Mark Chapman

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521 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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The News Agents · Eddie Howe quits Newcastle... Why now? - The Sports Agents · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So when we look at transfer fees now...

Are we still looking at whether clubs sell academy players and whether that's pure profit?

Is that still relevant?

So when Morgan Rodgers, who admittedly was not an academy player at Aston Villa, but when Morgan Rodgers moves from Aston Villa to Chelsea, how are we viewing that transfer fee within squad cost rules?

So that amortisation, which is, I don't know, you sign a player for £30 million and they sign a five-year contract, that is £6 million per year under the old rules.

And the new rules.

But you get only...

So when Aston Villa, again, I go back to them as an example because there's this interesting transfer period that they had in selling Morgan Rogers, but then from the club they sold it to, Chelsea, they brought Alejandro Garnaccio in, but they brought him in on loan with, I think, various conditions to buy him.

Again, there's an accounting reason.

The squad cost ratio as well, when this was being brought in, there were several Premier League clubs who voted against it.

And through your explanations, people might understand why certain clubs were against it.

Because if you are basing everything on your turnover, then that, understandably, is going to favour, in inverted commas, the bigger clubs.

And you go back five years ago and teams were selling their training grounds as well, weren't they?

Or, you know, I think some clubs actually sold their grounds to their owner.

Correct.

If memory serves me right.

So...

Where we are at now, are there still loopholes to be exploited?

I don't want to go too far down what's happened in the past or anything like that, but if you were to break squad cost rules now...

Are we looking at fines?

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