Metaphysical
Bomb Dropper
But then the money you could have got from selling eto'o has also gone.
but there was no money we could have gotten for eto'o.
good god some of you people are right belt loops.
once eto'o rejected city, that was it. no one would have signed him for any money, why waste it? they would have waited a year and picked him up on a free in summer 2010.
that's why, once he rejected city, we were suddenly balking at paying a mere 5m extra to land david villa. why? because we would still have eto'o on our books and pep wanted him gone.
signing zlatan allowed us to get a player we wanted and get rid of one we didn't.
I'm not talking accounting, net, valuation, hedge funds, derivatives or interest swaps... I'm talking english.
I'm sure 70m is in the books, for tax and accounting purposes as jatin and irv say, but we paid inter 49m in cash. that's a fact even beast won't dispute.
so I judge zlatan as a 49m asset, because as far as I'm concerned eto'o had no value.
I'm sure the accountants see it differently, as will our detractors. but I'm not an accountant or a detractor, so frankly my dears I don't give a damn.