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Carlos Miguel Ribeiro Dias - Cafú

Carlos

Massive Member
This won't end well. I would have given the poor bloke at least 24 hours before starting his thread
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
Without wanting to sound pessimistic, I can't help but get the feeling that he's nailed on for the bomb squad. I'd rather we didn't bother, regardless of what happens with Silva.
 

Carlos

Massive Member
Without wanting to sound pessimistic, I can't help but get the feeling that he's nailed on for the bomb squad. I'd rather we didn't bother, regardless of what happens with Silva.
I'm sure EM is doing this deal with financial interests firmly at the forefront of his mind. In which case does it really matter if he's in the bomb squad and the finances look better?
 

Heffing Psycho!

Steve Chettle
I'm sure EM is doing this deal with financial interests firmly at the forefront of his mind. In which case does it really matter if he's in the bomb squad and the finances look better?

Probably this. Sounds like Silva wasn't gonna get much of a look in this season anyway so get him off the books before we lose him for nothing in 6 months and get someone in who we might be able to to turn a bit of profit on in 12 months.
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
I'm sure EM is doing this deal with financial interests firmly at the forefront of his mind. In which case does it really matter if he's in the bomb squad and the finances look better?

Given that no money is involved in this deal, I don't see how it benefits our finances. Even letting Silva just go to Olympiacos on a free (as shit as that would be) would be a better deal for us than this swap deal.

Cafu just isn't needed. It's just a bizarre deal with no benefit on our side of things.
 

Carlos

Massive Member
Probably this. Sounds like Silva wasn't gonna get much of a look in this season anyway so get him off the books before we lose him for nothing in 6 months and get someone in who we might be able to to turn a bit of profit on in 12 months.
Yep makes sense. The owner has 2 clubs so this sort of financial management makes sense
 

incapable hulk

Best served cold
They have to just be trolling Alf at this point, don't they? :LOL:
 

Carlos

Massive Member
Given that no money is involved in this deal, I don't see how it benefits our finances. Even letting Silva just go to Olympiacos on a free (as shit as that would be) would be a better deal for us than this swap deal.

Cafu just isn't needed. It's just a bizarre deal with no benefit on our side of things.
See heffings post. It does make sense. Pay a player to sit on the side and sell him for f*** all or move him to another "branch" and bring in a bomb squad player on significantly less wages and possibly get a small fee for nothing next summer?
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
See heffings post. It does make sense. Pay a player to sit on the side and sell him for f*** all or move him to another "branch" and bring in a bomb squad player on significantly less wages and possibly get a small fee for nothing next summer?

On the face of it, it seems like Silva actually has more value than Cafu though (at least Olympiacos seem to think so).

It is feasible that we could sell Silva for a 7 figure fee (perhaps making a small profit or at least getting back what we paid for him), whereas Cafu seems destined for the bomb squad.

I don't see how Forest benefit from this at all, either on the pitch or financially. Feels like a deal done purely for Olys benefits.
 

Carlos

Massive Member
On the face of it, it seems like Silva actually has more value than Cafu though (at least Olympiacos seem to think so).

It is feasible that we could sell Silva for a 7 figure fee (perhaps making a small profit or at least getting back what we paid for him), whereas Cafu seems destined for the bomb squad.

I don't see how Forest benefit from this at all, either on the pitch or financially. Feels like a deal done purely for Olys benefits.
You do realise that Olys benefits also equal forests? Why do you think EM brought an english club? To watch them wallow in the second tier or go for the big money league?

If you believe EM only cares about Oly then surely his interest would be to get Forest promoted as it then makes more money for him to spend at Olympiakos? Not the other way around.
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
You do realise that Olys benefits also equal forests? Why do you think EM brought an english club? To watch them wallow in the second tier or go for the big money league?

If you believe EM only cares about Oly then surely his interest would be to get Forest promoted as it then makes more money for him to spend at Olympiakos? Not the other way around.

I'm not one of those people who thinks EM is using us a feeder club, or any other daft conspiracy theory. I think EM'S ownership has been mostly positive. But I don't see any benefit to Forest in this one particular deal.

It's not even the case that I'm that bothered about Silva leaving, it's more the dumping of another player we don't need onto our books that I don't like. We are well stocked in that position, and will probably spend the next year or two paying this Cafu bloke to not play football (like we are already doing with numerous other players).

We gain nothing on the pitch with this signing, and financially we'd actually be better off just letting Silva go for free rather than taking on Cafu's wages.
 

Heffing Psycho!

Steve Chettle
I'm not one of those people who thinks EM is using us a feeder club, or any other daft conspiracy theory. I think EM'S ownership has been mostly positive. But I don't see any benefit to Forest in this one particular deal.

