These aren’t being sold at inflated prices though. At least not the Villa and Everton sells. We sold Dobbins for 9 million and probably bought Villa’s player for about the same. The overpayment argument is completely made up to create outrage
Look, you’ve gotta spend big to get the freshest stadium. Might know something about that if your team wasn’t playing in the same shithole since 1892 (idk if St James Park sucks or not, they’ve done major renovations as recently as 2000 with some minor seat expansions since)
Expansion/new build is being looked into. Thank god the league is preventing the club from goin into, checks notes, tens of millions in debt. That way they can afford to build.
Won’t pretend to know anything about Dobbins or Iroegbunam, maybe £9M is fair value. (Transfermarkt has £2.5M and £4M) Chelsea paying £19M for Kellyman (transfermarkt £1M) is the better example. Again no clue on the player. Good moves by Villa to figure out a way to buy Maatsen within the PSR rules but could also see why the league would be concerned over more clubs doing it at even higher amounts and player impact (guess they don’t have to sign).
I honestly don't give a fuck about any of this. Who cares? City will win the league again next year and punishing this, or not punishing this, doesn't come close to mattering.
Tottenham is worst in net debt on the chart... and is +5m profit over the last three years due to great revenues like being one of the most expensive matchday tickets, NFL matches, and Bey concerts (from a PSR article from March I found).
I was countering the claim that it’s about protecting clubs from going into debt. Villa has zero debt, Newcastle has very minimal debt, and Forest doesn’t have as much compared to others either. And the stadium bit is fair for y’all, Spurs, and I assume Everton’s is already calculated in that. Not so much for United and Chelsea
Such a straw man argument. Debt without context is a dumb argument. It’s also not part of the rules they all agreed to.
It doesn’t protect clubs from going into debt. It protects them from becoming insolvent, but let’s be real…it was an attempt at a salary cap.
Huh? I didn’t make the debt/debt protection argument. I agree it’s not about debt protection, considering the clubs hampered by the rules right now don’t have that wild of debt
Read the post below. He cited protecting clubs from going into debt(financial ruin). I pulled up the chart to show most the clubs aren’t in debt/that’s not the issue. HTH
Chelsea have lost £90M, £121M, and £132M for the past 3 years, have £200M in amortized transfers, and their current debt considers Roman just wrote off £1.5B in personal loans when Todd and Co. bought it. Isn’t a major point of PSR to try and avoid Gov regulation on clubs sustainability (however poorly implemented or misguided it is)? As zeberdee mentioned, the type of debt differs but just to play it safe we should put MU and Spurs into administration immediately
I think that's the argument/justification, but that doesn't mean it's reality Most of the clubs struggling with PSR right now aren't in financial hell. The closest is Everton, but they just got new owners and I imagine a lot of their debt is tied to the new stadium being built(just like Arsenal and Spurs). PSR is effectively just protecting the Sky 6 clubs because they have the built in advantage of their revenues already being insane compared to the Villas, Newcastles, and Forests
PSR allows for 0 room for anyone to break the glass ceiling in any consistent manner because by the time you get to champions league you must sell the players it took to get you there. If any Sky-6 team doesn’t want to ever tempt PSR, then they will be stuck in mid table hell or below.
I saw the Athletic just ran an article that these homegrown transfers “jar the moral fabric of football” and it confirmed a growing suspicion I have. Since a ton of readership for that is American fans, and American fans are liberals, the idea of corporate malpractice gets a lot of juice. This is sophisticated clickbait. IT’S NOT TASTEFUL! Lmao
Austria win Group D over Netherlands and France. That Ralf Rangnick might be one to watch if EtH doesn’t work out
I’ve tried to cut that out of my vocabulary because I appreciate people who suck cock, it’s a wonderful thing
Sorry you have a raging hard on for SJR because he won't pay 20m for DoF and what else is the intent of calling another man a cocksucker? Do better
He’s calling out Ratcliffe for saying the quiet part out loud. That the owners of the sky-6 feel like the rules should only protect them and further pull the ladder up. But you probably knew that.
Brother. You know there was zero homophobic intent on that. But keeping spinning/deflecting away from the point of the post.
Very "I didn't use a hard R. I said uh at the end". "I'm sorry I shouldn't have called someone that. I'll do better" is all you had to say instead of trying to justify it. I don't think anyone thought there was intent. Just say my bad and move on
My bad. I’ll use better words next time. Still comedic that he decided to go the Ashworth excuse instead of recognizing that Ratcliffe is a cartel supporter