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If he does end up costing £10m, it’s still an excellent transaction overall with Forest versus in effect the sale of say Gordon to Liverpool, which would have been at a distressed valuation.

No fee mentioned by Ornstein. Anything around £12-15m would be fair. Probably needed a move.

Internet sleuths have discovered his wife’s no longer following him on Instagram.

Mark Douglas reporting in the Independent this morning that Everton want £37m - and that we value Minteh at £40m.

I like Kilman, but the £40m valuation mooted in the article is farcical. Appreciative that it’s little more than paper talk, but our approach [Kelly, Trafford, DCL, Kilman] is lacking a little in inspiration.

No fee mooted, but he is now in his final twelve months of his contract. And without that context it’s difficult to determine the value. At £20m with Howes undisputed track record in improving players, he’s a perfectly good back-up and useful off the bench. At £50m it would be a real head scratcher to say the least.

It’s too rich for Behdad Eghbalis blood, then the demands must be astronomical.

He has match day increasing by £1.2m - which I suspect is undercooked. Same number of games given the League Cup run the previous year but significantly higher ticket prices in the Champions League and one suspects, better corporate uptake. The £7.7m decrease is associated with domestic league position / merit payment. Suspect commercial will be higher as well.

Very detailed and concerning analysis of PSR today in Swiss Rambles blog, even assuming for a £50m increase in our revenue from £250m to £300m, he is forecasting a £63m operating loss, compared to the required £2m profit to hit PSR, so £65m needs to be generated from player sales. However, that £65m includes the sale of ASM. So perhaps as much as £40m gap. Plenty of assumptions in play of course.

Fairly widely reported now. Although seems they are wide apart on valuation.

We’ll probably sell him and keep Almiron for another two years.

Profile is not an uncommon hire for Premier League club - I know Arsenal’s COO was Managing Director of Manchester Airport. But the emphasis in the press release on capital investment and transformation is quite telling. Exciting [or at least as exciting as it gets for a non-footballing hire…].

If they are “incredible characters [and] fundamental to how we work behind the scenes”, perhaps they could be offered a different role. Because neither of them should be anywhere near a Premier League pitch.

I would understand that if he was somehow coerced into applying, but having willing gone through what would appear to be a fairly arduous process to receive an offer - it would be odd for him to turn it down late stage. Not likely to be leveraging it for greater control / remuneration at Palace.

Didn’t think he was allowed to play? Behind closed doors only?

Surely the three sites in aggregate are large enough for a 21st century training facility? Wonder if the lack of movement on a new site is owing to this.

If you are the club though - and we can argue the rights and wrongs of this as a fan base, they’ll be looking at price elasticity with respect of demand. And a lot of the survey seemed to be teasing that out ‘would you pay more for xx’. If there’s an additional 15k general ballot tickets can we sell those at the existing pricing? A lot depends on what’s happening on the pitch. But let’s wait and see, assume they’ll announce something close season as it gets towards planning.

“Expected to be a very modest transfer budget… United would effectively be operating a “sell-to-buy” policy if the club missed out on Europe entirely, so restricted are their finances after a £555 million spend over the previous three summers and the limits imposed by the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules”. No wonder they are are lowballing the Ashworth fee. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/04/29/manchester-united-prepared-to-sell-most-of-their-squad/

There has to be concurrency with UEFA as I’ve understood it.

https://x.com/skysportsnews/status/1783789880964784542

The timing aligned to the FFP year end is a work of genius.

I suspect it’s not as interesting as it could be, as much as it would be hilarious for him to be trucking mad, I know his family are massively into equestrian and I wonder if it might be to transport their horses.

Not great reading, we would be in breach if it applied now - not withstanding last years accounts are a poor point in time reference to judge our off the field progress.