Inflated transfer fees- blame brexit!!!

[RingoMcCartney]

According to Tim Farron, MP and Blackburn fan, the record amount of cash being thrown about on transfers is all down to Brexit!

http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk ... 91135.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[boatshed bill]

According to Tim Farron, MP and Blackburn fan, the record amount of cash being thrown about on transfers is all down to Brexit!

Soft or hard?

I did hear that the pound dropped to below the euro in the week.... didn't actually check it though.

[CnBtruntru]

Nice to be part of the union.

[UpTheBeehole]

Soft or hard?

I did hear that the pound dropped to below the euro in the week.... didn't actually check it though.

86 cents for your pound at the airports.

Slow handclap for the brexit belmtards

[dsr]

86 cents for your pound at the airports.

Slow handclap for the brexit belmtards

And for anyone stupid enough to get their Euros at the airports.

[Lancasterclaret]

Its all the EUs fault you know.

[boatshed bill]

Its all the EUs fault you know.

Lancaster, are you one of those big softy, sandal wearing Remainers?

[Lancasterclaret]

I'm not saying anything!

[ExistentialWanderer]

According to Tim Farron, MP and Blackburn fan, the record amount of cash being thrown about on transfers is all down to Brexit!

The irony considering how they threw money around like confetti when they bought the title....

[RingoMcCartney]

The irony considering how they threw money around like confetti when they bought the title....

He mentions that lot in the article!

"“I do recognise as a Blackburn Rovers fan this has affected my team less than some this year – but this is yet another reminder of the real cost there is to Brexit.”

Aah. So perhaps it's **** all to do with brexit and the fact that, thanks to tv deals etc, etc,. There's never been as much money in football as there is now!? And teams, like your shower, further down the pyramid, have to cut their cloth accordingly.

What a desparate desparate Remoaner

[ExistentialWanderer]

He mentions that lot in the article!

"“I do recognise as a Blackburn Rovers fan this has affected my team less than some this year – but this is yet another reminder of the real cost there is to Brexit.”

This is the guy who couldn't morally lead a minor political party because he has problems with people of the same sex getting married, yet he believes in something that doesn't exist. It's like me saying I can't support Burnley anymore because the little green men living behind my radiator told me wearing Claret is bad.

[piston broke]

Sadly he's correct.
Andone at €18m would have been £12.5m pre-Brexit, yesterday it would have been £17.3m.
I'd think at the earlier figure we could have tempted him with salary.

******* head in the sand Juan Kerrs.

[Dougall]

£17.30?
Quick...offer them £20 !!

[nil_desperandum]

It doesn't take much working out really.
Buy within the UK and £1 is still £1, but as "piston" correctly points out, a player valued by his club at 20 million Euros costs us a hell of a lot more in fees etc., than he did 18 months ago, and probably puts him beyond our reach.
It's a fact that there aren't the same bargains to be had in Europe that there were.
I wonder how low the pound will actually sink before we've finished?

[Imploding Turtle]

According to Tim Farron, MP and Blackburn fan, the record amount of cash being thrown about on transfers is all down to Brexit!

http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk ... 91135.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ringo says: Farron says the inflated fees are "all" down to Brexit.
The Belfast Telegraph says: Farron says some European to Britain transfers have been inflated. (this is obvious)

As usual Ringo is full of ****.

[Cirrus_Minor]

So let me get this straight. Neymar goes from Barcelona, a city in Spain, to Paris St.Germain, who play in a city in France for a transfer value of £198 million and this is due to Brexit?

[Imploding Turtle]

So let me get this straight. Neymar goes from Barcelona, a city in Spain, to Paris St.Germain, who play in a city in France for a transfer value of £198 million and this is due to Brexit?

No. You clearly haven't read the article and based your post entirely on what Ringo said, and that's really dumb. Unless did read it and you're mocking Ringo and not Farron.

[nil_desperandum]

So let me get this straight. Neymar goes from Barcelona, a city in Spain, to Paris St.Germain, who play in a city in France for a transfer value of £198 million and this is due to Brexit?

Did anyone say that?
Certainly Farron didn't in the linked article. He actually gave estimated figures for transfers to the UK from within the EU.
Did you read the linked article?
Not entirely sure why Farron felt a need to raise the issue, but he's right.

