The College Dropout

Football careers can be very short man. Retired at 30 then? I hope he chose to retire because he’d earned enough to not need the money and the apprenticeship is not to get by. doesn’t sound like that’s the case maybe. Dickhead thing to do here

Just want to say, I wanted us in for Amad last season. Excelling in the Championship at a young age is a great predictor for PL suitability. Shame it’s not true of ‘our’ Armstrong.

Think Garnach is good. Dont know if he’s quick or technically good enough to make a profit over £50m for the buying club.

this is very true. Only just seen his goal and assist at OT. Both well taken but it's only Man U. Hope he can nail a starting spot and stay injury-free. Brighton have a lot of options at RW - March, Aindgra,Enciso, Gruda, Rutter. Brighton are hoarding these talented boys in certain positions. Same issue at 10. It's not squad building, it's just revenue generation. At 10 they have JP, Rutter, Enciso, Buonnotte(sp?), O'Riley - probably more I'm forgetting. I don't think it's going to work for most of the boys as they won't get enough game time or play in the wrong position. Buonnotte lad looks a good player but his Leicester loan is turning to shit. Positively, we should be able to unsettle some of these talented lads pretty easily and get them for a decent fee. Outside of JP none of those lads get consistent minutes.

Man City "have 700m" in revenue and at worst - the second best academy in England. They are getting £50m for academy players every year. A lot with sell-on clauses like Romeo Lavia.

Didn't specify you mate. There was more than one comment about him not playing for Bolton. He just joined on Monday

10m is a great deal. Didn't think we would get that. No chance a European club spent that much money.

Wages are part of PSR calc but it's a simple calc. e.g. the wages over the accounting period. So Isak is £10m in amortisation cost and c. £5-8m in wages and bonuses. A total of £15-18m per year.

CL football if you don't get out the group phase for a club with our co-efficient is £30-40m. That's 10-15% of our revenue aka it's probably not the be all and end all of PSR breaches. CL qualification is not the money spinner for teams in our position that it used to be (comparing to the last time we were in it). PL revenue is significantly bigger. Payment splits benefits the bigger clubs too. Need to run deep to get the big money. Great for reputation for sponsors and players.

People also quick to talk down our youth prospects it seems.

They've got too many 10s and RWs. Lads end up 3rd, 4th choice and can't develop. Enciso is a 10 right? JP, Rutter start ahead of him. That Baleba has come good but he doesn't have crazy competition at CM. He was bad last season. Enciso can play RW but he's 4th choice there too I believe.

Redknapp is the Carlo Ancelotti of PFMs. He could improve Spurs if partnered with a modern assistant.

Shola meant to be a bright bloke. Don't get the constant moaning about him.

I've got PTSD from the robbery in Paris. The Tonali ban was probably the real sliding doors moment of last season. But that robbery hurt the most. My head was spinning after in disbelief.

Someone 25 and under that might play would’ve done.