If Shaqiri leaves, Harry Wilson is more likely to stay at Liverpool, with Burnley yet to improve their initial offer.
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If Shaqiri leaves, Harry Wilson is more likely to stay at Liverpool, with Burnley yet to improve their initial offer.
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Brewster off, confirmed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54385078
Brewster off, confirmed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54385078
so it’s £72m spend, £37m sales. £35m net spend so far this summer, excluding loan fees. I expect this to be zero by the end of the week.
you might want to revise this into spend this year and commitments over next 3 years.
the net spend is already likely to be zero in the immediate term.
now agents fees are another matter![]()

We're only paying approx £9m this year for Thiago and Jota with the rest accounted for in the coming years, whereas the full sales value can be booked in our accounts this year. (Hoever and Brewster = approx £30m)
The cash payments and payment schedules aren’t what hits the accounts, people never seem to quite grasp this.We're only paying approx £9m this year for Thiago and Jota with the rest accounted for in the coming years, whereas the full sales value can be booked in our accounts this year. (Hoever and Brewster = approx £30m)
It makes no odds really. Acquisitions of assets are always offset against a number of years anyway. So even if we’ve delayed payment on £40m, we would still only account for a % of that per annum anyway. Agent fees are operating costs that will appear in this years numbers regardless....unless we’ve cut a deal with them too.
The cash payments and payment schedules aren’t what hits the accounts, people never seem to quite grasp this.
For example, you sign a player for £20m on a 3 year deal and a player for £40m on a 4 year deal, the annual cost to the accounts are their wages plus amortisation, which is their purchase cost divided by their contract length.
So in this example just shy of £17m in the current financial year.
Profit on sales is what they are sold for minus what they currently stand on the balance sheet at, so a homegrown sold for £20m owes nothing and so the profit in the financial year is £20m.
Obvs this excludes any agents & signing on fees that are accounted for in the year they are paid.

still trying to work out why we end up paying out so much in agent fees
Simple it’s largely a tax dodge.
still trying to work out why we end up paying out so much in agent fees
still trying to work out why we end up paying out so much in agent fees
if it is because our players are taking a smaller wedge i dread to think how much our wage bill would beSimple it’s largely a tax dodge.
Most top players pay their agents a percentage of their total income. So it’s more tax efficient for their client if they take a slightly lower wage and get the agents slice paid by the signing club, as otherwise the player is paying the agent from his post tax income.

we have very high agent fees even in seasons with very few transfers .because we honestly declare it and don't have a separate bank about giving out free holidays where they get a diamond encrusted watch on arrival in their luxury hotel room.
I would love to know how much Mendes made off us on the Jota deal and also how much he made off the deals wolves have done.
An example is that he acts as the club's agent, for say a club wants to sell a player. He then turned up at wolves and says for a fee i can get you this player. then he gets paid twice PLUS gets paid a slice of player takings.
its on record that port paid mendes 6.2mil out of the wolves fee for fabio silva.
now whats not on record is what slide he got out of wolves and then what the slice of player signing on fee was.
So out of a "35 million" transfer there will be all sorts of other payments to player etc that brings this deal up to closer 45-50mil overall of which mendes might clear 10mil.
now look at 45mil for Jota. who knows how much has gone to the agent.
most credible answer so farThere is a reason we do our deals very fast without much of a fuss. We are defintely serial tapping up merchants. So it is like a bribe for them to shut the **** up and deliver their clients to us