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I'd hope so. Ramsey is more a BEK/Alves/McAteer type midfielder and James is a Ndidi/Winks/Soumare type.

It is what it is, really hope he gets the game time he needs to prove the mistake we've made of loaning him out.

Looks a right old scrapper which goes well with the way Cifuentes is trying to mould us.

Yeah i'd want the fail safe in case his injury flares up.

Yeah was very good on loan at Middlesborough in 22/23. Last season missed the whole lot with a bad knee injury.

Hmmmmm he was very good on loan at Middlesborough in 2022/23 but missed all of last season with a bad knee injury.

BRING YER FCUKIN DINNER

Given Ayew and Daka have played 5 games and have zero goals or assists between them, this idea should be laughed out the fcukin building. But it'll be met with applause in the board room.

OK, I stand corrected. Just had a long battle with chatgpt on this and apparently you don't carry profit forward for PSR. There is maximum allowable losses each year and a 3 year total but if you are +£15m in Y1 it doesn't mean you can be -£28m in Y2 unless across the 3 years it's within the £39m maximum amount in the Championship. Is that correct? There's no benefit to making a profit for PSR for future years? My heads fell off, that is not how I understood it at all, unless the EFL is different. In which case this does make sense.

Will still have £11m book value so it's a £14m head start.

Won't effect 26/27 or 27/28 but it would in theory effect 28/29. I'm looking at this from an urgency perspective of what we need to do to rebuild but i'm being too naive, we aren't going to spend the profit anyway. Be lucky if we get more than 1 loan player in today.

My issue is we have 1 day to get players in, less to get players in in January if we need it too. It's a pony deal, we've been had once again. When you add this to the Hermansen deal it's hard to defend, even though some will.

Yes thats correct, but not sure why that benefits us? If we book it all this season then we still have all that headroom as its a rolling 3 year PSR period. So if we break even 25/26 by loaning Bilal or are £10-15m in the clear if it was a straight permanent this summer then we start 26/27 3 year period in a better position but the net gain is not any different. There's an argument that £25m next summer is worth less than it is if you book it now but given the way football transfers operate, the inflationary element of that is less meaningful as most business. If this isn't a straight up obligation and requires certain conditions to activate then it is a terrible deal.

No, what i'm saying is I don't follow the logic this benefits us for next year by doing so.

How? Lets say we comply for PSR for 25/26 = break even with the loan fee for Bilal and then book £15m profit in 26/27. If you add it in to this year then you have a net gain of +£10-15m PSR 25/26. That doesn't reset to zero for 26/27.

Being an extra £10-15m off this year doesn't alter next year unless we spend it. We've been had.

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

That's true, this is absolutely horrendous. What's gone from being a £10-15m book value profit is now lucky if we've broken even.

Let's face it, nobody has been accurate on El Khannouss all summer. Today is a fine example of that. This journalist has had some howlers on us in the past an'all by the way.

I know absolutely nothing about this player, the same when we signed Abdul. For thst reason I think he stands a better chance of making it here 😂

Zeneli, Breum and James in, Soumare, Bilal and Winks out.

Hopefully Sammy gets a loan move tomorrow

He was very good for Birmingham two years ago at this level, ideal for us.

Love this

No but I still think we will