24 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

You are not selling Santos to pay for Wharton.

Exactly. Santos plus Chalobah will probably pay for Lacroix, if these clowns are physically capable of completing the deals which i am not convinced of. Barco will be briefed as the swiss army knife all rounder. All 4 foot 8 of him.

A.Santos leaving is certainly one of the ones we'll look back on in a couple of years and regret.

34 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Exactly. Santos plus Chalobah will probably pay for Lacroix, if these clowns are physically capable of completing the deals which i am not convinced of. Barco will be briefed as the swiss army knife all rounder. All 4 foot 8 of him.

We have sold cucu, I think we have salary slot for Lacroix.

Santos is one of the lowest earner in the team, you are not selling him and then sign Wharton (unless you believe Wharton will be on some cheap salary)

The way blue co operate, if we want to buy high earner or give one of our player expensive salary, we have to remove another high earner.

4 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

We have sold cucu, I think we have salary slot for Lacroix.

Santos is one of the lowest earner in the team, you are not selling him and then sign Wharton (unless you believe Wharton will be on some cheap salary)

Cucu paid for Palestra. Remember that have to stay cash positive.

We are not signing Wharton regardless. If we don't sell Fernandez or hoodwink some fool into buying Gusto off of us, we are aren't buying anyone of Wharton's level in transfer until at least 5 have gone out. Chalobah, Santos, Disasi, George, Jackson (if we're lucky) or Delap and then we might see a statement signing, but i am not convinced this mob are physically capable of negotiating successfully with other clubs atm.

2 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Cucu paid for Palestra. Remember that have to stay cash positive.

We are not signing Wharton regardless. If we don't sell Fernandez or hoodwink some fool into buying Gusto off of us, we are aren't buying anyone of Wharton's level in transfer until at least 5 have gone out. Chalobah, Santos, Disasi, George, Jackson (if we're lucky) or Delap and then we might see a statement signing, but i am not convinced this mob are physically capable of negotiating successfully with other clubs atm.

3 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Cucu paid for Palestra. Remember that have to stay cash positive.

We are not signing Wharton regardless. If we don't sell Fernandez or hoodwink some fool into buying Gusto off of us, we are aren't buying anyone of Wharton's level in transfer until at least 5 have gone out. Chalobah, Santos, Disasi, George, Jackson (if we're lucky) or Delap and then we might see a statement signing, but i am not convinced this mob are physically capable of negotiating successfully with other clubs atm.

Yes transfer money wise, but salary wise Cucu is in different bracket to Palestra.

If we want to sign Wharton, we need to sell one of the high earner.

5 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Yes transfer money wise, but salary wise Cucu is in different bracket to Palestra.

If we want to sign Wharton, we need to sell one of the high earner.

Cucu was the high earner. He’s gone so can cover Wharton’s salary. Then sell Santos to cover Palestra’s salary.

I doubt Wharton happens though.

13 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Yes transfer money wise, but salary wise Cucu is in different bracket to Palestra.

If we want to sign Wharton, we need to sell one of the high earner.

But doesn't it all count in the Squad Cost Ratio which i think has been cut by 10% for the next financial reporting year.

40 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Cucu was the high earner. He’s gone so can cover Wharton’s salary. Then sell Santos to cover Palestra’s salary.

I doubt Wharton happens though.

Lacroix salary won't be cheap and more importantly you don't want to have 3 very expensive midfielder unless you are planning to start 3 of them.

Edited July 6Jul 6 by Bob stark

32 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

But doesn't it all count in the Squad Cost Ratio which i think has been cut by 10% for the next financial reporting year.

This is beyond squad cost ratio. It is quite clear blue co has somekind salary structure. Everything kinda match up to some degree.

Nkunku - Jp, Madueke - Gittens

The situation these directors have put ourselves in is incredible.

Selling Santos to Man Utd to fill a position in which they've had major issues since Michael Carrick played would be unfathomably stupid. I therefore assume it will happen.

