The on topic thread 3.0

[Art Vandelay_]

Bantered by a national team...

 

[moomba]

Congratulations Zidane on your new job doing social media for Croatia.

 

[Cruyff14]

Congratulations Zidane on your new job doing social media for Croatia.

Looks like he also has access to Fabinho's wife's account;

Fabinho's wife aims savage dig at Man City after Liverpool trophy parade

Fabinho's wife aimed a savage dig at the cause of Manchester City's success as she enjoyed Liverpool's trophy parade at the weekend.

www.joe.co.uk

 

[jod23]

I mean she's not wrong

 

[moomba]

Good that they don't care about us though.

 

[Magma]

I mean she's not wrong

Her husband was bought by oligarchs when he went to Monaco. So seems you can buy some things

 

[david_sunfort]

Who is in the wrong here?

 

[Bostonian]

Going to your clubs biggest rival is usually a bit of a no no.

Unless you come back and redeem yourself ala Glenn Murray.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Sad news about Andy Goram. Hopefully he can beat it.

Andy Goram vows to ‘fight like never before’ after terminal cancer diagnosis

The former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper has revealed that doctors have given him ‘about six months’ to live

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Who is in the wrong here?

How is Perth this time of year?

 

[Art Vandelay_]

How is Perth this time of year?

Forgive him. Most people in WA have their phones turned off atm so that Simpson can’t call them about a West Coast call up.

 

[RPCB]

Forgive him. Most people in WA have their phones turned off atm so that Simpson can’t call them about a West Coast call up.

****ing hell, that’s brilliant.

 

[RossFC]

 

[chef]

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Several of those clubs are only in so much debt due to recently building stadiums.

 

[Memphis]

Luis Figo wins the prize on this one.

Sol Campbell says hello.

 

[Jatz]

Several of those clubs are only in so much debt due to recently building stadiums.

How quickly do they generally recover from that debt? Arsenal's stadium was a while ago.

 

[Cruyff14]

How quickly do they generally recover from that debt? Arsenal's stadium was a while ago.

Our stadium was completed in 2006. 400m pounds.

Think Wenger got a fair chunk of that paid off in his tenure. But interest on a loan of that size would be far beyond astronomical.

 

[Jatz]

Our stadium was completed in 2006. 400m pounds.

Think Wenger got a fair chunk of that paid off in his tenure. But interest on a loan of that size would be far beyond astronomical.

Yep which is why I'm curious as to the calling out of clubs that recently built stadiums. That explains why they're there but it doesn't mean they'll come off that list anytime soon.

 

[Jatz]

Which to be fair, may not have been Bojan KantKick 's point.

 

[SM]

I thought generally those stadia were interest only loans with the actual cost of the stadium not repaid? Thought Spurs had a deal like that.

 

[glenferry23]

How quickly do they generally recover from that debt? Arsenal's stadium was a while ago.

Arsenal’s debt has considerably increased in the last 18 months or so - there was firstly a Covid related cashflow loan that has been converted into a facility from Barclay’s.

The Kroenke’s also refinanced the remaining stadium debt into that facility, which was increased again mid last year to allow the level of spending that Arsenal undertook last summer.

Arsenal also has recent habit of drawing a bag of cash to tell players to **** off. Willian, Ozil, Mustafi, Sokratis, Kolasinac amongst others and then Aubameyang in January. Those are decent chunks of money that eats into cashflow. Fair to say that method of contract management is not sustainable.

That’s likely why the current figure is as large as it is.

 

[Jatz]

Arsenal’s debt has considerably increased in the last 18 months or so - there was firstly a Covid related cashflow loan that has been converted into a facility from Barclay’s.

The Kroenke’s also refinanced the remaining stadium debt into that facility, which was increased again mid last year to allow the level of spending that Arsenal undertook last summer.

Arsenal also has recent habit of drawing a bag of cash to tell players to duck off. Willian, Ozil, Mustafi, Sokratis, Kolasinac amongst others and then Aubameyang in January. Those are decent chunks of money that eats into cashflow. Fair to say that method of contract management is not sustainable.

That’s likely why the current figure is as large as it is.

That's an interesting point. What would the figure roughly be from those payouts? 50m?

 

[Memphis]

Of course it was Ramos that said it lol.

 

[Memphis]

Couldn't agree more.