Bluearmyfox28

I highly doubt it. Payment structures are agreed in advance with written details of when the instalments will be paid. I don’t think that’ll change based of a promotion.

I think staying close to home is important right now for JJ and he doesn’t want to be in France. You could have an agreement that should someone offer a fee for example £10m then you sell him. I agree it’s unlikely but I don’t think it’s impossible far from it. Hamza and LT are going to be here and ultimately they are more than good enough for league 1. Do I like it? No. But funds are going to be needed elsewhere especially in the front 4. I also think a new left back is needed so you could sign a starter with LT as back up.

For further context league 1 has a maximum of 22 players that can be registered. - Players under the age of 21 do not count as usual, but goalkeepers also don’t count towards registration. - The 22 man squad must consist of 8 homegrown players with 7 of those required to be in the matchday squad. - 1 player must be in the matchday squad who’s been with the team from 18 years old or younger. I would expect the following to leave with many staying due to wages being too high (Vesty) or book value being to high to move them on (Skipp) - Okoli (£7.8m book value) - Nelson (Pure profit similar to McAteer last year) - Faes (£6.5m, £3.5m profit.) - Kristensen (Loan) - Ricky P (contract expired) - Coulibaly (£2m book value) - Winks (Mutual termination) - Aribo (Loan expired) - Ramsey (Loan expired) - Mukasa (Loan expired) - El Khannous (£18m, £7.5m profit.) - Monga (Pure profit similar to McAteer last year) - Mavididi (£2.6m book value) - Fatawu (£9m book value) - Richard’s (Loan expired) - Daka (Contract expired) - Ayew (Contract expired) That would leave you the following squad: GK - Stolarczyk, Begovic (renew), Bausor RB - Hamza, Aluko, Joseph CB - Vesty, Souttar, Lascelles (renew), Wilson-Brown, Gray LB - Thomas, New signing, Joseph CDM - New signing, Braybrooke, Cartwright CM - Skipp, James (SIGN!), Page CAM - New signing, BDCR, Page Right winger - New signing, New signing, Thomas Striker - New signing, New signing, Thomas Left winger - New signing, New signing, Alves

Correct. Winks will have £0 book value, expect a mutual termination of the contract.

He’s got at least another month out.

Only on this forum can you see people stating we have no manager because no one would want the job but the very next posts suggest Thomas Frank and De Zerbi

With relegation of course, anything other than that then I don’t think so. There will be money to spend, a more attractive wage budget and a lot of deadwood will be gone. The opportunity for a complete rebuild intrigues managers.

For me, give it someone like Nige or Rowett until the end of the season, then try to get Carsley or Solskjaer when the job is a lot more appealing.

My top three choices: 1) Lee Carsley - Been wanting him the past few years genuinely think he will be class, but can’t see him leaving his gig with the FA with our current position. 2) Mark Robbins - I doubt we will pay his compensation but I think he would be interested even with the mess we are in. 3) Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Good direct attacking football, history of working well with ego’s, and isn’t afraid of facing the music or taking on a challenge.

Being available because you’re not in favour with the club you are at as it didn’t work out, in comparison to not being favour because you can’t stay fit are very different though. I like Ramsey, he fits this style well.

I am surprised we haven’t spent any money on permanent transfers considering how much we’ve raised.

Concerning how little he’s played to be honest.

This seems to be riding on VK leaving. Even then Marti may choose to put his trust in Aluko to back up Thomas.

Fair play to him if he did. All that tells me is he’s more cut out for Spanish football than he is English football.

Daka has £4.6m book value, accept £5m record a profit and get Ivanovic!!!

In fact this can’t be true because didn’t Brighton spend a crazy amount the following season they sold Caicedo etc because of the pure profit they made the year before?

I didn’t know that you didn’t carry forward profit to be honest but regardless you wouldn’t want all your income to be sat in one year. Eventually that individual year will fall off the 3 year cycle, by spreading it across to next year you are putting yourself in a better position for future 3 year cycles, if that makes sense? Ultimately I hate to say it but I think it’s somewhat a shrewd business move as ultimately they are going to be paying Genk around £600k instead of £1.5m. I think that’s the key part to the deal.

It’s forward thinking which we need to do more often. PSR is a 3 year cycle, so it’s staying ahead of it from that perspective. We are allowed a max loss of £61m in that 3 year cycle. We have one season in the premier league (Max loss £35m) & two season in the championship (Max loss £13m per season). This will be the same for next season too if we don’t go up. We also have our parachute payments reduced 10% next season if we are still in the championship, so fronting money for next year also helps with that.

I would imagine we’ve decided we are not in need for the money this year to do our recruitment, therefore decided to bank the money next year instead. By having a £5m loan fee we’ve also reduced the amount Genk will receive via sell on clause. £25m means they’re entitled to 15% of £4m in comparison to them being entitled to 15% of £10m+. As ugly as it seems, long term it probably benefits us.

Milan signing Rabiot, close thread.

Surprises me they aren’t still going for a right winger after the links in previous days.

He’s going to be fuming he can’t link us to any other championship strikers.

Exactly this, I know it sounds like an awful deal based of the rumours we’ve heard regarding price recently, but I don’t think this deal is as bad as it seems. If Rob Dorsett was right regarding our PSR situation and we didn’t necessarily need to sell Bilal to do our recruitment then we’ve got a head start the following season which is vital if we don’t go up this year. Cashflow is going to be a bigger issue next season if that is the case. The £5m loan fee free’s up the PSR space for this season so doesn’t restrict this summer also. Finally, I would imagine the mandatory option will be based off amount of games played. We did similar with Yunus Akgun.

I think VK’s move to Forest not working out killed the hope of a new left back.

This is the one I’m most hopeful of tomorrow.