighton Newcastle signing a keeper might mean Pope is available, will surely have better offers than us and is tragic with his feet so Martin probably wouldn’t want him anyway (if we are in for a keeper at all now)
Hasn’t this happened to us a few time (I mean what seems to have happened to Brentford). Used by agents as a stalking horse to get the bigger clubs to finally get their act together a make a real bid for a player
The solution is to play for us in the PL, and then all the Leeds fans can watch him anyway with all the tickets they have at St. Mary's.
His best mates in football are Dan James and Ethan Ampadu, and he is allegedly as smart as a referee so Leeds fans seem confident he would be open to joining permanently
It depends what the fee is for Vlachodimos. Lots of outfits appear to be reporting the £35m fee for Anderson (which is ludicrously high), but I'm not seeing anything about what the fee would be Vlachodimos. If it was, say, £30m, then that's how it benefits Forest. Just more dodgy PSR dealing with two clubs. But if it was, say, £3m, then I agree that it doesn't benefit Forest at all. They'd be paying a net sum of £32m for someone who is worth nowhere near that, at a time when they have only recently just been punished for breaking PSR rules. My guess therefore is that the Vlachodimos deal is also for a ridiculous price. It's a total joke, and I hope the PL throw the book at these club (as much as it has the power to).
Massively overpaying on a player does not benefit them - PSR or not. I can get the whole thing of selling a player and getting the full amount as income and amortising a signing to reduce the cost. Simple accounting. But the massively overinflated fee seems to only benefit Newcastle here so I’m not sure why Forest would go along with it. Three letters doesn’t seem to be an answer to this
The clubs are essentially gambling that PSR will be overhauled soon. If they remain as they are, then the inflated transfer costs will be fall into then next few years accounts and restrict their activity then. It really isn't a sustainable strategy and only makes sense if a club is facing a severe points deduction.
Dont any changes have to be voted through by 14 clubs? They’ll all just vote to keep the rules the same if they can do this
Ipswich have done well to get Hutchinson back on a permanent deal. No surprise that Chelsea sold him - they love to sell an academy player - but I thought a higher PL club might be interested in him.
