DJ Barry Hammond

I know that and get why people don’t like him - but I hate ridiculous arguments made to fit a narrative. Stick to the Millwall throw-in stuff and whatever else.

What I find interesting is there is a lot of social media derision of the sentences being handed out relating to tweets or Facebook posts with the usual suspects being the ring leaders. And to a degree, there are some cases I’ve seen the fringes of that I wonder… “hmmm, should that be attracting a conviction, let alone a sentence.” However - those exclaiming the death of free speech aren’t doing anything practical to help the people they’re tweeting about. Not one crowd funder. No offers of legal assistance. It’s almost as if it’s all performative group think rage - something which both sides of the political spectrum are guilty of.

It was a cup final. Why wouldn’t he - or any player for that matter - not be desperate to win?

Even if you don’t think they’re at that level - to get players in above their level, you’re probably looking at a fee of £20 million plus (for one players). And if you do that and buy a starting player in one of those two’s positions - you block their development. In terms of Kasey, there’s a two fold benefit of getting him regular first team football over keeping him as squad depth / rotation. The obvious one is game time that would aid his development, but the other is a loan may be the best way to put him in the shop window and keep his value high. As an academy player, it sucks, but he might become crucial come June to balancing our PSR books.

But some people on here may be thinking the same - just pay the difference - not realising the difference could be a significant sum. Tax and residency is complicated; it’s even more complicated if you’re paying yourself via dividends through a company. The main issue I can see is that residency status is worked out over the tax year - April to April. To me that means if Zaha came to us, he’d be classed as a UK resident this tax year for certain AND possibly for the one after that too.

Theatre’s tend to have left leaning people around them. They managed to pull off a similar trick with Farage not so long ago if memory serves. What’s perhaps more interesting on this one though - there’s been quite a bit of push back from the right wing chattering class. It’s perhaps made it a more noticeable prank than it would have been.

£1 million bonus = additional taxable income payable at 45% - thus £550,000 net. His tax liability on a return to the UK could be in anywhere between £1 - 5 million if it impacts past/future earnings as well.

That would, in theory, limit him to only 30 games. Plus, it’s not the sort of blatant tax fiddle you’d want to be attempting; that would get the club into trouble as well as Zaha. Overseas tests You’re usually non-resident if either: you spent fewer than 16 days in the UK (or 46 days if you have not been a UK resident for the 3 previous tax years) you worked abroad full-time (averaging at least 35 hours a week), and spent fewer than 91 days in the UK, of which no more than 30 were spent working

Sorry, couldn’t resist 😂 Watch this thread be the one that sees the current affairs topic board removed!

Not if/when he’s working and resident in the UK.

In theory, yes. But if you’re ‘compensating’ for an increased tax bill - that’s actually creating more earnings for that person, so they’d have to compensate an amount in excess of the original tax liability. Zaha is reportedly on anything between £4 million - £7 million a year; so if we say the additional tax liability is around 25% you’re potentially looking at an extra £1-2 million per year to cover it However - what’s not completely clear is how many years of earnings a change of Zaha’s residency back to the UK might effect - it could effect his previous and future earnings.

Huge news if true! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r2q2kgpgo.amp

That exactly the sort of thing the person behind Fossehub would say 😉

What if we see Mavididi and Fawatu as our primary game changers on the wings… but feel we need backup / support in those areas of the pitch? *Having these two in the squad also allow’s McAteer to go out on loan

Just be careful not to post someone’s entire tweet history, hey @ramboacdc 😉

You on about the Zaha deal or @ramboacdc’s ALL TWEET reply?

Fossehub only quote sources - they make absolutely nothing up themselves. It’s also interesting that they’ve implemented a ‘reliability scale’ with Tiers very similar to the one on here; so chances are the operator(s) of that account frequent here too!

I’m not sure he’d pay UK tax on past earnings - that would be down to his residency status and I imagine for the most part of the previous tax year he’d qualify as an overseas citizen (worked abroad, fewer than 91 days spent in the UK). But - the Turkish tax rate for sportsmen/women is a fixed 20% I believe. Over here, the UK higher tax rate of 45% would apply to Zaha’s earnings, so quite a difference. However, I think the added complication in this comes from the fact the football season straddles a tax year (tax years start/end on the 6th/5th April each year). I believe what could happen if he made the move is that he’d end up being classed as a UK resident not only for the current tax year, but for the one immediately after it too - i.e. the loan deal could have impacted on his net earnings long after his loan with us. Obviously it’s complicated tax stuff and so for this to come up as an issue probably suggests we were quite far down the road with things - it’s the sort of thing that would come up when your solicitor / accountant goes over a contract! Edit: If he’s paying himself via a company - I have no idea how that would work taxation wise. It probably means he receives ‘dividends’ from the company which has a slopping tax rate of up to 39.35% in the UK - the comparative rate in Turkey is 10% I believe.

The same point stands for whichever transfer (or failed transfer) you want to apply it to. Put simply, this is not an easy window to do early business and I think you can look at a lot of clubs in much better positions to us who have also struggled to get deals over the line. Of course one key thing I did miss out from my previous points on this - we’re not exactly the most attractive of destinations right now!

Well we wouldn’t get him or Skipp before Monday anyway would we. I don’t think I’d like Lo Celso anyway - complete show pony, not the sort of player you want when every point counts.

This has been a window with a major international tournament and a new manager appointment - things that get in the way of making swift transfer decisions in all directions. Add in a tight financial situation - and some knock backs from initial targets, there are reasons behind the ‘lack’ of activity. The obvious outlier of all this is the Okoli transfer… which makes me think there was supposed to be a significant transfer out of a player in the same position that has perhaps not materialised?

They lost 4-1 to Birmingham as I said!

Who the **** is this guy?!?

It does need to be stressed that you can’t take the accounts figures at face value for PSR because there’s deductibles that come into play within those periods. For example, I think the 21/22 period includes around £36 millions worth of allowable Covid losses from memory.

Yes, the £90 million was 22/23 accounts… so it will disappear from the 3 year cycle from next season. But we’re not at next seasons reporting period yet, which was kind of my point in that whilst that outlier year sits within the calculation period, it limits what you can do in terms of losses for the other two years. We also have a ‘reduced’ upper limit for a few cycles to contend with due to the season in the Championship too. Of course - there is also a strong possibility that PSR won’t be a thing come next season; or how it’s assessed has completely changed.