With what Chelsea, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Everton are doing to skirt FFP, (selling youth players to each other for high fee's and spreading it over a longer contract) I wonder if we are doing something similar. Most of our signings seem to be on 4 year contracts now, so a 2 million pound signing only comes up as 500 thousand in this year's books, meaning we have more wiggle room or potential for spending this season. Is that why Doug has a five year plan? Maximise our spending over a given period and hope we make it to the Premier League and recoup our spending? The guy is obviously a very savvy business man, and I believe he'll be happy to spend with a end game plan to get his money back. But as a club Is this a good model for us going forward? Right now I'm loving it and really excited for the next season, but with all the shenanigans going on at other clubs I'm wondering if we might be slowly lowering the noose over our necks if we don't get promoted.
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