Davefevs

Really need the EFL to come down hard on Brum to set a precedent for Villa if needed. Thought the Swansea / Leeds / Dan James But was worth copying in full. It’s not just a case of agree a fee, the terms that go with it are key also. Loan terms cost Leeds Huw Jenkins, the Swansea City chairman, vetoed the club’s decision to sell the winger Daniel James to Leeds United at 10pm on Thursday after discovering the terms of the payment structure, which would have meant that they did not receive any money for one of their best players until June. The club had agreed to loan James for £1.5 million for the rest of the season, with Leeds obliged to buy him for a set fee of £7 million if they are promoted to the Premier League. On closer examination of the paperwork, however, Jenkins found that Leeds were not obliged to pay the loan fee for the 21-year-old winger until June 30, with any subsequent transfer fee payable in instalments over four years. That deal would have significantly strengthened Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds squad, as they chase promotion, for no initial outlay. Leeds are unhappy at the late collapse of the transfer but may benefit in the long run as James has only 18 months left on his contract and Swansea have not offered him a new deal, so he is likely to be available for much less this summer.

Yeah, glad you can’t see anything (apart from the plane).

Hope the family of both guys get some closure on this ASAP.

Flint’s amortisation would’ve been pretty minimal, so having paid a sell-on percentage to Swindon, he probably went through the accounts as a £6m profit.

Mrs F who hates footie, said exactly that.

Yes, I have a relevant life policy set up on my business.

Wondering the same. Not a nice subject. Deal has been signed I assume, so Nantes due Transfer Fee, etc. Cardiff you would expect to have a key-person type policy to cover for this, but covering his value as an asset. How you value that is not something i’ve Got a clue about. Sala’s dependent could be due death in service payments, so expect Cardiff to insure against that too. Could be a compensation claim against the aviation company under aviation law. Who knows, murky old subject.

I know it’s very different, but a week before 7/7, I was heading back from meetings in London and had just boarded my train (still a few minutes til it left) at Paddington when the alarms went off and we were all told over the tannoy to evacuate. Not one of us moved, expecting a false alarm and likelihood of losing your seat. It was only when the guard came onboard and told us to move that we did. Within 5 yards of getting off the train a few people said “it will be a false alarm” and now out of the guard’s eye, turned around and got back on the train. Like sheep we all followed them. It was a false alarm, but none if us knew that at the time.

...and probably something we don’t really need to worry ourselves about ?

I very much suspect there’s a trigger point in the contract that says the option has to be exercised by 31st January, or else the player is eligible to start talking to other clubs re being a free-agent in the summer. Also, not sure how we deal with contracts til 30th June annually, but our accounts up to 31st May. Would we amortise 11/12ths in the accounts?

In which case, can you answer a Q re amortisation, topical as if yesterday’s contract announcements. Would O’Dowda’s 3+1 contract have been amortised over 3 or 4 years? Iscthere any subtlety in a contract “extension” versus “new deal”....terms we hear banded around. What would happen if COD signed a “new contract” in the summer? Answer may defend on above answer. I remember seeing this. I guess they could maje their valuations work for them, but they would have to be careful to be consistent it they’ll have big swings each year.

You can probably transfer a player whenever you like in theory....it is only being the registration that that passes in the window. Whoever buys Grealish in this example, could make a downpayment? @downendcity 100%

Payment terms could be whatever they want. £1.00 on 31/5, £29,999,999.00 sometime after....they would include the £30,000,000.00 in this year’s player sales.

This is the problem with the season finishing before the financial year. Villa could easily argue / include the sale of Grealish for £30m in early summer in their projected accounts to bring them within FFP for example.

http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/scmp.php

There are allowances, such as Academy costs. MrP will give you a fuller answer.

Think Villa are fine until they submit their predicted accounts in a couple of months. By that time Birmingham will have had their hearing, and if the EFL think they want to come down hard on Villa, they need to set a precedent with Brum to leave Villa’s lawyers with no wriggle room. Great 1st post MP.

To the dogs!!

Just watching Boro v Derby...jeez, Boro are leaving one on a Derby player every tackle. Nothing sinister just a bit late every time, or a bit put on the challenge.

1,2...3,4,5....6,7,8,9...Tottenham

Janneh

Bit sad when people want to make themselves sound all important and ITK.

Better start than last season p5 w1 d3 l1 last season.

Yeah, good, controlled half. Swansea got the ball into their midfield nicely, but not into the final third. Kelly having a great battle with Asoro down their right, Kelly on top. This was the guy who kept running at Bryan in the Sunderlsnd 3-3 isn’t it? Pack and Brownhill doing well both with and without the ball. Weimann and Taylor working really hard and doing god jobs. Our biggest threat, Eliasson who has the better of his RB...Good cross for goal and other chances created. edit; just to add COD looking confident since replacing Watkins.

Neat and tidy, need to ensure we don’t give him time to stroke it around.