Chez

I know its related to asset depreciation and profit/loss accounts, but I really struggle to get my head around this. Isn't cash flow what really matters? Sell for £5m and you have £5m more in your bank account to spend. You also have less outgoings in terms of wages, so again, more actual money to spend. Keep Onuachu and you can depreciate his asset value from £18m to £0m (or whatever) over the course of his contract, sure, but if he is a drain on cash in terms wages (and doesn't offer any benefit i.e. he is not playing games for us), is he really an asset and actually in real life terms more of a liability/debt in terms of having to pay him wages in the future? Not selling him makes the end of year accounts look better, as you have all these `assets', but isn't having more hard cash that can be used to buy an actual asset more sense - and doing it sooner rather than later also a good idea?

Good question. Is he replacing Lyanco or ABK? If both of those departed, and Wood came in, who would be our 4th CB, Awe, Charles, Simeu?

I was going to say similar. When I read tweets like that I just think its "bullshit". However, I guess there are some things that happen before an official bid goes in, scouting, discussions with the players agent, discussion with the player, call to the selling club to find out his availability and price. It's still a load of bollocks though.

bloody players these days show no loyalty to football clubs. 😉

Archer was never joining us if a Prem club were in for him. So the delay in selling Che wont have impacted that transfer. I still think Che will go and Piroe will replace him.

Swansea possibly want £12m for Wood. Looks like Archer aint coming to Saints, choosing Sheff Utd instead. Bayern Munich are interested in loaning ABK. Dortmund still interested, but both don't seem keen to pay asking price/release clause. I assume you saw that Lyanco is possibly going to a Qatar club yesterday. Rumours that Leeds are also keen on Piroe.

If accurate, that's a shame. I wonder if we were on of the top end championship enquiring - assuming that is also accurate.

we did the same with Ings, although possibly not to get around FFP.

If they loaned him out again, which seemed to be one option, the other a buy back clause, would they have enough cover up front? Managers are very reluctant to leave themselves short. Piroe seems the obvious forward to replace Che, but Archer looks an exciting player and one that might cut it in the top flight at some point.

As some posters suggested earlier in the summer, they are going to get their `missing RM money' back through a player transfer. That price seems very high for a player they don't seem to rate.

Wonder what we actually want up front and when remainder will be paid. Maybe we could take less up front, but get more in total. Depends if we need the money right now to do our own deals.

I guess he'd know as he made a similar move. What else did the toilet thief have to say about Lavia?

Really? is there an example of a player that has played for a full season in the first team in the Prem, is transfered and then the manager sent him out on loan in the championship? Managers want their players playing games, so if a lower level is the only place that will happen (because they are not in demand from other Prem sides), then that makes sense. But how does that apply to someone like Lavia, who could get a game pretty much anywhere?

why not loan him to another Prem club? Ideal for the big clubs. Strengthen other teams who can then tae points of off their rivals, but he won't be able to play against them. He aint being loaned to us in the championship. He's shown he can play in the Prem. It won't help his progress to play against lessor opponents.

Yeah, overall we don't seem to have done too well. Doesn't stop me hoping the next one will be another Svensson, Tadic, Guly, Pahars or Eklund.

makes sense. I'm no good with ear lobes, but the Sells goalkeeping gloves are similar to ones Lumley has worn in the past too.

is it Jack Bycroft?

I find foreign signings to be more exciting because you think you might get more for you money and you hope that you are finding an undiscovered gem, which isn't really possible if they are home grown, as everyone knows them inside and out. I have no problem with a manager signing his old players, especially young ones yet to fulfil their potential. One advantage if you have managed them before is you have much greater insight into their character.

Lyanco out and Wood in. That sounds better than ABK out, Wood in. Is there a lot of money knocking about in the Qatar league too?

In Scotland or further afield? They must have been watching Luca Kerber for that recent news story to come about. His video really impressed me. More so than the Hove video. I am guessing he is another we have been out watching?

Does display a lack of an extensive scouting system, however, we did bring in players from Argentina, Belgium and France in the last window, so that suggests we must have someone looking at players outside the City/Swansea bubble. Personally, I like it when a manager brings some player insight with him, but prefer it when its a player that wasn't from his previous club, Koeman bringing Tadic and Pelle across immediately come to mind. I hoped Martin would pick out the best championship and maybe even league 1 players that Swansea were considering. Maybe he has.

Not sure what you are asking or suggesting.

I'm used to it. It's been over 40 years of watching our best join bigger clubs and the direct replacements often being underwhelming. That said, I am hopeful that one day we will somehow bring another fantastic group of players together, that will enable us to go toe to toe with the biggest clubs, without fear. We have done it in the not too distant past, Leicester of course and in recent times Brighton and Brentford too. It can be done, with the right people involved and the right choices made.

If I'm honest I have not really paid too much attention to the SR philosophy and plan, but I did think we were trying to emulate Brentford, who were never concerned about selling talent, so long as the price was right, as they were confident that they could reinvest and ultimately create something stronger. I assumed that would be our plan. Buy a Lavia for £10m, sell him for £50m, but three more Lavia's and hopefully at least two are as successful, making the side/squad stronger overall an helping us progress. I don't know, you tell me what you think the long term plan is?

Not watched any of the games live due to a roadtrip in the southern states of america, so, no, hence me asking. I hate conceding those type of goals (overplaying at the back), but I fully expect to see it happen every now and then. It will hurt, but if the possession football is good to watch and we get results I (we) will learn to live with it. One side question. Have we mixed our passes up a little or has everything been short?