Transfer bans?

*decrease obvs

Put it this way:

if you had £200k in the bank from the sale of a house last year and you moved in to a rental til you found the right one. You're now on lower income due to COVID and you've asked the landlord for a reduced rent during these times.

If they agree to reduce your rent do you think you should be banned from buying a house for a year?

comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 6 minutes ago
Put it this way:

if you had £200k in the bank from the sale of a house last year and you moved in to a rental til you found the right one. You're now on lower income due to COVID and you've asked the landlord for a reduced rent during these times.

If they agree to reduce your rent do you think you should be banned from buying a house for a year?
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I’m not sure you can use this up against a football club imo

If you have current players on a wages deferred schemes and then a new player comes in full wages surely it will cause problems.

I wish Spurs would reverse their latest decision and take the furlough option. If it means saving a few quid - good! We pay our taxes and business is business. Spurs fans who kicked off about furlough are as idiotic as Pool fans How does that feel?

Also the whole it should be given to people who need it more is a load of tosh as well. This govt can find money like a drop of a hat as they have already proven. Foolish Spurs fans!

comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 36 minutes ago
Put it this way:

if you had £200k in the bank from the sale of a house last year and you moved in to a rental til you found the right one. You're now on lower income due to COVID and you've asked the landlord for a reduced rent during these times.

If they agree to reduce your rent do you think you should be banned from buying a house for a year?
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Yeah, but like pl clubs I also get 100m every season....

comment by MKspur ツ (U9129)
posted 36 minutes ago
comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 6 minutes ago
Put it this way:

if you had £200k in the bank from the sale of a house last year and you moved in to a rental til you found the right one. You're now on lower income due to COVID and you've asked the landlord for a reduced rent during these times.

If they agree to reduce your rent do you think you should be banned from buying a house for a year?
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I’m not sure you can use this up against a football club imo

If you have current players on a wages deferred schemes and then a new player comes in full wages surely it will cause problems.
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Why not? You could pay your rent out of your capital budget but you wouldn't want to do that as it's earmarked / you need it for the house deposit.

If the wages are merely deferred then I don't see any issue. They'll be repaid, just a timing thing. If they're asked to take a reduction then when a new player comes in on full wages presumably all other playing staff will be back on full wages too. If not then sure there'll be a problem.

Even the PL teams that can survive without the TV money will have their finances destroyed by empty stadiums. All teams will be super reserved in the transfer market I suspect.

Maybe a few players will get cherry picked from less stable clubs for below market value but I can't see lots of activity this summer tbh.

Hard to see any mega deals taking place. I guess this is when you see what mangers can really improve their players through coaching 🤔

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I'm not fussed. If furloughing staff ensures that those staff are kept in a job and it saves them from being laid off then that is the priority for me.

In an ideal world teams would be able to keep staff on entirely without pay cuts but at the end of the day they are businesses and are going to do what is best for the bottlm line. I would rather see staff furloughed than laid off and punishing clubs for furloughing would actively incentivise them to lay people off if the finances arent looking great

I think the Prem players have been incredibly greedy. Of course there has been the odd decent gesture here and there but anybody whos on 200k a week and isn't actually working should be giving up at least half of that.

I'm sure they won't starve.