This is the thing though, if the rules are applied and that's the case, we're the only club who won't be "completely ****ed". "If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there though.
One thing seemingly forgotten over PSR this window is that it does still allow for a loss and the club owners have to finance that loss. Dragan financed that loss in his first season when we went a little wild (for saints) in the transfer market. He also paid a top price for the club and would have found it nigh on impossible to get that money back selling the club in the championship. I’m not surprised that we’re being very cautious this window, mainly spending on players who could operate in either division and minimizing disruption to the squad next season through either pre-madonnas or financial black holes
Well there are people out there who are so obsessed with stats when it comes to striker signings that they might have seriously posted something like you did. Complete with padding Armstrong’s already poor numbers by counting a bunch of ineffectual sub appearances when he 17 at Newcastle. Which I’d suggest might not be completely reasonable whether it’s serious or a joke
Obviously not saints related but aren’t there rumours of Sancho going to Chelsea and Sterling (and I think Chilwell) going the other way in a swap. That seems like a hilariously bad deal for pretty much everyone involved Sancho would seemingly break the wage structure Chelsea are trying to implement (lower wages and more performance incentive based) and be one of a crazy number of wingers they already have Sterling and Chilwell are both on big deals which is one of the reasons Chelsea want rid - along with Chilwell’s horrendous injury record (which would give Man United two left backs who are on big wages and always injured). Sterling mainly plays off the left and there is already Rashford and Garnacho and they seem to insist on keeping Garnacho out of the team to allow Rashford to continue stinking the place up. And they were allegedly changing transfer strategy to sign younger players with resale value which isn’t true for either of the Chelsea ones. It seems a ludicrous story and it will be mad if that goes off. I don’t pay enough attention in detail to other clubs to know whether things being really public actually make them unlikely (as seems to be the case with our deals)
Ramsdale will be better with his feet than most because of being part of Arsenal for so long. Not good enough for them is not the same as not good enough for us. He’s be a brilliant signing.
We'll end up with a Premier League where every team spends £150mil+ in summer, and starts the next season on -6 points.
I think people are forgetting that a bunch of clubs did those dodgy PSR deals at the end of June to meet the rules. And in some cases forced into “legit” sales. Look at Villa. Selling Douglas Luiz wouldn’t have been their plan after qualifying for the champions league. But that and the extremely dubious Kellyman transfer allowed them to sign the Chelsea left back and a Luiz replacement and other reinforcements. So there are probably fewer at risk of breaking the rules than we would think. And then they will do similar deals again when necessary unless any get punished for it this year. Which I don’t think they will. Most will just about scrape through any scrutiny (apart from this Kellyman one which seems hard to justify - assuming any review even happens)
