Yep, that all makes sense. I wanted to make sure I wasn't wildly off with the reading of it!
As you say, the 23/24 results will be the big sale of Kane in amongst greater amortised contracts, plus the reduction of some high wages I would suppose. And what will be a roughly £65m sized hole in...
Am I right in thinking that the table here shows our profit for PSR purposes is £103m, but that includes £75m of leeway based on the Covid seasons? And that this £75m is not going to be applicable in the next accounting period?
I know many of us have the feeling that we are in a strong position...
I would suggest that if we want to compete with City, acting like them would be the worst thing to do. Their underlying financial situation is different to everyone else in the league, so taking a different approach is going to be better way to compete.
City shouldn't be used as a benchmark...
And as more clubs within that 20 are threatened by the rules, there are going to be more potential votes to soften those rules.
As fans we kind of buy into the idea of black and white rules, and loads of clubs being handed points deductions. But if the long-term objective is to level the...
Another thing to remember is that it doesn't really matter how many points the 4th placed team got in seasons gone by - what matters more is how many points the 5th place team got. That's the total that's more important if we look at things historically.
For example, last season saw Newcastle...
I think that's a real stretch in your thinking. Draws are not that common (I believe around 15% of the season so far) so I would suggest that those draws you are predicting are less "calculations" and more just games where you can't predict the result. And it's totally fine to not be able to...
Totally fine to have an opinion, and of course anything can happen. It would be interesting to hear where you think the points swing is going to come from.
We play the same teams apart from us having Wolves, Villa, West Ham, Forest when they have Everton, Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton. The...
Whilst that is true, it is also true that having academy players make the grade is still the cheapest way to build a squad. The Chelsea situation isn't entirely unique... I think it's just extreme and is throwing more light on the rules than should be normal.
Selling your best academy players...
No matter what your views on Levy might be, top level football clubs have to be successful businesses now in order to be successful on the pitch, bar a few exceptions. It's the nature of the beast. If that is going to wind you up, then I fear you will be frustrated as a football fan.
I do think...
You're probably right about certain companies not wanting to get involved based on existing sponsors, but that would be true of all clubs, and it's not like there's a shortage of companies in the world!
I think part of the hold up will be that we want a partner rather than just a sponsor. It...
It makes you wonder if they will go down the Barca route of selling off future this/that/the other in order to avoid getting hit with a penalty that would relegate them. They will surely be waiting for the Everton/Forrest judgements and then come up with something that keeps them in the league...
The City case will be different because it's not strictly about what they spent on players... it's more about them not being clear about what they were doing and not cooperating with investigations. Trickier stuff to prove and there will be loads of fighting from City's side.
If Chelsea get...
I'm totally with you in terms of those arguments being shite when it comes to what Chelsea have done. I just imagine that those judgements are going to set a precedent, which from my limited understanding is a huge deciding factor when you get into the legal nitty gritty.
There is a universe in...
I don't full agree with the idea that all other clubs will be lowballing Chelsea. For example, if Ange really wants to sign Gallagher then I think it's fine for us to come up with our own valuation of him and still offer that. If we made a crazy low offer out of spite and ended up losing out on...
The outgoings have been really important this window as well. The loans for the youngsters could be hit or miss, but moving Lloris, Dier and Perisic are all signs that the club is looking ahead and being more focused on moulding a proper Ange squad.
I'm not sure you can ever create a perfect...
Fair play for owning that. I thought you were a bit over-dramatic with the whole "gazumped by Brentford" thing if I'm honest, so it would have been easy to stay quiet when we did pull off a promising signing.
These wonderkid signings are easy to get caught up with, but we can't sign all of them...
I instantly thought of Berbatov when I watched a compilation, but to be honest we are probably all wrong because these videos only show a small amount. He will have his flaws as well, but certainly looks talented.
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