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So please
welcome our esteemed panel to us.

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Les isn't the only former
footballer on the panel.

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Yeah, I think that's stretching it a bit,
to have me and Les in the same sentence,

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but yeah.

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There's a greater sense
of planning these days and responsibility

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around trying to do your business
in the summer market because of sporting directors

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who are doing a really good job
and chief executives, too.

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We were explaining about amortisation.

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So if you move a player, who's perhaps
a home-grown player, for 50 million,

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you could buy a player for 100 million over
five years, amortise it at 20 million a year.

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So you've actually still created
30 million.

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We've had players send us a contract,
and say, we've we've been given half

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an hour to sign this. Is it OK?

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Right. Okay.

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There's a bit of pressure.

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From a young player’s perspective,

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as Liz just said there,
you're putting your trust

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in someone who you think knows
the industry and knows the business.

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Is there any sort of work

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going in to the women's
league as women's football develops?

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I think it's exciting times.

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I think it's tricky like anything,
because it is a start up.

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So you've got to try
and think a little bit more innovatively.

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If we go out there and get the best
ten kids, that's less risky

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than putting it all in one player
that's a youngster

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that's the next hot thing from Ajax.

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You've got to take a risk profile.

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On the injury history of the player.

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There was an issue on currency risk
and you've got that risk factor.

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You identify the players
that you want with the manager,

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and then you got to the CEO
and say we need him.

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And they go, no, you can't have the money.

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That's basically what he's saying.