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Milan will be dangerous this year - they haven't had a half decent coach in years and now they have Allegri and playing 1 game per week. I can see them coming 2nd. I feel Chivu's Inter will fall off a cliff this year and finish 4th. Of course, no prizes for guessing who gets the scudetto -...

If a deal is done on Ukraine, Putin wins. He gets over one fifth of Ukraine territory while ensuring Ukraine doesn't join NATO and gets his sanctions lifted. The security guarantee iwill be BS and won't ensure Ukraine's future safety. Turns out making the victim surrender is an easy way to...

If he stays you can forget about Muani. I don't see any other way he can arrive.

So based on the news last week the fee was agreed with PSG but waiting to finalize departures before settling. I thought it was 10m loan + 45m obligation (total 55m) and 7m net salary for Muani. So now its 70m? Any credible source. Bottom line, he is not coming in my view if Vlahovic stays...

I don't get it. Based on the rumors we are letting him go for free and saving on his salary. The problem is, his book value is ~11m still and I think his salary is ~7m gross. So we take an 11m loss and save 7.

I don’t think we can afford Muani with Vlahovic around. Now it looks like the only buyer, Milan, is going for Bonniface. So we ate screwed. The only way I see this deal happening is to sell him for 15-20m and offer to pay him half a years salary. But outside of Milan I see no takers.

Are we linked with him? Is he any good? 30m for a 30 year old from City (who would probably be on a high salary) seems like an expensive price so he better be bloody good.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the end, Vlahovic goes to Milan for a transfer fee of EU18-19m (avoiding a capital loss) but where we have to pay 50% of his wages for a year in the form of compensation to Vlahovic. Optically, the deal will seemingly suck. But, the P&L impact would be +30m in...

It is just accounting man. Its following EU statutory rules. The deal worked for both parties and we ensured high plusvulenza on Iling Junior and Barrenechea which were one off big gains and Villa got more gain on Luiz. The P&L matters because FFP works on P&L and accounting. Too many...

Zhegrova is a gamble but a very low cost one at that. He is a gamble because he spent a lot of time out in the 2nd half of last season due to surgery for his groin pain. But nobody doubts his quality in the games he played in the Champions league - not just against us but against high quality...

Honestly, I don't think he is better than Thuram and I wouldn't be surprised if Koopmeiners finds a new lease of life playing deep. I think Locatelli might even be better than Rabiot without the brain farts and hissy fits. That being said, I'd take him over McKennie probably.

Yep. My biggest worry this season is our defence. To be consistent in the league, you need a reliable rock solid defence and at the moment I am not convinced. I feel we need 1 high quality left footed defender because Gatti and Kalulu are OK for the right hand side and can share...

I don't think his market value even after his Aston Villa season was 50m - it was probably more like 40m at the time but we overpaid because 1). Motta really wanted him; and 2) the valuation was inflated because of our swap deal that inflated both the incoming and outcoming players because it...

Yes I agree, however, I don't think anyone on this forum or pundits in general would put us a serious scudetto contenders unless we somehow manage to do some amazing things on the transfer market in the next 10 days.

Its a hard NO from me unless he is willing to accept a rotational role with a rotational wage to suit (with a low transfer fee). As a result, I see this as extremely unlikely.

If I had to guess, it will be 2.5m loan +20m obligation to buy + bonuses. His amortization is 6.25m a year (4 year contract), meaning a small 1m gain once the obligation is triggered. Similar to the Luiz situation. In that case the economic impact would be +3m in FY26 and +14m in FY27. In...

No it isn't. We signed hom on a 5 year contract - 10m amortization a year. Its been 1 year, so his book value is 40m. In a year, when we sell him on obligation for 30m, his book value will be 30m.

So if this deal is correct, then the economic impact on the P&L is +2m in FY26 and +19.5m in FY27 This is because we get 2.5m for the loan fee + save 9.5m in gross wages but we are still going to expense 10m in amortization on his contract until the obligation is triggered. His book value at...

At least Nico is good on the bbq. Don’t know what he does.

If I was Dusan I would push for the transfer to Napoli. They are going to win the scudetto again. He should take a 50% pay cut because if he stays and rots on the bench, he would take an even bigger pay cut.