Ghandis Flip-Flop

I think you’re massively underselling the fees they could fetch, but then you’re also conflating the fees brought in with the amount it would free up in FFP terms too. £50m profit, potentially allows us to buy 3 or more £50m rated players on 5 year contracts as long as we're confident of being able to increase our commercial revenue.

Then go back and watch the interview again. He mentions that we’ll have to trade players, at no point did he mention having to sell one of our better players though.

Which as has been described in great detail by people more knowledgeable than me, is going to significantly less of an issue for us from this summer onwards.

Probably, but it’s the kind of thing that can be addressed in a single window if done cleverly.

They’ve got to be getting close to their ffp limit, even if they sell Gallagher and a few more academy products in the next few windows. I think Bruno is clever enough to see the two clubs respective trajectories too. They are a long way away from being a coherent club

Am I being naive or just being influenced by my previous background. But I struggle to conceive a world whereby Saudi ownership allows their Crown Jewels to be taken from them by a Qatari entity. Unless you’ve spent time in that part of the world or worked with people from there, I think it’s difficult to understand the mutual hatred that exists between them. The naive RAF Junior officers and Civil servants who thought they’d be fine to share a training Squadron for training their Typhoon pilots and engineers, became quickly and acutely aware of what the two nations thought of each other.

Howe isn’t the only manager who plays in a similar style though, we aren’t the first team to play in this manner. Bielsa, Klopp, Nagelsman and many other managers who are a fan of Gen Gen pressing, could conceivably come in and pick up where Eddie left us in this hypothetical scenario. The issue comes only if this board are like the Shepherd/Hall regime and flip-flop wildly between management styles and playing philosophies, with each subsequent appointment.

From UEFA's website The regulations see clubs subject to squad cost controls for the first time. The cost control rule limits spending on player and coach wages, transfers, and agent fees to 70% of club revenue – the gradual implementation will see the percentage at 90% in 2023/2024, 80% in 2024/2025, and 70% as from 2025/2026. This requirement provides a direct measure between squad costs and income to encourage more performance-related costs. Assessments will be performed on a timely basis and breaches will result in pre-defined financial penalties as well as sporting measures. My worry is this has a similar thought behind it as the current political idiocy that is perpetual economic growth, it may be difficult to grow revenues sufficiently to maintain position, and how many teams are going to be forced to sell players to reduce that ratio by 10% year on year. Also where does the other 30% go? What is the point of making profits if they aren’t able to be reinvested, without incurring "pre-defined financial penalties as well as sporting measures"?

No, it’s more stringent for everybody, will end up with the max spend (Wages and Transfers) being 70% of turnover.

Probably to avoid issues with Castore tbh, can imagine they’re not happy as it is, without all this promo being filmed at St James'

It legitimate, Adidas have been doing loads of promo for their new retro Predator boots which are what is dangling around his neck. See also the videos of Isak and the Brazilian duo doing the rounds

As long as they make it out of a material that doesn’t click to hell just looking at it

Some of it has been for the launch of a retro inspired Predator boot relaunch, but it can’t be coincidental the number of retro Newcastle shirts on show. Well fingers crossed anyway

Well tbf I’m unsure when prize money for finishing place and the variable aspect of the TV appearance money is received by the club in relation to accountancy years. But then unless we have a club accountant on the forum I doubt anybody else knows either ?

So just off the top of my head there’s roughly £16m more prize money for finishing fourth over 11th (2.3 million per place), our TV revenue was up massively last season compared to previous years. The additional revenue from the league cup run and the SELA shirt sponsorship, not to mention the other announced smaller deals. i wouldn’t be worrying about us being able to spend in the summer or ending up over our FFP limit.

There’s also a vid with Bruno and Big Joe in retro Adidas tops too, guessing they’ve been filming a lot of promo stuff for next seasons kits

And as previously mentioned this summer was the first year we offset some of our incomings with sales for actual money. The Wood and Maxi deals will have presented at worst wiping our noses on Wood from an FFP perspective and whilst many didn’t think Maxi went for enough, given the amortisation on his £12 arrival fee, probably represented a decent wedge in ffp terms

Sorry what I meant was the most recently released accounts

Or are you presuming we are going to make a similar loss next year, with the SELA money, CL money, greater income from the cup games and higher league finish? Not sure which years accounts the Adidas deal will land on too. I wouldn’t panic we have competent people running things, they know what we can afford to spend and will do, but I’d imagine it’ll be at least as much as this summer, but offset by higher incoming commercial revenue.

Look at the bottom of the table it includes this years accounts and it shows £105M. Dunno where you’re getting the £180M from?

Selling Maxi and Wood ring any bells? Also the £73M loss announced this year is not all attributable to ffp, with many things deductible from it for things like the academy, training ground and investment in the Women's team not counting towards the PL's PSR calculations.

People going on about ffp and how restrictive it is, I’m personally amazed the whole window system hasn’t been scrapped tbh. Not just because of the situations it potentially leaves clubs in, but also restricting the options of players frozen out by managers etc too. I’m not sure who it serves other than the person who sells Jim White a yellow tie every six months

Think that whole situation was a deliberate bait and switch, to build evidence around rules specifically being introduced to hamper us. Rather than any actual desire to loan players from Saudi

I was being facetious, if I recall it was more defensively that we used academy graduates, with the likes of Ramage, Edgar and Taylor. The point still sort of stands though, we had no option but to use the academy kids at that point and I argue in that first season did so fairly successfully

Honest answer the one who could, is already playing I think. The rest are miles off being suitable for first team football and the ones, theoretically nearest are out on loan elsewhere. the club have started seeding the academy with players like Sanusi, Heffernan etc, but we are years from potentially seeing the fruits of that work