BlueCityBrain

What started as messy Excel sheets became charts, then power bi dashboards, and now a full platform valuball .co It’s a bit surreal to be at this point to be honest. Ive poured hours into Excel sheets and Power BI over the years, so this platform’s really been built out of love of this stuff (banter lol 😂). And honestly, who better to build it with than @KieranMaguire someone who’s already led the way on the accounts side. Here’s what you’ll find on the platform 📊 30+ years of Premier League club accounts 🔁 10+ years of sourced transfer data 🏟️ 105 clubs from the Prem to League Two 📈 10+ dashboard types including simulators, comparisons, league views 💼 20+ financial metrics per club like wages, revenue, amortisation and more 📝 Blogs, blogs more blogs (🔜) And much more to add as well Would love any feedback to help us get this kicked off🙏

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Rodris 2019/20 £62.8m would have cost City £103m in today’s market if we adjust for football inflation. So a Bouaddi transfer at around £75-90m ain’t so bad. We just have to adjust how fees close to £100m are in our head they are are basically becoming the old £60m transfer from 6-7 years ago. City’s revenue in 2019/20 was £478m it’s gone up 30-35% since then. As has most of the league.

Adding to this from the minutes played perspective. Rodri had played four total seasons before his move to Manchester City. League only 90s as follows below. 15/16 Villarreal > 1.1 16/17 Villarreal > 9.4 17/18 Villarreal > 35.9 18/19 Atlético Madrid > 30.4 He was only a starting midfielder for two of those four seasons. 76.8 cumulative 90s played in the league until joining City. Bouaddi has played three total seasons before being linked to a move this summer to Manchester City. League 90s as follows below. 23/24 Lille > 1.5 24/25 Lille > 12.8 25/26 Lille > 25.8 He's only been a starting midfielder for one of those three seasons. 40.1 cumulative 90s played in the league until this summer. _ If we look at only European competitions. Rodri had two seasons in the Europa League, one in the Champions League, before moving to City. 13.1 90s played and 13 starts. Bouaddi has played in the Conference, Europa, and Champions League with Lille. 5+ starts in the last three seasons. 19 starts and 19.3 90s played. So in this department, he's ahead of Rodri. _ For all competitions with their clubs. Rodri had played culmultatively 103.3 90s up to the summer he made the move. For Bouaddi, until this summer, he's on 63.8. _ Now, how about their national teams? Before joining Manchester City, Rodri started two friendly games for Spain. Against Wales and Bosnia. Two appearances off the bench against Germany (8') and Croatia (31'). That's it. Bouaddi started two friendly games for Morocco, and then went on to start 5/6 games for them in the World Cup, including each game in the knockout rounds. Brazil, the Netherlands, and France are included in that run. Also ahead of Rodri here.

@Gazoaks Lol how many years you want?

@BlueCityBrain 11 years, what a weird specific number. 😂😂

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@9320pod @mcfc_felix Yup exactly. If he comes in and becomes one of the best DMs in the world we'd laugh at the fee as a "bargain". If it doenst work out - it can happen after 2-3 years we'd sell him at a small loss/profit and move onto the next player as with every top club.

I've been saying it for years and people don't seem to listen. Transfers are just binary. They either work out or they don't. Reijnders came in 'cheap' at 55 million euros. Irrelevant as he was a dud. Like you say Rodri came in years ago as one of our most expensive signings. Fee looks cheap now. Even the FFP/SCR stuff is irrelevant. The club have more than enough revenues to invest heavily in the squad. Especially when Pep's team has slowly been aged and phased out.

City have gone mad

@mcfc_felix Was Rodri at the time worth it at £63m? (one of our most expensive signings when we did it) Fees just don't make sense anymore because were not used to it. £90m is the old £60m lol.

@BlueCityBrain @slbsn But he is worth 60M max. The price is just absurd

@9320pod comments on him back then were funny too. So many comments like "nah cant trust Portuguese league" need proven players lol.

