20 May 2025 09:55:58
Anyone keeping an eye on the rumours? We're allegedly planning on a large sell out of our players. The transfer fees I've been seeing all seem to be less than the fee we paid for them though. Big losses at that for some. Anyone seen the same?
20 May 2025 11:22:04
Nope. I think we will be selling players for appropriate fees, if not the club will look for loans.
21 May 2025 08:46:55
Us fans have no idea about football finaces, PSR, FFP or the like and can only guess at player values. The great and much missed ED02 used to tell us not to worry about such things and that the owners new exactly what they were doing and we should listen to that advice. let's enjoy the beautiful game.
21 May 2025 09:23:32
Except Greenaway, the way we play is not a beautiful game, more like boring.
21 May 2025 10:07:04
It must be me but I’m “generally” ok with the way we have played this season and if one of the alternatives was the first half against Utd then god help us.
Fans usually value players on how they rate them. I wouldn’t sell Caicedo for anything less than £250m but any club can have Disasi for £35m.
I will talking to an old mate and retired chartered accountant who was trying explain the principles of “book profit” and how what can look like a loss on selling a player can actually go into the accounts as a profit. Totally lost me!
21 May 2025 11:14:00
We are fine on the eye Tom when everyone is fit. Lavia helps us move the ball through the lines that be quicker and he makes a difference but generally speaking modern day football across the board in both the premier league and across europe is pretty boring, you have teams like us who actually want to win matches and play football and then teams who just pack the defence and rely on a quick counter to nick a point or 3! money and the fear of defeat are playing a big factor and amongst our merry band of travellers (home and away) the majority are considering stopping their sky and bt subscriptions!
21 May 2025 11:39:26
RBD, I agree that ALL European club football is all much of a muchness.
The only plus for our league is there are almost no guarantees of a result. With a few exceptions most teams can get a result.
I also agree about Lavia being a match changing player. I would love us to stick with a 433 formation with Fernandez, Lavia and Caicedo as our midfield.