Ghost of Clough

Can't wait for tonight. Will we pass the test. On paper it looks difficult. 
How will Bogle and Lowe perform? 
And that's just in the accounts. Buzzing. 

This is on Twitter:

He's Polish
He's Polish
And he likes his sausage
His sausage 
His sausage
He washes it down with Vodka
With Vodka 
With Vodka 
that's the way he likes it
He likes it
He likes it 
 
There you go, completely original song
 
Move along, nothing to see here 
 

We want to hold the book value of players high until the final year.
What I would do is amortise on a straight line towards zero at the average retirement age (let's say 35), but the remaining amount written off in the final year.
In this example, we sign a 23 year old for £5m on a 5 year deal.
12 years until he's 35 so just over £400k amortisation a year. If he signs extensions keeping him at the club until 35, then it will be the same every year (shown by the blue line).
If he doesn't sign an extension and leaves at the end of his 5 years, then £3.3m will be amortised in the final year (shown by the year line)

Some tough decisions if we want to rest our first 11 as we haven't got anyone at RB, CB, or the 3 AM roles right now. We're at the point where we may as well play some of the U23s as we're either getting out of embargo and playing them doesn't matter, or we're stuck in embargo and can't sign anyone anyway.
I'm assuming we won't rush Ebosele, Lawrence or McDonald into the side so all miss out.
Allsop
Bardell   Stearman   Cashin   Buchanan
Hutchinson   Watson
Sibley   Morrison   Williams
Stretton
Subs: Roos, JBrown, Forsyth, Bird, Shinnie, Borkovic, Baldock
JBrown, LThompson and Borkovic to come off the bench.

Then that has to be voted in by the clubs. As of right now it hasn't, so we don't have to use it if we can 'formulate' a suitable alternative.

I'm still not convinced that the number '8' should be taken literally, it seemed an off the cuff comment with a made up largish number and I don't think should be read into much more than Rooney wants to make more signings.
With that said I'd more or less agree that's areas I think we'd be looking at. I would say I think it's more likely we look for a RW (with a left foot) than a LW, mostly because I feel what we are building towards benefits forwards being inverted and Jozwiak has looked better on the left than the right. I suspect if we bring anyone in up front they will be first choice as I think we have players to do the role now in Baldock and Stretton so would need a clear upgrade for it top be worthwhile.
There's one other thing I think worth considering when it comes to signings; we've mostly been focused on covering gaps so far and if things open up for us we might well consider trying to upgrade an area or two. In turn this might see one or two leaving.

Some tough decisions if we want to rest our first 11 as we haven't got anyone at RB, CB, or the 3 AM roles right now. We're at the point where we may as well play some of the U23s as we're either getting out of embargo and playing them doesn't matter, or we're stuck in embargo and can't sign anyone anyway.
I'm assuming we won't rush Ebosele, Lawrence or McDonald into the side so all miss out.
Allsop
Bardell   Stearman   Cashin   Buchanan
Hutchinson   Watson
Sibley   Morrison   Williams
Stretton
Subs: Roos, JBrown, Forsyth, Bird, Shinnie, Borkovic, Baldock
JBrown, LThompson and Borkovic to come off the bench.

Some tough decisions if we want to rest our first 11 as we haven't got anyone at RB, CB, or the 3 AM roles right now. We're at the point where we may as well play some of the U23s as we're either getting out of embargo and playing them doesn't matter, or we're stuck in embargo and can't sign anyone anyway.
I'm assuming we won't rush Ebosele, Lawrence or McDonald into the side so all miss out.
Allsop
Bardell   Stearman   Cashin   Buchanan
Hutchinson   Watson
Sibley   Morrison   Williams
Stretton
Subs: Roos, JBrown, Forsyth, Bird, Shinnie, Borkovic, Baldock
JBrown, LThompson and Borkovic to come off the bench.

Then that has to be voted in by the clubs. As of right now it hasn't, so we don't have to use it if we can 'formulate' a suitable alternative.

Then that has to be voted in by the clubs. As of right now it hasn't, so we don't have to use it if we can 'formulate' a suitable alternative.

4 2nd year scholars and 7 1st year scholars started
1 of the subs coming on is definitely a U16. The other 2 could be U16 or even U15

I'll quietly pretend that I didn't say anything, for I am a moron who can't read ?

Something similar to this (pre-bosman)?

 
From the accounts:


 
The wording in their accounts changed slightly in 1992:

 
Then tweaked again in 1995:

 
Bosman kicked in the following year with clubs adopting the straight-line approach.

There are no rules to say it has to be straight-line

There are no rules to say it has to be straight-line

There are no rules to say it has to be straight-line

Source? I've only seem randomly on here stating it (as fact)

4 2nd year scholars and 7 1st year scholars started
1 of the subs coming on is definitely a U16. The other 2 could be U16 or even U15

Well the accounts are due to be submitted by Tuesday...