Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 Transfer Thread…

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According to Capology, we have a wage budget of £13m.

Top of that list is John Lundstram, who is on £45,000 a week (verified as well). Hopefully we’re not paying all of that.

Hadziahmetovic is also on £35,000 a week (verified) - can see why Besiktas were keen to offload him at that price. Again, hopefully we are not paying all of that.

Giles listed as £35k (unverified), not sure if that’s correct but **** a brick if it is, that’s a lot for a left back.

Compare that to Gelhardt’s £15k a week (verified) and it’s easy to see where we get more value for money.

EDIT: On the wage budget, I've just checked again and they haven't listed figures for Ndala, Destan, Williams, Akintola, Phillips, Ajayi, McBurnie or Gyabi, so our wage budget isn't £13m, it's probably substantially higher than that.
 
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Again according to Chat GPT (sorry I’ve just started playing with it)
  • Hull City Tigers have 1.8 billion shares ( some may be 0.09 p, which is a common practice in business)
  • It will almost certainly be Acun buying the £14.5 m share
  • Rather than a further loan, this is classed as owner equity and means for FFP purposes we have zero debt this year (in the rolling three year period)
  • It is for any of these strategic reasons; promotion push, future proofing ( so we can meet the more stringent premier league spending rules), signalling stability (signalling to EFL, agents, supporters etc that he is investing rather than building up debt).
Seems he ain't giving up ‘chasing the dream’ yet.

PSR tests on losses not debt. We will almost certainly make a loss this year. The 14.5m is just a cash injection to fund the running of the club (I would think). Cash =/= income.
 
According to Capology, we have a wage budget of £13m.

Top of that list is John Lundstram, who is on £45,000 a week (verified as well). Hopefully we’re not paying all of that.

Hadziahmetovic is also on £35,000 a week (verified) - can see why Besiktas were keen to offload him at that price. Again, hopefully we are not paying all of that.

Giles listed as £35k (unverified), not sure if that’s correct but **** a brick if it is, that’s a lot for a left back.

Compare that to Gelhardt’s £15k a week (verified) and it’s easy to see where we get more value for money.
The verified ones are spot on, the unverified ones are based on the best efforts of their research team (the same way Football Manager researches for their game and decides on contract values/clauses).

So the four mentioned take up £7m of the £13m. Which means the other 23 players are on £6m, so average of £5k per week. That seems very imbalanced?
 
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According to Capology, we have a wage budget of £13m.

Top of that list is John Lundstram, who is on £45,000 a week (verified as well). Hopefully we’re not paying all of that.

Hadziahmetovic is also on £35,000 a week (verified) - can see why Besiktas were keen to offload him at that price. Again, hopefully we are not paying all of that.

Giles listed as £35k (unverified), not sure if that’s correct but **** a brick if it is, that’s a lot for a left back.

Compare that to Gelhardt’s £15k a week (verified) and it’s easy to see where we get more value for money.

I’ve seen Trabzonspor fans on X say Lundstram is on €2 million-a-year there. £45K-a-week would be closer to €2.5 million-a-year.

I’m also curious how Capology verifies individual salaries.
 
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Chat GPT is suggesting losses be offset by cash injections?

There’s a few articles that suggest converting debt to equity (Everton, Forest and Leicester have done this) is a way of getting around PSR but I don’t think it’s true.
 
There’s a few articles that suggest converting debt to equity (Everton, Forest and Leicester have done this) is a way of getting around PSR but I don’t think it’s true.

Owners equity increases your spending limit but we've been doing that each year so I'm not sure this is the same thing. We're also not converting debt to equity here (our debt hasn't decreased I don't believe), I honestly just think it's us chucking cash into the club to keep it running without increasing the debt. Whether that means Acun is taking the hit against one of his other companies I'm not sure.