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The only thing showing in the audited account is there is no material change in sponsorship and commercial income throughout 2014-2016, all around 25M annually.

Or you can go and study what is materiality and annual report presentation standard in accounting first, Shearergol.

Wonder what happened to that, given that it had mysteriously disappeared from the latest accounts and we'd clearly not received anything. Could have been utilised to bolster this summer's budget if it actually existed. Another lie from this c***. Zero will know. Why would I know when it is immaterial to be shown in financial statement?

I am satisfied for the improvement between ins and outs, if not looking at our team needs...

We are probably done, in any sense.

He is Ajax no. 10, their main driver for the Euro Cup run, the core #10 and speciaist at free kick. It really makes a lot of sense going for him, except that he is from the physically weakest league in the world...

Oh, wait a minute, that makes fucking sense to go there tbh, Ziyech is still available and his market price is around 20m from what I heard.

I think it's more likely we'll use the money on a striker. Although either player, at the level to make a guaranteed impact, should cost way over £15m. We'll see but I'm not convinced. #10 is crucial to Rafa's system and we've got good support, some pace add goal threats out wide now. Main issue is Perez / Diame are not good enough and don't contribute. Add a 10 goal / 10 assist player into the #10 spot (I know) and loan a striker such as Origi and we'd be in far better shape than just replacing Gayle like for like imo. Basically this. Strategically this is what we should do, if we have time.

Gayle isn't a Benitez type striker, IMO. His hold up play isn't good enough. Disagree with this like, think it's purely down to his fitness. If Gayle doesn't trust his own body, how can Benitez? he even not able to do it in Championship when he was fully fit.

Again, why do people think that we'll have that money? We sell players in installments and buy them upfront. If we sell Gayle now Rafa will see about £5m of the fee. If you believe the latest media stories, the problem is not transfer fees but wage limits. Of coz 5m or 15m did matter a lot but I don't think this is the crucial factor now, it's time and willingness.

Rafa must have identified replacements already. No question about that. Just a matter of time and willingness. I do think he wants to sell Gayle, not the other way round.

Considering 15M offer from Fulham per skysport

This cunt gone yet?

You missed out another part that makes it around 164M total.

Rafa has the final say on transfers, it's only the fund that is the issue, so this must be approved by him, and he should know that the chance of getting a replacement at this moment is slim. Thus, the most possible answer is, the rumour that "someone" clashed with Rafa in training ground is real and, Rafa has decided to not playing Gayle anymore, thus rather than rotting in the squad Rafa prefer to sell him ASAP. I honestly can't think of other scenario if Rafa still has the final say. And in addition, given there is intl break, Rafa should handle the transfer negotiation himself, so replacement shouldn't be a problem. The problem is the reason for selling Gayle may not be for funding replacement, it could just due to Rafa doesn't want Gayle in the team anymore, which in this case we really won't get any replacement and Joselu Mitro are our only option for this season.

I think the problem is if Barca failed to sign anyone, Messi would not sign the contract and could leave for free next summer. That must be the end of Barca.

I actually wonder why suddenly all the media are talking about the wage limit like they knew it for a long time, but in fact none of them mention this during last few months.

I remember he got an Italian passport so no work permit issue. And seems we should make a separate thread for him.

So Rafa has funds to spend for transfer fees but The Fat Cunt doesn't allow further increase in wages? What logic is this?

Get the fuck in

Apparently Lemar agreed basic terms with Liverpool. Just pending both clubs to agree the fee.

I don't understand why it seems like Gayle wants to leave ASAP or we want to move him ASAP. I don't understand the urgency. What is happening behind the scene?

Ok to be serious, I really expect us to get more signings, based on the following assumptions, believe it of don't: 1. The argument between the fat cunt and Rafa is purely for funds, and Rafa still has the control for transfer; and 2. The fat cunt told Rafa that he has to sell before buy to generate funds himself. If the fat cunt already took back the power and Rafa is a walking dead waiting for the moment (which I doubt base on the display vs West Ham), then just ignore my words. We have sold de Jong and Rivière for around 6M total, and freed around 80K wages (wild guess). If we are able to move Hanley, say, for 2M, then likely we could get a player around 10M back, together with Kenedy on loan. The question is whether we got enough time to get one in so we need to move Hanley ASAP.

If a loan rather than a buy, then likelihood of starting is likely to be a factor. Would the shirt be his to lose there? Suspect it would be here. No, I mean Origi is in the package offered by Liverpool for Lemar, 80M + 1 year loan

Absolute fraud according to my gunner friend.