The College Dropout

He would've joined but he had sniff of a better offer in the end.

Exactly.

Hard to say if it’s a good idea or not. No ides how long Tripps can play at the top level. Not clear in what it allows us transfer or PSR wise.

Imagine having a squad prepared for European football.

The domino effect of the Tonali suspension has been crazy.

It's not business sense. It's just PSR sense. Selling one of your most important players for £15m isn't great business sense. It's just decent if you're in PSR trouble or need to make transfers elsewhere because of injuries, suspensions and paying £55m for a player who then gerts banned.

Yes.

Barnes & Maddison were pretty consistent in their data when Leicester were relegated. It's worth mentioning he's being compared to AMs there though. And I don't think we would use him as such. I think MGW is a good player. I thought it was a good transfer for Forest at the time when many scoffed at the fee. I still like him. But for £40-50m we should be able to find better and for more pressing positions like RW.

As well have Spurs have done. They’ve won1 trophy in 25 years.

We desperately need a amortisation sticky thread. And a PSR sticky thread.

Conference league would be great. More revenue. More coefficient. Would start as favourites most likely. Need Liverpool to win the league cup mind.

MGW will cost more than £45m. Thats how much Forest paid 18 months ago. And he’s not a RW.

Annoyed by this one. Can’t help but feel he was driven into the ground. Big chance we’ve seen the last of him too.

We have other creative players? No we don’t! Sellinf Tripps allows us 1 good player for 1 year of the amortisation cost. It’s not a silver bullet to our transfer woes.

Less than what they paid ?

I stand by the club have initiated this sale. I reckon it happens.

Peak Liverpool had Fabinho. Then Thiago.

has any other top club in recent years not had someone at the base?

Agreed. That same brick-by-brick nature goes from Poyet > Hughton > Potter > De Zerb

They are going for cups. But they're building it, brick by brick. They can't do what our owners want to do and probably don't have the same end vision. Bloom also "built" the Amex Stadium. That took over a decade to get done though.

Maybe this is true. Bosman changed the game. We have enough money to make it interesting in the courts. And even the threat of legal action will get media talking about "anti-competition" and that would at least move the needle away from the closed-shop model when there's talk of "reformation".

TBF the model has taken them from L1 to the Europa League. The model wasn't always hitting like it is now but it did enough to keep them in the league and then get them to mid-table. Your Ben White's, Trossard's, Gross, Lamptey etc. it's good business.

I would love us to challenge this in court as anti-competitive. In no other line of business is a company limited its investments by its revenue. That’s the entire point of Venture Capital. Invest to grow.

They’ve not yet qualified for the CL and are in Europe for the first time. They are don’t have 2 £50m+ players and several more over £30m. We aren’t playing the Brighton game. Their owner also owns the data company that houses their transfer algorithm.

The Eales breakdown of selling a 100m player is an over simplification. You do need to account for the following years costs. Chelsea will need to keep selling. Villa keep selling A1 prospects. Neither of these avenues are good or even sustainable long term. Both teams need CL football regularly (particularly Chelsea). The ideal is selling fringe players and good but not good enough youth players.