The generic transfer thread

[Winston Smith]

Jim White
http://www.football365.com/news/football-people-on-tv-jim-white-2

lolz at refusing to be breathalised and arrested as he was interviewing Mourinho the following day

[Winston Smith]

Updated with championship spend

Top spending leagues:

PL spend - £1.175B
Serie A spend - £586M
Bundesliga spend - £455M
La Liga spend - £384M
The Championship - £215M
French Ligue 1 spend - £160M

[double d]

Updated with championship spend

Top spending leagues:

PL spend - £1.175B
Serie A spend - £586M
Bundesliga spend - £455M
La Liga spend - £384M
The Championship - £215M
French Ligue 1 spend - £160M

Yet we still haven't done sh1t in Europe for how many years? Ridiculous that our top 2 divisions combined are more then all of those put together that are exponentially more successful then ours.

[LWJ]

Updated with championship spend

Top spending leagues:

PL spend - £1.175B
Serie A spend - £586M
Bundesliga spend - £455M
La Liga spend - £384M
The Championship - £215M
French Ligue 1 spend - £160M

I know i'm being picky - but could someone do it without the combined spend of Newcastle/Villa for the championship? Would probably represent a more realistic figure I imagine

[Winston Smith]

Updated with championship spend

Top spending leagues:

PL spend - £1.175B
Serie A spend - £586M
Bundesliga spend - £455M
La Liga spend - £384M
The Championship - £215M
French Ligue 1 spend - £160M

I know i'm being picky - but could someone do it without the combined spend of Newcastle/Villa for the championship? Would probably represent a more realistic figure I imagine

Newcastle spent £54.74M and Villa spent £49.47M so around £104M combined (though Newcastle made a net profit due to their sales)

[LWJ]

Updated with championship spend

I know i'm being picky - but could someone do it without the combined spend of Newcastle/Villa for the championship? Would probably represent a more realistic figure I imagine

Newcastle spent £54.74M and Villa spent £49.47M so around £104M combined (though Newcastle made a net profit due to their sales)

Thanks, Winston.

2 teams spent the same as 22 other teams combined. FFP

[genome]

Newcastle haven't violated FFP at all, they are in profit

[LWJ]

Newcastle haven't violated FFP at all, they are in profit

Yeah I understand they haven't technically broken any rules.

Still FFP though.

[genome]

Eh, personally I think it's fair enough for any club to spend within what they've sold, it's just on a large scale.

[Zammo]

Interesting tale of a ye olde transfer saga..........

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/07/brian-clough-dean-saunders-nottingham-forest

[Winston Smith]

Barcelona suing Santos over their selling of Barbosa to Inter for €30ish million last month. When Barcelona bought Neymar they put into the contract 3 other Santos players that they had first refusal on, with the instruction being that they had 3 days to decide on buying each player once Inter notified them that they were about to sell the players. Inter notified Barcelona of their intention to sell Barbosa then sold him 2 days later giving Barca no time to decide if they would be taking him.

[Brum Royal]

Eh, personally I think it's fair enough for any club to spend within what they've sold, it's just on a large scale.

Agreed, it's the very definition of working within your means. The fact that they have very valuable assets to sell in order to generate those funds to then spend is a nature of their circumstance of being a relegated long established Prem side.

[Uke]

Barcelona suing Santos over their selling of Barbosa to Inter for €30ish million last month. When Barcelona bought Neymar they put into the contract 3 other Santos players that they had first refusal on, with the instruction being that they had 3 days to decide on buying each player once Inter notified them that they were about to sell the players. Inter notified Barcelona of their intention to sell Barbosa then sold him 2 days later giving Barca no time to decide if they would be taking him.

Have you got your buyers and sellers in a twist there?

[Winston Smith]

Barcelona suing Santos over their selling of Barbosa to Inter for €30ish million last month. When Barcelona bought Neymar they put into the contract 3 other Santos players that they had first refusal on, with the instruction being that they had 3 days to decide on buying each player once Inter notified them that they were about to sell the players. Inter notified Barcelona of their intention to sell Barbosa then sold him 2 days later giving Barca no time to decide if they would be taking him.

Have you got your buyers and sellers in a twist there?

Congratulations, you have passed this intentional test set out for all 'nobbers.

[Uke]

Barcelona suing Santos over their selling of Barbosa to Inter for €30ish million last month. When Barcelona bought Neymar they put into the contract 3 other Santos players that they had first refusal on, with the instruction being that they had 3 days to decide on buying each player once Inter notified them that they were about to sell the players. Inter notified Barcelona of their intention to sell Barbosa then sold him 2 days later giving Barca no time to decide if they would be taking him.

Have you got your buyers and sellers in a twist there?

Congratulations, you have passed this intentional test set out for all 'nobbers.

Or I'm the first person to read your post in almost two days

[Winston Smith]

I only posted it this morning!

or was that test too?

[Uke]

I only posted it this morning!

or was that test too?

Life is a test

[Winston Smith]

Mathieu Flamini joins Palace

[AthleticoSpizz]

Nathan Tyson joins Kilmarnock

[Winston Smith]

was listening to an agent talk on the radio the other day about their role in transfers and what really goes on etc. he talked a bit about clubs not agreeing deals and where players lose out or end up earning more than expected. he used the example of a 23 year old English player who fully expected to transfer to another team in August but the buying club was £2.5M off the valuation and never found a way to bridge that. This agent said the player has since already struck an agreement to join a foreign team next summer and it will be announced in January where he is off to as he can officially announce he has signed a pre contract then what with his contract coming towards it's end.

He wouldn't say who the player was but I assumed it was Berahino