I haven’t seen a single English based reporter or Fabrizio say this LOL. Barca are desperate.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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I haven’t seen a single English based reporter or Fabrizio say this LOL. Barca are desperate.
This is true. But with the way chelsea were lowering their yearly amortization by doing longer deals, any sale is a bigger loss than you’d expect.
For example, say Chelsea buy a player at 80m at an 8 year contract… so 10m drops per year. He’s now a 70m asset after 1 year. Sell for 40m. Once the sale is made, it’s now a 30m loss. If he’s sold for the same price after 2 years, it’s a 20m loss.
Compare that to the way normal clubs have been doing 5 year deals. Bought for the same 80m but instead at 5 years, amortization is 16m per year. So a value of 64m after 1 season and 48m after 2 seasons. Sold for the same price of 40m, it’s a 24m loss (compared to 30m) after 1 season and 8m loss (compared to 20m) after 2. And the gap just keeps getting bigger and bigger the further into the contract you go.
This is the downside of Chelsea’s “big time spending by using long contract” plans. The loss is realized once the sale is made.
If the Saudi’s rescue them, then that’s a different story.
Fair enough I guess.
I dunno, I both don't see the nefariousness here and I also don't see the gigantic competitive advantage to Chelsea.
We should take advantage of their everything-must-go sale. Connor Gallagher could help us.
No, we've only insisted on considering.
There is no way this happens. It is way too obvious.
United, Chelsea, Inter, Juve probably sign him before the summer is out if we don't. They'll sell for 32m or so, would be mad not to.What if we sign Vicario now for 16.5 mill, Raya will have to stay at Brentford next season so we can then make an offer of 10 mill in Jan when he only has 6 months left on his deal
Raya and Vicario for a combined 26.5 mill
He doesn't see humself as needing to learn anything.
He knows his con-game inside out and it's very lucrative, thank you very much.
All is well in Bald Cunt World.
Now this on the other hand absolutely cannot be allowed to happen.
Let's be clear; I'm not claiming to know what's going on or even claiming the previously posted theory as my own.
My position here is simply that with the PIF invested in two diff EPL clubs and them owning 4 clubs in the Saudi league; the mooted loan back deal for Nevez, the Chav FFP rescue job and everything else kicking off ata crazy pace; I don't trust there to be nothing more shady going on.
There's red flags all over the shop and I think it would be quite naive to ignore them all.
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All in; over numerous years, that's likely 100m or so.
I guess.... Kinda....... I was joking from an Empoli perspective tho.
Hope this is true, FUCK INTER
Koulibali: Old... Massive wages..... Just bombed at the very top level.
Havertz: Like Ndombele in that wages prevent a club of his level buying him.
Mendy: Ditto.
40-50m cash + write off those contracts is a masisve coup... Esp. when all the vultures in Europe know your ass is exposed in terms of FFP.
I don't think Chelsea's selling is related to FFP either. They're unloading their donkies to clear up space for additional spending, and thanks to their relationship with Saudi they have what seems like a tenuously legal way to do it.
If they sell and don't buy, that would indicate an effort to get good with FFP. I don't expect that to be the case at all.
Bolded bit being the important part. Like I said, these billionaires and 11/12 figure hedgefunds have far better accountants and legal staff than the regulators do. Financial gymnastics is what they pay these people millions of pounds a year to perform. It's how Newcastle will pass us up in revenue in a year or 2, despite being fucking Newcastle.
If it wasn't a struggle to find buyers for them, I doubt they'd unload all of them to Saudi in the same month and make their "special relationship" with the Kingdom of Saud so blatant.
They wouldn’t have found willing buyers by June 30 at the prices they’re asking for most of those players.
There are also some videos on YT of him making some fantastic saves. The only way to find out how good a keeper is is to watch multiple full-length matches to assess things like positioning, anticipation and leadership. The sort of things that can't be shown in a 3 minute video and don't tend to excite the viewing public.
The way Chelsea is approaching things sounds a lot like the way NFL teams structure deals, back loading them. Different in that not all salaries are guaranteed and there is a cap, but it is the same mentality. They may well be thinking by the time the downside comes due there will be a different system in place. I don't think the American owners or some of the EPL big club presidents have entirely gotten the Super League format out of their heads. They may well try to dress that turkey up in different feathers and see if it will fly three or four years from now.
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