Do you think they wanted to sell armstrong to make the books look good for woukd be investors ?

City had our kecks off there.

Again....

I've heard it was his release clause. Not sure why no-one has reported this.

65 mil plus Grealish I guess. What does that make it 80?

Is he lying about the turnover from last year. I know some don’t like it but I asked chatGPT to work out our SCR% based on transfers going back 5 years.

My estimate for Everton

I’d break it down like this using your £260m turnover assumption:

Wages: perhaps £145–155m
Player amortisation: ~£60–70m
Agents/other qualifying squad costs: ~£10–15m
Less player-sale profits: potentially £10–20m

That gives something in the region of:

£200–225m net squad cost

Against £260m revenue:

£200m ÷ £260m = 77%

£225m ÷ £260m = 87%

So I’d estimate Everton at roughly 80–87% if the £260m is genuinely the SCR definition of football revenue and the player-sale contribution is reasonably strong.

I think the player sale value is too low as well.

We should be under the 85%.

Do they just want money in the bank to pay off interest on the debts.

He wanted to go. The player has the power.

I'm not even convinced it is PSR driven. I think the Franklin's want the club to be able to wipe it's own arse ahead of a sale. No more investment.

Thought that myself.
You wouldn’t think we’d be under massive financial pressure to sell in them circumstances.