Thiago.... Ja ????
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I doubt many teams will want to make deals till they know when they can get back to full houses.
I think it's more a case of not spending until there are clear plans in place for the imminent return of supporters into the stadium. At present it's looking like there will be a selection process for season ticket holders, with about 20,000 supporters admitted, and the corporate side cranked back up with the inevitable changes for health reasons. With those plans likely to be further revised and agreed on ahead of the start of next season, the clubs will be able to start working out a financial strategy and surely the market will open back up, albeit at a more modest level.
Chelsea are spending because they couldn’t last season. They saved the hazard money for a pandemic day.
Morata, too. Pretty sure he covers the Werner fee.
Most clubs rely on their season ticket money to fund the cash flows on their transfers. Without down payments for season tickets and corporate hospitality, only the plastic clubs will be comfortable spending. So it makes absolute sense to link transfers to fans back in the stands.
Utd have said their spending will be quite modest.
Or to sponsorship ... compared to match day takings of £84m (and that's not just ticket /season ticket income). In fact we can expect something in the region of £150 - 160m from the PL this season (assuming no reductions for any reason). £200m from commercial interests (same proviso) and so on and so on ... so to be honest I'm not so sure how much of our transfer kitty depends on matchday takings or instead our transfer prevarication depends more on negotiations that are still pending regarding other income streams.
It's all about the cash. Most cash comes in, and is spent, reasonably evenly through the year. The season ticket money comes in as a lump sum before the season starts and around the time the transfer window is open. You're right that other income supports spending, but a lot of it is paid evenly across the year and is used to support wage bills and other overheads. It's too simplistic to look at profit and revenue and say where the bigger share of the income comes from, with transfer spending it's all about cash - in July-September clubs need to find big lumps of cash to pay transfer fees and season ticket revenue supports that.
Sorry but I just don't see that since almost all transfers use deferred payments - the amount of cash up front is very little in comparison to the total transfer fee. Or am I missing something?
No, that's correct, but bear in mind that each July-August period we will be paying instalment number one on this year's transfers, plus instalments two and three from the previous years' transfers. So there'll be a chunky payout, and if transfer spending is fairly even across those three years, you're effectively paying out a figure equivalent to a full year's spending.
Because LFC did very little last year, we won't have the full burden of three lots of "normal" instalments (i.e. deals from 2018, 2019 and 2020), but we probably get £35m - £40m from season tickets and seasonal hospitality, and that would fund instalments (1/3) on new deals worth between £100m and £120m (full value of the transfer fees), assuming we already had money tucked away for the previous two years' run-off
Chelsea owed over £1bn in debt to Abramovich in their last published accounts. They don't have any capital (they are insolvent to the tune of nearly £700m), although they might rack up a bit less extra debt this year. 🙂
The plot they own off Fulham road is worth a £1bn on its own
Maybe they can offer Bayer Leverkusen a few acres for Havertz 🙂
Turns out old Roman does not own the plot but a charity does.
I dont see Utd spending big, they are run like a business now. The Glazers take cash out of the company rather than pumping funds in and they have large debts to meet. Loss of match day revenue will hurt them more than most as comercially they generate huge rvenues from match going fans. Clubs like City, Chelsea and potentially Newcastle with cash on hand will be very few and far between.
Whats surprising to many people is you would expect us, after the most successful period in our modern history to be one of the clubs best financially placed to take advantage of the situation. For whatever reason, and there appears to be a few, we are not.
Whats surprising to many people is you would expect us, after the most successful period in our modern history to be one of the clubs best financially placed to take advantage of the situation. For whatever reason, and there appears to be a few, we are not.
I think Gini is off. The contract talks have gone on too long.
Hope not. Plus with his injury record we would need to keep both.
His injury record doesn't look that bad ?
Has there ever been an obvious leak indicating Klopp wanting a specific player? Just harking on how pissed his presser sounded after the City CAS case verdict was announced. We've played with virtually the sames squad for 2-3 seasons now and to ensure that we're still challenging next season, so a few first teamers are needed as early as possible to acclimatise and prepare for another title assault next season.
Well that's precisely the point ....
Klopp wanted Werner , we couldn't afford him.
Klopp wants thiago , who the fuck knows if we will spend the £20/30m required
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