Quote from: Dante Lavelli on February 12, 2021, 06:48:09 PMQuote from: SheffieldVillain on February 12, 2021, 12:11:08 AMHowever, the 41 players out for a grand total of £5m income is absolutely shocking and says everything about the absolute mess of a squad the previous regime left us with. That is what jumped out at me. Benteke is the only player I can think of that we’ve cashed in since the MON era. That’s shocking (even if I have missed a few) and also highlights the benefit of, occasionally, selling the odd player at their peak value to generate cash and refresh the squad.I don't even mind the not cashing in bit to be honest. It's the amount of 5m/10m signings who we've had to give free transfers that annoys me. Even allowing for the retirements and kids in that 41, there's at least 15 first team squad players who we've had to release for nothing. At least with Connor and Guilbert now we're actively doing something to push their value up in the event that they do leave and would be able at the very least to recoup what we paid. Yet another part of the new regime which is visibly a big improvement.
Quote from: SheffieldVillain on February 12, 2021, 12:11:08 AMHowever, the 41 players out for a grand total of £5m income is absolutely shocking and says everything about the absolute mess of a squad the previous regime left us with. That is what jumped out at me. Benteke is the only player I can think of that we’ve cashed in since the MON era. That’s shocking (even if I have missed a few) and also highlights the benefit of, occasionally, selling the odd player at their peak value to generate cash and refresh the squad.
However, the 41 players out for a grand total of £5m income is absolutely shocking and says everything about the absolute mess of a squad the previous regime left us with.
Totally agree. I don’t mean cashing in the ‘crown jewels’ but making a profit on El Ghazi and/or Trez (and Hause/Davis?) should be a priority as it’ll free up space in the squad and give us headroom to invest again. Conversely selling Engles just creates a FFP problem again as it would be deemed a loss (I think).
Quote from: Dante Lavelli on February 12, 2021, 07:08:46 PMTotally agree. I don’t mean cashing in the ‘crown jewels’ but making a profit on El Ghazi and/or Trez (and Hause/Davis?) should be a priority as it’ll free up space in the squad and give us headroom to invest again. Conversely selling Engles just creates a FFP problem again as it would be deemed a loss (I think).If we sell him in the summer, his amortised value will be about £4m if he was on a four year contract. We'll easily get at least that back for him, there were times last season when he looked quite good.
It used to piss me off royally even in the well-funded Lerner years that we just let so many players sit out their contracts and didn't seem capable of selling players.We must have wasted so much fucking money.
Amortisation was invented by Mark Ansell.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on February 12, 2021, 07:35:04 PMIt used to piss me off royally even in the well-funded Lerner years that we just let so many players sit out their contracts and didn't seem capable of selling players.We must have wasted so much fucking money.That was the main reason MON dumped us at the alter, he thought he was above trading players. He obviously thought Lerner should keep giving him money and unlike every other manager in the league, he didn't need to sell players. The fact that so many players were on great contracts and not being used didn't mean jack-shit to him. He was the boss no matter what Lerner thought, such was his opinion of himself. The fact that our deadwood was worth peanuts was something he was well aware of but didn't want to ruin his reputation.
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 13, 2021, 12:01:46 AMQuote from: pauliewalnuts on February 12, 2021, 07:35:04 PMIt used to piss me off royally even in the well-funded Lerner years that we just let so many players sit out their contracts and didn't seem capable of selling players.We must have wasted so much fucking money.That was the main reason MON dumped us at the alter, he thought he was above trading players. He obviously thought Lerner should keep giving him money and unlike every other manager in the league, he didn't need to sell players. The fact that so many players were on great contracts and not being used didn't mean jack-shit to him. He was the boss no matter what Lerner thought, such was his opinion of himself. The fact that our deadwood was worth peanuts was something he was well aware of but didn't want to ruin his reputation.Well said
NS about to accept a $4.7bn offer for a private jet company. All the monies!
So he trousers around $349m for that. There’s the transfer budget for the summer sorted.
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