Josko Gvardiol

[oldhamblue]

Any news on Gvardiol or has this become the accountants thread?

 

[richards30]

Any news on Gvardiol or has this become the accountants thread?

Our accountants won’t pay the fee so it’s all relevant ;-)

 

[jrb]

I'm only guessing here with fag packet accounting but with revenue of approx £500 mill we have been making roughly £50 mill profit,less some years. Using that, even if we increase revenue to £700mill I wouldn't expect profit increase be much more than £20 mill. Too easy to confuse revenues with profit or even losses.

Isn't there a large sum of money to carry over from previous player sales or something that wasn't added to the last financial accounts?

 

[RobinHood]

Any news on Gvardiol or has this become the accountants thread?

It's becoming a liability...

 

[jrb]

Any news on Gvardiol or has this become the accountants thread?

The sums have to add up.
On the plus side, City offered £90m to West Ham for Rice. We have the money for Josko.

 

[Blue and true]

So many posts saying we shouldn't be haggling over the last "10 or 15 million".

But that's equivalent to £50 on every season ticket for the next 5 to 8 years.

Or maybe it's the signing bonus that pays for Haaland to remove a release clause. Or a £10m punt on a young prospect who turns out to be the next Lionel Messi.

This is not monopoly money and we're already the best club side in Europe. Let's not slag off the management just cos FIFA23 would have got the deal done weeks ago.

Suggesting City would retrieve any additional £10m paid for Gvardiol by adding £50 to season ticket prices is disingenuous at best, delusional at worst. And if the club identify someone they believe is the next Messi then they'll find that extra £10mil from somewhere. As any elite club would.

We're talking about an extra £10mil to bring in the best young defender on the planet; fucking hell we've just flogged James Trafford for double that. He's Pep's primary target, and given our incredible manager isn't going to be around forever, we need to be securing the players he is identifying so the transition from Pep-ball to NewManager-ball is as seamless as possible.

 

[Blue and true]

Any news on Gvardiol or has this become the accountants thread?

It's full of net-spenders mate. They're happy to miss out on Gvardiol if it means the club saving £10mil to put towards, ermm...absolutely nobody as good.

 

[city2]

I don’t think they can get the fax machine to work.

 

[oakiecokie]

Not having a go at you.

You don't know that. You don't have access to any financial information at the club that backs up your comments. Nobody does on BM.

Expanding a stand hasn't stopped Liverpool or other clubs expanding their grounds from buying players. It didn't stop City buying players when the South stand was expanded.

And money spent on ground improvements doesn`t hurt us on FFP anyway.

 

[oakiecokie]

I don’t think they can get the fax machine to work.

Or the carrier pigeon has been eaten.