The College Dropout

Eales outright said we needed to qualify for Europe in some form and we didn't.

They've overspent in the transfer market and we need to sell our most promising youngster to become FFP compliant. We likely need to sell productive first-team players to buy anyone. We had about £130-170m worth of talent barely contributing last season. They have done a lot right. But they have not done "pretty much everything right". Like.. people are trying to suggest Chris Wood was a good transfer. It didn't really work out how most would've wanted but we got our money back and stayed up - it's a lucky escape in truth. No need to rewrite history,

Aye but someone said he was more proven than Minteh and it's not true. Minteh's a legit wonderkid.

There's a bit of a "the club has done everything right previously, so let's not question anything they do going forward" mentality some have. The first part isn't even true.

IMO Minteh is more proven than Miley. Miley did ok in an injury crisis. Minteh has been productive in 2 professional leagues. Not "doing a job" like Miley has done - but actual production. Miley is younger and played at a more competitive level to his credit but he played like someone that was "filling in". At City - Minteh would be one they would want to keep around the first-team if the lad was happy with a sub role. Chelsea is a bad example.

We are fire selling players this summer. Certainly you can question the previous transfers. For various reasons we had £130m of transfers that barely contributed last season. That's an issue.

What argument? Our spending last summer has meant we have to sell players this summer to be FFP compliant. Is it not worth questioning the activities last summer?

Don't know how long his contract is but let's say of the £8m fee, he's amortised 1.5m, we'd have 6.5m as his remaining book value. So taking home over £30m. If we insert a buyback, I assume Everton would want at least 20% profit. So say he signs for £40m, the buyback would be close to £50m surely.

Last summers transfer activity doesn't make much sense. I guess we thought FFP and no teeth.

Neither would fetch as much as a 19 year old with 1 years experience in the Eredivisie. I’m not sure they would fetch half. both are late window panic buys too lol. that’s the problem.

We have 3 at LW. And 0 at RW.

Our problem is that we can’t sell dead wood or squad players. On FM you could get a few quid for Longstaff and Almiron. In real life - nobody wants them.

The transfer never made sense to me. He’s a good player. But he’s backup. If things go well… he’ll remain backup his entire career for us. We have loads of options at LW too. It’s not a serious suggestion anyway. I’m just a bit frustrated by how we’ve built the squad. It’s quality. But not coherent.

I don’t think we can afford points deductions. At the top it will be the difference between CL and Europa, Europa and no Europe. Im more annoyed that we haven’t tried any real FFP hacks. Tell Miggy he’s not wanted, give him a blank cheque and ask him to jot down an annual salary that would have him move to Saudi. Sell the training ground. Something.

I don’t think he’ll go for that much. Especially if we have favourable sell-on or buy back clauses. We need to recognise this for what it is. This is a fire sale. I think the buying club will get a decent deal. Say £30m but with buy-back + 40% of future sale profits. If we are selling to Everton the fee will be similar to whatever we pay for DCL. Looks like we plan to sell Wilson too. Yes. I was hoping the rumours were wrong and we didn’t need to sell to be FFP compliant. But it looks like we have to sell. Villa got rinsed by Juve for Luiz. And we are selling one of the brightest young wingers in Europe. Big clubs win again. Maybe this is knee jerk. But I’d rather sell Harvey Barnes than Minteh.

Olise is class and has looked to have real quality for years. But aye this is the first season he’s hooked it up consistently and produced goals and assists regularly. Minteh at 19 is way ahead of Olise at the same age. His output and underlying stats (at 19) has him on an elite trajectory. He’s the type of player Dortmund sign and look to flip for £50m+. IF (major IF) he continues to develop the way he should, he’s going to be a v. good player. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see him go for more money than Olise has in a few years. Physically he’s big and fast - and should only get stronger and quicker. One footed but a great left foot with great dribbling ability. And he’s already proven he can score a lot of goals at a fairly high level. He even did in the other professional league too. He built on that promising trajectory. it’s just early for him.

We really need a PSR sticky thread that just has the rules and how it impacts us. We have the same conversations daily because most don’t understand how it works. ———

I understand why. PSR. But DCL in and Minteh out is GRIM work.

There’s usually something in it financially though. A player from abroad at DCLs age and form rarely moves for close to 40m.

I reckon we want him to go to Everton because of PSR shenanigans for both teams. Either way he’s off. I’m desperate for us to have a buy-back clause.

Grand total of 8 goals mind. Chris Wood has more consistent PL pedigree.

Said this before - Villa’s fees and wages were very high at the end of last season and they went again this season. 100% they would fail FFP this season without these sales. As would Chelsea which is why they are trading in circles. I like Chelsea’s approach to FFP tbf. They will find a way. I would like us to trade with others in a similar situation so we don’t have to sell the likes of Wilson or Trippier for non footballing reasons.

This is the biggest issue. He’s been good before.

Aye let’s sell a prolific scorer and crock for another crock who isn’t prolific I liked DCL under Carlo

TAA is a victim at RB at Liverpool. He's been a bigger victim at RB for England.