Premier League 24/25 Pre-season guff (misc talking points)

[Lambert09]

 

[JimJams]

Can't wait for us to announce our new shirt sponsorship with THEREALLYREALCOMPANYHONEST.com bringing in at least.... whatever it is we need to comply with all financial regulations.  Conveniently.

[Muzzy_no7]

How on earth have Forest managed to double their money on Mangala to a French club?!?!?

[Super_horns]

Everton set to be taken over by the Roma owner?

 

Its Everton though - something is bound to go wrong.

 

[foxfanazer]

3 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Everton set to be taken over by the Roma owner?

 

Its Everton though - something is bound to go wrong.

 

Yeah it'll be the owner of Cromer 

[JimJams]

Well it's the Roma owner so presumably they'll agree a fee for the sale of Everton and when it comes to put pen to paper they'll say the price is too high and see if they can get it on the cheap. When they can't they'll probably ask if they can rent it for a year first.

[st albans fox]

Villa buying Maatsen from Chelsea 

[The Bear]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Villa buying Maatsen from Chelsea 

And if they send Duran the other way then they both get lots of FFP wiggle room out of the deals. 

[los dedos]

10 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Villa buying Maatsen from Chelsea 

Chelsea seem to get alot for players with very little experience.  Is he worth it ?

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, los dedos said:

Chelsea seem to get alot for players with very little experience.  Is he worth it ?

Given his young age,

he’s just made it to a champs league final (where he didn’t shine but that’s great experience) 

he’s now in the Dutch squad 

 

probably a fair price 

[Super_horns]

Olise going to Bayern.

 

Palace will have all summer to get some sort of replacement and keep Eze I guess.

[EastAnglianFox]

Transfer fees are getting wild.

 

Chelsea paying Villa close to 20 million for a kid I’ve never heard of.

 

Omari Kellyman?? Is he worth it anybody that knows of him?

[Aleksz]

7 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Transfer fees are getting wild.

 

Chelsea paying Villa close to 20 million for a kid I’ve never heard of.

 

Omari Kellyman?? Is he worth it anybody that knows of him?

He’s decent and a good prospect but Chelsea have no business spending 20m on him right now. Pretty clear there’s some FFP motives and agreements at play.

[Corky]

34 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Transfer fees are getting wild.

 

Chelsea paying Villa close to 20 million for a kid I’ve never heard of.

 

Omari Kellyman?? Is he worth it anybody that knows of him?

All the clubs involved have PSR issues. Probably a coincidence though....

[Tielemans63]

5 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Transfer fees are getting wild.

 

Chelsea paying Villa close to 20 million for a kid I’ve never heard of.

 

Omari Kellyman?? Is he worth it anybody that knows of him?

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 June 2024 by Tielemans63

[The Bear]

Yes it's blindingly obvious. That's the authorities fault though, fair play to the clubs for finding a work around on the ridiculous anti-competetive PSR rules. 

[Death by Football]

I’m stuck somewhere between being sick in my mouth at the state of English football and celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit of English teams to completely **** with the rules. 

[trabuch]

Capitalism unchained is ****ing evil.

[Muzzy_no7]

Absolutely fkin stinks.

 

This needs investigation and fast, particularly the transfers between Villa and Chelsea. 

[grobyfox1990]

10 hours ago, Tielemans63 said:

 

 

 

 

That is absolutely fantastic. Once again confirms the principle that markets move quicker than regulation. Hats off 

[Corky]

15 hours ago, The Bear said:

Yes it's blindingly obvious. That's the authorities fault though, fair play to the clubs for finding a work around on the ridiculous anti-competetive PSR rules. 

If Leicester sold Ben Nelson and Will Alves for £15 million each right now you would wonder what is going on. Leaving aside the fact that Academy players should be the future of the club, now reduced to bring the most profitable assets, they are just not worth that money.

 

Also, they should not have the burden of the price tag over them at that age and experience. The whole thing is ridiculous.

[RowlattsFox]

How do we get in on this money laundering project 

[filbertway]

Genius, I think all the clubs should pair up and do this.

We sign a couple of players from Southampton for £30 million and they sign a couple of our unknowns for £30 million. 

 

Basically force the Premier league to accept that their rules are silly.

 

I'm not against having teams run sustainably, but the current system is just so stupid and I don't really understand how they didn't envisage this happening down the road.

 

 

[Matt]

2 hours ago, Corky said:

If Leicester sold Ben Nelson and Will Alves for £15 million each right now you would wonder what is going on. Leaving aside the fact that Academy players should be the future of the club, now reduced to bring the most profitable assets, they are just not worth that money.

 

Also, they should not have the burden of the price tag over them at that age and experience. The whole thing is ridiculous.

I made this point the other week.

 

In KDH we have an academy product, who says he wants to stay (I do believe him fwiw but talk is cheap and we've heard it from other players before) yet we might be forced to sell him to comply with Profit and Sustainability rules. How is that sustainable?

[Dan]

These transfers just sum up again what a mess things actually are. Young players pawns in the game to avoid the stupid rules. If the rules incentivise clubs trading young players then the rules are wrong, as simple as that.

 

Predictably though we will not be involved at all and will cost ourselves.