Hola.
Apologies for going missing aujourd’hui, I am on the proverbial lamb. This blog however I do believe this well worth sharing and have nipped into an emporium that offers greater riches* than a Las Vegas hotel in order to get this to you.
*If your perception of ‘riches’ is a jacket potato machine that obviously hasn’t been cleaned since it left the factory.
This then is a decent gem from the heavily guarded, FTL forum … all [sic] courtesy of ‘Cabinessence’…
Levy and Pleat are close in relation to potential signings. Him and God knows how many others. Danny Boy really does his homework and speaks to loads before going in.
Apparently our targets are heavily influenced by a ‘team’ of statisticians who pour over numbers-someone mentioned Remy having scored more headers from set pieces than any other forward in Europe?
Well that’s the sort of info they’d know. Arry just says where we need strengthening and then gets asked if he has any objections to whoever the team put forward as the solution.
He might throw a few names in the hat himself but generally it’s down to the team. It certainly isn’t based on scouting someone for 2 games. He has no input on the financial aspects of any deal other than when the solution being put forward might have an impact on other acquisitions.
Apparently under our current business model we have around £20m to spend each year but that includes any increases in salary either from new signings or contract renegotiations. Needless to say we do HP on every deal. VDV £8m was written over 4 yrs apparently.
But their wages impact on that £20m for the duration of their stay with us unless we offload players. So someone new on £70,000pw basically takes £3.6m out of our £20m every year.
Obviously a CL foray increases the coffers but as that can’t be, ‘guaranteed’ it’s not included for wages planning. Danny Boy very pee’d off with ‘Arry who virtually went “missing” from his court case till Woy got appointed. Words were said.
Team meeting of players did happen saying that no meaningful tactics were being worked on for the period etc etc. Basically it was just them and the coaching staff.
Club not happy with Lennon’s attitude either.
Our Finance guy thinks L’pool’s financial model sucks.
The £50m debt we have is for the purchase of stadium land. But we’ve done a deal with Sainsbury who’ll give us either £50m or £70m. Can’t remember, but know both figures were mentioned.
Anyway they’re going to build the biggest Sainsbury’s in the country on there and that will start v soon, as will the hotel. Stadium won’t start till a £150m naming rights deal is done which hasn’t been yet.
Oh and there’s something happening down White Hart Lane relating to something being done with the council and involving parking.
More ITK Seems we are not going to get Vertonghen.Never close.
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i have to own up i wrote that from other uncheked information and i cannot find any reports backing my last comment.
I m glad really
The ITK I’ve read says the deal is almost done.
Of course the wage bill will come off the annual budget, that goes without saying, any company would do the same!
Do we pay less tax on player sales? ie Bently, bought for £17m sold for £4m this summer, is that a £13m tax right off? fcuking hope so….
We dont need much in the way of players, a centre half, a striker and maybe loan Ade again, job done!
Annnnnndd maybe a cheaky superstar on loan, we are Spurs ffs, lol
Im not 100% sure but i think player depreciation comes under the asset management banner. I remember reading at the time utd sold one of their big name signings,stam i think, that over the duration at the club that the financial worth goes down so if a £10m player stays 5 years & is then sold for £10m then that is classed in the profit of the club ???? Forgive me if im wrong
That is absolutely correct, as I understand it:
If a player is bought for $10m on a 5 year contract, he devalues $2m per year…
So, if he’s sold after 3 years for $6 million, the club would book a $2m profit…
DL has stated in an interview that a players value declines on average by 1.5m per season. So all transfers out of the club are assesed within these margins.
The hotel was abandoned some time ago I thought (no call for a 4 star hotel in N17 – who’d have thought it). So how much crap is the rest of it?
there would have to be a games played to staistics scenario? maybe that is why we got them ,very few games = very few statistics
I’m not sure- can’t see some of the bargain basements we’ve signed recently (Saha, Nelson) being successfully evaluated by a statistical dead-eye team as being any good. Those two, and probably one or two more, have a whiff of the Redschnapps about them…
If they were checked out by this crack stat team it would almost definitely have been under the banner of a best value for the money sort of pick. So I can see them both being selected actually based on some sort of statistical analysis.
Saha and Nelsen? More basement than bargain and not even good enough to fit into the “Moneyball” equation, if we’re being honest. Everton must be laughing. They got Pienaar, who has been on fire for them and picked up Jelavic (10 goals in 16). We got Saha (4 goals in 12) and his indiscretions re: CL result. Nelsen, I just don’t get at all. What does he do? If the Vertonghen thing falls over (I’ve trained my mind to hope for the best but expect the worst), surely, the FIRST port of call, therafter, should be to Swansea, with the question: “Please can we have our Caulker back?) Even if we DO snare JV, any loan of a prime asset, such as SC should be limited to mid-season. In January, when we are scratching our heads (again), looking for “defensive cover”, do we want another crocked old aged pensioner, or a young gun, who is verging on brilliance and who is ours by right, anyway?
Really? Based on what stats? Nelsen who had played once all season and Saha who had managed 1 goal in 16. I think the only stat which held any significance was ‘free’, although you still have to take into consideration the wages
Can we all club together and get HH some prozac.
I need some after Spurs good to bad season :freu