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Fynci wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 4:13 pm
Bidding war!!!
Humour me though. What *if* he isn't sold, for some reason or other. I'm trying to get my head around the finances.
It's a fair question, and it's one I've been wondering about. I think from a player POV there's no problem, because Illi will get his head down and play well for the team if he has to stay another year.
If we need to sell a big player to meet SCR regulations, then that is a tricky one. Under PSR, some clubs were over their limits at the end of the August/September transfer window intentionally (Forest, Villa, Newcastle), but as long as they made sales by June 30th the following year, they could get back within the limits for that period.
So maybe early next summer, we'd have to look at making 1 big sale, or a few smaller sales if the Ndiaye sale falls through in this window.
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Fynci wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 4:13 pm
Bidding war!!!
Humour me though. What *if* he isn't sold, for some reason or other. I'm trying to get my head around the finances.
I can’t imagine they were gonna sell Armstrong cos they thought it’d be funny.
Occam’s razor, innit. We were gonna sell him because we needed the money. Whether we needed the money for compliance or recruitment purposes is up for debate.
But we don’t sell Illy, I’d be surprised if we do anything in the market.
You can accept Ndiaye moving fur a good fee and to play in the CL. It’s not great but it’s more palatable and you can say to younger players if you can’t make CL with us we can bring you on to that point.
Doesn’t sound like this is getting sorted until tomorrow though.
Kerryblueboy wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 4:19 pm
Surely he will be telling his agent to push for city
"Fuckin hell lad. Me bird's just had all the garden done up and she's ordered a boss new couch out of Poltrone 'cos the ones in DFS were proper shite. Lad, she'll fuckin flip if that couch gets fucked up moving house. Earn ya fuckin wedge lad and tell them fuckin gimps at City to sort their fuckin heads out and get it done!"