22 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Lacroix salary won't be cheap and more importantly you don't want to have 3 very expensive midfielder unless you are planning to start 3 of them.

Lacroix is on 50k a week currently. Stick him on 100k.

17 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Selling Santos to Man Utd to fill a position in which they've had major issues since Michael Carrick played would be unfathomably stupid. I therefore assume it will happen.

Santos and Mainoo would be a very good midfield for the next decade.

13 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Lacroix is on 50k a week currently. Stick him on 100k.

Lacroix is a starter for Palace, his current salary is more than Palestra

16 hours ago, Bob stark said:

This is beyond squad cost ratio. It is quite clear blue co has somekind salary structure. Everything kinda match up to some degree.

Nkunku - Jp, Madueke - Gittens

It is very typical American sports "roster-management".

I would not be surprised if the structure is based on some sort of hokey "analysis", where the squad cost is allocated to each position according to what the 'analysis' says is the most effective use of that money.

It would explain things like why they have invested comparatively little in strikers compared to wingers, or fullbacks and midfielders compared to centre-backs, since wide players and DMs tend to score disproportionately highly on modern stat analysis

5 hours ago, Bob stark said:

Lacroix is a starter for Palace, his current salary is more than Palestra

His current salary is 50k a week. Cole Palmer is on 130k a week, we wouldn't stick Lacroix on more than that. We've learned from our mistakes with the likes of Fofana and Cucurella.

30 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

His current salary is 50k a week. Cole Palmer is on 130k a week, we wouldn't stick Lacroix on more than that. We've learned from our mistakes with the likes of Fofana and Cucurella.

Are you sure? How do you explain bumping Palestra from €5k/w to £100k/w?

If he flops, he is stuck here for the next 6yrs because he is literally an unknown outside Serie A.

4 minutes ago, markpitts said:

Are you sure? How do you explain bumping Palestra from €5k/w to £100k/w?

If he flops, he is stuck here for the next 6yrs because he is literally an unknown outside Serie A.

Oh, are we just making numbers up now, cool.

I heard were re-signing Mason Mount and giving him eleventy thousand million pounds a week....

5 minutes ago, markpitts said:

Are you sure? How do you explain bumping Palestra from €5k/w to £100k/w?

If he flops, he is stuck here for the next 6yrs because he is literally an unknown outside Serie A.

He was wanted by the Serie A champions to play in the CL, 100k is pretty standard for a PL team. Forest pay Milenkovic more than that.

3 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

It is very typical American sports "roster-management".

I would not be surprised if the structure is based on some sort of hokey "analysis", where the squad cost is allocated to each position according to what the 'analysis' says is the most effective use of that money.

It would explain things like why they have invested comparatively little in strikers compared to wingers, or fullbacks and midfielders compared to centre-backs, since wide players and DMs tend to score disproportionately highly on modern stat analysis

It certainly feel that way. We have sold cucu, I believe we will sign an established CB.

I think many poster still don't understand how much pl team pay their player. This days a mid table club in pl (Palace, Fulham, Everton, west ham) has similar salary to Milan.

On 06/07/2026 at 10:42, Bob stark said:

You are not selling Santos to pay for Wharton.

Disagree. We're not signing Wharton unless we are able to bank £50m from selling Santos.

Wharton is an upgrade, he costs more. We will sell multiple to fund Wharton. Until we are able to do that though, we can't afford him.

3 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

He was wanted by the Serie A champions to play in the CL, 100k is pretty standard for a PL team. Forest pay Milenkovic more than that.

I am not disputing that, my point is if he flops we are stuck with him. Teams would rather gamble on the next big thing out of Bundesliga than pay a fee for a Garnacho

6 minutes ago, markpitts said:

I am not disputing that, my point is if he flops we are stuck with him. Teams would rather gamble on the next big thing out of Bundesliga than pay a fee for a Garnacho

We've had players flop on 200k+ a week and been able to shift them