Players out

[Dick Edwards]

The time to answer this question will be 11pm on Monday night. If those players who have been released are ultimately replaced by players that Unai specifically wants, Monchi will have delivered. It's a high risk strategy but our squad may be significantly enhanced with this potential wheeling and dealing and set us up for a memorable end to the season.

[SaddVillan]

PSR - where are we thus far?

Out
Philogene    £20m
Carlos           £9m
Duran            £65m

In
Malen          £21m
Garcia           £6m

Net income  £67m

Champs League (thus far)

Participation fee  €18.6m
Prize money          €32.7m
Value pillar            €19.5m
TOTAL                    €70.9m = £59.6m

£67m + £59.6m = £126.6m

Plus additional gate receipts, commercial income and sponsorship bonuses.

We should be able to do some wheeling and dealing.

This isn't quite right because the costs for the ins and outs don't work like that for PSR.

Philogene is £8-9m positive.
Carlos is break even.
Duran is around about £53-54m positive.

Malen and Garcia combined are about £6m a year over their contracts so we positive to the tune of something like £56m for premier league PSR right now.

For Uefa it's all about wages and, with Buendia included, right now we've taken something around £200k a week off the wage bill.

You're quite right Paul, I was only looking at it in simple cash flow terms. I have done the PSR/amortisation analysis for each outgoing but didn't want to overcomplicate things.

Re the wages - Rashford might blow that out of the water. Wonder if the frequency of flights from Elmdon to Belfast might sway him?

[eamonn]

I assume we've got a loan fee for Buendia too.