Makis

Mina has played  79 league matches for us. I hardly think stats lie that much.

But of course if you watched him yourself you'd see he's easily our best defender. It's not even close. With him the whole unit is more settled. Without defence has usually looked like a rabbit in a headlight. Individual errors from guys like Keane and Holgate have gone up. Mina is also easily our best defender at blocking shots.

1 hour ago, Shukes said:

So we do have some money to spend, due to us holding back last season.

You only basically calculate deprecation into loss, not the transfer value of player. This is how things work in bookkeeping everywhere. If a company invests in, say, a machine, cost of that machine is not loss. Instead they add the value of that machine to assets. But the machine loses value and this can cause a loss if it is not offset by increased revenue.

In football, usually player's value is deprecated during his contract. And many of our expensive players are still on their first contracts so their values need to be deprecated. On the other hand we will see quite a drop in deprecations because both Sigurdsson (~9m/a) and Tosun (6m/a) are removed plus their wages (and that of Delph as well, his value deprecation was only 2m/a).

But as has been said, FFP is calculated over three seasons and we made a big loss in the previous two. Last season should already have been much better since Walcott (5m/a deprecation + 5m/pa wages), (Bolasie, 6m/a + 4m/a) and we saved a lot of money on wages on James and Bernard (around 15m/a in total). Selling Digne also looks good in the books as his book value wasn't much anymore having signed in 2018 (book value has to obviously be deducted when a player is sold so transfer fee is not directly just profit).

But I suspect we will still be far from profitable considering how big the losses have been.

Selling someone this financial year could help. This is what Burnley & Leeds were moaning about as we have put down a lot of deductions based on not able to sell players thanks to Covid. So selling someone like Richarlison would be a "see, we told you!". Plus it would make the losses from the last three years look a lot better.

19 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

So unlikely to do any business until July then?

Could sell someone. This would be handy.

30 minutes ago, Hafnia said:

Are we not into the next financial year now? So effectively if we manage to get money in as part of the sake that appears as profit/income…. With us being very transparent with the EPL we can say “if we spend £100m this summer this will be offset by x on our books do we will be fine?”

Financial year runs from July to June.

I'd rather chancel this rumour.

Who in their right mind will take Gomes off of our hands?

I'm pretty sure DCL is going and wouldn't be surprised if Pickford goes too.

Look at companies in the US. They do have boards. Boards are appointed by the owners to define long-term strategies and oversee their implementation. CEO is the main guy to do that.

Unfortunately our board keeps meddling with day-to-day stuff.

This would mean Moshiri learning nothing from Benitez.

5 hours ago, Haiku said:

Nico all the way. He's been successful at Frankfurt, Bayern and Monaco.

Garcia is a good candidate as well.

He's been involved at Arsenal when they made a lot of poor signings. His "help" decimated QPR. Reading is another one he's been involved with and they are now a mess. He's also the guy who pushed Iwobi to us, apparently to fund some Arsenal signings.

1 hour ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

 

The club seem to think it does

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/farhad-moshiri-everton-breaking-22824880

Everton say that today's confirmation of Moshiri committing to buying more shares will improve the balance sheet and give the club better options in the transfer market and with the on-going funding of the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

That would be odd because what stops other owners, like the Newcastle ones, doing the same? Just loan the club 500 million, then convert that loan and FFP is no problem?

19 minutes ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60083048

Anyone know how this effects FFP ?

It has no effect.

5 hours ago, Matt said:

Garcia?! Fuck no. Only 1 name I want there and it won't be until after the Euros if at all.

Why not Garcia?

Why? Has played less in a shittier team while they are about the same age.

So basically Brands has been replaced by Kenwrights mate. This guy criticized fans for wanting better.

18 minutes ago, Bailey said:

I don't think we have to be concerned about relegation because I can't see us not picking up points along the way but I don't see us staying that much ahead of the battle which is almost as bad IMO. 

We have been dead last in the firm table for ages. What just about keeps our head above the water is those first few matches. Since then we have been relegation form.

3 hours ago, Palfy said:

Surely Moshiri would stop this from happening, him and his agent blatantly did a deal with Chelsea that cost us 15-20 million and a year of his wages. Thing’s like that will never be forgotten or forgiven by fans, and any accountant like Moshiri who’s struggling to balance the books would never forgive.

He signed Benitez so I very much doubt he cares what fans think.

I will be amuzud if this rumour has any legs in it.

Rangers fans seem to rate him highly, and think he is worth much more than nine million. They think he's better than Tierney was.

There's only one Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, only one Khvicha Kvaratskhelia...

Left wing is the one position that is well covered with Richarlison, Gray and Gordon so moving Dignen there would make no sense.

Looks like we are so skint we can't even shop in the dollar store.

This thing started back in April, though.