 This video was taken from our live at Five Show over on Patreon. If you would like to come and join us on Patreon for all the exclusive videos and live shows every day, the link is in the description. Well, Blue says, do you think the club will make a big money signing in the summer 40, 50 million plus if they feel that a certain player is worth the fee? It's a really good question. I like questions like that. Yeah. So we had John Blaine in earlier and he did a great video with Baz, which is on Patreon now. But off camera we had a little chat on it, which we should have done on camera because he basically explained FFP to us in a nutshell and he explained that. Good though, wasn't it? So what he explained was that if we sold the player in the summer for like 50 million quid, say like Lucidine, just throwing his name in because he's a 50 million pound player, it's that basically by selling that player, it almost like triples the effect on FFP, doesn't it? So it almost like resets FFP by like triple the effect and he was like, so if you sell an 100 million pound player, which is what like, so like when Liverpool sold Catino, I imagine this is the effect. It basically put them in the good books in FFP for like years. For the next three years. That's right, what are you? But at the same time, if a club can do that, then it really can boost what you can bring in. No, I'm not advocating that at all. I want to keep all our players to build a team. But let's just suppose it works the other way as well, doesn't it? But if you look at, if you look at, say, Cenk Towson, right, Steve Parrish was talking the other day, I don't know whether there's anything in this or whether he's talking or not, but he said he likes the player and he hoping that they can pay 20 million for him, keep him in the summer. And we all? Right, so if Everton sold Cenk Towson for 20 million pounds in the summer, essentially that's 20 million pounds cash coming in. We waited out, didn't we? Yeah, so... Cenk Towson, to get a profit on Cenk Towson, we have to sell him for 16 million and then we make a profit on him. Yeah, but if it's just safe for argument's sake, just because we're doing it here, 20 million for Towson means that we can essentially go and buy two players for 30 million each and then just pay for them over five years. So we'd have an influx of 20 million cash and then if we got the two players for 30 million and paid six million pounds a year for them, in fact they could buy three players, three thirds. So as Royal Blues saying this, if we sold Cenk Towson for that money, we could go and buy, I don't know, Timo Verne for argument's sake for 50 million quid, but he'd actually only cost us 8 million pounds a year for like the P&L rules as well and for FFP. So that way, it's a good one. That way's a good, you know, it's looking at it, that way's excellent. Obviously it has other implications, but if you throw everything into that mix, so if we can get rid of the likes, we don't belasi the P&L everyone before. What John was saying was, essentially, if you can get into the good, let's say like the green area of FFP, the nice area, and that might mean selling like one player for a hell of a lot of money. Every like. Well now just be honest with me, if you get yourself in that safe area and then every year you're like again, Liverpool selling one of their very average players, putting a Liverpool tax on it, getting like 20 million quid for people like that or 15, 20 million quid. That'll keep you safe every year. So you're turning over players, so you will do like what they've done and what Chelsea have done. We've gone out, bought players, put them in their squad or put them in the club, give them a couple of years playing or being around the club and then selling them because everyone goes, well they've played for Liverpool and we need a player. And that'll keep you ticking over and that'll keep you safe. It's not a case of you sell a player for 150 million and then you've got 150 million. That's not how it works. It's a weird system, very weird. So, but going back to your original point, could Everton do that then in the summer with the limitations of FFP? I think, I don't think we could do it without, I think we have to get players out the door before we could do it and that isn't again, not to label the point but Everton have got cash available to spend but they're not allowed to spend it without doing the kind of things we've just said. So I'm quite sure there's players there who they've got lined up, there will be and it'll be a case of Marcel Brans, who can he get out and how can we flip that and obviously sponsorship and everything else. And I only mentioned Luka Dean because actually if you think about it and I'm not saying a sell player is fantastic but what I mean is that he is almost like a perfect candidate for having to start again in a way. You know, he's a left back, he's a very, very good left back but he could be replaced let's say and then he could be. Maybe that's a flip him off. Exactly. You could get 50 to 60 million for him. The way it works out, that would probably put us in the green zone for quite a while and then what we have to do then is make sure that we don't go doing what we've done every summer where we'll just throw money away and we start playing by the rules but to a plan and then we can go out and buy 40, 50 million pound player because number one we live in that money from selling a player but also the way FFP works it gives us wiggle room. What we were looking for, the one John was doing we were talking 200 million pound players and the way it works out I think we worked it out it cost you like 60 million a year with wages and with what you're paying on their contract so I'm not easily covered so there's ways around it it's just it's not what you think so to speak it's not 50 million out means 50 million in that's all you can spend it you've got to drill down into them numbers and then there's many ways to do it but to be able to start spending we are going to have to flip a couple of players and obviously the earlier we do that the better and this is where a new stadium is so important because what we've seen with the Manchester City thing is with FFP is like we all know that it's all about supposed to be staying within your means staying within your means not overdoing it not overspending well if you've got a grand number one if you've got a grand then suddenly you could go this is the this is the megafauna arena it's going to attract it can attract this much in sponsorship where there's some part I can't do that but a new stadium straight away can do that so and again everything you can replace your corporates at a better price as you can say you've sold this many pies and that many drinks and all the rest of it so that's why again a stadium is essential but will that happen this summer I don't think so I don't think Evan will be quite in that market this summer £40, £50 million maybe one because I think I think A. Ancelotti will have been given the full picture and he's been very open on on what he wants to do I also think John is quite he's one of those people that's quite straightforward and go we can do that or we can't and he hasn't dismissed any of that we talked about but I think we'll have to be very creative how we do it and very clear how we do it and we may see and we saw this thing yesterday we may see a couple of the things we'll pay he's on loan for a year or two years whatever which means in other words they're getting the money no matter what but there's ways and means around it and I think you'll also see some ex-sponsorship stuff coming in this summer we already know it but also what is good if there are three potential new sponsors there's definitely going to be one which we know the shade sponsor very strong rumours about the sleeve but Rovio who Angry Birds they've come out today apparently said they're hoping to extend it although there's talk that haven't already got someone in place and also there's the kit deal as well if you're in the beginning you can put that all in and go new sponsorship, new sponsorship all this year that goes in the box even though it's weird because with a player you can go well that's over five years but with a sponsorship you go no it's all this year you get everything back so and then the next year you come up with another creative way to get money in 100% you've got it so there's all those factors I'm sure the £140-£50m players because that's the average for good players now but we'll have to wait and see if that happens