I have no idea who I would like us to go for in January.
However, one person I don't want to see us go for is Assombalonga.
I worry that, with the option to buy Afobe, we may not sign a striker at all.
Because football finances aren’t as simple as having the net spend to spend.
Before we start each season, we have:
- a wage bill probably £5m greater than income (Could be worse)
- operating expenses on top of £8-10m
- an amortisation Bill (depreciation of player contracts over the contract length) of £10-11m
So we start our recruitment with the following FFP position:
£23m loss...of which we can probably offset £5m for academy etc....so £18m. That’s £5m over the a