Burnwinter no. They’re going something else. When you sell a player, on the income statement, you book the difference between the money you received and what was outstanding on his amortisation.
When you sell an academy kit, you get to to book the whole revenue. So you want to sell academy kids for as high as possible. That’s why Arsenal re-signed Nketiah, Nelson etc. They are valuable from a financial engineering perspective.
It just seems these other clubs are colluding to take advantage of this.
