Rich

This is the most East Stand post ever written.

What a time to be alive man. Howay the fucking lads.

~£100M net still looks to be on mind 👀

Was listening to one of the recent Athletic podcasts and the lad that covers them said that if Samu joined they were still going for another striker to be first choice, likely Osimhen .

Blistering start like, he looks bang up for it.

Hopefully that 4-0’s laid down a nice marker for this XI.

There’s not usually any buildup to friendlies, they’ll come online a few minutes before.

I wonder how much we spent on this? It’s worse than the dogawful website.

How many times is that now man Ikon?

He had a few stinkers but he was still one of our better players last season, I reckon. The thing is that Tino was easily as good, arguably better, albeit mostly at left-back. In an ideal world I’d still keep Trippier, but he doesn’t seem the type who’d be happy not playing at this stage of his career. He’s one of our top earners, too, so that’s hardly ideal if he’s no longer seen as one of the first names on the team sheet. The amount of times I’ve been told him going to Saudi was a ‘done deal’ btw .

No ta to Rabiot, yes please to Raphinha.

The only way we could have is if Gordon insisted and/or the contract contained extension triggers based on team performance, you'd think. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's wrong and the deal was a standard 5.5 years.

Thanks for the spot, aye that's exactly what I'd done. Updated it and the numbers now. Just shout if there's anything else and I'll keep amending.

The salary data available online generally looks like nonsense to me, by the way, though I don't doubt some are accurate and properly sourced.

Aye, this is just purely speaking from the amortisation POV, which I know isn't the full picture at all. You'd image the majority of those who have re-signed have done so on better terms.

Since the last accounts were published, there have seemingly been changes for the following that weren't fully reflected/reflected at all there: • Almirón signed for £20M in January 2019 on an initial 5.5-year deal, re-signed on a 3.5-year deal in February 2023 after 4 years (so only ~3 months reflected in the accounts) • Joelinton signed for £40M in July 2019 on an initial 6-year deal, re-signed on a 4-year deal in April 2024 after 5 years • Krafth signed for £4.5M in August 2019 on an initial 5-year deal, re-signed on a 1.5-year deal in February 2024 after 4.5 years • Wilson signed for £20M in September 2020 on an initial 4-year deal, re-signed on a 2-year deal in September 2023 after 3 years • Guimarães signed for £40M in January 2022 on an initial 5.5-year deal, re-signed on a 5-year deal in October 2023 after 1.5 years • Burn signed for £12M in January 2022 on an initial 2.5-year deal, re-signed on a 2-year deal in October 2023 after 1.5 years • Trippier signed for £12M in January 2022 on an initial 2.5-year deal, re-signed on a 2.5-year deal in January 2023 after 1 year (so only ~5 months reflected in the accounts) If we assume we amortised all of them across the full length of the contract initially (i.e. before the five-year cap came in) then the annual cost changes should be around the following: • Almirón from £3.64M per year to £1.15M per year (-£2.49M) • Joelinton from £6.67M per year to £1.67M per year (-£5M) • Krafth from £0.9M per year to £0.3M per year (-£0.6M) • Wilson from £5M per year to £2.5M per year (-£2.5M) • Guimarães from £7.27M per year to £5.82M per year (-£1.45M) • Burn from £4.8M per year to £2.4M per year (£-2.4M) • Trippier from £4.8M per year to £2.9M per year (£-1.9M) That's an approximate reduction in annual amortisation of ~£16.3M, if I haven't messed anything up. And changes seem imminent for these two, which could be significant—as far as amortisation goes, at least: • Isak signed for £63M in August 2022 on an initial 6-year deal • Gordon signed for £40M in January 2023 on an initial 3.5-year deal

How helpful would it be to work out the differences in amortisation for those who've signed new deals? Happy to have a bash if it's useful. Feels like it's just being glossed over a bit at the moment.

Still getting the blame for the mad stuff Phil does at 37, man .

Disappointed, aye. I know we've added Kelly as well, but I can't take much more of Miggy and Murphy. I also don't think it's realistic to expect Gordon to be happy to play RW predominantly. EDIT: I don't think it will be our only business, like. Can still see Miggy leaving and a top-class RW coming in.

In fairness to Luke 'The Oracle' Edwards, his 'close' said by the weekend. He probably didn't write the title either, to be fair to the little whopper.

This guy gets it.

Fucking thread title police out in force tonight like. Bid rejected seems like the most recent development, given Ornstein's saying the bid was lodged a few days ago. And does the use of 'first' not cover the fact the deal's not dead?

Alan O'Brien

Fair on Diamé, how about Danny Guthrie? It never felt like we lost too much when he came in for Cabaye. EDIT: I now see you’ve already dumped on the DG suggestion