Neves was 70 million euros two years ago at 19 years old.

@themagic_tophat And I’ve realize a bug on this it’s doing growth backwards 🫩

@themagic_tophat There’s a lot of hidden settings and stuff so I’ll eventually do a guide on each page where it shows what each page is capable of. The bars are tappable for example

@themagic_tophat Tap rankings 😉can sort by year or by totals and then inflate by inflation either CPI or football inflation by Kieran’s method

@BlueCityBrain This is good! Will you add a setting for inflation too like Kieran does?

@TheSecretScout_ @David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC City aren’t spending 100m to send a guy out on loan. This just means he’s most likely integrated with Rodri to leave either this summer or next..

@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Don’t go yet! 2 years time. Or Man City buy now but send back on loan! He needs to start every game!

🚨 Man City pushing hard for Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille. High among 18yo’s suitors (#PSG not in contention) & while others favour season on loan at #LOSC, #MCFC would integrate now. Price ~€100m + Morocco int’l expected to make decision soon @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/74423…

@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC I love this

@themagic_tophat Unfortunately the imminent part has been going for like 12+ months. Its ridiculous. I doubt its the 3rd. Either way a shambles.

Was going to do a post on it soon. I very much doubt an initial decision is still pending. For context, NatWest Markets plc v Bilta (UK) Ltd [2021] was ordered a retrial when its decision was still waiting after 19 months at the High Court. Chancellor of the High Court absolutely blasted it. He said decisions like these should need a good reason to take over 3 months in the courts and if they do, they get closely monitored. For it to take this long in private arbitration when there’s a requirement in the rules for a decision as soon as practicable… and the arbitrators have been working on other cases… totally inexcusable if it weren’t already out. Career enders. A hearing on sanctions and final award should be quick too. So no excuses. Only 2 possibilities I see: 1) Final Award is coming imminently. By end of July. 2) They have it but they’re waiting for the end of the World Cup (they shouldn’t be and could open themselves up to damages) 3) City launched an appeal after the decision on liability was issued and before the hearing on Sanctions

It’s absolutely insane that’s it’s the 12th of July in 2026 and yet we still don’t have a decision/outcome on 115. Regardless of the decision the process has been terrible.

No way we value Jack Grealish at £50m with 1 year left on his deal and at £300k+ wages. Non-sense City will accept anything near the £20m mark as that would cover his book value without taking a profit on books hit. Clearing that heavy amortization and excessive wage of the bill will be the goal.

If theyre good enough theyll get into our first team. If theyre not they wont and will be sold for equal value to their book value or for a semi large profit. These signings are all gambles in the hopes of avoiding paying a £100m+ fee for one of them in future. Alvarez was exactly that as well there was some talks of him going out on loan initially but Pep loved him when he saw him and was a proper part of the squad for 2 seasons and 2 years later he was worth £86m. Were trying to avoid mistakes like Enzo Fernandez where we had the chance to sign him for like ~£10m only for us to say no and not even 12 months later he was being sold for £100m after 1 good season.

What’s the long term plan with Sverre Nypan and Claudio Echeverri? Are City signing elite young talent simply as high value assets, knowing they can generate profit later? Or are these genuine first team projects being developed for the next cycle?

@StevenMcinerney Yeh fair. Dont forget Lommel is part of the CFG group as well so we will have a lot more control overall than say a loan to a club in a championship for his development and playtime and at his age id say thats probably more important than playing in a "better" league.

Ah tbf for some reason I had in my head he was a year or two older than that, so fair enough. Maybe its a knowledge issue for me, but I was under the impression that the Norwegian league is seen as really strong at the moment. If the Belgian league is better, okay! And you're right of course that development isn't linear, but I definitely feel the plan was much more likely to not step back from the Championship to a lesser league (IMO)

Ooft i can't imagine this was the plan at all when he signed.