Barry, Rohl and Azou are the canaries in the mine in terms of strategy.
Realistically an aspect of any future strategy is buying potential young, developing and selling on at a profit of 10s of millions.
Those three represent the first...
We were in negative territory PSR wise for much of his tenure, so I doubt we could have afforded either of them without making things worse, and Moshiri had stopped investing. We needed to offload players from the books to reduce the wage bill...
So Denzel Dumfries (29) would like a move to the Premier League, so I'll start a rumour / gossip that he's coming here in January solely for the fact that I can't be arsed going through the rigmarole of changing user names.
"We paid for that...
Other problem you have is that in January, he costs City more on their books than he does in July.
He's currently worth about £30 odd million in amortisation costs, whereas in July that's closer to £17m.
It should, in theory, be easier to drive...
‘The fans there were always really good to me’
‘HE’S HAVING A GO AT THE FANS AGAIN’
What a golden age of press conferences that was. ‘How is Calvert Lewin progressing?’ ‘Yeah he’s coming on well he’s just back on the grass…’ ‘%*$%&@ ‘FFS HE...
That's a hefty addition on the accounts that we don't need to account for until next year. Things can change, obviously, but it would be a big surprise to me if that happened