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[ChicagoLion]

Marc Guehi’s signing will likely take Manchester City’s spending to ~£500m in the last 12 months. All while we STILL await the verdict of their 115 potential financial breaches. Ah yes. Seems completely normal.

https://x.com/PatrickTimmons1/status/2012125110682227012

It’s looking more likely by the day the maximum punishment will be a transfer embargo and they know it. 10 years ought to go somewhere near levelling the playing field.

I don’t think they will get anything above a slap on the wrist rip but more likely it will be the PL drops the charges and UAE claim to be exonerated.

[Toronto Villa]

He’s also going to be on £300k a week.

[ozzjim]

With all we've sold, such a low bet spend and such a small squad, we must have some room soon to actually buy a couple of decent players!

[Percy McCarthy]

Ranking-based rewards can get properly fucked.

We will benefit from it this season whilst playing Europa.

Also, our increased TV appearances (all but two of our games in all competitions have been broadcast live, making us the most popular pick for the TV companies) are largely due to us playing on Thursdays instead of Tuesday/Wednesday in CL. Many prefer Saturday 3pm kick-offs but they’re not as lucrative.

We were on about the difference between CL and Europa League money a few pages back. All these extra TV games definitely help bridge that gap.

[Steve67]

Good point Percy. This could arguably turn out to be the clubs most profitable year in its history, if we win a top four place and a trophy.

[Chris Harte]

Also, our increased TV appearances (all but two of our games in all competitions have been broadcast live, making us the most popular pick for the TV companies) are largely due to us playing on Thursdays instead of Tuesday/Wednesday in CL. Many prefer Saturday 3pm kick-offs but they’re not as lucrative.

We were on about the difference between CL and Europa League money a few pages back. All these extra TV games definitely help bridge that gap.

It's not much of a bridge, given that we'd have been featured quite a bit anyway.

https://www.givemesport.com/premier-league-clubs-earnings-broadcast-revenue/

Without checking, we perhaps could expect to be where Brighton or Leeds are in the first table on the link. Surely not any lower. Extrapolate it out to cover a whole season and it might be in the region of £7.5 - £9m extra for the season, an amount that wouldn't adequately cover the CL League Stage flat fee of €18+m.

[Rigadon]

The rules kicking in as intended. Nice one.

[Chris Harte]

The latest edition of the Deloitte Football Money League is due out on Thursday. It'll be interesting to see what effect CL participation has on the figures, and what our wages/revenue ratio is now (not 96%, I'd imagine).

[JJ-AV]

The club are still very clearly in the midst of cost cutting and I think the approach of the last few years was even more reckless than it seems.

Yes we’ve had lots of success but they surely weren’t banking on back to back champions league qualification? We should qualify 2 years out of 3 and Europa in the other with a CL Q/F and to think we’re in this position financially is insane.

They’re coming good now but the decisions to sign Onana and Maatsen for a combined £90m and give Martinez a record contract, just after we’d sold Luiz seems crazy on reflection.

We have Tielemans, Konsa, Pau, Mings, McGinn, Digne and Watkins’ contracts all expiring in 2028. Only Konsa is likely to attract a massive fee there (unless we can get a Saudi bid for Tielemans). Pau could go back to Spain but I doubt will generate a massive transfer fee.

The club have done well on the pitch, we have no real right to be where we are currently considering the business and make up of the squad with glaring weaknesses.

Getting CL this season just has to be the focus now - and trying to get a loan or two to bolster the squad. Winning the Europa should be focus two as it will bring wealth and help us attract more loans but I feel utilising the loan market and signing young players has to be the focus for the next 18 months while we ride this storm out