[Cirrus_Minor]

No I didn't read the article, but have read it now. So basically the point of it is due to the fall in the value of Sterling in other words a higher exchange rate. Very illuminating.

So for only reading the op headlines I prostrate myself at your feet in grovelling apology, whilst Tim Farren can just get stuffed.

[nil_desperandum]

No I didn't read the article, but have read it now. So basically the point of it is due to the fall in the value of Sterling in other words a higher exchange rate. Very illuminating.

So for only reading the op headlines I prostrate myself at your feet in grovelling apology, whilst Tim Farren can just get stuffed.

I agree with you over point one. As I implied in my post, Farron's only stating the obvious.
No grovelling required. Ringo misrepresented the article and you took him at face value. A lesson learnt maybe?

[RingoMcCartney]

So all the Remoaners, like sheep, swallow the lie that we, and many other premier league teams, have broken our transfer fee record cos of brexit!?

Nothing at all to do with the game being awash with cash, and selling clubs knowing that, simply raise their asking price!!!

For example - We paid £15 million for Wood from Leeds. Now given leeds is a city located in mainland Yorkshire how did sterling's value have any effect at all!?

Remoaners - willing to fly in the face of reality, if it means there's a chance of having a pop at brexit!!

[Bordeauxclaret]

Who's said that we have broken our transfer record because of Brexit?

[RingoMcCartney]

Who's said that we have broken our transfer record because of Brexit?

Nobody.

[Bordeauxclaret]

So what lie are people swallowing?

[kentonclaret]

The Brexiteers have clearly not read the article - perhaps they only understand figures when they are written on the side of a campaign bus. An extra £350m a week for the NHS blah blah blah

The article which is the subject of this thread says

THE PARTY BASED ITS FIGURES ON A PLAYER BEING SIGNED FROM A EUROPEAN CLUB WITH THE TRANSFER PAID IN EUROS.

Unless Leeds asked for the Wood fee to be paid in euros your comments are baseless and irrelevant.

[Lancasterclaret]

I'd say the increased transfer fees in Europe are not clearly the fault of Brexit, but its certainly playing a part in the fall of the value of the pound.

[RingoMcCartney]

So what lie are people swallowing?

The lie that it's brexit that's caused transfer fees to go to record levels.

[RingoMcCartney]

The Brexiteers have clearly not read the article - perhaps they only understand figures when they are written on the side of a campaign bus. An extra £350m a week for the NHS blah blah blah

The article which is the subject of this thread says

THE PARTY BASED ITS FIGURES ON A PLAYER BEING SIGNED FROM A EUROPEAN CLUB WITH THE TRANSFER PAID IN EUROS.

Unless Leeds asked for the Wood fee to be paid in euros your comments are baseless and irrelevant.

My comment is only "baseless and irrelevant" cos it shows what an irrelevant, desparate Remoaner the political pygmy Tiny Tim Farron is.

[Bordeauxclaret]

Have you been drinking again?

[Imploding Turtle]

The lie that it's brexit that's caused transfer fees to go to record levels.

Who says that? Can you provide a quote?

[Imploding Turtle]

Who's said that we have broken our transfer record because of Brexit?

Nobody.

So what lie are people swallowing?

The lie that it's brexit that's caused transfer fees to go to record levels.

So lets get this clear. You say that "nobody" has said our transfer record as been broken because of Brexit. But you also say that people are swallowing the lie that our transfer record has been broken because of brexit.

How can people be swallowing a lie that nobody is telling?

[Tall Paul]

So all the Remoaners, like sheep, swallow the lie that we ... have broken our transfer fee record cos of brexit!?

Who's said that we have broken our transfer record because of Brexit?

Nobody.

[RingoMcCartney]

Have you been drinking again?

No. Have you? Cos if you think Barcelona offering 120 million to Liverpool for Couthino. Liverpool being ready to part with 60 million for van dyke. PSG spending 200 million on Neymar from Barcelona. Man United spending 90 million on Pogba. Is ANYTHING to do with brexit you must be p*******.

Stop trying to pin something else on Brexit and accept that there's never been as much money sloshing around in football and It's reflected in transfer fees. It's not rocket science it's not political, it's simply common sense.

