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Re: Transfer rumours

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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Mase » Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:27 pm

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Mase wrote:Manchester City have reportedly received multiple offers from European clubs for young attacker Adedire Mebude.

We got nearly £300m in prize money last season, we’re selling academy kids left and right for what? We don’t need the money. I’d understand it if we were making moves in the transfer market. We’re sat still.

Do you think some of the money might go towards the stadium rebuild??


Possibly mate but I didn’t think stadium build counted towards FFP? Why would we waste that money when the Sheik has a limitless pot of gold?

UEFA or the Prem could change their FFP rules tomorrow just to fuck us (as they have in the past) and if we’ve spent all our transfer money on an extension that’s not needed we’ll be fucked. At least with transfers we’d actually have players in the squad.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Mase » Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:27 pm

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Not like we could pay him off either because he’s still got 4 years left.

We need to play it carefully though. He’s mates with Bernardo and Dias.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Bluemoon4610 » Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:57 pm

Mase wrote:Manchester City have reportedly received multiple offers from European clubs for young attacker Adedire Mebude.

We got nearly £300m in prize money last season, we’re selling academy kids left and right for what? We don’t need the money. I’d understand it if we were making moves in the transfer market. We’re sat still.

Most of that £300m - probably £200m+ - would have been expected and therefore budgeted for in the normal course of running expenses. It's not as if we've unexpectedly come into £300m. The kids we're selling would have been assessed very closely by our coaching team and been deemed surplus to requirements, either because they weren't good enough or had the wrong mental attitude/strength to make it at the very top. We're getting good money for them - with buy back clauses or sell on fees - whilst their stock is high after 3 consecutive PL2 titles. Great business, overall, IMHO.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Nigels Tackle » Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:26 pm

haaland’s goal and trophy bonuses took £200m of the £300m…
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Mase » Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:16 am

Bluemoon4610 wrote:
Mase wrote:Manchester City have reportedly received multiple offers from European clubs for young attacker Adedire Mebude.

We got nearly £300m in prize money last season, we’re selling academy kids left and right for what? We don’t need the money. I’d understand it if we were making moves in the transfer market. We’re sat still.

Most of that £300m - probably £200m+ - would have been expected and therefore budgeted for in the normal course of running expenses. It's not as if we've unexpectedly come into £300m. The kids we're selling would have been assessed very closely by our coaching team and been deemed surplus to requirements, either because they weren't good enough or had the wrong mental attitude/strength to make it at the very top. We're getting good money for them - with buy back clauses or sell on fees - whilst their stock is high after 3 consecutive PL2 titles. Great business, overall, IMHO.


We better keep winning then because if we don’t we’ll go under at £200+ million running costs a season.

All jokes aside if any club earmarks the majority of their winnings to go towards running costs regularly then their model is fucked. Luckily that’s not us.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Outcast » Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:44 am

Mase wrote:
Bluemoon4610 wrote:
Mase wrote:Manchester City have reportedly received multiple offers from European clubs for young attacker Adedire Mebude.

We got nearly £300m in prize money last season, we’re selling academy kids left and right for what? We don’t need the money. I’d understand it if we were making moves in the transfer market. We’re sat still.

Most of that £300m - probably £200m+ - would have been expected and therefore budgeted for in the normal course of running expenses. It's not as if we've unexpectedly come into £300m. The kids we're selling would have been assessed very closely by our coaching team and been deemed surplus to requirements, either because they weren't good enough or had the wrong mental attitude/strength to make it at the very top. We're getting good money for them - with buy back clauses or sell on fees - whilst their stock is high after 3 consecutive PL2 titles. Great business, overall, IMHO.


We better keep winning then because if we don’t we’ll go under at £200+ million running costs a season.

All jokes aside if any club earmarks the majority of their winnings to go towards running costs then their model is fucked. Luckily that’s not us.


Tell me about it, we wasted £100m on Jack Grealish, we should have promoted our kids instead of wasting a large sum on an average overrated one trick pony showboating alcoholic party animal. What was the club thinking :?
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby blues2win » Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:50 am

Pep defiant on Walker. Admits the Clubs are in touch but says we will fight for him and he will start the match against Bayern.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby blues2win » Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:56 am

Actually he said he would play, not necessarily start I suppose.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby john@staustell » Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:14 pm

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Tell me about it, we wasted £100m on Jack Grealish, we should have promoted our kids instead of wasting a large sum on an average overrated one trick pony showboating alcoholic party animal. What was the club thinking :?


