But he didn't and he was sold which will impact positively on their year's accounts. I have no issue with the concept of the regulations but for me they should have been aligned with club's end of year accounts.
it’s all about him, always has been.
To add to the list of things I'm not clear about, although we'll publish accounts at some time ending 31st May 2023, is the information to the PL for that date or to 30th June? Johnson was sold way too late for either though.
While i agree that we have made some poor choices in hindsight,not many were calling the club out at the time,in fact most on here wanted even more spending
But the clubs know what time period they have to work with for ffp, it would not have come as a surpise to forest, otherwise whats the point in having rules if you are just gonna push the limits in your first season in the premier league. The rules are clear, and if forest had sold brennan for the 30m brentford offered, they most likely would not be in the position of being charged now. Whos to say we couldnt have held out for more for coady, collins etc but we had to sell to comply. We had to do what we had to do, selling neves being part of it. Forest should have done the same. The forest forum are very much of the opinion this is their own boards fault buying a load of crap players, vanity project in jesse lingard, and even going further back in having to rely on loan players in the championship because of previous overspending allowed by the owner forcing them to have to loan players as they couldnt afford to buy new ones. Forest didnt need to sign the volume of players they have done in every window so far since they got promoted, and now have a large bulky squad, with a number of players signed for some significant money not even able to get into their matchday squads.
importantly the window opened on the 14th June 2023 giving 2 weeks to act on sales,
46.7m
We have nothing major to worry
They should be ok for next season then !
Here my only concern with us.
we ran it close we really did, but we have nunes,collins etc sales plus no wages of costa mouts etc for this year 23-24, we havent done much business and we have again got loan salaries for players like sasa and fabio
But you're saying without the Neves sale we'd have lost £100m+ 22/23?
Well its not quite 100m because of the monies are not directly all included in the loss, obviously agent fees etc,
Agree with that to an extent. However, in terms of Forest's defence of selling Johnson at the end of the transfer window, you also have to take into account that they carried on buying players after the 30th June cut-off as well. I think they signed 13 all told and pretty sure most of them were towards the end of the window, including 7 on deadline day.
We were very lucky. Jeff could never have foreseen some mad Saudis with more money than sense, spaffing nearly £50m on a player who was on course to walk for free this Summer; I was expecting us to entertain bids as low as £25m for Neves. Considering how tight we've apparently come in in the end (even with £47m of 'pure' FFP profit), this transfer really was a minor miracle for the club. Without it, we would likely have had to sell several more first-teamers like Kilman, to the point where it really would have begun to look like a fire sale.
1pm?
VAR still making their decision. Expect an answer next week
They gone to ask the friends
Neither are Sky 6 so it should be an easy decision.
