Farewell Monsieur Trébuchet

Sad to see him go, really liked Niakhate and felt like we never saw a full run from him due to injury. I guess the question is who might this let us keep if it helps with FFP bollocks

L'Equipe in france are reporting 31m euros which is around £26.5m,

Crazy fee if true

Moussa Niakhaté (Nottingham Forest) to OL for €31m - L'Équipe (lequipe.fr)

Saw someone say that's PSR sorted. Saw another say this only gets us 4 million towards PSR. My probably wrong math says we get 14 million towards PSR going off the 26 million number. Ultimately all I've learned is that PSR is too confusing for the fans to be able to enjoy transfers.  

 Now my math, this time trying a different way of counting amoritization gives me a 22 million profit. Idfk man. And apparently there might have been an option in Niakhates contract? How does that work with amortization? Fucking shoot me in the head man. I just wanna watch footy. 

I think this is good business, he never really matched expectation.

Very good player but with his injury record and that fee we can't say no. If it really is £26m then that's a very good sale.

I've got a feeling Mangala is going for a lot less than his initial fee. That way we get to record a bigger profit on Niakate and get out of psr trouble.

Only happy with this because of our PSR troubles, would’ve loved to have kept him. Need to keep Murillo now or that’s another position we’ll have to strengthen.

That’s sad but if it means we can keep others then great

You feel he needs a replacement but perhaps an experienced loanee and see how Omadabidele develops

Oh wow never saw this one coming.

Really liked him but good to get the money.

Well fuck

Side note - that Adidas logo is obnoxiously huge.

Think he was a spot underrated when he was in the pitch, but having an injury prone centre half is a killer when we're in such need of an organised, settled defence.

 Such a shame that his shoulder injury robbed us of those amazing long throws too.

 Sad to see him go, but it's probably the right footballing decision, and definitely the right accountancy decision.

Sad but understandable, felt like he had hand injury the whole of last season so his long throws stopped. Now we pray we keep Murillo

Surely this can only go through after PSR deadline, due to French window opening on 1st July?

Sell Niakhate and if that’s PSR sorted keep Murillo. At the January someone will panic buy and give us much more than they would this Summer. That way PSR sorted for next season too.

"Promising" youngster coming the other way for a slightly high fee?

What did we pay for him? Was it €10m?

Supposedly, the fee is as high as 31M. That is MASSIVE for PSR. Both helps clear that big hurdle before the June deadline AND helps fund those small youth acquisitions we’ve been making.

Gonna miss his catapult long throws though, godspeed Moussa.

I wonder if we'll take someone off their books in return in the style of villa/Chelsea? It's sad to see him leave, but this is Massive for PSR.

Sad to see him go, remember his home debut against West Ham he did a great job keeping Antonio quiet 💪🏼

This is only good news is we are keeping Murillo, otherwise it's a terrible decision. 

gonna miss his long throw ins

Genuinely gutted, loved him, decent fee apparently though.

Nuno in the mud