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I reckon most of Chelsea's recent aquisitions will regret moving to Chelsea, and Colwill probably regrets signing that new contract. However, Caicedo must REALLY regret it given that we'd accepted a bid from Liverpool where he could go and play alongside the same Spanish-speaking team mate whom...

Is transfer listing all these players a tacit acceptance by Chelsea that they are f***ed as far as FFP is concerned, or at least some sort of aquiescence of the rules?

That's more than likely. If a club values the talent of a player enough that they're prepared to pay a £60m transfer fee, then the player's agent will be negotiating a weekly wage commensurate with that.

Same club that paid 25m for a disgruntled keeper that had effectively just been shunted to 3rd choice after we’d signed Bart. At the time I genuinely thought Sanchez would fetch bo more than a nominal fee just to get him off the wage bill and out of the dressing room.

At the time we were Championship, Burnley were PL and, even on their modest wage structure, Burnley were probably able to offer 2-3x the wage offer we had on the table. They were bigger at that particulary moment!

Of course. How could I forget that game? It was hardly an incident free bore fest!

8 games? I make it 7: Arse, Spurs, City, Wolves, Man U, The Leeds, West Ham. 5 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat, and all against top half teams apart from The Leeds.

Now do the with/without Caicedo stats to calm everyone down even more.

You are right. If his posting on NSC is anything to go by however, he is determined to be miserable. Looking for the positives in life really is underrated.

Are you serious? We’ve had loads of exciting incoming players over the last 10 years - this literally is a summer thread about an exciting incoming player!

Don’t think so. We offered Almeria the same as what he went to Benfica for, didn’t we? For Cucurella we simply met the transfer clause, so there was no shenanigans needed.

I thought that people were being a bit optimistic on Caicedo being a Biss replacement, but his record in those 7 games at the end of the season was incredible: P7, W5, D1, L1 (and all wins were against top half teams). The prospect of having him for a full season is exciting.

Ones where the up-front price is 50m+, like the club has reasonably suggested would be the sale price for their player with a 4 year contract.

No. He's purposely been fed info from City and/or Cucurella's agent in order to shit stir. However, he has **** all info from the side that will ultimately decide whether or not this transfer will happen.

All he’s been right about is that City are interested. He’s been tweeting that they’re on the verge of making a bid, or in negotiations, since early June. He’ll be right in a stopped-clock sense.

I’ve been saying for a couple of months that I can’t understand why people have treated this Romano as some sort of Transfer Godfather that club owners need to approach to get permission to carry out a hit/bid. He’s just a client journalist twunt paid to shit stir.

It is annoying, isn't it? They're treating us as if we're desperate to sell MC to balance the books and get him off of our wage bill. We've already got a transfer income of 40m in this window alone, and that's on top of last season's 70m. I think we'll be fine to hang on to him for another...

Romano is barely a level above the non-blue-tick Twitter transfer accounts operated by a teenagers from their bedrooms in between Tommy Tanks.

Haaland’s overall cost was indeed an extra 30-40m in agent’s fees not to mention his annual wage, but nah, City’s owners will just confect another random sponsorship deal with themselves if they thought FFP was an issue. The narrative of City needing to sell before they can buy is just...

Do cash-plus-player deals ever actually happen in the modern game? I can’t think of any examples, albeit that I don’t pay a huge amount of attention to the details of non-BHA deals.