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Barnes has a remaining net book value of £30.4m. Even if we sold him for what we bought him for we'd only bank £7.6m profit this accounting period (probably less due to signing bonus and agent fees). There's a reason Minteh is the one being touted as leaving - he's the only one where other clubs see value in closing a deal before June 30th. All of the other players we'd be happy to let leave, we'd still be happy to let leave after June 30th. The likely options are selling Minteh, selling a top player (Bruno/Isak) or failing PSR.

Didn't think it was a pen first time watching and more and more convinced it isn't the more I watch it. He doesn't shield the ball. He slows down and quite literally jumps both feet off the ground into the path of the defender. Keep one foot on the floor while you come across and you have an argument, but no chance on the way he tried to buy that.

Surely that will impact the next financial year as we banked the CL income this year and has no bearing on the June 30th sale deadline? Probably means that we'll have to raise additional income from player sales in next financial year though due to consistently increasing player amortisation and wages, which probably won't be offset by our growth in commercial income.

Don't think the Saudi Pro League transfer window opens until mid-July, unfortunately.

So if we sell Minteh for £37m and sign DCL for the same value the impact in our current financial year would be: +£37m from Minteh sale -£6m from Minteh's remaining net book value -£0.02m from 1 day of £37m DCL's transfer fee amortised over 5 years £30.98m Net profit

We'll be able to bank the net profit of the Minteh sale all in the current accounting year (selling price minus current remaining c.£6m remaining net book value). I believe the amortisation of players transfer fees can probably be calculated daily so if we sign him on June 30th we'll only day 1 day of 5 years of his transfer fee amortised in this accounting year (1/1,825th of the transfer fee).

As much as I don't like this move, we're slightly bent over a barrel here with needing to sell before the end of June. No one is going to rush a move for Almiron or Longstaff before the end of June, so the only real options are creative moves like this, allowing players to leave at a discounted price to rush the deal through, or selling a star player like Isak or Bruno.

I'm sure it's been mentioned. It definitely seemed to be a higher threshold for reviewing deicsions this year than previous. Not that I agree with it. My pessimistic mind is pretty set on it being so there's more room for ref's to fuck over the smaller teams.

Do UEFA have the high 'clear and obvious' threshold rule like the PL? Doesn't seem like it from the decisions in the tournament so far. Except that one.

Yeah, you're probably right. Only have to go back a decade or 2 for us to be the one's having fat fuck fans running around town centres looking for fights - only to throw chairs from a safe distance because they're fucking pussies.

Bit of a confusing one. Didn't know there were issues between Serbs and Georgians. Georgia doesn't recognise Kosovo and Serbia doesn't recognise South Ossetia as a Russian breakaway region. Unless it's just a combination of the general 'everyone's against us' Serb mentality so we're going to batter everyone, and support for Russia in Serbia.

Whatever the fuck this is is making me terrified there will be a half time show in the final in 4 years time.

I think signing bonus too. Which is usually higher than normal on 'free' transfers.

I'm pretty sure they outsource all of their production and just do the marketing and selling. There aren't any expensive ingredients in there so I'd imagine it costs the same to produce as the cheap 50p cans, or likely far cheaper due to the economies of scale. They're still seen as the premium product in the market due to name recognition alone, which allows them to charge 3-4x more which is pure profit.

Without Europe, the focus should be on getting the best upgrades to our strongest starting 11 (after the depth signing at CB to cover Botman & Lacelles' injuries). I quite like Mbuemo, but I think if we signed him he would already be the weakest player in our starting front 6. In my opinion, it would counter-productive to spend a significant fee on a player who in 6-12 months we immediately be looking to upgrade on.

Looks like most of this season he's been out with an achilles injury. I thought it was his hamstring still causing issues from last season. Achilles injuries are notorious for recurrence as they tend not to heal unless given a long recovery period. If you keep playing with an injured achilles, it will tear eventually, which will then need surgery and ACL length recovery times. It looks like we tried to rush him back during our midfield injury crises and he reaggravated it. Don't think it's fair to call him an injury prone player, despite the last year.

Commentators all agreeing that was a booking for Summerville was mental.

Looked like he had his hand pushed in Haalands chest and just pushed him straight to the ground or I'm going mad.

Really hoping the players that started on the weekend only make a late cameo appearance at most on Wednesday. 65 hours between finishing the Brentford game and the kick off for this. Over 20 of which will be spent in a plane causing dehydration, lower oxygen saturation and where they won't be able to perform any active recovery. Sounds a like a recipe for muscle injuries.

Until we know the full details of the new FFP/PSR rules then it could also be counter-productive moving forwards to sign players on frees. It looks like with the uncoupling of 3 year losses, that wages as % of income could be the most important factor in the new FFP world. With player's on frees tending to command a higher wage then could be the limiting factor on our spend. Probably worth noting that I read one article on this a week or 2 ago so could have misunderstood something.

Has Brexit Branson actually improved any sports team he's purchased a stake in? Purchases OGC Nice at start of 19/20 season. Average finish position in 4 seasons pre-purchase: 5.5, average finishing position in 4 seasons post-purchase: 7.25. Purchases Team Sky in 2019. 4 Tour de France wins in 5 years pre-purchase, 1 Tour de France win in 5 years post-purchase. Purchases 33% stake in Mercedes F1 team at end of 2020. 3 WDC's in 3 seasons pre-purchase, 0 WDC's in 3 seasons post-purchase.

No need at all for any release clause in a new contact. Bruno only had 2 years remaining come this summer so signing an extension and compromising on some demands could be expected. Isak has 4 year come this summer. Wouldn't even be against a wage increase with no extension, but there's no benefit to us for accepting a release clause in his contract (unless it's one of those mental £1bn one's someone mentioned previously).

Don't understand how other decisions are only overturned if there's a 'clear and obvious mistake', but a guy in a room drawing lines where you can't be certain which frame the ball left the foot is an exact science where you can be ruled offside by a few inches.

This was my thoughts. Was getting a bit confused by people saying we have to pay his full salary until he joins Man Utd (and thus should let him go to save money - maybe this is wishful thinking from Man Utd fans). Unless football director contracts are structured completely differently to regular employment contracts. Would assume that he has a 12 month non-compete clause in his contract and likely a lengthy notice period. He has resigned, in which case we can accept his resignation and keep him on gardening leave (being paid) whilst his notice period is served, he will then sit around for c.12 months stuck on a non-compete clause where we will not be paying him a penny. The reports that we can keep him off Man Utd's books until 2026 suggests to me a 12 month notice period and 12 month non-compete - this is mostly conjecture, but the notice period + non-compete must add up to 24+ months if the 2026 date is true. At worst, our exposure to sunk PILON costs looks to be £1.5m, a immaterial amount in the grand scheme of things. Man Utd fans think that we should bow down and let him go? Fuck that with how they treated us with Lingard (and the player himself who had been there for decades). Wouldn't be doing them any favours at all, £20m or let him rot for 24 months, £1.5m to pay for Man Utd to delay their restructure is nothing. Note: My role has a lot of crossover but I do not work in employment law or HR and happily to be corrected and educated on anything I got wrong above.