TheBrownBottle

It is a problem if you want to actually sign someone. Someone in the hierarchy is making VFM assessments of players' fees by the looks of it.

Agreed completely - but we have it.

Howe isn’t a bystander, there’s a three person transfer committee and he is in charge of it.

‘Sven Botman is like a new signing’

I can remember Rover being NUFC’s official car partner in the Keegan era - that may have been the last moment when a top level footballer could be persuaded to drive in in a Rover

This is like. The entire point of watching sport is it’s meant to be fun - somehow this gets lost

If Howe wants him I’m all in is my view of transfers - even if I’m scratching my head re the appeal (though I can see the appeal of Sesko)

Isak’s complete lack of professionalism suggests otherwise

Eddie Howe’s nephew

That’s offputting And we need to employ professionals not nepo babies

Man Utd won things despite Cole, not because of him. We got Shearer 18 months later. I’ve never regretted Cole leaving

Because they’re not in the business of chucking vast sums at overseas projects - which actually are investments. The other sports ‘investments’ are within KSA - which justifies chucking stupid money at it

It’s the MO of that govt. Decades of spunking the geographical lottery win up the wall. The Mickey Carroll of govts.

True, though I don’t think joining a bigger club for a much bigger wage would be a poor decision for him

Got you - Isak’s been here more than three seasons, so 60% of his fee is amortised, not 30%

Early June from memory - but my memory has been wrong before

How do we lose money on the Isak sale?

Kelly’s sale was in last season’s numbers

We’ve spent the maximum amount available on the pitch - and while that’s the club’s income in the long run, PIF put substantial amounts in for cash flow purposes to ensure we could edit: they’ve funded the ‘maximum losses’ under PSR too

If he’s talking about PSR ‘profit’ then £50-60m implies something closer to a 50% sell-on Or is Baldwards talking shite as per?

They haven’t spent hundreds of millions off the pitch - no complaints re what they’ve spent on it.

Once it happened, sure. As there will be if Sesko signs.

If we were linked with Isak today the thread would be full of ‘he’s only scored six league goals last season, he’s not proven, why are we paying £63m for him?’ If Sesko is who Howe wants, I’m confident he’s the right player

Sorry, what significant spending off the pitch?

I’ve got serious doubts re the new training ground - it doesn’t need to be in the city, and sourcing land doesn’t take four years. And the talk of a new stadium currently looks like cloud cuckoo land.