Matt1892

Depends if we plan on selling Pope.

He wanted to leave Forest this summer as he had dropped down to third choice, so if he does come in then he will replace Dubs as number 2 is my guess. Meaning Pope stays as our #1 or is off.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t sign a new CM, Harrison or White will fill his place.

I can see Murphy being the back up right back.

Was he? I think Murillo or Gibbs White for around the £70 mark if the price of Anderson is true then.

We needed to make a £2 million profit to be PSR compliant over the 3 year period, so we have either made a profit or face a points deduction. We were predicted to make a loss of £64 million without player sales, which didn’t take in to account the sale of ASM, which is why the figure of us needing £40 million in sales before the deadline was banded about.

You would be looking at Murillo, MGW or Elanga. Probably on an inflated fee to make up for the inflated fee for Anderson, if true. By spreading out both transfers it becomes difficult to for league to argue about.

We have had a phase where we have bought a lot of players but made little from sales, due to building up the squad depth that we need. Now it is about upgrading those players and selling those coming towards the end of their careers or those who are not good enough for a Top Six squad, which is where we want to be consistently. Presuming we have triggered the deal to sign Lewis Hall, I can see another 4 players coming in this summer with the same amount going in sales to help subsidise those signings. We will turn a profit for PSR for last year now, if we can get somewhere close again this year then it should free up a lot of wiggle room for the following year.

The BBC have put an article out about it who due to being publicly owned, they need to have verification before they can put something out as fact. They even say at the bottom of the article that they have reached out to us for comment, so this information would likely have come from someone at Liverpool speaking on the record. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c720wjxzz9ro

There is an article about it on the BBC, who only post football news that they have been told that is correct, so would have got this information from Liverpool. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c720wjxzz9ro

We were offering Gordon to Liverpool earlier today such was how desperate the position was, so while I wouldn’t say we fucked up I think there will be some lessons learned hopefully from the experience. I am all for the club taking risks by the way but they need an exit strategy for when it doesn’t come off, otherwise we might not be so lucky. We needed to make a £2 million profit this year to hit the 3 year PSR figure, which I am guessing we have done with the sales agreed today, so that buys us some space this summer and the next few years. I can still see us selling Wilson, Almiron and Trippier this window to add some more leeway. It would make sense to have an eye on potential sales the following year (Longstaff and Murphy maybe) to give us wiggle room for PSR going forward.

Good luck to him and I hope he finds his place at Forest.

Is that including Lewis Hall or as well as?

Talks of both of them at one stage.

Do we have to go through the drawn out process of fair market value sign off with selling him to Saudi?

You would think that if we didn’t have such a short deadline that the club would have looked to move Almiron and Murphy on, then having Minteh plus an experienced player on the right.

The Swiss Ramble believed we needed £40 million, but that was a guess looking at previous years figures. Even if it was £30 million and we sell Minteh for £33 million, we still have to knock off £5.6 million of that for what we owe on him through the books, so would still be slightly short. I don’t know if his former club has a sell on clause either.

Do people really believe the club put out stories of Gordon being offered about to soften the blow of Minteh leaving?!😂 Hopefully this is enough, Swiss Ramble’s guess was we needed £40 million in sales.

He will be one of Everton’s best paid players and would expect a pay rise to come here.

How much was it Swiss Ramble thought we might be over by?

The sharks are circling.

Anderson and Minteh for Elanga?! How much do we value him at?

I think the desperation is more to do with with timing regarding FFP, there are likely to be others we would prefer to get rid of before Anderson if we had time on our side to do it.