It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[bluenova]

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.

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.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

This is a myth. He works perfectly well at right back

Exactly. This is just one of those things bluemoon has tried to talk into existence.

 

[Roy Munson]

Occam’s razor my friend. The correct explanation is usually the simplest one. You’re probably right. One in one out due to Haaland impact on budget.

Still, I’d like to think otherwise and that there’s a surprise on the way.

Mate, I don't mean this as a personal attack, 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!

 

[DMA's]

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.

Put far more succinctly then I ever could. Thank you for saying what I was trying to say!

 

[Stoned Rose]

Unfortunately there’s more youth coming through and if the current crop don’t look promising enough then the new crop need to be given a chance, we also need to meet FFP requirements so all these 10 million sales add up to a quality signing for the first team, it’s the circle of life

Elton John likes this.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Can anyone be arsed to do a squad list, i can't but would be interested to see how it's looking with the planned sales and arrivals.

Was a thin squad already but feels threadbare now.

Not as threadbare as your work ethic ffs

;)

 

[andyhinch]

Unfortunately there’s more youth coming through and if the current crop don’t look promising enough then the new crop need to be given a chance, we also need to meet FFP requirements so all these 10 million sales add up to a quality signing for the first team, it’s the circle of life

I was taking the piss ;-)

 

[wolviedinho]

So can we now conclude that city are broke and it’s time to saddle the club with debt? Long term loan option from Abu Dhabi independent bank, totally independent from the banks CEO Mansour the 2nd. Again totally unrelated to our owner…totally.

How city being in debt is good for Liverpool’s title challenge :-)

 

[bluemc]

Another one towards the net spend trophy?

 

[Centurions]

Yeah I do. Do you think the agent and father got nothing? Anyway we it will come out when agent fees a reports later in the year..

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.