The amortisation "dodge" of selling academy players to fund expensive new players on long term contracts is all very well but they (and we) still have to find the same amount of inbound money to cover that amortisation next year (and the year after and for the following 6 years in Chelsea's case).
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Easier in a bull market, than a bear. If prices are rising, you can selectively pick players to cash in on, and meet your above income deficit.
If reduction in current value exceeds amortisation book value, and/or nobody is buying. Then you have a problem.
But it will be big clubs that have, so the rules will be changed.
Football is a self inflated bubble, chelski, manshitty, now Saudi, have pushed prices up artificially (and intentionally to push out of competition those who can't compete financially), out of step with income.
Winners and losers in the financial sphere rely on entropy in the system. If the cash spreads out to the same financial level across all leagues and clubs, nobody has an advantage. That's a death to the monetization of football. So there is a constant injection of energy from the entitled controlling sources to ensure that entropy remains.
Expanded European football, super leagues, dirty/immoral money, all are inevitable to promote continued entropy, or the system collapses.
Remember, you are watching a money game. The football is just the medium that they are creating their art on.
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Loss of form and/or niggly long-term injuries to the guys they are giving out 7+ year contracts will surely come back to bite them. You could level the same at us with Danilo and Murillo, but it's the exception in our case rather than the norm.
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It will definitely happen in some cases - you can't make that many players a long term success. The question is what happens to the mean value - you sell the ones that have made a profit. But it definitely constrains your activity while you still hold the contracts. The Arter money, was money that we couldn't spend elsewhere (I'm talking wages).
It all works on the books while prices go up. Not so much if they ever go down.
Saudi inflate the prices this transfer window. It inflates the prices and costs all down the chain.
What happens if they put no further money in over future windows to service the string of debts?
Super league. To re-inject that necessary financial entropy.
The unfinanced inflated costs are a sword of Damocles over the
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Burnley are paying 31.5M for Ian Maatsen from Chelsea. He's a good player, he's young and he's a known quantity to them as he's already played there on loan, but that's an astonishing amount of money for a team at the wrong end of the table to pay for a full back.
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He’s not agreed to it yet. But agree with your point.
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And he's not going to, apparently having spent a year in Burnley he has no desire to go back. I spent an afternoon there once and feel the same way.
It appears that Chalobah's move to Bayern is also off.
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Pahlinha to Bayern is off because it was dependent on Fulham replacing him with Hojbjerg, who has decided he doesn't want to play for Fulham, but Gravenberch to Liverpool appears to still be happening anyway.
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Bayern keep buying midfielders to rotate with Kimmich and Goretzka and never playing them. First came Sabitzer, who ended up last season on loan at Man U and is now at Dortmund. Then came Gravenberch, who has also lasted a season before being sold having barely played. They've already signed Laimer to be a back up, why spend 60-80 million on another sub?
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Bournemouth are doing the last minute panic signing from Champ clubs thing. First they got Sinisterra on loan from Leeds, and now they're after Daka from Leicester.
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Whilst I'm no Bournemouth fan, I appreciate them weakening teams that I dislike more.
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I agree, and I don't think either player especially helps them. I don't know if Leicester will especially miss him either though, unless Iheanacho gets injured.
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Daka has been largely shite after the initial hype.
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He’d have been good in the Championship but they froze him out. Like Souttar and a few others.
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When ever I see 'Daka' written down I find myself saying it repeatedly as onomatopoeia while picturing a boy's war comic book from olden times showing a determined looking German pilot firing from a Messerschmitt with a speech bubble saying "Himmel!" "LIEBFRAUMILCH!"
Sorry. Do please carry on.
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I had trouble watching the titfers tonight. Every time chong was involved, I couldn't help but ruminate that it was sad that he and cheech had split up.
I also have the voices in the heed.
