It seems simple to me. The strategy is sustainable as long as the players are good. Iwobi Gbamin Gomes Mina Richarlison Digne Kean and others were brought in under Marcel Brands and all of them in theory were at an age where they could be long term investments and have good resale value but unfortunately only one or two of them have actually been any good for us so they aren’t seen as good signings and the policy isn’t seen as a good one or sustainable because these players are still a drain on wages despite not being over 30. You agree with me too because I’ve seen your comments on longstaff but obviously you’re excited by the other two so don’t want to hear it.
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BirkenheadBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
1 win and 8 losses in 12 games
CahillsCornerFlag
Player Valuation: £70m
Nobody can really be surprised he’s after Longstaff, that’s been on the cards since he arrived. Would much rather wait to sign him on a free like.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
I have been watching. Digne hasn't been playing. And before that, it's well known he was asked not to be getting forward. Taking out possibility to get assists. Has been poor this season, but so has our whole defence. In a way that they weren't as bad last season. That's on the manager and his tactics.
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
Bottom of the form table since week 4, level with Norwich. He’s astute though
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
My wife does
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
I’ve done it myself over the years so this is not a criticism of our fans, but when we get linked with a crap player, you see all the tweets abs posts. Like he’s not bad, could do a good job, works hard, was worth 50mil 3yrs ago.
AdamEFC
Player Valuation: £35m
All from the money we saved punting James and getting his £10m per week wage off the books.
He wasn’t worth £50, that was how much Newcastle apparently quoted Man Utd for him. That was also when he played regularly, he’s featured on the bench more often than not this season at an extremely poor Newcastle.
Not the signing we should be making, more squad player dross.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
I agree. Seen a fan Twitter saying him and Doucoure could be a good partnership. Forget the sky 6 for a minute, just look at the other clubs were trying to compete with. West Ham Rice & Soucek. Leicester Ndidi & Tielemams.
They’re streets ahead of Longstaff & Doucoure
From an accounting and FFP point of view, the £30m spent on Mykolenko and Patterson gets spread over the entire lengths of their contracts, believed to be 4.5 years each. Therefore we only "spend" about £6.75m combined on them in this year's accounts.
When a player is sold however, the entire value of the transfer fee gets added to the accounts in the current year. So if/when Digne goes for £25m or whatever, we will easily cover this year's share of the outlay on Mykolenko and Patterson, and we will make the accounts look healthier by wiping out much of the existing deficit.
There were reports that we were at -£35m (for FFP, or whatever the relevant rule is) coming into the January window...
Buying Mykolenko and Patterson will put us at around -£42m (the £6.75m I mentioned above)...
But selling Digne will bring us back to around -£17m (assuming he goes for £25m).
These are the sort of sales we need to make in our current situation. We are not short of cash, but we are right on the edge of the rules relating to accountancy in terms of how much we have spent at certain times. If we can sell Holgate or Mina in this window I suspect we will, and if a decent offer for Gomes, Davies or Gbamin is made then they'll be sold too - these sales will further assist our accounting.
The two I'd dearly LOVE to see leave are Tosun and Delph, but they both have six months left and are not even vaguely in form so no-one will buy them now when they'll be free in the summer.
chopper6
Player Valuation: £10m
Honestly this place is utterly bipolar.
Everyone moans for years that we never sell a player for profit/ decent money.
That we should follow other clubs ‘success’ of player trading and/ or unearth some gems/ young players with potential
Thst we end up giving away ageing players who we spent decent money on for nothing.
Whether we like it or not (and I’d still prefer to keep our good players) in Digne we have a rare opportunity to do what most moan about on a daily basis.
Sell a player approaching 29 for a profit, and use the money to re invest in young/ hungry potential.
What’s the alternative? Sell for half his current value in a years time, or worst watch him naturally decline then moan about having yet another ageing player on the books on high wages we can’t shift?!
Make up your mind what you want
Everyone moans for years that we never sell a player for profit/ decent money.
That we should follow other clubs ‘success’ of player trading and/ or unearth some gems/ young players with potential
Thst we end up giving away ageing players who we spent decent money on for nothing.
Whether we like it or not (and I’d still prefer to keep our good players) in Digne we have a rare opportunity to do what most moan about on a daily basis.
Sell a player approaching 29 for a profit, and use the money to re invest in young/ hungry potential.
What’s the alternative? Sell for half his current value in a years time, or worst watch him naturally decline then moan about having yet another ageing player on the books on high wages we can’t shift?!
Make up your mind what you want
NorthernBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
Rondon….Longstaff….:when will this all end. Dwight Gayle anyone?
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