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William Saliba from St Etienne

Claudius

Tam wrote:
Claudius wrote:
If we contract the money, then St. Etienne can plan around it. That’s probably part of why we agreed what feels a rich figure. It would be odd to pay a large amount up front before receiving a good or a service. There are very few markets where I’ve seen this done. You’d typically pay a small deposit to show you’re good for your contract. And then the seller can use the contract with financiers to raise capital. The big fee could effectively pay for any interest that St Etienne has to face. We stretch money for both clubs in the process

That sounds like a number of huge jumps you’re making there, applying standard business principles to a very much non-standard market.

In any case, no matter how much it is, the cash we have to put up will certainly impact what we have to spend elsewhere this summer.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/arsenal-to-complete-25m-william-saliba-transfer-and-keep-majority-of-40m-summer-budget-a4184681.html

See this link that Steak shared. What is so non-standard about this market?

Ricky1985

That's well done, Arsenal. Hopefully the kid has a monster season in France.

Tam

Claudius wrote:
Tam wrote:
That sounds like a number of huge jumps you’re making there, applying standard business principles to a very much non-standard market.

In any case, no matter how much it is, the cash we have to put up will certainly impact what we have to spend elsewhere this summer.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/arsenal-to-complete-25m-william-saliba-transfer-and-keep-majority-of-40m-summer-budget-a4184681.html

See this link that Steak shared. What is so non-standard about this market?

I can't think of many markets where a company purchases an asset from company in a similar sector, then allows the competitor the benefit of the use of that asset

jones

HomeSteak wrote:

[James Olley] Arsenal to complete £25m William Saliba transfer AND keep £40m summer budget

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/arsenal-to-complete-25m-william-saliba-transfer-and-keep-majority-of-40m-summer-budget-a4184681.html

Always rated James Olley. Ornstein goes to sleep every night crying into a pillow with Jimmy's face on it wishing he was him

Gazza M

Excellent business if we can push the bulk of the payment to next season

Klaus

I wonder if Olley is Mr X.

DKGooner

If this deal gets over the line and Saliba is loaned back, reckon Chambers will be retained for another season and that we will end up loaning out Mustafi to someone with an option to purchase.

QuincyAbeyie

Wonder if we can beat the record for edging closer to a deal the most times.

flobaba

It’s 99.9999% done today.

mdgoonah41

i still cannot wrap my brain around a £40m transfer budget

we should have stayed at highbury

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

mdgoonah41 wrote:
i still cannot wrap my brain around a £40m transfer budget

we should have stayed at highbury

It hurts because it's the truth.

Klaus

We were making losses at Highbury because it was too small. We'd be absolutely nowhere today if we had stayed there.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Can't wait to sign a quality youngster we can't use.

Claudius

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote:
Can't wait to sign a quality youngster we can't use.

This is a boss bit of business. It's frustrating that we don't get him immediately because of our present challenges, but we must never neglect the future.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Nah, I know, just messing.

Hopefully keeping our budget intact allows us to sign another one for this season.

Clrnc

Make sense. Basically a first option for the lad. Good Business. This is the kind of proactive business we should always be doing.

Still don't believe the 40m budget. Impossible, definitely not true

mdgoonah41

Klaus wrote:
We were making losses at Highbury because it was too small. We'd be absolutely nowhere today if we had stayed there.

where are we today?

tv revenues have exploded since we moved to the emirates. i doubt we'd have still been making losses.

obviously im not entirely serious, but it just blows my mind that in 2019 we could potentially have less than £50m to spend.

Klaus

mdgoonah41 wrote:
Klaus wrote:
We were making losses at Highbury because it was too small. We'd be absolutely nowhere today if we had stayed there.

where are we today?

In a stadium twice its size with a wage bill that is 400 percent larger, and aside from the league titles which would have dried up anyway we've largely cemented our status as one of the world's biggest clubs. You're kidding yourself if you think Highbury could have supported a modern top team. We were already starting to lose money before the move, and that was by the standards of 2004.

Claudius

Yeah, I don't understand the desire to stay in Highbury. You just have to look at our stadium income.

We are constantly above 100m pounds with no ticket price increases for a decade. Chelsea are below 70m pounds, and the other rivals (outside United) are generally around 50-60m pounds. Spurs have had an uptick towards 70m pounds with the new Wembley/Deathstar money. We'd be deeper in the doo without the Emirates.

goon

As Klaus alluded to, we spend £240m a season on wages on the last count, far higher than even Spurs. I think this is a fact that too many ignore. We don't pay Ozil with Smarties.

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