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🚨🥇| Former #Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has hired law firm Proskauer to asses potential litigation against ENIC, as he considers suing his former business partners, after being unceremoniously thrown out of #Tottenham, according to people familiar with the matter. @business
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@TheMighty_Spurs @CommonsBTC @RoyalMail @Ofcom @CWUnews My brother is leaving ( not retiring) after 25 years service
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@CommonsBTC @RoyalMail @Ofcom You really MUST listen to @CWUnews tomorrow, they'll tell you what 1000's of posties are also saying
A workforce that's been left behind & DEVALUED by POOR management & GREED
£13.09 per hour, 2 tier wage & conditions structure, unmanageable work loads
WE'RE FED UP & ANGRY😡
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We'll be questioning @RoyalMail’s new owner Daniel Křetínský about its performance as the UK’s universal postal operator.
We'll also hear from @Ofcom and Communications Workers Union representatives following the announcement of changes to the USO.
Tuesday 24 March, 2.30pm
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@KeithTheGooner If we did go down
This'll be
Arsenal v chelsea next season when they play each other
GIF
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Arsenal fans trying to work out if it’s warm enough to wear shorts to Wembley tomorrow whilst Tottenham fans are trying to work out how many wins they need to prevent relegation
There are weekends, and there are weekends
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@JaiP72 They'll get plenty of chances v us it's whether they convert them
That's been their problem
If we are defensively sound we'll win
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Liverpool scored with a well worked well thought out corner tonight
Our corners are fucking shit everytime #totatm
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Oh dear newcastle concede after 6 mins and a newcastle player slips #barnew
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@bayer04_en You're talking too much You're gonna look pretty foolish when you you get knocked out
Beat them then troll
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@israel_ajoje But Liverpool fans said the £450m spent in the summer was from the coutinho money
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When Barcelona announced the signing of Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool in January 2018, the headline said he cost £142 million. It was everywhere. The deal was said to be record breaking and monumental. It was the most expensive signing in Barcelona's history at the time.
But here is what nobody told you. You know I will always tell you. Liverpool only received £82 million of the reported £142 million guaranteed. The remaining £36 million was tied to conditions like Barcelona winning the Champions League and Coutinho winning the Ballon d'Or. Neither happened. Liverpool never saw that £36 million. The number you read in the headlines was just the ceiling of the deal. The amount paid was the floor.
You see that number you celebrated or mourned depending on which side you were on? It was never real.
And this is exactly where we begin this series on what industry insiders actually look at during a transfer.
We start with the Transfer Fee. Are you with me? Good.
Every transfer fee has three parts and most fans only ever talk about one. The headline fee is rarely ever the full thing. Modern deals are built from a fixed base amount, conditional add-ons, and staged instalments.
So when a deal is reported as £100 million, what you are actually looking at could be £60 million guaranteed, £25 million in performance add-ons, and £15 million in team-based conditions. If those add-ons are difficult to trigger, the real spend is far closer to £60 million than £100 million. Coutinho here is your proof.
Another example is Barcelona's Vitor Roque. Media outlets quoted a €60 million fee for his move to Barcelona in 2024. But in reality, the fixed portion was €30 million, with another €30 million in bonuses.
Barcelona's Sporting Director Deco even confirmed it publicly: "Vitor Roque cost 30 million euros, not 60 million euros, because no bonus was reached." Half the reported fee simply never existed.
One other thing insiders consider in the transfer fee is instalments, because this is where clubs protect their cash flow.
A transfer fee is almost never paid in one lump sum. A common structure I am aware of is 50 percent once the transfer is completed, 25 percent on the first anniversary, and 25 percent on the second anniversary.
So even the guaranteed portion of a fee is not handed over in one go. It is spread across months and years. This means a club can technically complete a £100 million signing while only moving £50 million in the first month. That is the kind of financial planning that flies in the industry, and it is why clubs can spend heavily in one window without immediately going under water.
There is one more thing worth knowing here. Add-ons.
Add-ons are not all created equal. Some are realistic and almost certain to trigger. For example "£5 million if the player makes 30 appearances." Others are almost impossible, like "£10 million if the player wins the Ballon d'Or."
Clubs on the buying side push for the impossible ones deliberately. Selling clubs fight for the realistic ones. That negotiation alone can be worth tens of millions, and it happens completely out of sight of the cameras- noone except insiders know.
So the next time you see a transfer fee in a headline, ask yourself three things. How much of that is actually guaranteed? How is it being paid and over what period? And how realistic are those add-ons? The number is just the beginning. The structure is everything.
Later today, we go deep on amortisation, the accounting tool that lets clubs spend hundreds of millions and still look financially responsible on paper. It is one of the most important concepts in modern football finance and almost nobody outside the boardroom understands it properly.
Don't miss it. I hope you enjoyed this read
My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.
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