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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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That's different kind of expenditure as it concerns loans against (appreciating) assets..

Have a look at this link:



2008-2017 CAPEX spent on =£493m. Owner loans £14m and external loans taken out £148m.

Works out to £331m of our own money spent on CAPEX. Add the £95.7m deficit on purchases and sales and we have spent £425m or so of our own money give or take around the 10 year time frame. £25m-£30m or so short of Juventus etc. I'm pretty sure the £331m CAPEX deficit is the money BangkokSpud BangkokSpud is talking about
 
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Yet we're still signing the exactly same type of players
What the hell are you on about? Not every player needs to be £50m+. Should we not buy players when they are cheaper/younger just because we have more spending power? Or not take on low-risk loan-to-buy players either? It’s important to diversify our player acquisition strategy to help mitigate risk in the short and long term.

Total spend of £160m on players post-stadium opening in two windows is a pretty significant bump compared to prior years. Could become closer to £200m in the next few days.

People can whinge about summer 2018/winter 2019 with good reason, but to act like we haven’t been spending significant money in the last two windows is a bit much.
 
You do realize his 107 million figure stated "the average net spend per year" right?

So your picture suggests that number for city would be 1.18 billion over 10 years or 118 million net spend per year on average, opposed to his 107 million.

I can understand if you guys don't like each other but I think you're not really arguing about the same thing by accident.
I have no idea what his argument is ... the point I was trying to make was that for the first fifteen years under ENIC we spent pretty much bugger all net on transfers ... in the last three we've spent net over 110m and more again today ... things are different now.

We've built a 900m stadium, hired a rockstar manager and smashed all our transfer records ... how is that not change?
 
What the hell are you on about? Not every player needs to be £50m+. Should we not buy players when they are cheaper/younger just because we have more spending power? Or not take on low-risk loan-to-buy players either? It’s important to diversify our player acquisition strategy to help mitigate risk in the short and long term.

Total spend of £160m on players post-stadium opening in two windows is a pretty significant bump compared to prior years. Could become closer to £200m in the next few days.

People can whinge about summer 2018/winter 2019 with good reason, but to act like we haven’t been spending significant money in the last two windows is a bit much.
I never once said it's a bad thing - but others make it sounds like we can rival City and PSG now which is simply not true
 
Yet we're still signing the exactly same type of players

What the fu*k?
What type of players are they then???

I would not say with any strech of imagination that we should put players like Chiriches and Wimmer from past to same bracket as Sanchez.
Not would I say that Stambouli and Capoue would be "exactly same type of players" to Ndombele and Lo Celso.

In both cases I would say we have taken qualitative step forward.

Sure, we sometimes still take punts like Alli in the past and Clarke in present. Guess what? All effing teams do at times. Look at Pool with Shaqiri or this new japanese youngster.

I could not find common "exact type" between Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon, Clarke, Fernandes, Bergwijn if my life would depend on that. Other that they are youngish.
 
I seem to have stumbled upon a forum for people playing Football Accountant 2020 online.

If anyone mentions carryovers, impairment of liquid assets or non-current trade receivables I may go full Chuck Norris

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What the fu*k?
What type of players are they then???

I would not say with any strech of imagination that we should put players like Chiriches and Wimmer from past to same bracket as Sanchez.
Not would I say that Stambouli and Capoue would be "exactly same type of players" to Ndombele and Lo Celso.

In both cases I would say we have taken qualitative step forward.

Sure, we sometimes still take punts like Alli in the past and Clarke in present. Guess what? All effing teams do at times. Look at Pool with Shaqiri or this new japanese youngster.

I could not find common "exact type" between Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon, Clarke, Fernandes, Bergwijn if my life would depend on that. Other that they are youngish.
Same player as we always have in the past as in the type of player Levy has gone on record to state we prefer - young and with potential. Why is that viewed as a negative thing all of a sudden?
 
I have no idea what his argument is ... the point I was trying to make was that for the first fifteen years under ENIC we spent pretty much bugger all net on transfers ... in the last three we've spent net over 110m and more again today ... things are different now.

We've built a 900m stadium, hired a rockstar manager and smashed all our transfer records ... how is that not change?
The argument will always be about "Has there been enough change (yet)".

Problem is that everyone will have his or her own opinion on it, that can all be backed with some kind of evidence since there are so many facets to the whole situation.

Mark my words: those people that heavily criticize the club will go even further when we win silverware because we didn't do enough the year after and so on...
 
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