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It’s how Chelsea get players to sign new deals. They give them big wages, loan them out and part fund them when out on loan. Then hope they improve/have good season so they can then sell them. It’s how their model works, stockpile players - loan them out and then sell some each year to then fund first team players

So if it was 3 what we thinking; Diallo seems pretty much there, Grujic & then a loan for either RLC or Neilson?

Probs a break clause then. Half way through pretty much

WHU take RLC as they will pay his crazy wages and we take Grujic as cheaper wages

When end of this season? How many years left on the UA deal? I assume there is a break? I can only assume we feel we can get more somewhere else now, would love Hummel

Standard pre match one in an hr or so yes

Considering Spurs turned down 1.5M from PSG for a loan fee for Alli I would say this is absolute rubbish!

Contracts drawn up but terms not yet agreed. Hmm... those terms would be in the contract, weekly salary at the very least lol

Could be that as we are getting RLC on loan would couldn’t have another loan anyway, hence he is off to Celtic

That could be good for us as obviously that would mean they couldn't loan RLC. Villa were our biggest threat IMO to RLC due to the Terry & Lampard link.

They are getting Cantwell I believe

Buendia?Been left out of Norwich squad today along with Cantwell (who is on the move)

If he is doing medical a then it means fee and contract would have been agreed already so I doubt our interest was real tbh considering it was only announced yesterday. Likely just an agent push to get this over the line with PSV

Surely if they want to replicate the Man City model, the only way it’ll work is the figure head club being half successful?

Do you have the full article for those not members?

Wonder if said PL CEO and consortium is the Richard Scudamore and Redball group?

I can see what’s in it for them, I assume our benefit would be any potential youngsters from west Africa?

No but globally they do and they’ll be what’s paying those wages until the get developed in the UK. Being a loss leader for a few years is probably what they factored in to their expansion into the UK market

They announced earlier this month they had 1M subscribers so thats probably how.

Can only have 1PL loan though

Surely a better option - seems to have done well with New England Patriots

There is no way it’ll go through with enough time to allow us to be active under their ownership in this window. Normally it’s with the PL for weeks, add in it’s deemed complicated it’ll be a while yet.

Maybe just maybe, we are looking at a loan because we are waiting for a takeover to happen and so not wanting to commit to someone as our personnel we are looking at could change once takenover?

Make one public while actually working with another group