Colos Short and Curlies

Colin Hendry

Truly astonishing how some of you get yourselves so worked up and expectant of the absolute worst. If the world comes to an end we'll deal with it then. Until then I hope Rafa stays, we get him more players he needs, we have a great season that melts the lard Ashley's heart is encased in, and he is moved to sign up Rafa on a lifetime contract with plenty monies every transfer window! I'll see you in 48 hours when you are being sectioned in a straight jacket screaming "...but there's January!" That's the real test to be honest

Can easily see Terry May making this a priority to avoid dealing with Brexit.

Anything not paid out gets added back to profit

In Ashleys world...in reality it was WELL under 100 million. The 112.2m figure included promotion bonuses and "onerous contract provisions" payment to players not in the first team but still employed by the club. So wages are probably around 70-80m total as a base before any bonuses etc. There absolutely should be money available if this was a sane world. Well I don't believe that for a second. For one the 'onerous contract provisions' takes into account future years I believe. Also, theres no way our base wage bill is anywhere near 80m. This link suggests less then £50 million for the season after in the Prem: https://talksport.com/football/308730/every-premier-league-club-ranked-their-total-wage-bill-2016-17-171109261432/ Why would anyone give Ashley any benefit of doubt though really? https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/accounts-year-ending-30-june-2017 I mean it was in their actual accounts filed so whether or not there was some funky accounting is irrelevant, it's the number out there. But if it accounted for future years then there should be even more left for this year etc. That's all. Anyone quoting over 100m is clearly taking a look at that figure and not realizing the caveats. Writing off the wages is purely an accounting action, we still have to pay the money whilst they are under contract so you really can take this into consideration for the actual wage bill. Having said that we will still have a disproportionately low wage bill for a premier league club simply as the players we buy at the fees we pay won't be on 150k a week and weve not made enough free transfers to suggest that the transfer kitty is being spent on higher wages rather than transfer fres So how do you enter their wages in the next years accounts? When you write them off you create a provision on your balance sheet and a loss in the p&l, when you pay cash you reduce the provision by the amount of cash paid

In Ashleys world...in reality it was WELL under 100 million. The 112.2m figure included promotion bonuses and "onerous contract provisions" payment to players not in the first team but still employed by the club. So wages are probably around 70-80m total as a base before any bonuses etc. There absolutely should be money available if this was a sane world. Well I don't believe that for a second. For one the 'onerous contract provisions' takes into account future years I believe. Also, theres no way our base wage bill is anywhere near 80m. This link suggests less then £50 million for the season after in the Prem: https://talksport.com/football/308730/every-premier-league-club-ranked-their-total-wage-bill-2016-17-171109261432/ Why would anyone give Ashley any benefit of doubt though really? https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/accounts-year-ending-30-june-2017 I mean it was in their actual accounts filed so whether or not there was some funky accounting is irrelevant, it's the number out there. But if it accounted for future years then there should be even more left for this year etc. That's all. Anyone quoting over 100m is clearly taking a look at that figure and not realizing the caveats. Writing off the wages is purely an accounting action, we still have to pay the money whilst they are under contract so you really can take this into consideration for the actual wage bill. Having said that we will still have a disproportionately low wage bill for a premier league club simply as the players we buy at the fees we pay won't be on 150k a week and weve not made enough free transfers to suggest that the transfer kitty is being spent on higher wages rather than transfer fres

Still got to pay the wages each month though

Need some hair back in the team

Like a new signing

Assume you need the refs whistle to restart play?

I mean, he's scored six this July. Must have missed those, group games were in June

So Kane can't score in July or August, just loves a summer holiday really. Good news is that he should have the shooting boots on for all of the next one

Yeap. All the arrogance was starting to show when they hadn’t really played anyone of note. No creativity in midfield. But they looked wrecked. I’d wonder how this could effect a number of the top teams for the first few months of the PL, they’ll have a number of so called top players underperforming. Could give clubs like us a chance to get a solid start. I wonder if there is any correlation there, especially after a tough defeat in a semi. Can imagine the Spurs lot will be dead on their feet and in the head, wouldn't be surprised if none of them play first game

Yeah a Chinese sponsor founded in the 2010’s that doesn’t design the strips came up with it Mate Have you not seen their social media and how they want to connect to the fan base? All commercials driven of course but the idea of sponsorship is to garner awareness in your brand, what better way to do this in football then by having your logo on a massively popular strip that will be visible to millions on tv? Somebody at Fun88 has their finger on the pulse, there is little chance that they are not talking to Puma

Anyone else think the idea of going back to 95/96 has come from our sponsor?

So that would be £61m (Lump Sum + Merit Award) along with maybe 2 lots of the monthly income (assuming they come over 12 months and not just during the season) giving £65m plus any cash received up front from sales. If Merino has a release clause then not stupid to assume its payable upfront, one years installment from Sissoko and Gini (£!0-£!5m?) likely to have been received and then lets say 20% of any fee agreed for Mbemba and Mitro -maybe £6m. No reason at all based on that article not to have £80m+ to spend on fees + agents fees + loan fees

Add to that the deflection was not at Diame levels of skill

It's fucking shite. Its fans moaned about people not wanting to remove the talking points and human error from officiating decisions (like robotic perfection is somehow desirable) and yet this is miles worse. Don't give me that shit about how it will get better either. Agreed. It's bad enough a referee making a mistake in the heat of the moment without the benefit of replays from 20 different angles, but this is ten times worse. I understand there will always be contentious decisions that could go either way, but not something like this. Simply unacceptable. There’s been around two-three contentious decisions so far this WC. That’s almost infinitely better than usual. However, I agree the errors are much more unforgivable than usual due to the nature of VAR. If we're going down a route of video refs then they have to get everything right. If that happens in a premier league game resulting in 'Serbia' going down then there are all sorts of legal challenges to look forward to. We either accept human error as part of the game or use video technology to get all decisions right

I imagine we'd all be pretty excited if we were being linked to buy Mitro this summer. Would really like to see him succeed here

Had a Swansea fan telling me last week that Shelvey was shit, was lazy and would never track back. Asked him if he'd seen any part of any of our games since Christmas, of course not but he once stood hands on hips in a Swansea cup game and can never change or improve. Pretty sure that's the same mentality that the England top bods have

Watch Barkley get in the squad ahead of him

Only City and Spurs out of the top 7 where we haven't taken at least a point, and you could argue we deserved a point from at least one of those 2 as well. Definitely getting more than the sum of the parts out of this squad

Its going to be fun seeing how bold they are in spinning the fight for fourth and the fight for 17th

Potentially we could have Islam, Christian, Mohammed and Jesus on the pitch before the seasons out. Bring Shearer out of retirement to complete the set with God

Stefan Kuntz