Vincent Kompany's Burnley Signings

[ClaretPete001]

So it's £100-140 million income less spending of 40 million Euros/£35 million which is £65m - £105m million 'profit'. Then to make it sound even worse you bring up the revenue costs that need to be considered. Revenue isn't taken from your capital receipts.

Of course, everything goes into the same melting pot at the end of the day so all money is essentially both revenue and capital at different times

The £135 million is as far as I can tell an arbitrary figure plucked from the air.

But if you think we have made £135 million profit or cash this summer then cart on thinking so. I only challenge it so the forum has another figure to consider. It's a bit like responding to someone claiming Glasgow is the capital of England and me countering it with the view it is Birmingham.

Both are sh*te but at least one is in the right country.

[timshorts]

With the squad that we have ended up with, and assuming that we started with a 4:1:4:1 formation then we appear to have ended up with about two players in each spot that are decent.

I don't think that we necessarily have four DM's, hence the formation, but we do possess players like brownhill that can switch to DM, and there are one or two where we've not seen enough to know quite what we do have.

Central midfield, gk, centre back will do just fine, and if anything we are bloated there if everyone was fit. Wingers I have little idea about, but that's been the same for each of the last three seasons at this stage. Full backs likewise, but early sightings suggest that sambo could be an upgrade.
That leaves us with an issue up front if tresor goes, or foster gets injured again. The back up plans have either legs that are gone or have legs that go in the wrong direction.
The Fleming signing, which I imagine to be at the particular request of Scott Parker might seal this as a decent transfer window, leaving us with a better balance of age and experience than we have seen for years, and the likelihood that we will end up with fewer players starting out of position.