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Keep that quiet will you, waggot might get wind of it and has £20m sloshing around Edit: that said he'd probably try and buy the magic beans, fuck it up and come back with a tin of sainsburys basics baked beans.

Every penny of the transfer fee will be profit so gives them more wiggle room against FFP which they're pushing up at against

Can we even physically make payments to Russian clubs? I thought that was the whole point of him having been on loan for the past two seasons?

If this is the start £20m+ in, strengthen the squad with 4 or 5 players and one of those turns out to be our next £20m+ sale rinse and repeat - then I am more the happy with the sale - albeit I'm gutted not to see Wharton develop and get a few more games here first. However! I'm just not confident that's how it's going to pan out. As an aside, some of the venky defenders are saying they support us and give us a Cat1 academy, but since they took over I reckon its turned a profit and paid for itself. With Jones, Wharton, Raya, Phillips etc that's plenty in

It's a shame that we've got a youngster on a long deal who wants to stay we could have got a lot more in say 18 months time for him but that just shows where the club is right now. Atleast he's done his best to maximise the return we get for him unlike Phillips.

Yeah where did that come from? A goal and 5 subs each. Absolutely barmey considering some premium games have been going for +15

Get Sammy off ffs. Not worth the risk

Gallagher beat him in the air which says it all

This is league 1 vs league 1 should be a good game.

Not if we make 500k on him

He's the sort of person to bet on every horse at the Grand National and then claim he backed the winner

Blimey 500k permanent seems steep never mind loan fee

For them - Double

I think fitness wise he's alright. I know some Liverpool fans who think he's been unlucky to not get more game time after his performances a couple of years back but he's a bit of an old school centre back who doesn't do the messing about at the back malarkey (obviously a bit of an issue for us if he's asked to do it)

I rate Phillips. That season liverpool had every defender out injured, he was an absolute rock at the back and was a big part of the reason they got top 4 that season. I reckon he could do a job at a mid - lower prem club so of we're getting him that's a decent bitbof business.

Pep and Klopp are a gulf in class ahead of the other managers in the league. Man City have dominated over the last few years but Klopp and Liverpool have pushed them, without them City would have had a much easier ride of it and the season would have been over by March every season. Ideally pep won't be much further behind klopp and there becomes a touch more competition at the top of the table. Otherwise City will run away with it every year.

That statement seems to have done the job on Facebook. The happy clappers are unbearable "clearly some of our fans don't know how FFP works"

He's only been round the 1st team less than18 months. To be a millionaire post tax he'd have to earn over 2m and not spend a penny of it which over 18 months is 25k a week which he's most definitely not on.

Xabi is the fan favourite at the moment

I'd ejaculate on the spot

Out of interest are you allowed to say what that is?

Yeah I get the gist just don't get how it applies in this case. I'm not disagreeing I'd just like some meat on the bones / some theories. I would have thought they'd put 20m through one of their profitable overseas companies by falsifying many sales and then take the money back as a clean 20m profit. This almost seems like the opposite in that they put 20m in in one chunk and it gets pissed away lots of random items of expenditure which I don't understand how it would get back to venkys Unless as Wilsden said the money doesn't get to the club and sits in VLL but would that not require the whole club finance function and auditors being either complicit or negligent? If only we had a data dump from our accounting software, there's enough accountants / business savy people on here who could trawl through it and find something suspicious but unless you're either in the finance dept or on the audit team or a hacker, you'll never see it.

I'd love them to be money laundering but I just don't see how it fits in this case. The £20million they send a season is presumably sat in their bank account already and ready to use and therefore already clean? Also I'm not sure how it gets back to them once it's gone through the club.

Hopefully someone sabotages the deal our end. Mess up the forms again so the transfer gets rejected. Then watch venkys and waggot squirm without their 20million

If say we got 25m for Wharton. In theory we could go send 10m to running costs splash 5/6m on a quality striker. Then have 10m to bolster everywhere else. Wed possibly be able to mount a late play off charge. HOWEVER none of that will happen. I also fear that if we get a big chunk of money and don't spend it, it'll disappear next time venkys are in front of a judge asking to send more money the answer will be "no you've just got 20m use that"