r0cafella

Hard pass on expensive premier league players.

Main issue his complete lack of availability recently rendering him useless.

I’m sure it will go through, some deadwood cleared which is good.

Aye. I’m aware but from what I heard they are being punished for the same infringement which is wrong imo. I understand why it’s that way as I mentioned in my post but the point being the rules are clearly poorly thought out if you can be punished for the same thing twice.

Eh really? What you heard?

There you all go, you can chill now.

They sold rice, FFP won’t be a thing for them for 2 more years.

Doesn’t take 2.5 years to pass that. We are slow. And that slowness is one of the reasons why we can’t buy our way out of our current injury issues.

Such a wet spam signing.

According to Bein Ben that’s exactly what we are doing atm

We don’t even have to go as far as touching the stadium at this point; training ground and training kit is such low hanging fruit though.

he’s going nowhere

Only surprising thing is how slow we are. The gap we have to bridge is huge and only way we compete is due to these deals which I appreciate are unpopular.

He’s not going anywhere. The club would have to push him out for him to leave. He left Spain because his family were homesick.

Thank you kindly

Can anyone de-twitter this please?

Listening to the podcast now, I really dislike crafting and his straw man argument. He mentioned we’ve done ok so far and we’ve been allowed to invest, that’s purely because Ashley didn’t. Moving forward we wouldn’t be able to do so because of the drawbridge created and lobbied for by the team he reports on. The agenda pushing on this podcast is hilarious, and the complete lack of discussion regarding alternatives to the flawed system is disappointing. We can protect clubs from going bust very easily by creating rules such as depositing money to escrow accounts or directors guarantees. This isn’t rocket science or difficult to comprehend. So the actual discussion is around fairness and balance, and it isn’t fair that Man city and Chelsea are who grew when it was the Wild West are allowed to maintain that position when others such as ourselves and Villa are competing against rules which are both ineffective and unfair.

Btw, is that correct? Everton are being punished for the same breach again? If so that clearly isn’t correct and the rules are deeply flawed. Surely any breaches which are punished should result in the year of the breach being zeroised. Although I guess that makes the rules game able as you park your losses to one year and enjoy the benefits the year after. Either way these rules have been poorly thought out.

What difference does it make? No matter how much we spend we are going to get those accusations anyway. Personally I want to see competitive balance and rules which encourage it, not rules which gate keep.

our goal is to win, not to become the seventh member, if that makes sense? your absolutely right, we’ve made great progress but we are still half of your revenue and you guys are still growing. We are trying to hit an ever increasing target which is compounded by the fact in order to generate the revenue the way people think is right you have to be successful, in order to be successful you have to spend. It’s a chicken and egg situation. We have some recognition sure, but we are still way behind on all metrics, I don’t think growing is so easy and ultimately it’s the finances which drive the on the pitch growth. When you guys became apart of the cartel, the gap was smaller and also the competition was less, that’s why you could do it. It was the same for us during KK days. It’s much more difficult now everything is way more advanced even clubs like Brighton have a formidable scouting network and are seen as the model club (note the model club stagnates and sells its best players yearly) this isn’t a model to envy if your a fan.

No, they are still under contract but in the books the contracts have been paid in full (we brought forward the cost of the wages in the books) and this is only in the books, they are still being paid by us and we still hold the players registration. Matty Longstaff doesn’t have a contract with us at all, it expired last summer and he’s now a free agent.

Iirc, when our wages to turnover ratio was 90% that was inclusive of some contracts we essential wrote off. Basically we believed the players in question couldn’t be sold and thus we took the financial hit in the books of writing them down to zero. (In essence whatever duration they had left on the contract we accounted for it in that one financial year as opposed to spread over the course of the contract). I hope that makes sense, I’m not an accountant so it’s difficult to explain sorry.

Termination is really bad in FFP terms as you have to pay everything out in one shot, as opposed to spreading the cost. that being said, we did write off wages for both Hayden and Hendrick already. (We’ve essentially accounted for the full contracts of those two in one period).

Leffe, no disrespect again but you haven’t done much, in terms of being successful. You’ve managed to hang on to the coat tails of the them but not meaningfully challenged for honours. We are heavily disadvantaged by the current rules because of Ashley’s neglect over the years, whilst everyone else was growing we went backwards and we had to ensure 14 years of this. This makes it extremely difficult to bridge the gap especially given since our takeover more stringent rules have been put in place to curtail our growth. Our locality is both a gift and a curse, yes we are a one club city but if you compare average incomes between London and Newcastle you will obviously see a massive gap, we simply can’t raise our revenue in the same way London clubs can. Some of our constraints may ease in July but they will have to as our squad will need significant investment, we have a lot of old players and a lot of out of contract players. We are getting in the game after the market has been inflated by the Chelsea’s and cities and the rules haven’t even moved with inflation (which they obviously should have at a minimum).