Except he wasn't right at all. It could work out better for Stones, as the risk of him getting relegated to the bench in favor of someone that could be his dad (possibly literally) was too high. Everton won't ever get a significantly better deal though. Even if they somehow did get more money it won't have as much spending power on the market as the offer last summer.

Keeping the player for another season has a not insignificant cash value though!

Everton were absolutely right not to sell. Stones is getting better and better all the time which is great news for Everton.

I get your point about the better deal thing as in if Everton got £50m for him,it won't buy as much next year as £40m would get this year but sometimes clubs are better off just keeping the player. Being able to splash some cash in the transfer market doesn't necessarily make your team better. Look at Liverpool when they sold Suarez, or Spurs when they sold Bale, or even Villa when they sold Benteke. Loads of money to strengthen and all worse off.

Did some (very) rough expected value calculations for the next 4 games for the top 5 and end up with this on january 1

Arsenal - 37.25
City - 37.2
Leicester - 36.35
United - 36.3
Spurs - 33.3

Seems kind of reasonable, the January window should be pretty interesting

the counterpoint to this argument obviously being Southampton. If the scouting is good enough there is a wealth of talent around the world that does not cost megabucks that you can reinvest a huge transfer fee for. Also taking into account that there is a non-zero, and probably pretty high chance that the young promising player you have will never be worth 40m again.

and with a little bit of bad luck you get relegated and lose a ****load of cash
quality is so high now that "midtable teams" aren't safe anymore

Ya, you scout those cheap players and it simply doesn't work out for one reason or another. Your youth players aren't good enough/don't step up to the plate.

It's gonna be huge!

Nice article on the unpredictable PL!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35021767

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basically what aston villa did too as they sold benteke/delph and reinvested in a lot of promising players ayew/amavi/traore/gueye.
hasn't been working out so far(team rebuilding oftentimes takes some time) and now they look destined for relegation already

yeah you can't sell all of your valuable players at once. sadly, they were about the only valuable players on the team.

if everton lost stones it wouldn't have hurt them much and they could have got 3 top prospects with the money received from selling 1 top prospect. it would hurt them on wages though. when are big/useless earners (i'm assuming) like barry and pienaar coming off the books?

Decided pretty early on that Campbell wasn't going to make it at Arsenal...been re-thinking that a lot in the past few weeks.

Mahrez is just awesome to watch. He just signed a 4-year extension a few months ago too.

FWIW use chances created instead of key passes.

Key Passes = passes that lead to shots but don't get scored
Chances Created = passes that lead to shots (so essentially cc = kp + assists).

Really stupid but worth noting.

To confuse things even more, statsbomb came up with their own stat called chances created which is key passes + personal shots taken. I believe they eventually changed the name to shot contribution instead to avoid confusion.

Leicester debt is £103m

You forgot to give Plop their EV of 12 points.

7-4 now, think Robertson's got this

Write a letter to the company like 2+2er Guallian or w/e his name was and post the evidence.

And they are able to service the debt with no issues what so ever. Didn't even bother to check if it was debt the owner has placed on the club or moved to an interest free loan. Or he's shifted it to a different holding company - like Chelsea have.

The clubs assets are growing every year and with revenue of at least £100m next year if they stay in the premier league.

Their wages to turn over according to those figures is 130%, with revenue at £23m, giving them a wage of £30m. Those are their championship figures - which is high due to the owner wanting to get promoted. Make perfect sense.

They received £70m in TV rights alone last year, which will make their wage bill <50% which is awesome.

If they aren't in the PL they are pretty much ****ed - obviously unless the owner pumps more money in.

U so jelly of Bale.

Campbell is slowly establishing himself as a player you want to have in your squad. I thought this was a make or break year for Ox and it seems like it is going to be the former...maybe he is going to get a couple of starts still given our thin midfield I just dont see how he can just magically gain football intelligence in the coming weeks. Should have been Walcott 2.0 not Campbell Light

lol.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/...20151207104497

He's so much better technically than Walcott and is a much better dribbler as well, would still like to give him a bit more time and see how he looks after a long period without injury.

I think it was only last season where he was one of our best players over a few months and was actually using the ball relatively well before he got injured.

I know the chances of him actually avoiding injury are pretty small and if he has another setback then it's probably gg. I still think you're all a bit too quick to write him off, he's still miles ahead of Campbell.

Talksport's understanding of accounting and finance appears to be about as good as it is of anything else - terrible.

This is great.

Skill/physical attribute wise yes, but he just keeps running into players instead of taking clearly better passes. I hope I'm going to be wrong but I just don't see how he's going to stop those stupid things.

Monk's been sacked.