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No but if we scratch forest back for 5m why would they scratch ours for 30m? It doesn’t make sense.

Then why did they buy him? Sure we can offer the keeper at 5m but it’s still 30m they value at if we say the keeper is worthless

We can ignore @Froggyand anyone else on this, Forest thought he was worth it hence they paid. It’s not like it was a straight swap, they paid a significant amount for a player they obviously rate at 35m.

Aye absolutely staggering levels of over reach if they attempt that. They are already straddling a line. the way the league has gone is quite depressing to be honest, Scudamore would always build consensus but these clowns just do what they please as long as they 14 on board they plough on.

Maybe, maybe not but there’s potential for you, it’s extremely difficult to value.

Absolutely if you think about what we paid for Gordon at that time as well, his goal and assist record was poor at that point too. If Anderson were to go and have a season like Gordon just did we would be screaming murder and Forest would be talking about the bargain they got. All transfers involving younger players come with a large degree of uncertainty.

Ah true, but not really relevant as I don’t think Italy has such stupid rules as us. The original point was why don’t we do it with Sela. To which I stated we probably can’t as it would likely fail FMV test as it doesn’t make commercial sense (unless it’s a provision in the current contract).

He’s a politician, I was surprised when he spoke to scathingly by his standards about these deals. When it comes to his actual opinions they veer between just blind backing of the current order of things and hardcore club hoop licking. Don’t get me wrong he’s obviously the absolute gold standard when it comes to transfer news but it’s obvious where his loyalty is. And yeah, don’t worry about any of these deals absolutely nothing is going to happen, the most they can do is find a way to close this moving forwards but it won’t be easy to do so.

Ornstein was speaking with this north London hat on. As I’ve stated several times the premier league would find itself in a very deep crisis if it attempted to block these deals, they simply don’t have any form of robust rules to stop them. We the deal for Anderson has been completed and announce we can infer from that they have ratified it. It’s important to remember that the league has already over reached on an unprecedented scale already which has led to Man city’s legal action, they would need remarkably temerity to consider blocking a UK business from disposing an asset to another uk business. TLDR. The media noise about these deals is just that, noise if they want to attempt to stop them they will require a new rule to do so and they are already flying close the wind.

Neither of those are related parties

No such test exists as it wasn’t a related party transfer.

They’ve completely lost the plot.

With Eddie in charge I believe so yes. We also don’t really have to, they go on loan and develop and we then decide how to proceed.

Think of it like Tino and trips, Schars competition/ next in line.

We are nabbing talent from some real good academies it’s really good to see.

I’d be on board with that, personally I don’t see a couple of seasons playing elsewhere an issue at all. It’s a temporary measure and short term pain for long term gain. We will have to wait and see what they decide, I hope whatever we do it’s extensive we should be looking towards the next 100 years and not back at the prior.

Yeah spurs stadium doesn’t have a retractable pitch right? So it would make sense they are limited to summer (your weather point is also valid). Will be interesting if we do the same re the concourse but it doesn’t fix the other constraints outlined re listed buildings etc.

Concerts are difficult to do mid season due to the damage which would happen to the pitch (if it’s revenue you wanted to court you would want a retractable pitch). in order to extend the concourse would you have to knock the entire stand and rebuild it? I don’t think Liverpool are particularly relevant personally if you want to use the stadium to generate additional income as Anfield is obviously a football stadium which has been expended several times but not designed with other events in mind.

Fingers crossed, I do wonder which direction we go with this.

Spurs im sure did, I know they had Beyoncé beating out Wembley they have the nfl. Liverpool aren’t relevant to this as they also have an old stadium. Both a refurb and an expansion can only achieve so much. As others have said no refurb will give you more concourse space, no extension will change leazes terrace etc.

You could but not many due to the amount of set up time needed etc. your only real window to do so would be the summer etc. your still heavily limited on the upside just to the inherent restrictions in place.

Was thinking the same, given the opposition and its lack of repute sales might be slow for this.

Yeah probably but it would run foul of related party transaction rules because it makes no commercial sense for the sponsor to renegotiate such an agreement upwards.

Next time round we will definitely be asking more and have metrics to back it up

If we have a contract with Sela which we do how do you propose we break it?