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Liverpool related transfer speculation

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Guehi playing for Palace tonight. Is that it?
I think he was always gonna play, I think this transfer is gonna happen, makes sense that he is playing coz Glasner can use the international break to get his new defender ready before the PL resumes.
 
Isak looks like he’s on his way today.
Depends how bad Konate is, if he’s good I can see Guehi coming and Joe going the other way on loan,
If not, getting Guehi this window may be difficult
 
After Kyle Walker's short stint there I'd be a bit surprised if JoGo actually wanted the move.
I think those c*nts at AC Milan - are just getting these players on the cheap / free to see if they can make a profit if they turn out to do well. There is something off with that club - regardless of what you think of Walker - his pace in that league would make him the fastest player anyway - there was no reason why he should have failed.
 
I read the following about the Elliot transfer to Aston Villa and was wondering if it is bullshit or plausible.
Maybe @Beamrider would have an opinion.


The Elliott fee is low for 2 reasons. Villa's PSR troubles and Villa won't actually ever pay have to pay it. It's an accounting trick. Basically Liverpool and Villa have an agreement on buying Morgan Rogers for £65m. Liverpool will only actually pay Villa £30m for Rogers next summer and that's the only fee that will actually switch hands. The Elliott obligation fee is cancelled out and just passed over and back to each other on the same day. But next year accounts, Liverpool will register a £35m 'income' for Elliott and 'spend' £15m (£65m/5) on Rogers. Similarly Villa will 'spend' £7m (£35m/5) on Eilliott but will register £65m income for Rogers. Both clubs can register large PSR profit on the deals.
 
I read the following about the Elliot transfer to Aston Villa and was wondering if it is bullshit or plausible.
Maybe @Beamrider would have an opinion.


The Elliott fee is low for 2 reasons. Villa's PSR troubles and Villa won't actually ever pay have to pay it. It's an accounting trick. Basically Liverpool and Villa have an agreement on buying Morgan Rogers for £65m. Liverpool will only actually pay Villa £30m for Rogers next summer and that's the only fee that will actually switch hands. The Elliott obligation fee is cancelled out and just passed over and back to each other on the same day. But next year accounts, Liverpool will register a £35m 'income' for Elliott and 'spend' £15m (£65m/5) on Rogers. Similarly Villa will 'spend' £7m (£35m/5) on Eilliott but will register £65m income for Rogers. Both clubs can register large PSR profit on the deals.
The accounting is all plausible and works, but I don't think there will be a secret, undisclosed deal for Rogers. If there's a deal, it'll be disclosed to the League, otherwise it won't be binding. I think we'd have done it as a purchase with a loan back and matched up the proceeds with the Elliott ones if this were actually happening. And I fancy Villa would have wanted to do something to trigger the profit now if they'd agreed to sell the player next summer.
 
Are all these loan deals with obligations to buy essentially just tricks to shift gains on players to later years? So income from sales and amortisation on their replacements are more closely matched?

That was one of the things I'd not considered before - that you could essentially break even over several years but still run into trouble because you have these spikes in income that aren't really captured well by a 3 year rolling assessment period.
 
The accounting is all plausible and works, but I don't think there will be a secret, undisclosed deal for Rogers. If there's a deal, it'll be disclosed to the League, otherwise it won't be binding. I think we'd have done it as a purchase with a loan back and matched up the proceeds with the Elliott ones if this were actually happening. And I fancy Villa would have wanted to do something to trigger the profit now if they'd agreed to sell the player next summer.
Thanks for the reply mate
 
Are all these loan deals with obligations to buy essentially just tricks to shift gains on players to later years? So income from sales and amortisation on their replacements are more closely matched?

That was one of the things I'd not considered before - that you could essentially break even over several years but still run into trouble because you have these spikes in income that aren't really captured well by a 3 year rolling assessment period.
It's difficult to know exactly but I suspect that's what's happening. It could also be about cash flow but there's so much of it going on that every time I hear "loan with obligation to buy" I assume they are gaming FFP / PSR.
I wasn't involved with the discussions around exactly how these various deals are treated, but I got the impression that it was possible to structure them so the seller and the buyer would get a mis-match - e.g. seller might find a way to book the gain now, even though the buyer wouldn't take the capital costs on board until next year.
 
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