Farmer Saint

No shit...players are only good if they're good. Thank God we've got you to cut through all the guff.

Isn't it funny, get pelters for posting, then get pelters for not posting. Love the player link you shared yesterday on the WhatsApp group though Turkish - got everything crossed for it to come through 🙏

Good to see we're trying to do business early.

Wood is fine as a cheap backup option - young and a known quantity to the Manager (apparently played his best football under Martin).

Simpler than that - our loan contract ran out yesterday, so the new contract (and the transfer of registration) took place today.

Broja has proven he isn't good enough for the PL. Delap did pretty well in the Championship and is unproven in the Prem. If the prices were the same I *may* take Broja, but as soon as he becomes more expensive I take Delap.

Turkey, Holland and Portugal...He's just not good enough.

If they were his stats in 2003, he must be 51 now 😳

£15m is what I thought it would take tbh.

I think we just witnessed peak Turkish.

And people say Russell plays boring football - at least we get some payload at times.

Just spoke to a Villa fan, apparently he is shit hot. Also to do with FFP and signing Matsen - they need a high income for this year on the sale and they're spending more on Matsen to counter that. Essentially taking a loan from Chelsea (financial loan).

I know, I didn't say it was?

Not necessarily going to be better than Stewart though, and if not give Onauchu another try?

£83m yep, but take into account that transfers are amortised over contract lengths, so the transfers from 2 years ago will count for the same amount this year. That means that figure needs to be removed (probably £25-30m). Then there is the fact that last financial results we had (2021-2022) we made a £43m loss before transfers out, so let's be brave and remove 2/3rds of that, so that's another £30m. So out of that £83m, we've probably got £25m to £30m left to pay for a portion of amortised transfers, signing fees and agent fees. And we've probably spent £7-9m of that already.

Does everyone kinda see why I wasn't overly excited about getting promoted last season? This season is going to be a proper slog.

I made this point the other day

Sarmiento? Marcelo Tejera?

Hopefully he doesn't leave oppo players with mushroom.

I'd take a central striker who can get 13 goals - we have Armstrong on one wing who should do similar as well. Think of them as a Wish version of Pelle and Mane 🤣

As above, it's indicative numbers, but shows how we won't have much money this year.

How do you think Farmers run their businesses..?

Yeah, but they're illustrative numbers, not 100% correct. However, you can see the basic maths behind it.

No, cos that's Balance Sheet, not P&L.

Because we had an approx £100m drop in revenue in the Championship last season. In 2021/2022 we made a £43m loss without the sale of players. So... 2022/2023: £120m loss 2023/2024: £85m profit 2024/2025: £70m loss (including £25m in transfers) Means a loss of £105m over 3 years. Next season we will be able to make a £120m loss, so £75m in transfers. Please also remember that player sales are included against that year's P&L, whereas transfers are amortised over the length of the contract, so every year we are still paying for legacy players.