Can anyone give a quick precis of where we are with FFP; what we're allowed to do at the moment and how what we have to do to make things easier? Please!
Not a précis (I don’t think anyone outside the club and UEFA can speak with much certainty) but some positive thoughts.
Enzo Barrenechea is a fixture in the Benfica team (26 appearances), so that clause should have been triggered. €12m on top of a €3m loan fee.
Ramsey’s £39m fee has to be spread over three years under UEFA SCR, so £13m onto the accounts for the next financial year. (SCR is calculated on calendar years).
Whatever we had allowed/booked for the deal, we save by not buying Elliott.
Roma agreed to a loan fee AND a year’s amortisation cost for Bailey, even if they end up not signing him.
Amortisation costs must be relatively low considering how many of the players’ transfer fees have already been amortised. Mings, McGinn, Cash, Konsa, Watkins, Bizot, Barkley, Buendia, Digne, Garcia, Rogers and Barrenechea have minimal amortisation costs, Tielemans, Kamara, Lindelof, Sancho, Elliott and Bogarde none at all, and Onana, Torres and Maatsen are increasingly looking like value for money.
We shed a lot of costs and made big money from transfers last January and in the summer.
Under UEFA SCR rules, only the cost of players, agents and the head coach count. Which is surely a blessing to a club like us with 26 coaches.
