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Club loan taken out


DPTT said:
I very much doubt after spending £130m ish in the summer we would allow ourselves to be cash strapped come November. Personally think they have already targeted who they want in January and are planning for that.
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Our start could help attract the players who maybe weren’t sure in the summer
 
Just sounds like a way to allow us to do business before the guaranteed money arrives later. If being able to pay it back was contingent on us staying up I’d be concerned, but it doesn’t look like it.
 
opinion merchant said:
Just sounds like a way to allow us to do business before the guaranteed money arrives later. If being able to pay it back was contingent on us staying up I’d be concerned, but it doesn’t look like it.
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A great way of thinking about it.

Again, to reiterate, without this, we would not have been able to spend £150m to stay in the Premier League, we would only be able to do it next year after a fairly inevitable relegation. The vast majority of income from TV deals etc is paid in arrears, with a little for newly promoted clubs to help them get started early in the summer.
 
Coeus said:
Ok, but they seem similar to me in that we would pay less interest through contacts not to mention they can structure it favourably towards us.

I don't like loans at all.


I don't understand why folk have seen this as pushing again, it's using next year's money for this window just gone, no?
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Got to be or where did the money come from for the splurge, together with increased spending overheads of salaries etc.

However it can also be for buying more players in January.

If we should have learned one thing from the Reid era it was to buy at the top of the curve when you will attract better players to the project.

to improve this team at this stage I don’t think it’s defenders or central midfielders they will be looking for. As they are as good as any in the division.
It will be front 3 players. By January however our 3 strikers could be all firing on all cylinders, Mundle might be back and performing and Talbi/Traore setting the world alight. Most of these players will only get better .
The club are very hard to read on how far they will try and improve quality of squad… and of course they will have to trade given size of squad you are allowed.
Be surprised if it’s more than one or two players tbh
 
IMO it'll be something like bringing forward some of next summers spending to January, and paying the January premium to bring a couple players in since we've (up to this point) made such a good start. What's scary is you can't really see us improving on anyone defensively. Maybe look to add a CM and spend the bigger side of whatever our budget is on a RW?
 
When the assets (recent players) are going up exponentially in value from their purchase price we're in an extremely strong position to get a loan. The equity in what we bought in the summer will be so high that spending another 50 mill is probablys no big deal
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Cash flow managment. Basically getting the PL money in earlier than it's actually paid to us. I'd interpret this as us being willing to push on a bit more in the January window.
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Speakman's on a roll, in fact he has been since he arrived nearly 5 years ago.

A bit more firepower up front perhaps.
 
Town End Farmer Giles said:
If it was future season ticket proceeds it would be a bad sign. If its short term financing against guaranteed EPL income after the end of the season I dont see an issue
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Except that the money taken now from football's Payday Loan Company is money the club will not have to spend in the summer, so there is then a shortfall for next season, and so the debt merry go round begins and even more money in payday loans is needed next season etc
 
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