Yeah, Chelsea, Forest and Newcastle also did it. It’s a loophole to get around FFP/PSR. Transfer fees are amortised over the length of the contract. If you buy a player for £20 million on a 5-year-deal, it would count as a £4 million loss per year. However, any incomings from player sales are calculated as profit for that year so if you sell an academy player for £20 million, that’s £20 million pure profit. So buying a player for £20 million on a 5-year-deal and selling an academy player for £20 million in the same year would be a £16 million profit, not including wages. That’s why Chelsea, Villa, Everton etc. sold each other academy players for almost equal transfer fees.
Gin aged 17, either half a bottle or bottle before playing Neil Young songs at school concert. I couldn't understand why there was unbridled cheering in the middle of the songs. Only learned later that my 'friends' who were supposed to be doing a slide show of Hollywood scenes above my head had substituted them for shots of Mayfair centrefolds. Never touched gin since.
For me it was Whiskey , but a few years ago when my mum died we were clearing out the house & there was half a bottle of my dad’s whiskey, so I took it, drank it one night, & got over the whole no whiskey thing.
I'm another Southern Comfort abstainer, that and snakebite are the only two things I've got violently sick on and never touched again
If I was to give up every type of drink I'd been ill with I'd have been teetotal for the last 50 years!
Only just catching this now, yesterday was a washout for me. Very surprised, but not surprised, I thought Tan came across very well too, but that’s football and unlike other people who lose their jobs, he won’t have to worry about money for a while and will probably walk into another job anyway. That said, I did really like him and it appeared the 2 worked well together.
