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Wouldn't that now count as a shareholder loan, and so subject to commercial rate interest being charged for PSR purposes?

"Well I don't really know!"

Can we let this topic die and then resurrect it in the Other Club's Transfers thread?

(Nowt wrong with dancing)

What grates me with the selling the infrastructure to yourself is that we know how it ends, and it's not good. Look at Derby. The intent of PSR here is completely broken.

That's the one cheat code the PL actually did block (Infinite Athletic)

To paraphrase the 90s Sid the Sexist animation: "H'way ya buggars everybody get doon, Monday neet he's signing for the Toon"

I'm not sure why PIF even want to sign off on players. Apart from the 35m/yr allowed loss, all the money being spent is from the club's income not the PIF piggybank. They appointed the CEO - and will appoint his successor - so just let them cook. It's like micromanaging for the sake of it (Eales, Nicks, Howe should all be trusted) but not being able to give the time needed for it.

Pedro will need to elbow his way past Jackson to get into the team. Won't be easy, they are both good at that (Sorry if just got in from a day of driving back from the Pacific coast)

Don't we have an official tie-in with StatsBomb?

Baiting out the Brexiters with that mind

He's been trying to assist Hojlund, rather than Wood.

That's word for word what I was shouting

I also think that if they can't get a work permit, they shouldn't be allowed to be registered. You shouldn't be able to loan them out abroad to get around that. It's almost tantamount to actual ownership of a human, forcing them to work somewhere else.

Please stop. I've now got Nigel Lamont in my mind.

Maybe he can conscientiously object, like Marcelino did against us.

If he'd said Chris Mort, I wouldn't have disagreed about that. Maybe I didn't look too closely, but I liked him from afar.

A venue, not a pub, but the Fire Station looks nice and Brandy Clark is playing there for the second time in 2-3 years.

A horse head more like /s.

On 22 May 2024, Ghisolfi signed with Serie A side Roma as their new sporting director On 10 July 2024, Le Fée signed for Serie A club Roma on a 5-year contract worth €23 million Maybe it was agreed beforehand and there's an interview with him saying their transfer strategy wasn't fit for purpose...

BBC Introducing NE played some clips yesterday including an interview on BBC Breakfast the day after the takeover, and he was saying he was massively hung over as he and Johnny went down to the ground (where Johnny got his sax out on the statue) and someone gave him a load of CANS. He must have turned into a super fan quick. Edit: this was the interview they played:

"Gordon is desperate to go to Liverpool". Never seen him run so fast as to get in on that celebration.