Hart of the Matter
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A true annual cost of a player is his wages and amortisation fee. This is where some confusion arises. I.e. Sterling 45m over 5 years (9m pa) And wages of 8m = 17m PAThat notwithstanding I am still at something of a loss in understanding what our financial limits are. At the time of signing Neymar, PSG hadn't already spent £210m, and amortisation or not £370m is a phenomenal amount to spend in one window, particularly when TV and EPL prize money combined only came to about £150m I think.
Not concerned by it, just trying to get my head around it
We have lost some amortised fees on players sold and of some we have kept and we have lost a shit load off the wage bill - Hart, Willy, Sagne, Zabs, Kolorov, Cliche, fern and potentially Nasri, Delph, Bony and Mangala. Upto 10 top earners replaced by potentially 7/8 middling to top. We also have a reduction in Yayas fees. I reckon freed up and reduced wages if diverted to transfers could equal 20m saving PA ( or 100m extra amortised)
50m extra tv/ trading funding = 250m amortised transfer capacity
We also had a trading surplus last year of 20m = 100m transfer capacity.
Any transfer fees we receive in addition i.e. Nacho etc is generally an in year profit and icing on the cake...
I believe we have plenty of financial capacity to meet the demands of FFP even if we end up spending 450m