[Imploding Turtle]

...Barcelona offering 120 million to Liverpool for Couthino. Liverpool being ready to part with 60 million for van dyke. PSG spending 200 million on Neymar from Barcelona. Man United spending 90 million on Pogba. Is ANYTHING to do with brexit you must be p*******.

Said no one ever.

[Imploding Turtle]

Here's a video of Ringo arriving at a conclusion

[BennyD]

Whether it's down to Brexit (it isn't) or not, who gives a sh!t? We buy who we can afford and get on with it. The bottom line is that we are leaving the EU, thank Christ, so suck it up and move on.

[Imploding Turtle]

Whether it's down to Brexit (it isn't) or not, who gives a sh!t? We buy who we can afford and get on with it. The bottom line is that we are leaving the EU, thank Christ, so suck it up and move on.

Who started this thread?

[RingoMcCartney]

The lie, which is being swallowed, willingly apparently! Is that transfers have gone thru the roof cos of brexit.

It's not. We broke our record transfer fee cos like many other clubs. We've never had as much money. The selling club knows it.

Any way you carry on blaming brexit for all the world's evils.

[Lancasterclaret]

So lets get this right, the increase in transfer fees from europe to the premier league is nothing to do with the two currencies involved?

Is that what is being said here?

[nil_desperandum]

No. Have you? Cos if you think Barcelona offering 120 million to Liverpool for Couthino. Liverpool being ready to part with 60 million for van dyke. PSG spending 200 million on Neymar from Barcelona. Man United spending 90 million on Pogba. Is ANYTHING to do with brexit you must be p*******.

But no one, absolutely no-one, is trying to say or suggest that those high fees are anything remotely to do with brexit.
You keep accusing people of saying it, but can't provide any evidence that anyone has claimed it.
This is exactly the sort of deliberate mis-information / interpretation that has got us into this mess.

[Imploding Turtle]

So lets get this right, the increase in transfer fees from europe to the premier league is nothing to do with the two currencies involved?

Is that what is being said here?

Ringo's having an argument with himself and losing.

[RingoMcCartney]

Whether it's down to Brexit (it isn't) or not, who gives a sh!t? We buy who we can afford and get on with it. The bottom line is that we are leaving the EU, thank Christ, so suck it up and move on.

Well said that man !

[BennyD]

Who started this thread?

It wasn't me that's for sure, I'm merely trying to end it. Nothing will get sorted apart from polishing the same circle.

[Lancasterclaret]

Any way you carry on blaming brexit for all the world's evils.

Again, said no one ever

This is liking stealing candy from a baby.

Ringo, whats happened bud? Normally you can hold an argument but this is **** poor. like, Blackburn Rovers poor.

[RingoMcCartney]

But no one, absolutely no-one, is trying to say or suggest that those high fees are anything remotely to do with brexit.
You keep accusing people of saying it, but can't provide any evidence that anyone has claimed it.
This is exactly the sort of deliberate mis-information / interpretation that has got us into this mess.

I'm saying Tim Farron is claiming it.

"Liberal Democrats have said.

The fall in the value of sterling since the EU referendum has meant Premier League teams have paid out an extra £114 million in summer transfer fees,"

[Imploding Turtle]

I'm saying Tim Farron is claiming it.

But he's not.

[Tall Paul]

I'm saying Tim Farron is claiming it.

He isn't.

Glad we've cleared that one up.

[nil_desperandum]

Whether it's down to Brexit (it isn't) or not, who gives a sh!t? We buy who we can afford and get on with it. The bottom line is that we are leaving the EU, thank Christ, so suck it up and move on.

Till what point?
Till the pound is worth about 50 cents?
Euro and Eurozone continuing to strengthen, absolutely no confidence worldwide in the pound.
But - as I know you are going to say - it'll all be worth it, because we can get "control back" and have a blue passport, (even though we won't be able to afford to use it).

[Lancasterclaret]

Suck it up REMOANERS

See what I did there, I took the word "remainer" and I made it into "remoaner". Get it?

Thats the sense of humour we are going to need with the way our top notch negotiating team are going.

[Lancasterclaret]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4373429/p ... exit-vote/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Sun are reported it.

The Sun ffs

STOP TALKING BRITAIN DOWN