No idea about the veracity of any of this, but the prospect of us buying a player and loaning them out to Roma seems reasonable enough to me from a PSR perspective - especially if there’s a loan fee to offset the portion of the transfer fee that...
….Doucoure, Young and DCL look like they left despite being offered deals, suggesting this new regime have strict criteria regarding contract extensions.
Well, how we should do business and how we actually did do business aren't the same thing.
I'm withholding judgment over the new recruitment team's approach until they've actually recruited players.
Don't think ever saw images of what all these look like before:
https://www.hilldickinsonstadium.com/venue-hire/our-spaces?_cb=1751462282369
It's great that we have so many spaces available to hire out.
The advantage we have being in the league at the top of the tree is that we can afford to delegate a lot of the hard work to clubs across the continent.
It's far easier to sign from 70 or 80 clubs across Europe on the rung below us, because...
Everything looks obvious in hindsight. Every player signed by every club in the world could in theory have been purchased earlier in their development for less. It's a weird stick to beat the club with.