If Fer is in the squad for tomorrow it looks like Sky were wide of the mark when they said an £8M fee had been agreed with Koo-pee-aar. Not saying he will stay obviously, but it would appear nothing has been sorted re his future as yet.

sky, getting something wrong???
unheard of!
of course, they wouldn't just make something up in order to make a killing on skybet... nooooooooo
ps. fer will still leave, i'm almost certain.
I was under the impression all the players had relegation clauses.
I was under the impression all the players had relegation clauses.
Apparently Stoke City have confirmed Cameron Jerome sale has been agreed with us for £1.5m. He has to agree personal terms and pass a medical.
Apparently some have as much as 50% relegation clauses, but not all of them. So if our entire wage bill was £50m (which looks about right based on the accounts) plus £10m operating expenses, I suspect the most we would save on wage bill is about 25-30%, or £10-15m, which does not nearly make up for the £45m drop in income.
So if we don`t go up this year we are in deep **** and will probably be forced to sell pretty much anyone left of any value just to stay afloat?
not sure where this snippet has come from but its absolute nonsense rob. nobody has had their wages cut by more than 20%. its still a big saving across the board!
What a relief.
its the wages that kill football clubs, not transfer fees. important to remember that. on the surface, a club might look like its spending an absolute fortune on players but if their wages are within a sensible cap it won't harm the club as they will live within their means, where another club might appear to be spending peanuts but paying astronomical wages to attract players they can't really afford and getting themselves into trouble behind the scenes. norwich have been doing the former. bolton were doing the latter and are now £165m in debt
That's why all the rubbish about Redknapp being a wheeler dealer and picking up players for peanuts is nonsense. Yes, he may not have paid big transfer fees over his careers, but my God did he convince chairman to depart with silly money for signing on fees and wages, and that's why pretty much every club he has managed has virtually gone to the wall. John Utaka and David Nugent were both on 60k a week at Pompey about seven years ago, no wonder they went bust.