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In cash terms yes but in accounting terms , which is what FFP looks at, its only a profit if he is sold for more than his amortised value. Daft as it may seem buy a player for £20 million on a 5 year deal and say after 4 years you sell him for £10 million you actually show a profit in your...

In England indeed Europe all football contracts run 1/7 - 30/6. How you pay for a player is one things but in the accounts the players transfer fee is written off( amortised ) over the period of the contract. Pay £25 million and issue a five year contract the charge in accounting terms is...

Did the whole world know in May? At that point in time Sari was still their manager and there was every chance that the ban would be appealed against. It was the fact that the numbers and names were so accurate and that it was far from a given that for the first time Chelsea would be using...

Heres my comment posted in May “Was speaking to a Aston Villa scout who like me was in Tenerife over Easter . We were on a short break and watching the City Spurs game in a hotel and got talking to him he said he was there to watch a game at CD Tenerife on Easter Sunday .Or at least he claimed...

Scouts are mainly paid no more than expenses but they in turn have links back to agents and palms get greased all the time. As for telling rivals my guess is that they share opinions and bar the odd individual there is no club loyalty whatsoever

A year ago he explained that football is a very small community. He was on the money re Zouma and the playerVilla were watching. Hey believe it or believe it not that’s your choice.

Evening all. Well here’s some for you. If you look back about a year I talked about how we were in Tenerife and how a chap who is a Villa scout told us about what was going on at Chelsea and what their plans were in particular around Zouma Well its the International break and we are again...

Thought that both CD looked terrible, there again just about every player did.

I too know a couple of Chelsea supporters and they are more impressed with the speed that their team is developing. Whilst Pulisic isn’t being mentioned in dispatches they are only too well aware that both Willian and Pedro are nearing the end of their Chelsea careers & I haven’t detected any...

Let’s be brutally honest the very early season fixtures have been reasonably favourable. None of the opponents to date are likely to finish in the top six and in truth the likelihood is more that they will be in the bottom six. The Sheffield Utd game isn’t going to be easy they are very well...

All clubs try to get top top dollar for their players being quoted a silly figure is one thing but getting it is another Take Arsenal for instance were told that Zaha would cost £80 million but their bid got nowhere near Palaces valuation.

See there’s the point if it were as easy why haven’t any clubs tried?

You clearly mis understand the sanction that Chelsea are serving.Its not a transfer ban it’s a ban on registering players. Chelsea can buy players , just like Real did when they served a similar ban, what they cant do is register them. As for Chelsea receiving payment from Bournemouth that...

Akes future is massively complicated as Chelsea have a buy back clause for £40 million and it seems that Ake had to agree to that clause to secure his transfer to Bournemouth. I read that if anyone came along with an offer for Ake then Chelsea would demand a significant portion of the fee (...

He did but then again so did everyone that played and for me the worse culprit was the lad that Utd just dropped £50 million on

Joining up the dots but does sort of make sense if Kurt knows that Luiz isn’t going to be a regular starter.

Smalling is ok ish till he needs to defend in the box and with the introduction of VAR he is a penalty waiting to be awarded at every set play. Simply put he gets the wrong side and a s a consequence commits offences that will be given whereas in the past the ref alone had so many things to look...

It seems that Chelsea have now released their PL squad details and included in their 17 NHG players listed at number 15 is K H Zouma

It doesn’t matter how many other CDs are on the radar the closer to the first game the more desperate matters will become. If It’s not Zouma then whoever it is will be a bigger gamble needing more time to adjust to the surroundings, understand the managers philosophy etc. Chelsea have a player...