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Honestly, those are good prices for the two we sold so if there's a couple of nice sponsorship deals to come on top of that we might be able to make some genuine noise in the transfer market. Fingers crossed, anyway. Frustrating as fuck that we've had to sell an exciting young RW when it's arguably our weakest spot in the starting 11.

Yeah, also this outlay for Anderson isn't going to really impact them at all on this year's PSR number. It'll be future years where they'll have to pay that off, while the incoming funds all count as one big chunk this year.

Spurs do very well to be grouped in with the other five of the supposed "big six". I know they've been consistently good for a fair while but I can't imagine they're particularly important to the Premier League brand.

Basically shows how they're able to spend so much. The 274m they've taken in will all have counted immediately as incoming funds, whereas the 966m will have been amortized over five years (or more with some of the earlier deals). It's not quite as simple as dividing that figure by 5 and getting just under 200m spent, but it's a useful rough guide. Of course, they have to keep selling players in future years to keep balancing out their spending, but with the number of young players they have there that will be a piece of piss for them. Meanwhile, we've only spent 300m but even dividing that by 5 and getting 60m it's still spending more than the 42 we've brought in. As much as from a purely footballing perspective it absolutely sucks, selling Minteh on for 40m (and having loads more Minteh types on the books for future deals) is a bit of no-brainer if it's at all possible.

Personally always like to see players we've sold do absolutely terribly to make the deal look smarter so Everton seems the ideal spot.

That's an insane amount of money for a player who's such an unknown quantity. I'll be amazed if it's true like

It's annoying because the absolute ideal scenario would be signing a first choice RW and then Minteh spending a couple of years as second choice with Almiron moving on. With his pace, you figure he'd at least he very useful off the bench while we give him time to see if he can turn into a first choice player. If we do sell him I'd love to see us bring in Cozier-Duberry on a free to basically fill that role for us, would certainly soften the blow of losing one of the few genuinely exciting young attacking players we've had on our books in recent times before he's even kicked a ball.

It's all needlessly complicated because football is shit now but on a very basic level... The entire transfer fee we get for Minteh counts as incoming funds for PSR this year, while whatever we spend on a replacement is divided by five and split over the next five years (assuming we sign the guy to a five year contract) So if we sell Minteh for 30m and sign somebody else for 60m, that counts as 30m incoming on transfer fees and 12m outgoing. Obviously it's adding an extra 12m to our outgoings in the next four seasons too but that's a problem from our future accounting team.

My guess is Isak will be the clear first choice CF. DCL will cover when Isak needs a rest (his fitness is clearly something we need to be clever with), either as a sub for the last 20 minutes of games that we're comfortable in or with the odd start in the cups or when we've got a busy week. There's also the option when we need to change things of putting DCL CF and Isak playing off him, either out left or just in the hole. Remember in 22/23 when both Wilson and Isak were fit? Like that, essentially. Difference is, Isak is now the established top man at the club and DCL will be coming in a complementary role rather than to be true competition for his place. It's not the most exciting of signings, to be honest. I'd rather a young player with a bit more in the way of potential. I can see the logic though, especially if it's a reasonable price and allows us to go big at RW.

I do still wonder what Eddie's long term plan is for how he wants the back four to operate. If the plan is still to shift into a back three with Livramento doing what Trippier has and being a full on wing-back then I could see MGW on the right making sense as he'd spend most of his time drifting in towards a #10 role anyway. Obviously the idea of Hall and Livra as a tandem of super attacking full backs is the sexy idea but I do wonder if Eddie sees Kelly and Burn as his LB options (with added bonus that they can cover at CB as needed). I think the idea that Hall would have got any time at LB last season without all the injuries is pretty fanciful, to be honest. There's also a lot of merit to the back three in terms of what it allows us to do with our 3 midfielders, we don't really need a traditional holding midfielder if we have a full back who doesn't really push on, allows Bruno to be that roaming playmaker with legs either side of him.

Can see Longstaff working hard all summer behind the scenes, getting himself into incredible positions in terms of clubs he can sign for. Then, with a wide open table in front of him and the chance to sign a massive long term contract at AC Milan he'll spell his name wrong or something.

Think he's quite likely at a point where his ideal role for a good PL team is as second choice RW. Will still get plenty of starts but will primarily be used as an impact sub, his pace in the last half hour of games will be devastating. Maybe he's ready to be a regular starter but by all accounts he's still raw, a few weeks ago everyone seemed to think another year on loan would be the right thing for him. Ideally I'd love to see us get rid of Miggy and bring in a top RW with Minteh the backup. It's just a case of whether the money we could get for him couple be put to better use elsewhere.

40m would allow us to do a lot in terms of incomings this summer. We're clearly pretty tight on PSR and if the rumoured price is anywhere near true it's a lot of money for a player who is still a massive unknown. Yes, there's a chance that he develops into a top class player and we'll be gutted we let him go, but if it allows us to be aggressive in the transfer market this summer then the rewards likely will be worth the small risk of that happening. Selling Minteh now for 40m doesn't give us an extra 40m to work with this summer, it gives us 100m+ when you factor in how all the amortization garbage works. With so much up in the air in terms of how PSR will work in years to come and the potential for PIF to be allowed to use their resources more freely, giving ourselves more wiggle room now seems like the way to go if it's a possibility.

Ultimately, what the Saudis have always wanted from golf is the access to corporate America that it brings. Had Augusta just given Yasir membership when he tried to get it a few years back, I doubt LIV would exist. But they didn't and here we are Golf has always been and will always be a niche sport. Tiger was a phenom that generated more casual interest than before but for the vast majority of the world it's a sport that only the wealthy have access to. Paying Jon Rahm half a billion to play golf on your tour is an investment that has no chance of being profitable in the long term from a purely sporting perspective but they did it because they want to be a big player in the sport for the access it will afford them. The "deal" they made to merge a year ago was really just a handshake agreement for the PGA and PIF to try to work together on shaping the professional game. It was mostly made because neither side wanted to be subjected to discovery in the legal battle they had coming up, but by all accounts it seemed like they were gonna try to merge. Since then, things have changed and some on the PGA board (Tiger among them) seem to be trying to go it alone with other investors and I really wish they wouldn't. LIV as a product is absolute shite but it's achieving its goal of diminishing the PGA Tour and by all accounts they have no intention of slowing down. They'll keep pouring silly money into it until the PGA has no choice but to incorporate them and give PIF a large seat at the table and all the sweet corporate perks that will bring them. The end result is that week to week golf is a pretty shitty product for fans like me to follow, but the hope is that this civil war will force the product to evolve into something better either to defeat PIF or (much more likely) by incorporating their resources into making a better product. In short, going to war with an entity with unlimited resources is not a good move

It's absolutely petty as fuck but I do really hope he doesn't get a kick at Chelsea and his career goes to shite. He'll probably have 12 million quid in the bank when he retires instead of 10 though, which is the main thing.

Terrible first post. Sort it out, mate.

I'd love to see what the alternate reality where Mudryk went to Arsenal instead of Chelsea. How do people think he would have looked there?

Give that lass with the tits the job IMO.

I've met Dokko and he's an extremely elderly and marginally handsome man from Newcastle.

Kiss my VARse.

I hope there's a legitimate injury or illness because if he's taken the huff because we're planning to replace or push him down the pecking order next season then he's a dipshit, frankly.

Jersey would be nice if there was just stripes all the way around. White patches look stupid.

Fucking mental that Joselu is the best option at Real Madridin terms of an out and out CF.