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Could Deschamps be any more French?

An away kit based on the 89/91 yellow and green number is pretty high on my wish list.

Modern penalties, much better when it was blast it as hard as you can

It doesn’t make much difference for this year, we had to make a net loss of £35m (ish) over 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 with the only provision being that a gain of at least £35m had to be in 2023/2024. so if we made an opportunistic sale In 2023/2024 of say £30m on top of achieving the £35m profit the. We’ve simply got a position where we can make a bigger loss this year. Its only year 3 where you have difference as the profit in year 0 drops out where you could have delayed this by a year by selling 01.07

It's not just the clubs that we would want to control the narrative with though, anything they can do to muddy the waters with the general press and football environment the better for them. We're still the 'richest club in the world' to many and we don't want our pants pulled down on fees so create a narrative that there is no cash to spend

I see a plot twist where we are hiring out our private jets (donated foc by PIF to us of course) to other clubs as a PSR fudge

Technically it’s not the transfer window that is wiped out but rather the loss we made in the year. same end result

Based on his first 6 months I think the club would have been pretty confident on turning a profit on Minteh, maybe not £30m but probably £20m would have been considered as reasonable. Anderson or Longstaff for £20m+ was also reasonable based on other young English players or English players with Longstaffs stats. i still can’t get to a position where I can see how the club could physically be that far out this season unless there is a massive one off cost we don’t know about or there is something in the background with the Sela income. That’s why I’m of the mind that we’ve brought in more than we needed this weekend as we saw an opportunity where both players had a buyer willing to pay slightly more than we originally thought we’d get.

You’ve got it, we can afford 2 years of £70 million losses before needing another profit of £35m - well that would be the case if the rules weren’t changing.

Yeah it’s based on all things being equal - so adidas = champions league. however it’s £35m however you get there - I’ll take a look at that tweet when not on my phone later - so if we have additional deals coming in then we can either reduce our player sales or increase incomings accordingly

There can only be one way of catching them and that's through really smart recruitment. We aint going to be signing many 'tier 1' superstars but if we box clever with the likes of Isak and Bruno then we'll grow success on the pitch which then snowballs into financial growth from all sorts of areas. A sale of Bruno or Isak could accelerate this by allowing a bumper transfer window or 2, but I'd look more to Arsenal's model where they have a pretty consistent level of player trading at a given level, and this then steps up as league position/champions league qualification comes in. it's not a complicated financial model, but its damn hard to get right operationally

You're right on the 21/22 and 22/23 losses, the 3 year cycle up to the end of June 2024 needed a profit of £35m for the 23/24 season/year to balance out. The first £70m drops out now so we have a total of £105m allowable to June 2025 and are starting with a £70m loss and £35m gain (in simple terms this could be more) = £35m loss. Hence we can drive a loss of £70m this year to be compliant. If the rules weren't changing then we'd have a further £70m loss to play with in 2025/2026 and need to balance this with a £35m profit in 2026/2027. I don't know our CFO personally of course but he does have a pretty decent rep and I don't see where figures of needing £60m+ last week could have come from unless the premier league are threatening something and we've created headroom for that. Having said that, I don't think it would be unacceptable to have a sale of someone like Minteh or Anderson built into the plan from Jan, we are trying to be aggressive in our development, but again it wouldn't surprise me if the thought was we'd sell for £20m and have just taken a windfall when we got the likes of Lyon, Dortmund and Everton biting

I'm sticking with the idea that one of the sales was necessary but we saw enough value in both to follow through. In simple terms we needed to make a £35m profit this year to balance off 2 lots of £70m losses. We achieved that with £55m of sales (ASM and one of yesterday's deals). We start this year with a £70m loss and a £35m profit so have a £70m loss to play with. We should see some sales this summer and hopefully a few new sponsorship deals to bring in a further £15m-£20m and then have a really fun summer. Basically needing to sell late in June for last year does not mean we have no money to spend this season

But as they do we get to see a Windows to their soul

We could have training kit, training ground, couple of the executive boxes etc which combine could come to £30m if we are testing boundaries

Building anticipation

When Lawro met Dubravka

It’s more than probable that we needed to sell one of Minteh or Anderson but feel the values are sufficiently high to have both go through, creating a little more headroom for the next 2 years

Could be worse, could have been Sels returning

With the appropriate buying clubs we should be looking £15m a piece, maybe £20m for Wilson. but who the fuck knows how much a player is valued at these days

We needed to clear a £35m profit to stay in the £105m total. so it’s pretty safe to say we’ve made a profit this year

imo it would make more sense to have all clubs move to a 31st May year end and have the season and accounting period aligned that way. all transfer activity relates to the coming or present season rather than the one just gone (which would happen if the psr deadline moved to August)

That picture just reminds me on how much Miggy does not suit tattoos

Hear me out on this one…. June 30th has become a mini deadline day and we’ve seen some high fees paid when you wouldn’t normally at this stage. perhaps the club are thinking to next season and with no European football have latched onto a way to get a few extra quid. realistically if Minteh wasn’t sold now we ain’t getting more than £33m in the summer and the likely scenario was another loan, perhaps the club are thinking the same and have just released an extra £10m a year into the losses pot. of course you’d need to get some noise about possible breaches into the league so clubs who wouldn’t normally think they can compete for a signing like this come forward.

If we can get a few quid from Wilson, Longstaff and Tripps then id keep Miggy as backup next season and let him go a free. If only because my boys love him