SilverFox2
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Of course every club will do this but have you seen any press reports saying something like "City have spent big but they'll recoup that through wage savings and player sales in the longer term"? Me neither.
Five players were out of contract. Kolarov & Nolito have already gone with Fernando & Iheanacho not far behind. Yaya has taken a wage cut (& I'd guess that could be as much as £50k a week) and Hart is effectively off the wage bill. Bony could well be on his way and I'm assuming we'll also sell Nasri & Mangala. So that's possibly 13 off the wage bill plus Yaya's cut, with 6 coming in. And of those Walker will have been on the biggest money at his old club and that won't have been more than £60k I bet.
We're also not paying what we paid people like Nasri & Clichy in the boom years of 2010-11, when we were paying top whack for anyone decent. So I don't think the comparison is unreasonable.
Hi PB, how do we treat homegrown ?
In other words is their value on the books zero then do we simply take any sale as complete profit or maybe we set a token depreciation value over the same period perhaps for tax purposes ?