I think they are doing good work behind the scenes and aside from the ETH misstep I think they are being very ruthless too. Apparently trimmed the budget by something like ~£40 million with all the staff redundancies.
He's gone too far on the little people.
But we have seen the man who built this squad finish 8th last season, and get sacked in 13th this season.
If they could get someone to pay what we paid but with a greater deal of the money upfront, that would be a net positive in terms of PSR
Exactly.
We must be paying very good money, that comes out at about £150k+ per headcount.
There are like 400 redundancies so it's about 80-100k-ish average.
Still seems very high when a lot of these jobs will have been entry level. And of course some of them will have to be outsourced or will result in reduced output / revenue, not like we had 400 people doing absolutely nothing.
You have got a point there to be fair.
I am surprised that a single sale of £76.5 mil was enough for them to avoid penalties. They must have surely spent upwards of a billion. I understand amortisation over long contracts helped them and it’s closed now, but why are our owners not smart or shrewd enough to find similar loopholes to exploit!
Liverpool are about to run away with the Premier League with a manager from an even lower league and with less success
Eredivisie is ranked 6th, vs Portugal league which is 8th.
Just checked the coefficient and they're ranked 7th, just behind the Eredivisie.
. That's not the thing getting in the way for usDo you think that's still accurate though? Players from the Portuguese league are a country mile better when they arrive than players from the Eredivisie. I know that's a pretty broad statement but I'd be a lot more confident buying a player from one of the big 3 clubs in Portugal than the big 3 in the Netherlands nowadays.
People keep saying this like it's automatic. Why would they leave even if got relegated? We would be back up anyway, and it's on ineos to fix it
City were looking to instill Amorim post Pep, Liverpool were also looking at this guy, maybe the answer isn’t just to find the person that suits our mess the best for short term resolution. Amorim has proven himself in the ECL also, these players…….and any prospective player, needs to know that this is the way that it is going to be. It’s a system, we used to only play 442 until thugs we’re shaken up.
As someone who is following cycling quite a bit, I am not surprised at all. They somehow managed to destroy a dominant club and turn them into a laughing stock.
Pochettino and proven winner in the same sentence haha
Whos that?
Yep. Most of the jobs will get outsourced - less experienced staff who don't get holiday/sick pay etc will take over - but the costs will just move from one line on the balance sheet to another one. Some will make the queues worse on matchday. Others will make the concourse catering and cleaning even worse. The ticket office phone will stop pretending that you can get through to a human who can help.
