Mag3.14

As I understand it, P&S/FFP rules works on losses within a three year period not the actual debt - Man Utd have loans to cover this debt and have revenues to service the debt/interest payments (they've paid around £900m interest from the original ~£800m purchase in 18 years!) - Say it costs them £50m/year to service the debt they have revenues to cover it. Makes a bit of a mockery of the "sustainability" bit of P&S (as it is with all leveraged buyouts) as if the banks/lenders ever called in that debt they'd likely be well and truely fecked

This is my understanding also. The 20 month figure being bandied about suggests 8 month notice/gardening leave period and 12 month anti-compete/restrictive covenant clauses. I'd hope after all the effort we took to get DA from Brighton that we've got that part of his contract pretty well tied down. It would be up to him and/or the competing company to pay the required compensation to get those clauses nullified. If the contact is as watertight as I expect, the ball is very very much in our court

Just a shame the FFP rules are on losses within a FY and not overall debt, otherwise they'd be well and truely fecked! Its said they've paid around £900m in interest charges in 18 years servicing the loans needed for takeover purchase in 2005 (£780m). So thats £50m/year on average on favourable interest rates - be interesting to see how they cope now with the increase in rates overall ...

Clearly had a bet with Pete Graves to call him that on purpose

PIF and Jamie Ruben putting in share capital where as Staveley is not hence her (company's) shares are being diluted - think this was always the plan I believe

Manchester already have had their bloody free stadium, get them share it with Man City

NUSC are doing theirs for £28 return, £52 is way too much here

On loan to Gerona (100% owned by the City group) from French League 1 side Troyes, who Man City have done the deal with apparently, are also 100% owned by the City group ..

Someone at ITV must have been checking Twitter and passed something onto the commentary team as Tydsley made reference to the non-complementary references to Newcastle - hilarious

Joby McAnuff and Joey Bartons favorite pundit

Yeah people of Liverpool didn’t give a shit about the Queen and now the rest of the country doesn’t give a shit about Klipperty Klopp

Not the only one: https://x.com/slowsportsnews/status/1750475331826225443?s=46&t=8m6mQXzUxlMtqGZ1mY41xA Big Frank C would be proud

Aye, amplified with the fact there's nowt else really going on anywhere else in the January window for them to report on

Baffling if its a loan, no benefit whatsoever

Aye, They may make it out to be about "sportswashing" but it's the last few words in that sentence that confirms what really irks them, "make it the the WSL before us"

Goes for nothing in the summer, nominal fee now - guess it depends if we're spending this window

Is Becky really tall or have we signed another shorty as a keeper?

Can't see why those 7 P&S breach charges cant be "fast tracked" - surely they can be easy to prove

My thoughts exactly, he was discussing the FFP options, increasing revenues or player trading - it was the mainstream media that sensationalised that one of Bruno, Botman and Isak will be sold - sickening

UEFA's 70% limit is from 2025/26 season - For 2023/24 is 90%, next season is 80% so we're under

Wages/Turnover (22/3) ratio is down to 75% from last years 95%

Were Everton not fined 6pts then 1pt for every £6m they were over the £105m limit, so anyone wanting to take the hit and overspend by more than £200m would get hit harder?

I know used to work for them - They were all decent newspapers once

Baseless crap from the Echo, Half the ITK's on twitter know more that those muppets - Reach plc have no sports "journalists" left

https://twitter.com/bnwbanter/status/1744815004971335755?s=46&t=8m6mQXzUxlMtqGZ1mY41xA