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£25-£30m for Longstaff with Tonali coming back and possibly Ederson (or similar) coming in for £35m makes more sense to me than selling Bruno for £80m (or even £100m). £5m for Big JL gives us £25m of FFP wiggle room now, a combination of Schar/Botman/Burn/Krafth/PaullyD should get us through to the summer, I'd only sell if the cash is to be used now however.

For the British players they would automatically revert back to being a UK domiciled individual and then any income they earn from abroad gets taxed in the UK. It may not be a factor however as they've been over there for so little time that their income may have been taxed anyway (but I'm sure they've got expensive accountants to work that out). It's also been claimed that they may get back tax on wages earned so far, I don't think that would be the case so it would just be anything earned whilst back in the UK. Foreign players wouldn't have this issue with the UK tax man.

So based on that its £50m coming in without damaging the first team. Rather that than selling Big Joe for £60m or Bruno for £100m and needing to replace them as well as improving the rest of the squad.

If the PL had got themselves in order and dealt with the first breach then Everton would have been relegated last year. Should they compound their tardiness by delaying dealing with the current breach? Also remember that a large part of the original breach was them taking the piss with Covid losses, so this is an endemic issue with them and not just a one off (like Forest). Throw the book at them in one year I say

Every club has the same accounting period and there is no reason why the Premier League cannot mandate that accounts are filed with them within 90 days (or lets just say 30th September). They can also mandate certain accounting rules to be followed where there is usually discretion. With these accounts clubs need to submit a forecast for the season based on any known increases to TV money, competitions you are in, sponsorship deals coming into play and player trading in the summer transfer window You can then base FFP calcs on the the season just gone, the season before and the current season with a weighting of say (using 2022/2023 as the reference point) 20% 2021/2022, 50% 2022/2023, 30% 2023/2024. So that allows for scenarios such as qualifying for the Champions League, holding out for a better price on player sales etc. whilst still maintaining a degree of control to stop excessive spending. Lots to work out in the middle for what the FFP calculations cover but this would be a start for reform imo. You could also then set deadlines within the season for charges and decisions to be made for breaches in a realistic timeframe. Basically any naughty behaviour should be dealt with by Christmas

Its good but Tindall would be partnering Eddie at the back

Because what we spend from the 1st July 2024 goes into the accounts for the year to 30th June 2025 (i.e. 2024/2025) which is what next seasons totals include. Its a retrospective use of accounts in FFP

you’d recognise the prize money and to money in the season that it is earned. The financial year ends after the season does so it fits in nicely. ignore when you get the cash, it’s when you earn it that’s important. Same with tv money, whatever the final amount is for the season gets recognised then.

100%. go big or go home!

Principle I agree with, however isn't City's case a tad more complicated in that its not whether they breached profit/loss type rules but more whether the income is 'real' and that they have included everything in the clubs books? They have had long enough to at least get a hearing date sorted on it mind

I don't know, if we are going to have FFP then points deductions for breaches are the only punishment you can give. Fines - if a rich club is going to breach the regs then a fine is no problem to them Transfer ban - running the risk of a club just buying knowing that this will happen and acting accordingly so a couple of years without buying doesn't matter.

she is bloody awful mind.

its performance that’s important today, need to get some rhythm back. Result is secondary

id replace Barnes and Gordon for Tino and Hall.

Well that’s a blatant lie. Every single minute Fab?

They feel like different eras completely so it’s nuts that the last debutant before Trips was Freddie Woodman

Does the 5 year limit stop clubs spreading the fee further by offering new contracts as well?

People were asking for our shithousery from last year to be brought back - must read the forum

I tell my boss that I’ve no interest in leaving as I am responding to emails from recruiters setting up interviews. i like the element of surprise

I don't think any club in England can. There's an allure and romance to the Spanish giants in particular for a lot of players which at some point trumps everything else. Yes the Manchester clubs in particular can always pull players in the opposite direction but they still lose players who fans ideally would see staying. There's also a factor with PSG of being the one to bring the CL there, along with living in Paris. Must be tempting for a lot of players.

Of course, its more a general point rather than pointing to Eddie

Would only apply (to the exact scenario of the link) to English players. Foreign players wouldn't have been UK domiciled in the first place so different rules would apply for when they are triggering tax liabilities for their time in Saudi. They'd have to fall in line with their own countries tax regimes. (caveat I'm an accountant and understand enough about UK tax rules but pretty much zero on other countries!) Of course any income earned whilst playing in the premier league is taxable in the UK

I'd not quite agree with that, there has to be some consideration into how well he (any manager) deals with what the season throws up. So you will take the injuries into account when looking at league performance but you also need to look at how the manger has tried to mitigate them to the best they can.

transfer fees etc went through the courts with Bosman didnt they? the get around is that the transfer fee is for the registration and not the player. Would it be modern slavery if you were physically trading and loaning players? you probably could find a restraint of trade argument if a player was not actively involved in first team football but it would be a very messy bowl of spaghetti to work through. I actually believe that you should be able to trigger a release of your contract (ie buy it out for its remaining value) if you do not play in a certain % of games when available for selection

If a journalist does a 180 in their views its usually as they think they are getting ahead of the game - i.e. he sees changes afoot. Whether he is right on that or not is another matter of course