Transfer Window Assessment

[Zatara]

What is all this rubbish about money left over to spend in January??!

Some simple maths for you all:

Anichebe and Fellaini left for a combined total of £32.5m

4% of that goes to the league via their levy: that's about £1.5m, so we're down to £31m

Standard take 20% of the profit on Felli; we made £10m profit, so that's another £2m gone. Down to £29m

McCarthy comes in for £13m rising to £15m;let's say his wage is covered by Anichebe's old wage. Down to £14m we go.

Then Lukaku comes in, for a reported £5m loan fee. (No mention of his wages yet, but let's say they are covered by the wage space freed up when Felli left.) We're down to £9m.

Barry comes in. This is the bit i'm worried about - how much of his £6m per year salary are we paying? If we're covering the lot, then that's us down to £3m.

Anyone who thinks there's money left for January, because they believe "the McCarthy purchase was not dependent on Fellaini's sale", please feel free to disagree. This is Bill we're talking about though.

Come next June we will lose Barry, Lukaku and Deulofeu. We will need to sign a CM, an RM and a CF. But we won't have any money left from Felli's transfer to do so. That's why we should have held out for more money from United, and that's why we shouldn't have caved in to Dave Whelan's ridiculous demands.

Exactly right, I wouldn't waste your time on this you'll only get neg repped to oblivion and told we have anywhere between 11-30 mil to spend....

kone and the others as well haven't been signed for magic beans and command salaries.

 

[Zatara]

You really are a top class [Poor language removed]

While I'm sat by my swimming pool relaxing and following the daily successes I enjoy...

You cant do simple maths....tell me were you the lad from Manchester who put in a bid to bill for the club from his bedsit.

 

[Julio Ananas]

LIEGE NO TAKEY

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

"Could have been worse" is my attitude to this

We should put that on our badge next year instead of NSNO

 

[Pat's Van]

LIEGE NO TAKEY

JULIO IS VERY HAPPY WITH TRANSFER HAPPENINGS, ALTHOUGH TALL CURLY ONE IS GONE THIS MAKE JULIO SAD
BUT JULIO LIKING THE BIG BOOM BOOM MAN UPFRONT WITH MANY GOLASCORINGS

hahaha go 'ed there julio ya little scamp !

 

[caught]

What is all this rubbish about money left over to spend in January??!

Some simple maths for you all:

Anichebe and Fellaini left for a combined total of £32.5m

4% of that goes to the league via their levy: that's about £1.5m, so we're down to £31m

Standard take 20% of the profit on Felli; we made £10m profit, so that's another £2m gone. Down to £29m

McCarthy comes in for £13m rising to £15m;let's say his wage is covered by Anichebe's old wage. Down to £14m we go.

Then Lukaku comes in, for a reported £5m loan fee. (No mention of his wages yet, but let's say they are covered by the wage space freed up when Felli left.) We're down to £9m.

Barry comes in. This is the bit i'm worried about - how much of his £6m per year salary are we paying? If we're covering the lot, then that's us down to £3m.

Anyone who thinks there's money left for January, because they believe "the McCarthy purchase was not dependent on Fellaini's sale", please feel free to disagree. This is Bill we're talking about though.

Come next June we will lose Barry, Lukaku and Deulofeu. We will need to sign a CM, an RM and a CF. But we won't have any money left from Felli's transfer to do so. That's why we should have held out for more money from United, and that's why we shouldn't have caved in to Dave Whelan's ridiculous demands.

Don't stress it, mate. We can sell Barkley next year to fund loans for all three of those positions x

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Work with quite a few City fans and they think that Barry is going to be a great signing

I certainly hope so

And who knows, maybe Lukaku will love it at Everton and want to sign with us next year?

Ship out Heitinga and Kone and we might have enough for him. Something to think about anyway

Baines staying has made me a lot less worried, for now anyway

 

[Bungle]

While I'm sat by my swimming pool relaxing and following the daily successes I enjoy...

You cant do simple maths....tell me were you the lad from Manchester who put in a bid to bill for the club from his bedsit.

