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The spending has started - Trippier to Newcastle https://www.skysports.com/football/...e-with-atletico-madrid-for-england-right-back
Newcastle saying 12m......reports in Spain its 20m plus...and so it begins. FFP
The spending has started - Trippier to Newcastle https://www.skysports.com/football/...e-with-atletico-madrid-for-england-right-back
Why does the 'Hearts of Mid Lithuania' episode spring to mind?I hope it goes better than that did!
Does for me! But, as per my above post...I hope it goes better than that did!It doesn't?
Newcastle saying 12m......reports in Spain its 20m plus...and so it begins. FFP
A mate was saying the other day, as Mike Ashley barely spent any money over the last few years Newcastle can spend hundreds of millions of pounds before they get anywhere near the FFP threshold. I'm not exactly sure what the figure is, but it's a lot.

220m or so is the figure based on financial performance over the last few years. That doesn’t include increased sponsorship figures and deals. (Sports direct were paying £1m per year for wall to wall sponsorship, I think we can get more from aramcoA mate was saying the other day, as Mike Ashley barely spent any money over the last few years Newcastle can spend hundreds of millions of pounds before they get anywhere near the FFP threshold. I'm not exactly sure what the figure is, but it's a lot.
220m or so is the figure based on financial performance over the last few years. That doesn’t include increased sponsorship figures and deals. (Sports direct were paying £1m per year for wall to wall sponsorship, I think we can get more from aramcomoving forward)
The other factor is how transfer fees are accounted for, so assuming trippier is on a 3 year deal the transfer fee will be either 4 mill per season or 6.6 or what ever so potentially scope their to massively spend.
Regarding the sale price vs Southampton, yes your correct Ashley included about 160m worth of loans in the sale. So probably only paid in region of 140 mill for club.
Everton will be clearing a lot of money from their wage bill by June 2nd so that will resolve that issue along with the imminent sale of Digne. Patterson is also a snip at around £10m, no doubt spread as @Cherry13 describes, so no 'dirty money'.So Everton bought Patterson with 'dirty money'.
That is a model that is consistent with failure.
I think I am right in saying that FFP is a UEFA thing. If Newcastle, or Everton, break the rules, then big deal. If UEFA want to ban them from the CL for a couple of seasons it is not really going to impact, is it?Your middle point is what my mate was saying, depending on how the deals are done (and what website you look at lol) it could be upwards of £600.
Either way it’s going to be a fun transfer window ?
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Clearly Spurs are likely to be the big spenders here then.
Everton are screwed as well. At least their overspending is paying off on the pitch! Oh wait.
I hate FFP to be honest. I think it's a joke. All it does is keep the rich rich and stop anyone else muscling in on the parade. They pretend it's to stop the big clubs just buying up all the big name players, but as you can see here all the bigger clubs still have plenty of wriggle room, perhaps excluding City but they already spent big last summer.
I think I am right in saying that FFP is a UEFA thing. If Newcastle, or Everton, break the rules, then big deal. If UEFA want to ban them from the CL for a couple of seasons it is not really going to impact, is it?
My understanding is that it's based on profit/loss over last few years and that expenditure 'allowance' depends on whether owner has funded losses (in which case significantly more is allowed) or not.A mate was saying the other day, as Mike Ashley barely spent any money over the last few years Newcastle can spend hundreds of millions of pounds before they get anywhere near the FFP threshold. I'm not exactly sure what the figure is, but it's a lot.
I thought we didn’t believe everything we read in the media:
Googleing “Can Everton spend in Jan” brings up 5-6 articles quoteing the range -35mil to 100mil available.
Whatever he spends it can’t be any worse than the rubbish we’ve already got.
Needs time imo Bri, the last few yesrs we’ve chopped n changed managers, wasted millions on dross players and everytime a manager has come in he’s changed the style etc.What’s gone wrong at Everton this season? I expected Benitez might get them pushing for top 6, not bottom 6.
We are missing Calvert Lewin's goals massively, our back up is non existent. Benitez is also trying to bring in his style of football and we don't necessarily have the players to do it. Add in a number of injuries, outside of DCL, and it shows the lack of depth we have. That lack of depth is largely down to poor buying over a number of years lumbering us with players on high wages that no one else wants and are draining the wage bill. If we can get DCL back and scoring, he is back now but needs to get match sharp, then the pressure should release very quickly.What’s gone wrong at Everton this season? I expected Benitez might get them pushing for top 6, not bottom 6.
We are missing Calvert Lewin's goals massively, our back up is non existent. Benitez is also trying to bring in his style of football and we don't necessarily have the players to do it. Add in a number of injuries, outside of DCL, and it shows the lack of depth we have. That lack of depth is largely down to poor buying over a number of years lumbering us with players on high wages that no one else wants and are draining the wage bill. If we can get DCL back and scoring, he is back now but needs to get match sharp, then the pressure should release very quickly.
Further to what Paul wrote, we played a game before Christmas where the team contained players bought by 7 different managers. No way are you going to get any type of cohesion with that type of buying. We need to commit to a manager and stick with them for a period.
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Clearly Spurs are likely to be the big spenders here then.
Everton are screwed as well. At least their overspending is paying off on the pitch! Oh wait.
I hate FFP to be honest. I think it's a joke. All it does is keep the rich rich and stop anyone else muscling in on the parade. They pretend it's to stop the big clubs just buying up all the big name players, but as you can see here all the bigger clubs still have plenty of wriggle room, perhaps excluding City but they already spent big last summer.