I'm not gonna turn this thread into yet another owner/SD chat because most of these do and it becomes annoying. Either way, I'm gutted we missed out on Simons, but any talk of financial problems just isn't true.
It is though, we are restricted financially because of that UEFA charge. We had to raise funds to bring in Garnacho and Simons. We got the funds to bring Garnacho in from the Nkunku deal, we couldn't do it with Simons because we can't shift Jackson.
But that's not 'financial issues' it's abiding by some sh*tty made up rules uefa have implemented. Financial issues imply that we are in some sort of trouble with possibly bankruptcy, which obviously isn't the case.
It was for exceeding the player wages ratio thing. . Everyone else avoided it, apart from one another club (?). That's put us in further restrictions imposed by EUFA as part of the punishment.. It was easily avoided, especially as our owners " know what they're doing" financially.
I'm not too sure on sanctions/numbers, I was listening to a podcast that had Matt Law on earlier in the week and he just gave a little breakdown on why we needed to get rid of a couple of players like Nkunku/Jackson as for some reason the non conference league 'team A' players didn't count towards our budget.
I'm not here to be the owners/SDs keepers, I was just pointing out we aren't going bankrupt any time soon.
All rules are made up, us and a handful of clubs broke those rules. The SD's and owners knew they existed, but took a high risk gamble, now we have financial restrictions placed against us. That is a financial issue. We're not going bankrupt, but nobody said anything like that, but this is the main reason why we couldn't sign Simons.
Yet these morons were gaslighting Jackson for 70m, the same Jackson who Chelsea would listen for offers for since the CWC yet here we are today, what 3 days from the close and despite the stool water habitually propelling forth from the likes of Romano, Law and Jacobs there hasn't been a single official bid for.
I think Pedro is pushing that up tbh. Let's not forget we got Delap due to a very low release clause whilst other proper clubs were circling their big name targets, all of which it is looking like they have got.