It's not even the case that I'm that bothered about Silva leaving, it's more the dumping of another player we don't need onto our books that I don't like. We are well stocked in that position, and will probably spend the next year or two paying this Cafu bloke to not play football (like we are already doing with numerous other players).

We gain nothing on the pitch with this signing, and financially we'd actually be better off just letting Silva go for free rather than taking on Cafu's wages.

You're also assuming Sabri doesn't want this lad and that we're just being lumped with him though. I'd agree we don't need another one and a more attacking midfielder would suit us a lot better but I'm not Sabri Lamouchi...
 

Carlos

Massive Member
I'm not one of those people who thinks EM is using us a feeder club, or any other daft conspiracy theory. I think EM'S ownership has been mostly positive. But I don't see any benefit to Forest in this one particular deal.

It's not even the case that I'm that bothered about Silva leaving, it's more the dumping of another player we don't need onto our books that I don't like. We are well stocked in that position, and will probably spend the next year or two paying this Cafu bloke to not play football (like we are already doing with numerous other players).

We gain nothing on the pitch with this signing, and financially we'd actually be better off just letting Silva go for free rather than taking on Cafu's wages.
Because Silva gets a longer contract at the sister club. (It ran out this year at forest so would have left on a free to a club that isn't under the same ownership) if he gets sold from Olympiakos it might be half a mill more than either club would have got if he was to have gone on a bosman to sparta buttfuck for nothing. Cafu comes to forest for a tiny wage, balances the books in both clubs and could be sold for a nominal 100k in the summer.

That's 600k more than the jack shit either side would have got if Silva sat on a wage in west bridgford for the sake of it
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
We'd probably lose more paying Cafu to rot in the bomb squad for a year or two then any transfer fee we would receive for him (if any at all).

Silva at least has some potential resale value, though even letting him go to Olympiacos on a free would make more financial sense for Forest than doing this swap deal; at least we'd lose another wage from the wage bill.

I don't see any benefit at all in bringing Cafu to Forest. We already have too many players on the books we are paying to do nothing, the last thing we needed was another.
 

Carlos

Massive Member
We'd probably lose more paying Cafu to rot in the bomb squad for a year or two then any transfer fee we would receive for him (if any at all).

Silva at least has some potential resale value, though even letting him go to Olympiacos on a free would make more financial sense for Forest than doing this swap deal; at least we'd lose another wage from the wage bill.

I don't see any benefit at all in bringing Cafu to Forest. We already have too many players on the books we are paying to do nothing, the last thing we needed was another.
I don't get what you don't understand from what I wrote. Let's just say we leave it to the Billionaire businessman and his advisors on the best way to move his assets around between his 2 businesses
 

Heffing Psycho!

Steve Chettle
From Twitter, dunno about the figures but the general idea makes sense:

"Re Silva there is a loop hole in FFP, if we sell a player it is either a loss or gain depending on his transfer less depreciation. If we swap a player we can value both players in the swap at say £10m above accounts value and it shows as a profit for FFP. #nffc"
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
I don't get what you don't understand from what I wrote. Let's just say we leave it to the Billionaire businessman and his advisors on the best way to move his assets around between his 2 businesses

I don't understand why you think we are going to benefit from bringing Cafu here. We are well stocked in that position, so we are going to be paying wages to a player we don't need. I'm really not seeing what Forest are getting out of this deal.
 

Carlos

Massive Member
I don't understand why you think we are going to benefit from bringing Cafu here. We are well stocked in that position, so we are going to be paying wages to a player we don't need. I'm really not seeing what Forest are getting out of this deal.
Basically you give your business partner a quid that if you didn't it would be worth nothing in 6 months time, in return he gives you a penny. In 12 months time that quid is still worth a quid, rather than nothing and the penny is free. In 12 months you've gone from having a quid that will be worth nothing in 6 months to having £1.01 after 12
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
From Twitter, dunno about the figures but the general idea makes sense:

"Re Silva there is a loop hole in FFP, if we sell a player it is either a loss or gain depending on his transfer less depreciation. If we swap a player we can value both players in the swap at say £10m above accounts value and it shows as a profit for FFP. #nffc"

I'd be surprised if it was that simple to be honest. I could be wrong, but I'm sure even the buffoons at the EFL wouldn't allow that.
 

Harvey

Chrissy Cohen
From Twitter, dunno about the figures but the general idea makes sense:

"Re Silva there is a loop hole in FFP, if we sell a player it is either a loss or gain depending on his transfer less depreciation. If we swap a player we can value both players in the swap at say £10m above accounts value and it shows as a profit for FFP. #nffc"

It's almost as if FFP is an ill thought out load of bollocks
 
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