Be great going back to the 90s. Never quite sure if we'd reach the 39 point mark. That's the fast track way to do it unless they are extremely exceptional (and we are getting 1 or 2 now)

Cole Palmer and not buy Haaland maybe?
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby MIAMCFC » Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:23 pm

When Mbappe does his 1 year sabbatical in SA and rocks up for nothing in Madrid!! Will Tebas cry WTAF. I don’t think so.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby john@staustell » Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:31 pm

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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby blues2win » Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:34 pm

https://twitter.com/skysportsnews/statu ... 9Awxy5lqVQ

This is Pep talking about Walker. He seems pretty resigned to the possibility of losing him.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Bluemoon4610 » Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:42 pm

Mase wrote:
Bluemoon4610 wrote:
Mase wrote:Manchester City have reportedly received multiple offers from European clubs for young attacker Adedire Mebude.

We got nearly £300m in prize money last season, we’re selling academy kids left and right for what? We don’t need the money. I’d understand it if we were making moves in the transfer market. We’re sat still.

Most of that £300m - probably £200m+ - would have been expected and therefore budgeted for in the normal course of running expenses. It's not as if we've unexpectedly come into £300m. The kids we're selling would have been assessed very closely by our coaching team and been deemed surplus to requirements, either because they weren't good enough or had the wrong mental attitude/strength to make it at the very top. We're getting good money for them - with buy back clauses or sell on fees - whilst their stock is high after 3 consecutive PL2 titles. Great business, overall, IMHO.


We better keep winning then because if we don’t we’ll go under at £200+ million running costs a season.

All jokes aside if any club earmarks the majority of their winnings to go towards running costs regularly then their model is fucked. Luckily that’s not us.

All good businesses will have a cash flow plan, with best and worst case scenarios. Finishing last in the PL would have still netted us £100m! And group stage elimination from the CL would still have been worth at least €15.5m just on performance based payments. Then there's the extra for co-efficient payments (ours is on the higher end) plus broadcast payments. So before a ball was kicked, we'd have known about £150m of "winnings". So yes, this would have been part of the budget planning. The rest is a bonus!
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Nigels Tackle » Tue Jul 25, 2023 3:03 pm

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Mase wrote:
Bluemoon4610 wrote:
Mase wrote:Manchester City have reportedly received multiple offers from European clubs for young attacker Adedire Mebude.

We got nearly £300m in prize money last season, we’re selling academy kids left and right for what? We don’t need the money. I’d understand it if we were making moves in the transfer market. We’re sat still.

Most of that £300m - probably £200m+ - would have been expected and therefore budgeted for in the normal course of running expenses. It's not as if we've unexpectedly come into £300m. The kids we're selling would have been assessed very closely by our coaching team and been deemed surplus to requirements, either because they weren't good enough or had the wrong mental attitude/strength to make it at the very top. We're getting good money for them - with buy back clauses or sell on fees - whilst their stock is high after 3 consecutive PL2 titles. Great business, overall, IMHO.


We better keep winning then because if we don’t we’ll go under at £200+ million running costs a season.

All jokes aside if any club earmarks the majority of their winnings to go towards running costs regularly then their model is fucked. Luckily that’s not us.

All good businesses will have a cash flow plan, with best and worst case scenarios. Finishing last in the PL would have still netted us £100m! And group stage elimination from the CL would still have been worth at least €15.5m just on performance based payments. Then there's the extra for co-efficient payments (ours is on the higher end) plus broadcast payments. So before a ball was kicked, we'd have known about £150m of "winnings". So yes, this would have been part of the budget planning. The rest is a bonus!


some huge bonus payments would have gone to pep, his staff and the players for winning the treble. probably also triggered quite a few transfer fee add on clauses as well.
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Mase » Tue Jul 25, 2023 4:29 pm

Nottingham Forest have signed Sweden forward Anthony Elanga from Manchester United on a five-year deal.

Thought he was the next Ronaldo?
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Bluemoon4610 » Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:13 pm

Mase wrote:Nottingham Forest have signed Sweden forward Anthony Elanga from Manchester United on a five-year deal.

Thought he was the next Ronaldo?

The next Rolando, perhaps? :?:
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Mase » Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:32 pm

Bluemoon4610 wrote:
Mase wrote:Nottingham Forest have signed Sweden forward Anthony Elanga from Manchester United on a five-year deal.

Thought he was the next Ronaldo?

The next Rolando, perhaps? :?:


I still remember the hope I had with Bianchi after scoring against West Ham first game on the season. Breaks my heart he didn’t do well
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby Outcast » Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:48 pm

What's going on with this transfer window? It's been rather shambolic. We normally are astute and plan ahead. We seem obsessed with profitability, we're turning into Arsenal!
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Re: Transfer rumours

Postby johnny crossan » Tue Jul 25, 2023 7:30 pm

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