[Albion] Dale Stephens

[nwgull]

Just need to do what PSG did and get Sheik Ali Thani or whatever his name is to buy a baguette and camembert on the mainstand concourse. Hand over a cheque for 500million Euros and then say to the club , keep the chnage. It gets the FFP issue well and truly out of the way.

Alternatively get the House of Qatar to sponsor Smmy the Seagull or whatever his name is for the 500m Euros (less the price of a Piglet Pantry Pie).

Accountancy is so easy innit?

TNBA

TTF

Forest did actually try that with an unrealistic shirt sponsorship deal by Fawaz, didn't they? Seems to be fairly clear in the FFP rules that commercial income has to be at market value.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Just need to do what PSG did and get Sheik Ali Thani or whatever his name is to buy a baguette and camembert on the mainstand concourse. Hand over a cheque for 500million Euros and then say to the club , keep the chnage. It gets the FFP issue well and truly out of the way.

Accountancy is so easy innit?

TNBA

TTF

If that was the scenario, then I'd say PSG are screwed. If he bought his baguette and said 'keep the change' then IMO the €499,999,996.00 change, clearly identified as a tip, is the property of sulky minimum-wage student, Marcel, on the baguette stall.

Unless of course, the staff on the baguette stall, or the concession teams as a whole, have a tip-sharing agreement, in which case it needs to be divided amongst them accordingly.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

We will. When the accounts are published in January. Until then we can only guess but The club are on record as saying the playing budget between 2013/14 and 14/15 "increased substantially" to its "biggest ever".
Barber said the same about 2015/16 at the forum a few weeks back.


and Holla, Gardner, COG, Stockdale, Baldock, Tex, Bennett etc etc
In 2014 the Mail estimated the average weekly wage for Champ footballer was about £10K.
Albion's wage budget is above average. In the top 10 of 24.
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Maybe, nope wage share, ok give you that, maybe that, ballsack we were raped by BC but yes, wage share, wage share.

Bottom line, last year we penny pinched. We did and nearly paid the price.

Not this season tho granted, abeit some high wage earners like Kemi and CMS are off the books. But then we did sell Ulloa.

 

[BensGrandad]

If that was the scenario, then I'd say PSG are screwed. If he bought his baguette and said 'keep the change' then IMO the €499,999,996.00 change, clearly identified as a tip, is the property of sulky minimum-wage student, Marcel, on the baguette stall.

Unless of course, the staff on the baguette stall, or the concession teams as a whole, have a tip-sharing agreement, in which case it needs to be divided amongst them accordingly.

Being pedantic, which is un usual for me, could you not send the club a cheque for £5m and ask for a shirt to be sent to you and tell the club to keep the change?

 

[rippleman]

Are we still bothering / worrying about FFP?

The QPR episode confirmed what I had said all along: the FL wouldn't have the balls to do FA about clubs that broke FFP. Dumping QPR out of the FL and putting them in the Conference? Yeah....right!

 

[KZNSeagull]

Are we still bothering / worrying about FFP?

The QPR episode confirmed what I had said all along: the FL wouldn't have the balls to do FA about clubs that broke FFP. Dumping QPR out of the FL and putting them in the Conference? Yeah....right!

Yes. The allowable loss limits have changed though.

Not much the Football League can do until the legal challenge is sorted out. PB is a Football League director now, representing our interests and those of the clubs that are abiding by the rules. It is interesting that even though there was a press article a few weeks ago saying that QPR had struck a deal, nothing further has been announced.

 

[royceyboy]

If that was the scenario, then I'd say PSG are screwed. If he bought his baguette and said 'keep the change' then IMO the €499,999,996.00 change, clearly identified as a tip, is the property of sulky minimum-wage student, Marcel, on the baguette stall.

Unless of course, the staff on the baguette stall, or the concession teams as a whole, have a tip-sharing agreement, in which case it needs to be divided amongst them accordingly.

Made me chuckle!

 

[atomised]

Are we still bothering / worrying about FFP?

The QPR episode confirmed what I had said all along: the FL wouldn't have the balls to do FA about clubs that broke FFP. Dumping QPR out of the FL and putting them in the Conference? Yeah....right!

I believe forest and Blackburn are as they are still under the.embargoes placed on them for failing ffp

 

[KZNSeagull]

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[GT49er]

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Thank f*** for that!

 

[Wilko]

Yeh there were a few over the Summer I'm sure. Certainly a fair few who got frustrated back end of last season. The majority said they'd judge him a few months into this season or at the end of this season, thankfully. I really do stand by what I've said all along - the Hughton is negative thing is a load of bollocks, mainly coming from bitter Norwich fans' comments when we got him in...

There were grumbles at the back end of last season, me included (never said I wanted him sacked though) and I think they were justified. There were a few times when just 3 more points would have got us over the line but he continued to not even attempt a single attack, Rotherham away springs to mind. I think it was pretty fair for a few fans to have a moan, we could have been safe far, far earlier, as it was we relied on Millwall losing before we could breath a sigh of relief. Being so negative could have backfired spectacularly.

Likewise CH (and Blom/Barber) should be commended for the work over the summer and the start to the season. I think it is fair to both praise and criticise a manager within the course of the season. Does not mean you want a manager sacked, nor does it mean you think he is the messiah.

 

[severnside gull]

Bid of £1.75m seriously undervalues him in the current market. Guess they will come back at 2m then 2.5m before the window closes unless we tell them the price is the same as Butterfield in which case they might do us a favour and move on

 

[El Turi]

Derby are loaded so £1.75 million is a derogatory offer.

 

[KZNSeagull]

I would imagine our price tag on Stephens would be similar to Dunk's.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Doubt we would even consider anything less than £5 million and Derby know that. The pathetic bid must be an attempt to unsettle him.

 

[Triggaaar]

I would imagine our price tag on Stephens would be similar to Dunk's.

Dunk may be worth more in general, but Stephens must be worth more to us, he's harder to replace.

 

[Monkey Man]

I think Stephens has the potential to be a really important player for us - we've only seen what he can do in flashes but give him time to get properly established, free from injury, and I think we'll be laughing even harder at a valuation of £1.75m.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

There were grumbles at the back end of last season, me included (never said I wanted him sacked though) and I think they were justified. There were a few times when just 3 more points would have got us over the line but he continued to not even attempt a single attack, Rotherham away springs to mind. I think it was pretty fair for a few fans to have a moan, we could have been safe far, far earlier, as it was we relied on Millwall losing before we could breath a sigh of relief. Being so negative could have backfired spectacularly.

Likewise CH (and Blom/Barber) should be commended for the work over the summer and the start to the season. I think it is fair to both praise and criticise a manager within the course of the season. Does not mean you want a manager sacked, nor does it mean you think he is the messiah.

Exactly right.

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Can't see this happening. Derby seem to be just throwing money about in anxiety. Even if a 2nd bid comes in, and we reject it, I don't see them coming back after that. They will just move onto another. We know they have money to, so coupled with their desperation, we can easily hold out for upto 5 million.

 

[GT49er]

Given that every player has a price, just where would you put the tipping point for a bid for Stephens to be successful? Or more to the point, at what point might PB and TB decide the offer was too good to refuse?