My post was referring to you in general to be fair and not that specific point, and whilst maths might not be my strongest point, it appears you have daily struggles with reality. Maybe stop watching re-runs of Surrogates mate, take off the headset, close down every last one of your online dating profiles and venture out into the real world.

It truly is a joyous place, full of women without cocks.

 

[caught]

My post was referring to you in general to be fair and not that specific point, and whilst maths might not be my strongest point, it appears you have daily struggles with reality. Maybe stop watching re-runs of Surrogates mate, take off the headset, close down every last one of your online dating profiles and venture out into the real world.

It truly is a joyous place, full of women without cocks.

 

[nsno-chris]

If we had done some positive buisness and made better signings I'm convinced
Fellaini would have stayed.

Very much doubt this, he always said he wanted to move onto bigger and better things; never caused a fuss and actually went to see RM to speak about a transfer request. Very professional and I wish him all the best. He was going regardless

We could have made much better improvements with the money we have spent.

And I could fly to the moon; without proof thats just an open statement

We could have brought in Robles, Deulofeu, Lukaku, Barry all without much cash.

How, please tell me. You do pay for loan fees

Made it clear to agents/players at start of window we want rid of Vic + Osman, Heitenga, Gueye, Jelavic ( say 15/20m?).

Don't know where you are getting the figures from, and who says RM doesn't want theser players in his squad

We would have 20 Mill we had not spunked on MCcarthy and Kone + say 15/20 from sales to buy at least 1 decent striker, and another quality midfielder or defender.

What with the inflated transfer fee's, wages, the other club needing to find a suitable replacement. Its not a game mate, its a chain reaction of transfers.

To go back to Whelan when he rang up sky sports and made the terms of our offer public is pathetic.[/QUOTE]

 

[Julio Ananas]

What is all this rubbish about money left over to spend in January??!

Some simple maths for you all:

Anichebe and Fellaini left for a combined total of £32.5m

4% of that goes to the league via their levy: that's about £1.5m, so we're down to £31m

Standard take 20% of the profit on Felli; we made £10m profit, so that's another £2m gone. Down to £29m

McCarthy comes in for £13m rising to £15m;let's say his wage is covered by Anichebe's old wage. Down to £14m we go.

Then Lukaku comes in, for a reported £5m loan fee. (No mention of his wages yet, but let's say they are covered by the wage space freed up when Felli left.) We're down to £9m.

Barry comes in. This is the bit i'm worried about - how much of his £6m per year salary are we paying? If we're covering the lot, then that's us down to £3m.

Anyone who thinks there's money left for January, because they believe "the McCarthy purchase was not dependent on Fellaini's sale", please feel free to disagree. This is Bill we're talking about though.

Come next June we will lose Barry, Lukaku and Deulofeu. We will need to sign a CM, an RM and a CF. But we won't have any money left from Felli's transfer to do so. That's why we should have held out for more money from United, and that's why we shouldn't have caved in to Dave Whelan's ridiculous demands.

LOS LOCO?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

We've just took in:

TV money - £22m
Fellaini - £27.5m
Anichebe - £6m

Total: £55.5m

We've spent:

Kone - £6m
Robles - £1m
McCarthy - £12m

Loan fees - £4m at the very most

Total: £23m

Will that £32m be put off the debts? Will it go toward new players? Or will it disappear into the black hole of our board's pockets?

Bill and Co have played a blinder indeed.

The annual reports are available on the OS. They outline pretty clearly what money goes where.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Reading some of the posts in this thread, I wonder why some of you bother to follow football, as it obviously brings you no joy.

Lukaku's signing is a fantastic piece of business, if only Moyes had been that forceful when he went to WBA this time last year, what might have been......

 

[The Hibbert Agenda]

The fact that we're spending 10m for 2 players for one season only is quite troubling.
That being said I'm happy.
If we ended last night with just McCarthy in I would have been deeply disappointed, so damned if we did damned if we didn't. I'm glad EFC decided to stump up the loan fees for RL and GB.
Lukaku just bang us 30 goals to get us in Champs League and then you can return to Chelski.
If they like EFC enough there's no reason not to see Barry sign on permanently after as well as Deulofeu on another loan.
ALL EGGS ARE IN, LET'S DO THIS! AHH SO EXCITED!

 

[Limbo]

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