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[Albion] Pervis Estupiñán - SIGNED - 5 YEAR CONTRACT



Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

I believe in Joe Hendry
Oct 4, 2003
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I'd be surprised if they could. I think that they have already beaten Fulham's £100m spend in 2018/19 and are chasing Villa's £140m record for the most money ever spent by a promoted side. The City Ground's capacity is no greater than ours and only three quarters of Villa's. Their transfer balance for this summer is -£102.2m. Ours, across the eleven transfer windows since we were promoted, is -£105.6m. If they buy Maups off us, they will have spent more money on transfer dealings in one window than we have in our entire time in the EPL. The spending has to stop somewhere.

We've spent way more than £100million since promotion. Our net spend may be -£105.6m since we've sold big over the last couple of transfer windows (I've not checked exact figures) but before that our net spend would have looked horrendous.

You can't compare our current net spend after 5 PL season and some big sales with a club who've just been promoted and have to try and build a new squad to stay in the PL. That said their spend over this window is getting on for matching what we spent across our first two full seasons in the PL.
 
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dwayne

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Jul 5, 2003
16,264
London
I'd be surprised if they could. I think that they have already beaten Fulham's £100m spend in 2018/19 and are chasing Villa's £140m record for the most money ever spent by a promoted side. The City Ground's capacity is no greater than ours and only three quarters of Villa's. Their transfer balance for this summer is -£102.2m. Ours, across the eleven transfer windows since we were promoted, is -£105.6m. If they buy Maups off us, they will have spent more money on transfer dealings in one window than we have in our entire time in the EPL. The spending has to stop somewhere.
That's one way to look at it.

The other, more likely scenario is that the fat Greek owner is a nutter who will just keep on spending.

What I'm unsure about is how this is covered by financial fair play ?

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atomised

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Mar 21, 2013
5,170
That's one way to look at it.

The other, more likely scenario is that the fat Greek owner is a nutter who will just keep on spending.

What I'm unsure about is how this is covered by financial fair play ?

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forest supporting friend suggested they had a lot of loanees last season
 


chaileyjem

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Jun 27, 2012
14,612
I think WOW covers it.

TB is obviously a cheapskate, we could be PL winners if he’d splashed that sort of cash every season…..or in League 2 after he went bust

Well he did splash the cash - not far off the same really if you add up the outlay across our first three seasons in the Prem - building a squad with tens of millions spent on Biss, Propper, AliRez, Locadia, Izquierdo, Bernardo, Alexis, Webster, Maupay and Trossard. (and dozens of others)
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Well he did splash the cash - not far off the same really if you add up the outlay across our first three seasons in the Prem - building a squad with tens of millions spent on Biss, Propper, AliRez, Locadia, Izquierdo, Bernardo, Alexis, Webster, Maupay and Trossard. (and dozens of others)

It was an admittedly weak jest
 








southstandandy

WEST STAND ANDY
Jul 9, 2003
6,047
That's one way to look at it.

The other, more likely scenario is that the fat Greek owner is a nutter who will just keep on spending.

What I'm unsure about is how this is covered by financial fair play ?

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The thing with FFP is that if they break it, the main penalty appears to just be fines or transfer embargos. Any fines levied can be paid by the directors of the club so effectively don't hit the club itself that hard. Bournemouth were a case in point when they first got promoted to the Prem in the season 2015/16. A £7.6m was fine levied but they were still allowed into the Prem where they stayed for 4 years. The fine was just paid for by the owners and not the club.

Maybe the Forest owner just feels that if they cop a fine, he'll just pay it himself?

Unless FFP hits clubs with points deductions I can see this continuing long into the future.
 






Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
The thing with FFP is that if they break it, the main penalty appears to just be fines or transfer embargos. Any fines levied can be paid by the directors of the club so effectively don't hit the club itself that hard. Bournemouth were a case in point when they first got promoted to the Prem in the season 2015/16. A £7.6m was fine levied but they were still allowed into the Prem where they stayed for 4 years. The fine was just paid for by the owners and not the club.

Maybe the Forest owner just feels that if they cop a fine, he'll just pay it himself?

Unless FFP hits clubs with points deductions I can see this continuing long into the future.

I like the Spanish interpretation much better, once you’ve exceeded the limit you can’t register players until you’ve sold some to balance things. Even mighty Barcelona couldn’t it seems
 


The Fits

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Jun 29, 2020
10,106
To sign a player who a) is better on paper than Cucu was when we signed him and b) sign him for little more than his pretty big club signed him for, after champions league experience, is staggering. And without DA.
 




SeagullinExile

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Sep 10, 2010
6,190
London
I’ll see your 142k followers and raise you 856k followers…announcement tonight?

[tweet]1559234008289988608[/tweet]

Love the comment under the second tweet...

‘Brighton queda campeón de la premier league lo firmo.’

‘Brighton is champion of the premier league I sign it’. :lolol:
 


Blue Valkyrie

Not seen such Bravery!
Sep 1, 2012
32,165
Valhalla
Could this be done and announced tonight ?

We've had announcements after 10pm before...
 


SeagullinExile

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Sep 10, 2010
6,190
London
7am tomorrow, under the radar!
 




Live by the sea

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Oct 21, 2016
4,718
He is apparently super fast & loves a tackle. Doubt it could be announced that soon , he hasn’t even had a medical yet !
 












b.w.2.

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Jan 8, 2004
5,189
Really hope this one gets over the line. A huge gap in our squad IMHO


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