OhForAGreavsie

That's why the local council was practically begging them to build the new stadium. 🙂

Of course it's highly possible that this has been, or is being, discussed between the clubs. Certainly it would have occurred to our side.

In UK usage that's used to refer to one specific place. Shithole can be used to describe any place.

🙂 In UK usage a shithole refers to a place, not a person or persons. That could get awkward if talking to a Yank.

I am a non-believer but, when the time comes, I will gladly ask you to pass the salt. 🙂 (In my defence, the best evidence I have viewed are 5 all touches videos. In those I saw nothing which supports the decision to buy him. In time I expect I'll see more of him and maybe form a better opinion.)

Most definitely. 🙂

Unusual and irrelevant unless first he is an excellent DM. Andrey may well be an excellent DM but I haven't seen evidence of it in any of the all touches videos I've viewed. Looking forward to seeing him play for real.

Too soon to cash in?

In that video Andrey attempted one key pass, and missed it. Meanwhile, judging a DM by the goals he scores is like boarding a train at Victoria and expecting the next stop to be Edinburgh. You're not only on the wrong train, you're on the wrong track altogether.

What does very unique mean? 🙂

It would be fantastic to have two starting quality players at RB. At any position in fact. The ability for the manager to rotate as he sees fit is an advantage Man City have been clever enough create for themselves. If we're on the way to duplicating that then all hail the new regime.

Do the numbers indicate 'dangerous passes' per ninety ? And what qualifies as a dangerous pass?

That would be a much less clear case to make and, I think, a losing one: - All rule changes are designed to alter circumstances so that something which was previously allowed becomes disallowed, or that something previously disallowed becomes allowable. Nothing unusual in itself there. Considering that we, and other UK clubs, are currently advantaged by uefa regulations, and that many clubs can plausibly regard the status quo as being unfair, courts are not likely to support an argument that we would be disadvantaged by that situation being corrected. If challenged, I still think a court would force uefa to remove its five-year ceiling on contract length. I believe the five-Year amortisation cap would survive at challenge however. It isn't impacting the length of contracts clubs can offer to employees, and nor is it dictating how long clubs can take to pay transfer fees. It only affects the rules of membership to an organisation and I would expect the courts to leave that alone.

Yes, you are right of course.

The taxes buying clubs might pay in relation to buyout clauses are those for which the player is liable. I'm not sure that Enzo's applicable tax rate would be 25%, as implied by the €160m gross to produce €120m net story. If it is however, and we refused to cover the taxes, Enzo would net €90m from our €120m and I don't see where he'd get €30m to make up the shortfall. Unless perhaps he accepted a pay reduction over the length of his contract to cover the money. Maybe he would accept such a big reduction, but probably he wouldn't. Certainly the calculations are much more complicated than we, or at least I, realise.

Exactly. The end result of this attempt to restrict what Chelsea have done will be that everybody can do it. The restrictions which already apply in much of Europe will end up being overturned if a restraint of trade case goes to court. Meanwhile, I particularly like the last two words of your message.

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I'm sorry to say that I think this is a fair and accurate assessment of what we see in those videos.

I'm happy, and eager, to give him that chance but, having watched some all-touches videos, I nevertheless have developed an opinion. I don't agree that one could say, "I am utterly unconvinced by what I've seen of ... ", about any 18 year old from a foreign league. That is self-evidently not the case. If it were then how would clubs decide which 18 year olds to sign from overseas and which to pass? Clubs watch players and form an opinion. Just as I have. Chelsea will have watched Andrey more thoroughly than I am able to, and should therefore have a stronger basis for their opinion. I recognised this fact when I said that I have no choice but to put my faith in the people who have a different opinion to mine. The thing I ground my hope in is that Andrey's highlights videos are more impressive than the all touches ones. That is not always the case.

It's a rolling calculation based on the current season plus the two previous ones. That means we have to make sure that this season's figures, plus those for 2021/22 and 2020/21 added together are within FFP rules. Next season 2023/24 comes in to the calculation and 2020/21 drops out.

Thank you. I meant 21 and under list.

Thanks for the correction. I mentioned the wrong list. I meant ask if it's not the case that they both qualify for the 21 and under list.

If signed, wouldn't both Enzo & Gutso qualify for list B?

Has Romano said anything about an agreement with Lyon?