Colos Short and Curlies

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

that’s not what the report says though. its very much that we are constrained in being able to buy unless we sell, that is we are within the range of complying this year if we do nothing, but if we want to buy we need to sell

Simply, yes there is a magical future money source coming in as we increase our commercial deals and yes we could sell a Bruno and bring in 4 £40-£50m players or we could bring in £20-30/£40m from squad players, bring in 1-2 new first teamers and use some of the kids on the cups to pad out the squad. may be slower, but it’s a better way to grow the first team

after, they are this year

thats pretty much exclusively hinting at selling to buy

Are the replacement kecks an FFP deductible expense?

it’s the starting point but there are a number of costs that you exclude as they are outside the FFP calculation

Profit or loss in the accounts does not equal profit or loss for FFP calculations

Isn't the idea of a loss leader that it brings in traffic to the areas that make you money? So if SSN is dead there is no traffic towards a Sky Sports subscription and your loss leader just becomes a loss maker

sorry I don’t think that’s quite true. lets say for simplicity the fee is 100 but 25% goes to Atlanta. We’d only be able to show 75 as our income from the sale and Atlanta will take the other 25 we May take the full 100 in cash but we’d have to sent the 25 straight out

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