Yankuba Minteh (now playing for Brighton & Hove Albion)

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, The Prophet said:

 

It might not be enough to balance the books though.

Then those in charge have done a poor job. Surely can’t be going into the last week needing a minimum 30 million to not break the rules.

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

It might not be enough to balance the books though.

 

That doesn't make it any less shit though.

[gbandit]

How much has getting knocked out of the groups in the CL fucked us here? I never know what the accountancy periods are but is that one of the reasons we’re in trouble?

[Novocastrian]

2 hours ago, Gawalls said:

Every single article that says we’re selling him states we don’t want to but need to for PSR, just wondering - what’s baffling you?

His performances in the Eredivisie would suggest, at the very least, we take a closer look at him before making any decision on his future. There’s at least half’ a dozen ‘saleable’ assets that I’d sell to generate income first. Finally the players we are being linked with seem like squad fillers and not the ready made first 11 improvements we need. Yes I know it’s early in the window and the club doesn’t want to show its hand too early. If we are going to let a player of his profile go (we aren’t Chelsea and we don’t have multiple young starlets) let’s hope we are bringing in a Chiesa or someone who will take us to the next level.

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Then those in charge have done a poor job. Surely can’t be going into the last week needing a minimum 30 million to not break the rules.

 

It's odd that both us and Villa, who are otherwise well ran clubs, have fallen foul. 

 

It's probably a combination of not getting the sales they thought they would in January or not being able to lobby for the rule changes they expected, as selling Minteh seems like a least resort.

 

Either way, them having to sell Luiz and us Minteh shows how the regulations strangles ambious clubs.

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Novocastrian said:

His performances in the Eredivisie would suggest, at the very least, we take a closer look at him before making any decision on his future. There’s at least half’ a dozen ‘saleable’ assets that I’d sell to generate income first. Finally the players we are being linked with seem like squad fillers and not the ready made first 11 improvements we need. Yes I know it’s early in the window and the club doesn’t want to show its hand too early. If we are going to let a player of his profile go (we aren’t Chelsea and we don’t have multiple young starlets) let’s hope we are bringing in a Chiesa or someone who will take us to the next level.

 

Yes, but you need buyers for those saleable assets prior to 30 June.

[RS]

Feels like he was always a FFP pawn. Hideous that this flawed system has led to standard operating practices of this kind. 

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

It's odd that both us and Villa, who are otherwise well ran clubs, have fallen foul. 

 

It's probably a combination of not getting the sales they thought they would in January or not being able to lobby for the rule changes they expected, as selling Minteh seems like a least resort.

 

Either way, them having to sell Luiz and us Minteh shows how the regulations strangles ambious clubs.

We should have taken the Bayern bid for Trippier in January in hindsight.

[TRon]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

We should have taken the Bayern bid for Trippier in January in hindsight.

 

It's not really hindsight, I said we should have took it in January.

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, TRon said:

 

It's not really hindsight, I said we should have took it in January.

Aye me too, I meant from the club.

[Gawalls]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

Yes, but you need buyers for those saleable assets prior to 30 June.

Don’t - I’ve been saying it all weekend and it just gets constantly ignored.

[Gawalls]

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

We should have taken the Bayern bid for Trippier in January in hindsight.

If we’d sold tripps in Jan and never had that hindsight then these conversations would have happened in the tripps thread.

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, Gawalls said:

Don’t - I’ve been saying it all weekend and it just gets constantly ignored.

Longstaff

Anderson

Trippier

Murphy

 

All possible options imo.

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

10 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Then those in charge have done a poor job. Surely can’t be going into the last week needing a minimum 30 million to not break the rules.

How do we know that this is actually the case? Has this kid actually sold yet? I mean there’s putting 2&2 together and coming up with 5, and then there’s whatever the hell large portions of this thread consist of.

 

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, Gawalls said:

If we’d sold tripps in Jan and never had that hindsight then these conversations would have happened in the tripps thread.

I think quite a few were open to selling in January in fairness. The overall feeling was it was the best time to sell and we had to become good sellers to succeed.

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

How do we know that this is actually the case? Has this kid actually sold yet? I mean there’s putting 2&2 together and coming up with 5, and then there’s whatever the hell large portions of this thread consist of.

 

I think it’s fairly well reported we need to sell by then end of the week.

[TRon]

1 hour ago, simonsays said:

It's just FOMO with Minteh - the idea he will succeed at a different club is a hard one to swallow.  Unfortunately it's something we will have to get used to.  

 

If his sale allows us to keep within PSR and fund an Olise level RW then I'll be happy.

 

The Olise level RW you are dreaming about is Miggy Almiron as things stand currently. What narks me is that some of us were thinking Minteh might at least provide a better option for the RW as an upgrade to Miggy.

[Gawalls]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

Longstaff

Anderson

Trippier

Murphy

 

All possible options imo.

Tripps bid in Jan so that’s fair enough but no fucker is bidding for the others.

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Longstaff

Anderson

Trippier

Murphy

 

All possible options imo.

 

Clubs aren't exactly tripping over themselves to offer us that big money for them I guess. Am I shocked and surprised? Well not really.

[The Prophet]

I still think we'll shift quite a few this summer, but most will be waiting until 1 July before buying. Hence why most deals being done at the moment are mutually beneficial swaps.

[SUPERTOON]

2 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

Clubs aren't exactly tripping over themselves to offer us that big money for them I guess. Am I shocked and surprised? Well not really.

They aren’t, but between them we could raise enough imo.

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

I think it’s fairly well reported we need to sell by then end of the week.

It was also reported that Chelsea needed to do the same and then quickly retracted. The truth is no-one outside of the club actually knows our PSR situation. As I said yesterday, this time of year is always silly season for the media, with them having to find angles to fill column inches when no club football is being played. When it was in the chronicle or the pink 30 years ago people didn’t pay it too much heed, now it’s online with even more space to fill, people want to take every story as gospel. I don’t get the hysteria and angst over stuff which hasn’t happened yet, save that energy for after something happens maybe 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Gawalls]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

I still think we'll shift quite a few this summer, but most will be waiting until 1 July before buying. Hence why most deals being done at the moment are mutually beneficial swaps.

Spot on and the only clubs that are buying aren’t interested in Anderson, Longstaff or Allison.

[r0cafella]

I think one of the most frustrating aspect of this is the sheer amount of money left on the table by the lack of low hanging sponsors we somehow didn’t sign up since the takeover. 

[gjohnson]

1 hour ago, simonsays said:

It's just FOMO with Minteh - the idea he will succeed at a different club is a hard one to swallow.  Unfortunately it's something we will have to get used to.  

 

If his sale allows us to keep within PSR and fund an Olise level RW then I'll be happy.

It's exactly this.

 

We've never been in a position where we can sell an untested player for a large sum, and the fact that the money being touted is making people afraid that we're basically giving away the next Messi/Ronaldo/Mbappe.

 

If we keep him and he turns out garbage in the PL the same lot will be kicking off that we didn't cash in when we had the chance. If we keep him and he ends up awesome great...everyone's happy.

 

If we sell and he's great, then we haven't really missed out on something we never really had, but have a healthier financial position. If we sell and he's rubbish, it'll be the best decision since bringing Howe in.