The idea that he can be done for that sum is not realistic. Brighton rejected a number very similar to that in the January window, and that was before he signed a new contract for 5 years. A PL club comes calling, its going to be a 9 digit number before they'll even pick up the phone, and with all of our funds needed for, likely, Kane, we can forget about this lad this year.
Clearly people still don’t understand FSP financial sustainability Play.
This year season starting 2023/24 A Club can only spend 90% of their turnover on
Net Transfer spend, Club Wages and Agent Fees (Now highly regulated by a new Fifa Examination and limited to 10% of the overall sales value)
Net Transfer spend does not work in the way that if Man united were to spend £250m gross on 6 players and then Sell 8 for £105m meaning that the club net spend would be £145m, this is a common Misunderstood theory.
If Man United sell Dean Henderson (£25m), B Williams(£8m) and Antony Elanga for £12m that represents a profit of £40m in our transfer line as we did not pay for any of those players, they all came through our youth team. If we then buy H Kane (£110m), KMJ(£40m) and Caciedo for £100m all on 5 year contracts, the club is able to amortise their purchases by the length of the contract so the £250m would cost the club £50m in gross sales and would be offset by our player sales so our net position would be £10m net spend. This is why we sold James Garner £17m and Andreas Pereira £13m last season.
The club turnover is looking like £550m so we can spend 90% or £495m in wages, rumoured to be way too high at £380m, let’s assume the agents fees on the player sales was 10% so £25m that means the club would have spent £415m against an allowance of £495m.This is why Qatar and SJR are so keen to get this deal done as quickly as possible this year represents the best opportunity to recruit and spend £300-350m after player sales, Next year FSP drops to 80% and then in 25/26 to 70%.
More importantly, this is why teams like Barcelona and PSG can’t really operate this summer in transfer window their wages are more than their turnover or very close.
The Glazers problems are very different, they have no cash and are relying on the clubs success to bankroll and pay off a credit line of £300m so they can clear the debt in June and use that credit facility to buy players, selected by the club or advised by new owners.
