Colos Short and Curlies

He’s nailed on for a yellow tomorrow night

And plays a fucking blinder

The way transfer fees are talked about is a little bit misleading. You don't buy/sell a player and you are not buying them out of a contract. Its the registration that is being purchased, and this is just like any other asset. This particular asset is in effect a license for a player to play. Its all technicality really, you don't have the registration without the player but buying/selling players would kinda be modern slavery And I think you know that in any case. Player contracts are a little peculiar as well in that they don't have clauses that give the right for either party to serve notice, combined with the registration a player has no way of exiting the contract and the club cannot exit it without paying in full. If you go back to Bosman this is why transfer fees were allowed to remain and why mid season transfer windows are in operation. Anyway fuck FFP, its going to be challenged, my guess is by Forest using the additional fee obtained on the BJ sale as the lever to bring a case. Again my guess, the PL will pull back on them and give them a suspended sentence and will rush through some fudge of a reform that allows for greater owner spend. We will no doubt be putting soft pressure from the sides on FMV at the same time with sponsorships and this too will be modified to allow FMV + a % to allow for owner sponsorship. Hopefully Everton don't get let off

its payback for Souness now

Never mind FFP, this page is everything that is taking the fun out of football. just watch it with your own eyes, get totally partisan about your own players and how good they are and shit over everyone else’s, no matter how good they actually are. Bonus points for having an unwavering hatred of players from a particular team (like Liverpool) who gives a flying monkeys about these stats. do you enjoy watching someone play and on the eye test do they make the team better. leave the boring stats analysis to the back room teams and the manager

If its BBC1 Wales then should be English Language. I'd guess at either Hartson or Saunders on co-coms

Nice try, but when you sell them back you'd take the remaining unamortised value of the registration straight to the P&L, so a £80m income from the sale in year one less 1/5 (assuming a July buy, 5 year contract) of the purchase value. Year 2 is 4/5 of the purchase value as a cost with no income. In the third year of the calculation you've actually hurt yourself pretty bad by doing this

Chukwuemeka was the season before Grealish wasn't he? The point still stands that the big sale they had drops out of the calculations after this year and they have a net £100m spend from the last 2 years to consider regardless of the sales. They are by no means in any risk of a FFP breach this year, but if they want to buy biggish again this summer they will need to sell to balance up next years FFP. If you are flying in the top 4 without using a £50m rated player and want to fill a gap elsewhere it becomes a fairly obvious sale. The whole league is also going to have to work with the fact that very few teams now can afford £30-£50m on other clubs academy players and this route to boosting FFP headroom will reduce pretty quickly now

This isn't even that big a tactical switch as we often see Burn tuck in and Trips maraud forward. It just helps out Bruno and Isak a lot. Thumbs up from me

They haven't done much post Grealish and that impact falls off the calculations after this season. As Villa pretty much broke even on a cash basis for transfers that year and then a net £100m (ish) in the 2 years since they will be coming up to the same barrier we have this year. I think they will need to sell someone for decent cash in 2024/2025 (be it summer 24 or Jan 25) if they want to invest for next year. Even with CL cash

Any ball other than 10 or 11 at home lets just pull 10 and 11 out first to get it over with. in reality we get a home draw (at last) but it’s Liverpool and Man U get Maidstone at home

Had to explain the Andy Cole song to the Mrs

lawro was so eyeore it was funny. dixons just Shite and dull as dishwater

He’s a yard away, looking away from the ball and his arm is by his side. dunno what the comms are smoking trying to make a case for handball

Watch Murph put in a juicy performance tonight and see how this thread pivots

ipswich keeper really didn’t need to bother showing up.

I think it’s too soon for him. Klopps got his fingers so deep into the way they play and who they have bought that any move away from that is going to take a massive personality, not just a very good coach

Whoever goes there next will fail (in comparison). may as well give it to Gerrard next season, get that out of the way and then put a proper manager in place

The weird thing is he very rarely comes off looking injured, its always seems to be in between games that he seems to fall foul of the twangs and pulls

Of course not, you didn’t think this was a football forum did you?

we didn’t flirt on the brink at all. they knew that between the takeover and 30th June last year they had a certain amount to spend and worked within it. they also knew they had a certain amount this year, and have worked to it. It’s called business planning and they’ve done it whilst being whiter than white with the rules (other than our shithousery on the pitch of course)

Bayern bid for Trips at an amount that would give a decent profit in the year for him. We turned it down. We won’t get a higher price for Miggy or Wilson than we would now. If we are looking to sell either one it is either to buy now or to add to the pot for the summer. again, if we needed to sell we would have by now. yes we are close to the limit but we are not past it. and I can see enough to know you don’t work in finance, have just started out or are pretty bad at it 😊

it’s not rose tinted glasses at all. ive got 20 years experience as an accountant, including as a big 4 auditor who audited Man U and a couple of rugby clubs. I’ve also advised Swansea City and am a CFO. I know how sports finances work and can sort through the boring crap that sets out the rules on FFP. the guy or gal in charge of the finances at the club will also be well on top of this and will also be a lot closer than me to the areas where they can maximise the exemptions available. the Hall deal tells you that we had no more room to buy anyone, but the fact we did it when we did tells you that they have a financial plan that keeps them compliant. if that plan involved selling someone, we would have done it

Its getting late and I’m boring people here with accounts talk. just trust that the club have someone almost as good as me looking after the accounts and they know what they are doing. if we were in danger of breaching we 100% would have sold someone in Jan, even at a reduced fee to balance the books in advance of 30th June