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Given our biggest rivals are spending approx 230m net this season and we're the ones who need to play catch-up and rebuild, something similar would be nice. Our revenue is extremely comparable and there is no reason for us to accept less.
No it’s not comparable, will be 20% lower this season (revenue). The rebuild needs to be funded elsewhere
 
another quite day, so as always he's some fresh inside scoops from the always reliable ITKS.

From COYS (Prof). I know some of you love a cryptic!

For those who like such things, a cryptic from Galahad:

"Hefty bid made for Jonathon David

:shrug:




Non-cryptic from another source: "Still plugging away to strengthen the CB position. Aim is to get in one more; possibly two if we can shift Sanchez or Dier."

And one more: "Would like both a winger and a striker, however the former is considered a higher priority. Although we continue to work on it, our top target on the winger list looks like he's going elsewhere. #2 has a release clause above our ceiling valuation. So we're moving forward with options #1 and #3 in parallel. All of them Ange-approved."


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Hotspur88 :ledley:


We've had a longstanding interest in David so doesn't surprise me one bit if we've put a big bid in for him.
We may have had a long-standing interest in David, but we're playing a completely different style now. If he fits it, great. But I wouldn't put anything into the fact we were interested in him in the past.
 
They’ve been consistently explicit about their virtuous circle of reinvestment. All club profits go back into the team - it’s the mantra that underpins all the NFL and stadium stuff.

So we should be investing whatever profit we’ve made last season plus player sales.

IIRC in cash terms I think our accounts showed a loss for the year last time they were publish.... One would assume/hope that our ops aren't as rigid as above from year to year..... BUT our accounts also showed that in term of player purchase installments owed; it's a rising % of the yearly profit+sales total.

Possibly the key cause of that phenomena is that sales income has been pretty shit for some time now (which is of course the 2nd phase of pain caused by a succession of shit signings.)
 
A guess. Given we seemed to be spending about 100m a year since Poch's final season, and we're in a very comfortable financial situation and our growing commercial revenue, that's what I went for.

I just gave you the ACTUAL average since then (note fiures are in Euro's so you can knock off a futher 15% for sterling value).

Supposing we spend 150m a year for 3/4 years we should (in theory) have the core of a decent squad, so that we don't need to spend much for a while. Similar how RM bought stars like Benzema, Bale, Ronaldo, Ramos etc. and then had a very low net spend for like 5 years, cos all they needed to do was buy Courtois, and a bunch of wunderkinds from Brazil, while offloading the likes of Reguilon, Kovacic, and Morata for very nice fees.

I appreciate the "guess" factor.... I concede myself that I don't know what it should be, but I reiterate in the past 4 years, the clubs in our income bracket are spending significantly less than £150m.......


Frustrating to not know isn't it, but that's the nature of the beast... Clubs would be foolish to publically announce their trf budgets in advance.. :(
 
another quite day, so as always he's some fresh inside scoops from the always reliable ITKS.

From COYS (Prof). I know some of you love a cryptic!

For those who like such things, a cryptic from Galahad:

"Hefty bid made for Jonathon David

:shrug:




Non-cryptic from another source: "Still plugging away to strengthen the CB position. Aim is to get in one more; possibly two if we can shift Sanchez or Dier."

And one more: "Would like both a winger and a striker, however the former is considered a higher priority. Although we continue to work on it, our top target on the winger list looks like he's going elsewhere. #2 has a release clause "
above our ceiling valuation". So we're moving forward with options #1 and #3 in parallel. All of them Ange-approved."

________


Hotspur88 :ledley:


We've had a longstanding interest in David so doesn't surprise me one bit if we've put a big bid in for him.
"Above our ceiling valuation"

That's no secret, that's £0
 
You realise Woolwich were spending 180-200m net even without European football to try and chase it?

Were or are?

Arse (m/euros):
22/23 in 192.3 out 23.8 = 168.5m
21/22 in 167.40 out 31.4 = 136.0m
20/21 in 86 out 19.1 = 66.9m
19/20 in 160.8 out 53.6 = 107.2m
= €478.6m (net spend) / Avg per season = €119.65m


This summer: Subject to further sales; they're currently at €200m (n)......... £170m sterling.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-Woolwich/alletransfers/verein/11
 
Agree with this.

Can't claim to know much about David outside of a couple of games I've watched but I am inclined to give out new setup the opportunity to get the business done they want done and then judge whether the move is a smart one.
I think with the money we are willing to spend, he would be somewhere around our limit give or take.
We are never going to be in the market for say, a Kane or a Haaland, so this is the next level down and makes sense.
My only concern is, will this be linked to players going out, because we seem to be struggling to offload.
I really hope that, levy backs this manager this window with a couple more, I think he could really be starting something, but let's not get excited.
 
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