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Do we know what we owe Macquarie and at what rates? have we actually drawn down those loans or are they available as and when required? business’ need cash and if the rates they can borrow it at is less than the return they can generate by using it then it makes sense to borrow it

pretty sure that it’s common knowledge that Qatar sent money to Gaza ever month to pay the staff that ran the ‘govt’ and territory. I read an article that explained someone actually had to travel to Egypt and then across from a rafah with the cash. Sounds crazy but apparently it was true. Police, fire and security personnel, health staff, bus drivers etc etc etc. there are hundreds of thousands of people that each month had to be paid. Hamas had to pay them and Israel obviously took the decision that without authorising this each month, law and order inside Gaza would break down. I think there is something being made of this in that interview that didn’t exist. However, what I don’t understand is why the minister wouldn’t state that.

Spending tens of millions in an attempt to earn tens of millions by qualifying for the CL seems a bit strange as a business plan. I appreciate that there are more nuances than that but the potential downside was so large compared to the possible upside - unless there was stuff going on behind the scenes that we knew nowt about re possible club sale related to continued achievements.

nunes came on as a sub last night selling palmer for £45m is good for their psr and the kid obviously wanted to play more than pep would allow him to

Man City aren’t getting any help from this re their o/s charges

I didn’t see your post in October referencing hamas ? Nor a few years ago when the Americans bombed weddings in Iraq and Afghanistan both your post and mine will be removed btw

As I said, 5th gets CL 😄

The ‘scramble’ for an investor is probably related to the news today. Joe Lewis isn’t putting anything in now and levy doesn’t have assets

Doesn’t matter 5th gets CL

There’s a big difference between staying down and going up in addition, even if we stay down it won’t be as easy as you think to get rid of some players who are still earning more here than they could elsewhere. you know janiick is out of contract ? His good season will get him a two year deal somewhere

Man U aren’t catching villa are they we got chased down both seasons we failed to make it

Whilst any change won’t affect stuff that’s already happened, the future for Chelsea looked pretty tough for a few seasons and this change would certainly help them. It certainly won’t be much help for spurs who run a tight ship re psr and Man City who have got themselves into a very good place re psr. I’d say that this change in general is going to be more beneficial for the other 14 than the rich six.

It’s interesting - whatever rules the PL come up with, unless uefa change their ffp rules then you can only spend 70% of your turn over so a club could decide to go all in to win the PL and not be bothered about the champions league because uefa wouldn’t allow them to enter …. (Newcastle ? )

The rules are set to end June 24. The clubs you listed above will have to sell this season.

I would they are now the most profitable of the rich six so have no interest in changing the rules

not based on this they arent charged with overspends

Some would argue that top is doing that already with rudders at the wheel !

It won’t affect historical sanctions but it may help us avoid future ones

The problem is that with psr, getting rid of the player means taking the full fee hit left on amortisation (in his case approx 11m) in this financial year. You can lose his 2.5m wages if you give him away but psr forces you to act in a way that isn’t necessarily best for the club. So your choice is to keep him and lose 3m amortisation plus 2.5m wages this year or lose 11m. If we go up then I predict he will be loaned out to the championship next season which will cost us around 25k/week in wage subsidy and we may be able to get 750k loan fee. Hopefully he has a good season and we can sell him summer 2025 for £6m

Of course he doesnt but he’s not on 50k because he will definitely have a relegation clause but in jan he wouldn’t leave without his contract being paid up on an assumption that we’d get promoted and his salary would return to 50k just like all the others that it’s proposed above that we fire sold they dont throw their contracts away - we continue to pay the difference between what a new club pays them and the inflated wages we offered. I assume that we cant pay them once their registrations are transferred so the amount either gets paid in a lump sum or comes off any fee. And the amortised value comes straight off the positive column under psr. So saving the wages is a false economy. We can only save what another club is prepared to pay them. That’s why loans are so popular. Doesn’t hit the psr numbers and has a net zero effect on the wages compared to a sale. We’ve got it all wrong over the last five years. Signing too many meh players for too much and on ridiculous wages. Do one or the other - not both! 30k lee again?

I guess we haven’t bothered to tell the recruitment dept what’s going on then ……

Until those involved on both sides (and their allies) in solving the problem are not invested in maintaining the status quo can we move forwards. Barak didn’t actually want to offer what he did because in Israel’s PR set up it was likely political suicide (and based on other events likely actual suicide) but Clinton pushed him to go somewhere which didn’t suit him. Barak doesn’t get the credit he deserves for doing that. The world is sadly lacking in real political leadership

You forgot the most notable of recent decades which was arafat There is one thing that separates Hamas from these other groups and that’s the religious fanaticism. For Hamas, it’s not just about land. If Hamas were merely intent on establishing a Palestinian state and nothing more then I’m sure there would have been dialogue already.

When trying to work out what our losses will be this season I think the most relevant question is whether the players who have taken a deduction are due it returning as a promotion bonus ?? if they are then our loss will be crazy and if there were no deductions then our losses will be crazy!

Banding words about doesn’t help the situation though. He’s an elected politician in a functioning democracy (those who demand PR take note that it matters what kind of PR you get). . It’s been clear to many of us since before this started what his modus operandi was. it’s also been clear since Oct 7th that his time was up but it would drag on whilst he could extend the conflict in Gaza (and maybe around the Lebanese border too). the noise is getting ever louder. It’s just a shame that he’s still hanging on. he won’t make it to oct 7 2025. Even trump doesn’t like him so that won’t help him.