It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

SterlingSilvas said:
Ederson - Ortega - Carson
Walker - Cancelo
Dias - Laporte
Stones - Ake
Cucurella - Zinchenko
Rodri - Phillips
KDB - McAtee
Silva - Gundogan
Mahrez - Palmer
Foden - Grealish
Haaland - Alvarez
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Think this looks perfect personally.
Top quality cover in all positions and a chance for Palmer and McAtee to get game time.
They may prove to be not quite ready but other players can rotate into these positions.
It doesn't have to be Mahrez or Palmer, Phil or Bernie can do it
Yes injuries could leave us short but there has to be a balance to keep people happy.
Dead excited to see Haaland and Alvarez
 
DMA's said:
According to pol on the athletic podcast the haaland deal ate into a lot of our budget for the summer and as a result we will operate with a one in one out scenario.

Makes sense why we closed the deal with Leeds the same time we agreed the fee with Arsenal for Jesus. I would imagine once Sterling is sold we will then begin talking to Brighton to try and get cucurella. I expect that to be the last major moves for this window
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He is talking out of his arse tbf. We had the funds for Kane last summer that went unspent. Plus the Torres money from January
 
Roy Munson said:
Mate, I don't mean this as a personal atrack, but people really need to learn the correct application of Occam's Razor. It was never intended for conclusive deduction.

It's a heuristic.

In journalism, it stinks of laziness and a lack of research and investigative rigour.

Sorry...pet peeve!
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More like burke’s dinghy than Occam’s razor, you’re right.
 
Centurions said:
Do you think agents and others (not to mention the players signing on fees) get nothing from other transfers? Just because the media add it to Haalands fee doesn't mean we have to buy into it when they don't do it for anyone else.
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Pogba fee was reported 89m plus 30/40m in addons at the time it was reported! Like I said when accounts are out and they publish agent fee paid we Will see! One good thing though agent fee has changed now
 
bluenova said:
It's not like we sit on massive profits every year. We have a large turnover, but we also have huge outgoings.

According to Swiss Ramble, our wages+transfer amortisation in the last accounts was £500m, and Haaland's basic salary + fees will be something like £38m a year over five years.

That's nearly our entire revenue for a year.

We pay good wages because we have high revenue, and we keep the squad smaller than most. We could have four or five more average players hanging around like Liverpool, but then we'd be the ones telling de Bruyne we couldn't pay a big new contract, rather than Liverpool and Salah.
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I get that… but that’s not quite how it works…. We have offered Haaland a large wage over the term of his contract but we don’t have to put that in an escrow account now - we just need to balance income and expenditure over time. If the club needs x million at short notice I’m certain we have a rolling credit line with our bankers.. it’s laughable that we need to sell before we make a bid. The more general clear out of bench and youth players - may have positive financial implications but I’m sure it’s largely motivated by a footballing agenda to give space for others to thrive.
 
nmc said:
I get that… but that’s not quite how it works…. We have offered Haaland a large wage over the term of his contract but we don’t have to put that in an escrow account now - we just need to balance income and expenditure over time. If the club needs x million at short notice I’m certain we have a rolling credit line with our bankers.. it’s laughable that we need to sell before we make a bid. The more general clear out of bench and youth players - may have positive financial implications but I’m sure it’s largely motivated by a footballing agenda to give space for others to thrive.
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Im secretly hoping it’s a way of generating revenue to keep us above the rags in the income table by offsetting their high match day revenue
 
blue oli said:
Im secretly hoping it’s a way of generating revenue to keep us above the rags in the income table by offsetting their high match day revenue
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Don’t worry the outlook for interest rates over the next couple of years should keep the Rags in check…
 
nmc said:
I get that… but that’s not quite how it works…. We have offered Haaland a large wage over the term of his contract but we don’t have to put that in an escrow account now - we just need to balance income and expenditure over time. If the club needs x million at short notice I’m certain we have a rolling credit line with our bankers.. it’s laughable that we need to sell before we make a bid. The more general clear out of bench and youth players - may have positive financial implications but I’m sure it’s largely motivated by a footballing agenda to give space for others to thrive.
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It might not be that we CAN'T buy anyone until we sell, but each player must "cost" at least £20m a year on average in the accounts, and with Haaland coming it at near double that before bonuses, it doesn't take much to be heading towards a loss.

City still have to work within a budget, and if that's, for example, heading for a £20m loss next season, they may decide they need to sell before they add another £20+ million in player costs.
 
bluenova said:
It might not be that we CAN'T buy anyone until we sell, but each player must "cost" at least £20m a year on average in the accounts, and with Haaland coming it at near double that before bonuses, it doesn't take much to be heading towards a loss.

City still have to work within a budget, and if that's, for example, heading for a £20m loss next season, they may decide they need to sell before they add another £20+ million in player costs.
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What you say is true but the Athletic were trying to suggest we were short of funds and had limited room for manoeuvre when the opposite is true… we are good bets to take the net spend trophy away from the Dippers just now.
 
nmc said:
What you say is true but the Athletic were trying to suggest we were short of funds and had limited room for manoeuvre when the opposite is true… we are good bets to take the net spend trophy away from the Dippers just now.
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Looking at the players in and out, I think I agree with the Athletic :)
 
nmc said:
Do you really think that’s true - Feels like more Noddy accounting and oversimplification from the Athletic- honestly do you really think a club with our turnover exists in such a hand to mouth manner. I don’t and I’m surprised the Athletic expect anyone to fall for such shit stirring nonsense.
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The athletic just talk shite.
We are the best run club out there
More likely we have said sign up or leave to players with a year left like sterling and Jesus who have a decent value
Gundogan is worth letting go for free next year
Mahrez new deal
Zinchenko I imagine is being allowed to decide himself
As for porro, lavia.bazunu, steffen, edozi….that’s just small deals that keep money coming in
 
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