Transfer Rumours Summer 2024

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Something to note about Mara, The money brought in is pure profit.
Also the remaining payments out of Saints for his signature sre null in void.
Because Bordeaux no longer exist.
 
Something to note about Mara, The money brought in is pure profit.
Also the remaining payments out of Saints for his signature sre null in void.
Because Bordeaux no longer exist.
Why is it pure profit? Didn’t we pay a fee for him?
 
Yes, But Bordaeux no longer exist. Unless I'm confusing pure profit and profit again.
To be fair I don’t know if the amount he is held at in the books gets written down if we never need to pay the full amount. We might be able to make that case. Would be a weird one but football accounting is

Profit and pure profit aren’t really different things. It’s just “pure profit” is a made up football term for players recognised at zero value due to being homegrown - so it’s 100% profit on any sale. It’s such an insane system as it discourages clubs from keeping homegrown players. Not from developing them - that is important still
 
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They aren’t as good at it as us. Interesting that they think we’ve given ourselves a chance of staying up when most Saints fans think we are ****ed

They don’t seem overly bothered by Archer if it’s a permanent deal, any idea yet what the fee is? Imagine it’s more than we are getting for ABK, probably about £20m if I had to have a guess
Do most fans think we're ****ed? I don't. Wasn't that your opinion last year to?
 
Wow lots of new rumours in one evening! Hope they come to fruition. Mara and hopefully eventually ABK out, Archer and some promising Chelsea youth DM in would be some big steps in the right direction after several weeks of nothing. Hopefully can actually get these over the line...
 
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Something to note about Mara, The money brought in is pure profit.
Also the remaining payments out of Saints for his signature sre null in void.
Because Bordeaux no longer exist.
I don't think is quite true. I am no legal/financial expert, and laws will vary in France, but we will likely still have to pay an administrator or something similar. I doubt the debt will just be wiped clean.

Other clauses like sell on and after international caps etc could well be qiped though.
 
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Looking at Archers stats, it doesn’t exactly fill me full of hope
I have a few villa mates as work for a midlands based company. They rate him very highly and think he’ll end up better than Watkins. Said he’ll do a lot better in a team playing our way than what Sheffield United did. Also that he’s a good lad who will work hard for the team. They’re a bit gutted that it’s a permanent deal, and news up there is that he’s already down south having his medical?
 
Hopefully ABK out goes through today too. That is taking time considering the medical is usually the final step. I get they would have wanted information/reassurances on the heart operation etc. but given that was apparently a known quantity that isn't a new issue, you wouldn't have thought that it would delay things by multiple days as it seems to have done.