So please welcome our esteemed panel to us.
Les isn't the only former footballer on the panel.
Yeah, I think that's stretching it a bit, to have me and Les in the same sentence,
but yeah.
There's a greater sense of planning these days and responsibility
around trying to do your business in the summer market because of sporting directors
who are doing a really good job and chief executives, too.
We were explaining about amortisation.
So if you move a player, who's perhaps a home-grown player, for 50 million,
you could buy a player for 100 million over five years, amortise it at 20 million a year.
So you've actually still created 30 million.
We've had players send us a contract, and say, we've we've been given half
an hour to sign this. Is it OK?
Right. Okay.
There's a bit of pressure.
From a young player’s perspective,
as Liz just said there, you're putting your trust
in someone who you think knows the industry and knows the business.
Is there any sort of work
going in to the women's league as women's football develops?
I think it's exciting times.
I think it's tricky like anything, because it is a start up.
So you've got to try and think a little bit more innovatively.
If we go out there and get the best ten kids, that's less risky
than putting it all in one player that's a youngster
that's the next hot thing from Ajax.
You've got to take a risk profile.
On the injury history of the player.
There was an issue on currency risk and you've got that risk factor.
You identify the players that you want with the manager,
and then you got to the CEO and say we need him.
And they go, no, you can't have the money.
That's basically what he's saying.