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I wonder how many clubs at this level have already used the “sell your stadium” loophole. Reckon we’ll see some in serious problems in 2-3 years, and a lot of smaller budgets

We account for about a 6th of that spend, don’t have parachute payments, and aren’t spending well beyond our means. What FFP does do is stop stupid teams from racking up loads of debt. If clubs want to be more successful they’ll have to get a lot smarter, rather than just throwing a lot of...

Ours is very dependent on who goes and who stays. If we keep Sawyers, Benrahma and Maupay, I think we line up like this: Raya Dalsgaard Jansson Pinnock Henry Norgaard Sawyers Jensen Benrahma Maupay Watkins If they all go, I expect us to try and sign replacements, but with the squad we have...

On the incoming side, still no movement from Mbeumo as he waits to see if bigger clubs become interested. We’ve put in a £2m (rising to £3.5m) bid for Ove Ejaria from Liverpool.

The bid we rejected for Benrahma was £14m rising to £17m with a sell on. It’s kind of crazy to write that.

If we don’t, and I reckon you are right that we won’t, then he’ll stay.

He’s quality mate, only started 29 games but got 10 goals and 14 assists. Best player in our team.

Sounds like Sawyers is basically gone, £3.5m rising to £5m, decent business for a guy in the last year of his deal

I reckon if we can get £20m for either of them, we’ll sell. It’s a shame but trust the team to replace them well.

Marcus Edwards now training with our first team squad - not sure if we're just looking at him in case we have to sell someone, but either way would be happy with signing him. Mbuemo has agreed personal terms with us, but is holding off signing to see if interest from Marseille / the Bundelsiga...

There were some rumours we were looking to buy him (he's only got a year left on his deal) but that's one that's gone a bit more quiet.

We’ve made a bid of £4.9m for Bryan Mbeumo, 19 forward from Troyes in L2 in France. Trying to get a deal done but there’s interest from Marseille and Southampton.

I’m not sure it could be described as secure if you’re having to sell the stadium to balance the books - that’s a strategy that only works once! You’ll have to cut costs by the time the next couple or years are up and the stadium no longer counts in the FFP calculations.

We’re being linked with a move for Marcus Edwards from Spurs, winger with only a year left on his deal. Doubt we’d be able to pull that off anyway, but definitely won’t happen unless one of our current crop of wingers goes.

I don’t think that is “a rule”, but it is common practice when the selling club is desperate to get some of the wages off the books. (If it was a rule then Minimum Fee Release Clauses wouldn’t work)

Unless he’s coming quite cheaply, and they aren’t paying all of his wages, I’d say that’s a bad deal. Would much rather spend £2-3m on a more unproven guy with upside.

Also a couple of those fees include add ons we won’t pay unless we go up (Jansson for example is only £4m up front)

You say that, but when you include money earned this window in add ons from old deals, we’ve actually made a profit this summer. We made about £24m in January as well without spending anything.

Not much I’d add to this. I always thought he had a lot of potential, would have liked to keep him around if we could, but prefer the guys we’ve pulled in.

Villa signing Engels, we were interested in him in January - Dean Smith just seems to be signing ex-loan players and those who were on our shopping list.