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Total Spend £158million? Total against this years accounts - £47.5million ish

Income -
Watson - £10million - £10million in this years accounts
Jobe - £30 million - £10 million in this years accounts?
Ekwah - £5million - £2.5million in this years accounts?

Total Income - £45million Total in this years accounts - £22.5million

Net Spend so far - £113million Net spend in the accounts for this year £25million

Even if you said wages have gone up to 100 million per year (30 players on around 75k per week) the tv money more than covers it

Absolutely brilliant business from the club
None of the sales count against this years accounts. Maybe Ekwah on a technicality. Still great business but we could do with chipping away at the transfer cost for this season.
 
This whole thing seems a bit odd to me. We apparently waited fornhsi buyout clause to expire, on the basis that if noone offered it (which they didn't) then they would have to sell for less. But we're now apparently offering more money? I know it will be structured differently (clause would have been 100% up front) but I'm sure we will still be paying the vast majority as a lump sum, not sure it's been worth all the hassle just to pay slightly less up front but more in the long run...

What's also odd is, Bologna are apparently insistent they don't want to sell. Yet, it sounds like the player is keen which implies we have spoken to him... which means they must have given us permission to do so...... which means they are clearly open to selling?

Whole thing's very confusing lol

Release clause is usually pay in full.

Non clause spread over 3-4 years of contract.
 
Hopefully he will have many many more miserable MOTD appearances this season and beyond

I didn't make it home until after MOTD so missed the Shearer nonsense.

The whole show was all very unprofessional and shoddy imo.

Apart from Shearer clearing twisting his face the worst thing, for me, was the amount of time given to Isak who wasn't even playing.

It's supposed to be a round up of the matches, not 'Transfer Saga of the Year'.

There was absolutely no news whatsoever, just Shearer repeating what everyone knew and giving his lecture.

WTF did any of that have to do with the games ...

... is Shearer setting the agenda now or can we get on with watching the footy?

Moan ends ... please continue with the transfer rumours <laugh>
 
Aye not so much the Leeds lad as his points are pretty fair, but some of the ****e I’ve seen on socials from other clubs fans and us ‘risking it all’ and ‘how can they do that’ it’s all bollocks.

We didn’t start with a PL size wage bill like Leeds and Burnley, and we’d spend about 34p in previous 4 year.

Any club winning promotion at Wembley, with a team that cost less than Tommy Watson is clearly solvent …

… I rarely use the word but anyone who can’t grasp that is thick.
 
Also to consider, you "might" have had to insert a release fee clause in order to persuade some to join, you just never know.

Either way, some great work in the transfer market, that cannot be denied

I'd reckon they will mostly have release clause. Maybe not the three older guys, but probably all the younguns.

There may also be some "spoken agreements" between player and club and contrary to some of today's prevailing wisdom, these things do occur.

We've had a couple of them, and we've honoured them. Something a certain other lot might consider doing.
 
Fair enough, I'd still suggest we arent in any way shape or form in huge debt from transfer dealings this summer
Nah we'll be fine. We absolutely shouldn't spend all we can possibly spend this year, though, as that is artificially inflated by the sales in the last accounts. We need this to be a number that we can live with in 26/27 and beyond. I'm sure we will make sales along the way but it would be bad for us if we are forced to sell either to allow new signings or (worse) to stay inside the rules. You can't bank on sales as a necessity in your business plan as they are not always reliable - either in size or in timing.

If the worst came to the worst I think we'd be in a bit of a spot, personally. I think the standard of player we've brought in would all see themselves as being above the championship so we'd see a debilitating churn in the squad. I have no doubt that we'd be okay financially, but our chances of an immediate return would be diminished. Thankfully I'm feeling relatively confident that we won't have to find out!:emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
Nah we'll be fine. We absolutely shouldn't spend all we can possibly spend this year, though, as that is artificially inflated by the sales in the last accounts. We need this to be a number that we can live with in 26/27 and beyond. I'm sure we will make sales along the way but it would be bad for us if we are forced to sell either to allow new signings or (worse) to stay inside the rules. You can't bank on sales as a necessity in your business plan as they are not always reliable - either in size or in timing.

If the worst came to the worst I think we'd be in a bit of a spot, personally. I think the standard of player we've brought in would all see themselves as being above the championship so we'd see a debilitating churn in the squad. I have no doubt that we'd be okay financially, but our chances of an immediate return would be diminished. Thankfully I'm feeling relatively confident that we won't have to find out!:emoticon-0102-bigsm

And that's the conundrum isn't it.

IMO it's pointless, and defeatist, to bring in a standard of player who'd be happy to drop down to the Championship ...

... Burnley's entire philosophy seems to be based on that concept.

However they probably know it's pointless, to try too hard, because they're little better than Preston or Wigan in reality.

They had Dyche defying the odds but they're more likely to go down every season than stay up ...

... then they'll get it wrong, one Championship season, and fail to go back up..

After that the nerves will set in as they're now doing with Sheff Utd.
 
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