Joao Neves

[Tevez City]

I smell his agent trying to start an auction.

He doesn't need to

 

[Keeper!]

He doesn't need to

Why not, the player might not be as highly thought of as we are told.

 

[Tevez City]

Well if what khaldoon said is true then no one will be buying Neves due to rules?

Madrid just paid 100-150 million sign on fee for Mbappe

 

[richards30]

Madrid just paid 100-150 million sign on fee for Mbappe

Doesn’t count towards FFP though?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Doesn’t count towards FFP though?

It does.

 

[richards30]

It does.

I thought it only affected cash flow if the club mate hence it was a favorite Bayern trick to get players to join them on frees?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I thought it only affected cash flow if the club mate hence it was a favorite Bayern trick to get players to join them on frees?

Wages and signing on fees definitely count towards FFP, as do bonuses for winning things.

Signing on fees tend to be less than the transfer fee would have been, hence Bayern encouraging their transfer targets to run their contracts down.

 

[blueparrot]

Wages and signing on fees definitely count towards FFP, as do bonuses for winning things.

Signing on fees tend to be less than the transfer fee would have been, hence Bayern encouraging their transfer targets to run their contracts down.

I guess a signing on fee can’t be amortised though ?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I guess a signing on fee can’t be amortised though ?

Madrid are paying Mbappe over the 5 years. I don’t know if that can be amortised in the accounts, but it might be possible.

 

[YatesA]

Wages and signing on fees definitely count towards FFP, as do bonuses for winning things.

Signing on fees tend to be less than the transfer fee would have been, hence Bayern encouraging their transfer targets to run their contracts down.

Ye it all adds in to club expenditure. If it didn't then why would accusations of "back hander payments" against city matter if you could just pay guys millions and not have it factored in to ffp

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Madrid are paying Mbappe over the 5 years. I don’t know if that can be amortised in the accounts, but it might be possible.

@BlueBrain

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Madrid are paying Mbappe over the 5 years. I don’t know if that can be amortised in the accounts, but it might be possible.

Further thought.

It almost certainly will be possible to amortise as it’s no different to paying a club in instalments.

It’s the same expenditure on the books, just to a person, not a club.

 

[ninjamonkey]

I guess a signing on fee can’t be amortised though ?

If it's paid in installments over the length of his contract then yeah it can. There's a scenario where they can pay it all upfront to him and write it off then if they wanted to in the unique scenario where that's beneficial but otherwise that's being treated the same as it would be if they paid psg that amount as a transfer fee instead of straight into mbappes pocket.

Madrid haven't got mbappe on a free, they've paid perhaps just about on the lower end of what he's worth but theyve paid big money, only the recipient of the money is different With PSG being royally shafted.

Spending a reported £150 million on mbappe and £60 million on Endrick, they're over £200 million deep this summer already before the window is even open.

 

[BlueBrain]

Depends how its structured. @Prestwich_Blue would know better here.

 

[JTBlue1999]

Madrid just paid 100-150 million sign on fee for Mbappe

Premier League has far stricter rules on spending then La Liga does, especially for their cash cow Real Madrid.

It's not comparable to our situation at all, the Premier League is doing everything in their power to slow us down and stop us from spending to improve the team. Tebas meanwhile sees the advantage of allowing Madrid and Barca to spend far more than the rest of the league to bring in big names like Mbappe and Lewandowski (amongst others). It's a farce.

 

[Paul1970]

That's it then. Get rid of Pep

We have only got one year of pep or have you forgot that interview .

 

[Vester]

Further thought.

It almost certainly will be possible to amortise as it’s no different to paying a club in instalments.

It’s the same expenditure on the books, just to a person, not a club.

In the books it doesnt really matter if a fee is paid in full on day 1 or in installments. You write the fee off during the assets contract length. If a player cost 50m on a 5 year deal its 10m/year in the books regardless of how and when the transaction is actually paid. Same goes with sign on fees.

 

[Skrastins]

 

[xMatMcC]

All I'm seeing here is that big man Bernardo is sticking around. Huge.

 

[Tb1981]

Bernado looks like he has decided to get things moving for Neves himself!