Blue Blood wrote:Moonchesteri wrote:Blue Blood wrote:South Stand Balti wrote:Our net spend is c£26m. Even if we sell the Beast for say £24m would we get Fslcao for £47m? Possibly, but wages etc cud push the FFP thingymabob
Loan with fee spread over years, shouldn't be an issue.
Also huge quantity's of the fee will be offset by shirt sales, Falcao will be hugely popular.
But don't we have agreement with Nike that it's
they who get the money from shirt sales, not us? (Opposite of Real's situation)
Unsure. Can't imagine we'd hand all our shirt sale revenue to Nike though...
That's because people who talk about extra shirt sales making back part of a players transfer fee have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Its one of the most repeated pieces of bullshit ever said, the amount made back is totally negligible. So relatively small it should be ignored completely.
I mean, which is logical right. People don't buy shirts with Falcao on the back because he signed, they would have bought the shirt anyway. I don't know anyone who went to buy a shirt because they were happy about some player signing. And even if all of us did, and even if every penny of every shirt sale went back to the club 100%, we would still need to sell hundreds of thousands of shirts to start making a dent in the transfer free.
Anyway, I don't expect us to sign Falcao because 99.99% of what gets written on Twitter is total bollocks. I hope we do but can't see it.