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Its like going back to last summer all over again.A young unproven midfielder for 16m. Who does that remind me of?

Hardly there will be a winger for 16m who plays for Top club.

Can someone please explain to me how a club who only recently had a massive debt scare is talking about spending 16 million pounds on any player when we are only a mid table club with no hope whatsoever of playing Champions League to ofset such an outlay, am baffled thought we would of learn from the dangers of spending more than you earn, apparantly not.

It hasn't done city much harm? They were in the same position when they start spending

City can afford to write that off as a loss if it does'nt work out not to mention dont need to play Champions League anyway due to the owners they have, we are not that lucky, we are more likely to be another Leeds United or Rangers before a City or Chelsea, if we spend money like that.

I don't know how much money FSG have do you? They hardly bought into LfC think a net spend of approx 45m on the playing squad and all would be rosy. If they did we sure are in trouble. I think they know enough about business to not spend more than they can afford. I could be wrong though.

Good point DBS

I think it called having a business plan.

But it's much easier to pile negative upon negative isnt it?

It is if we have the money to spend big and improve the squad that's good for me

But thats just it you can only spend them summs of money in players not to mention the wages that go with them if you have Champions League footie to ofset it against otherwise you would have Clubs like Fulham and Wigan shelling out 15 and 20 million pounds on players, they dont because they know it cant justify them amounts without Champions League money, not hard to understand this.

Because this season the finances don't count for the financial fair play it counts for the next season, so in a way this season was about flushing all the debts out in the open getting all the sackings and excess money out in the public instead of announcing it next year when it'll count.

Also the fact all of the money we lost out on was from sackings and binning the old stadium plans and rights.
Next season unless some more people get sacked we're not going to have the same 35mil loss on binning the old stadium.

Each season the club gets around 10-20mil profit but because of the stadium and sackings etc we made a loss of -50mil. So come the summer we should have money from the owners who haven't put a lot of money into the squad as many people think, it's only 20-30 mil they've invested with the rest recouped from sales. But too their credit they have forked up for the binning of the stadium and sackings of around a extra 30-40mil.