The 2023-2024 Football Thread

[laptech]

Julian Alvarez off to Athletico Madrid for €95m. This also means Chelsea will sign 20yr old forward Omorodion from Athletico...on a 7yr contract 😏

I thought the Premier league stopped Chelsea doing this long term contract thing because the PL found it was a way to cheat the FFP system.

 

[Apple fanboy]

We’ve signed a couple of players.
Fulkrug from Dortmund and Rodriguez from Real Betis.
No denying their quality but I’m concerned they are both in their 30’s.
Deal for Wan-Bissaka still on the table but he is looking for a pay off from Man Utd. Reminds me of when we nearly signed McGuire last summer.

 

[daneoni]

I thought the Premier league stopped Chelsea doing this long term contract thing because the PL found it was a way to cheat the FFP system.

You can sign a player for any length but can now only amortise the transfer fee for 5yrs max

Alvarez and Gallgher confirmed. Athleti have spent €137m (€103 if they ship out omorodion) in one swoop, and City have made £67m of pure profit from Alvarez deal

 

[Silencio]

Will be very interesting to see how city re-invests that money, or whether they give more opportunities to some of their younger players from their talent-rich academy.

How in the world is the Community Shield being played this weekend!? Expect Utd to start a center half pairing of Evans and Casemiro. Please keep Licha fit and ready for the Fulham match.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

How in the world is the Community Shield being played this weekend!? Expect Utd to start a center half pairing of Evans and Casemiro. Please keep Licha fit and ready for the Fulham match.

Given your very timely reminder - and, as nobody else seemed to have been interested in doing the honours in the meantime, and, moreover, while I did promise to attend to this myself last week-end, (and omitted to do so), just a reminder that I have (this very minute) started a thread allowing us to discuss the 2024-2025 football season.

 

[laptech]

Given your very timely reminder - and, as nobody else seemed to have been interested in doing the honours in the meantime, and, moreover, while I did promise to attend to this myself last week-end, (and omitted to do so), just a reminder that I have (this very minute) started a thread allowing us to discuss the 2024-2025 football season.

Saturday is the start of the season for me so that is when I will start posting in the new thread

It will probably be a post about City winning another trophy.

 

[Apple fanboy]

As requested new thread is up.