August 2, 20177 yr Can see possibly rumourings of Barcelona aiming to get Coutinho and Hazard with the Neymar money.
August 2, 20177 yr 20% of that is from the devaluation of the £ though. If they'd have bought him before 23rd June 2016 he'd be around £40 million cheaper. :P Edited August 3, 20177 yr by Doctor Blind
August 2, 20177 yr Author Can see possibly rumourings of Barcelona aiming to get Coutinho and Hazard with the Neymar money. Think they will struggle to get both this summer, next summer is entirely different though.
August 3, 20177 yr Author They won't sell without a replacement being lined up surely! There's no-one who could replace Coutinho right now, while I suspect Barcelona will go aggressive, I think we will do what a lot of the other top teams have done this summer - be stubborn. Official now.. £200m! Bloody hilarious now PSG have got around the rules :D :lol:
August 3, 20177 yr Well actually they haven't 'gone around' the rules at all. Don't get me wrong, I think this is f***ing absurd but there's a massive misunderstanding of both FFP and Accounting at play here. PSG don't take the €222m hit this year, it's over the life of Neymar's contract. It means they only have to deal with €81m a year in transfer fee and wages. Now in theory they will have an uplift in commercial revenues and potentially revenues from the CL to start bridging that gap. Last year they made €10m profit and they may have reserves in place that they could use to balance it out. FFP only triggers when a club has made losses of more than €30m over three years. So they won't get hammered until they breach this threshold. They were hammered along with City in the first tranche of FFP sanctions for some non-commercial sponsorship deals from Qatar. So UEFA is well up on potential tricks they could play, and when the rules are *actually* breeched I'm sure they'll be hung out to dry. But as it stands FFP hasn't actually been breeched and it can't be breeched until 2020 (end of the next 3 year period). This is how the rules are written and enforced. People screaming about them breaking the rules are talking out their f***ing arse. UEFA have themselves taken a no1curr attitude to the actual transfer but you can bet a billion euro they will be all over PSG's accounts in three years time like a rash to look for the *actual* FFP rules being broken.
August 3, 20177 yr Author Well actually they haven't 'gone around' the rules at all. Don't get me wrong, I think this is f***ing absurd but there's a massive misunderstanding of both FFP and Accounting at play here. PSG don't take the €222m hit this year, it's over the life of Neymar's contract. It means they only have to deal with €81m a year in transfer fee and wages. Now in theory they will have an uplift in commercial revenues and potentially revenues from the CL to start bridging that gap. Last year they made €10m profit and they may have reserves in place that they could use to balance it out. FFP only triggers when a club has made losses of more than €30m over three years. So they won't get hammered until they breach this threshold. They were hammered along with City in the first tranche of FFP sanctions for some non-commercial sponsorship deals from Qatar. So UEFA is well up on potential tricks they could play, and when the rules are *actually* breeched I'm sure they'll be hung out to dry. But as it stands FFP hasn't actually been breeched and it can't be breeched until 2020 (end of the next 3 year period). This is how the rules are written and enforced. People screaming about them breaking the rules are talking out their f***ing arse. UEFA have themselves taken a no1curr attitude to the actual transfer but you can bet a billion euro they will be all over PSG's accounts in three years time like a rash to look for the *actual* FFP rules being broken. The deal is worth £400m over 5 years, PSG have already made some pretty big transfers already over the past few years. Obviously I am no accountant and I am sure they will find a way around the rules, but it kind of makes a mockery of the system. Especially since, by all accounts they have given Neymar the money to buy out his whole contract. Think this might open a bit of a Pandora's Box now, as I am absolutely positive between the top European clubs there is an 'gentleman's agreement' not to buy players out of their contracts in the last 2 years. Wonder if we might see the big boys come together now..
August 3, 20177 yr As I said UEFA fined them last time for non-commercial sponsorship deals from Qatar in 2014. They tried to get around it and failed. Sponsorship deals have to be made on commercial terms and UEFA judge that so they can't actually weave their way around by having their dirty oil money come to them in different ways. All their sponsor deals will be probed, anyone providing substantial revenues will be probed. Anything that is found to come from the Qatari state or related companies to the Qatari state and their offshoots will be disregarded if it is not on commercial terms. It's not a mockery of the actual regulations, this is how it's supposed to work. Whether it's within the spirit of the rules is debatable. PSG 'gave' Neymar the money because that's how the Spanish release clauses work. The player is the one who has to buy themselves out of their contract, rather than the purchasing club. Had Atletico not had their transfer ban been upheld, this is how United would have bought out Griezmann. The Spanish contracts are somewhat unique and in the rest of Europe it's directly club to club.
August 3, 20177 yr Disgusting amount of money for one player. £200m for one player. It's shit crazy the amount Neymar will get.
August 3, 20177 yr The transfer that changed the game again is what this will be remembered for. It's the glass ceiling that's been broken, every world class player that transfers from now will all have a even more hugely inflated sum based on this transfer as it's now almost a "benchmark value". I do like the fact that a club has played Barca's own game though. Maybe this transfer will be the catalyst that now sparks a flurry of late activity across Europe's top clubs!
August 4, 20177 yr This Neymar transfer is purely about money, PSG had the money to pay for that crazy transfer fee and Neymar just wanted to feed his bank account. From a footballing point of view Neymar is stupid to have left Barcelona to go to PSG, he was a first team regular at Barca and they have more chance of winning trophies and winning the Champions League in particular more than PSG.
August 9, 20177 yr Southampton have signed Lemina from Juventus for £15.4m. Watford have signed Richarlison from Fluminese for £11m.
August 9, 20177 yr Liverpool have rejected a £90m offer for Coutinho from Barcelona. Also Watford have signed Andre Gray from Burnley for £18m. Apparently after Sean Dyche banned his girlfriend Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock from the directors’ box
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