Well the amount of quality players who are out of contract in the summer for starters. Ok i know all clubs will be looking at that first, but IF you dont have to pay transfer fees then its a massive help. It could well be down to who wants to play for Nick Barmby now. As you said, an interesting summer awaits off the pitch.
I would not hold much sway with that. We only have Fryatt, Mclean and Simpson now as out and out strikers and Simpson will surely go. That leaves 2. Will need 2 more who can actually score goals surely ? Mclean is needed and i would be amazed if NB let him go. Thank god that we did not waste £3.5m and sign CMS, now he has gone off the boil in 2012.
So you'd have decent squad depth like Simpson shipped out for absolutely nothing because of wages, but you think we should keep Oli? And please don't tell me how **** Simpson is - his record speaks for itself - it's not a top class one but it's one that's worth hanging onto rather than bringing in someone for £1m plus. Ah, I was under the impression that it was transfer fees in compared to transfer fees out. No idea where I got that from.
So you consider Simpson to be decent then do you ? Now that is bollox. The guy does not want to be here and has played as such. Why did Millwall send him back to us in Jan ? I think he only has a year left now and IF and its a massive IF we can maybe use him in a player plus cash deal but i am not sure what Simpson would get you now. His form - desire to play for us has gone as far as i am concerned. So yes Simpson can go,, imo.
Something stuck somewhere in that quote that made me realise why I consider him decent regardless of what he's done, or not done. I've been backing him since he joined but I think it's mainly to do with that fact that I don't particularly approve of McLean and Fryatt, so I always pretty much have to view Simpson as our best striker. It's probably total bullshit but I can't help but dislike Fryatt
Your not alone in your Fryatt thinking. I know people who did not like or rate Deano, but hey ho thats life. As for Simpson ? The lad has some talent but wont use it. Fryatt cuts a frustrated player to me and in need of some help up top at times. Why does not NB play Fryatt in the hole (Korens role) behind Mclean who gives it his all,, end of. The only other option for the hole after tuesday has to be Olifinjana who is a good passer of a ball. Mckenna and Evans need to be where they have excelled all season long. But back to Simpson. He does himself no favours at all and something is missing from him. A move back down south for starters looks to be first part imo.
Without going into too much detail (and certainly not the tax implicatins of things), for the fair play rules it's the whole lot, you're basically looking at the end of year accounts with a couple of non-football costs/incomes excluded. (eg if Allam Marine suddenly sponsored us at a cost of £50M a year the FL could rule it doesn't count towards our income as it isn't a legitimate business transaction) If you spend £2M on a player and pay him £10k/wk on a 2 year contract then he'll cost you £3M over the 2 years (using 50 weeks a year for wages). If you get a free transfer and pay them £30k/wk on a 2 year contract then he'll also cost you £3M over the 2 years. In more detail, I think free transfers are going to become a much bigger market in the future. Although you have to commit to bigger wages, from an accounting perspective it allows you to bring players in and have their entire transfer fee if you sell them count as income that year which with FFP is a bonus. What's important to remember here is that it doesn't matter when you actually hand the money over for transfer fees, or when you receive money for players you sold. All transfer fees for players bought are split over the length of their contract when you're doing your accounts, but all transfer fees received for players are cpoounted in full as soon as the transfer is completed. At the end of the first year the £2M player is valued in the books at £1M (transfer fee split over the two year contract means he reduces in value by half each year). The accounts show that for that year he is a cost of £1.5M, £1M from the transfer fee being absorbed and £500k in wages. If you then sell him for £1.5M that summer you'll have £1.5M in income as a result, but you'll still have that £1M value to write off so you'll automatically have a £1M expense as well. If you did the same thing with the free transfer on £30k/wk then the cost at the end of the first year is £1.5M, all of which is wages. Because there's no transfer cost to start with though there's no value held in the accounts. If you then sell him for £1.5M that summer it means you then have an income of £1.5M but with no expense attached to it. In cash terms it makes sense If you sign a player for £2M and have paid him £500k in wages then the total cost is £2.5M. If you sign a free player and have paid him £1.5M in wages then the total cost is £1.5M so you should have £1M more left at the end if you sell them for the same price. From a FFP sense it's even more so. Year 1 - Both players cost £1.5M Year 2 - The £2M player sold for £1.5M contributed £500k to the club, the other player also sold for £1.5M contributed £1.5M. That extra £1M is counted in the total for the next 3 year's fair play rules which gives you a competitive edge without ever having agreed to pay more money overall, and if you can pay the fee in installments as well without altering your cashflow in any way. (What's the difference between giving £10k/wk to a player/and £20k/wk to a club, and giving £30k/wk to a player?) I know even without FFP you're still £1M better off with the frees, but there's never been such a benefit in the rules so clubs when a player had a year left would try and sign players for smaller han normal fees and get their wages down. Now they might as well wait a year and give them the fee in increased wages.
I thought that as I was saying free transfers would become more popular you'd like it since you're already having us sign almost half a team on frees in the summer.
