Max was never on 170k a week some people make up so much rubbish and need to stop listening to articles which kept recycling this fake number Palace would never pay that and if they had Wilf would of expected same treatment when he renewed (Max was on £3,250,000 a year so around 62k a week excluding bonues)

We don't know that Bats is being paid that much from us clubs do not always pay 100% wages.

You have missed out a big point Max had to be paid off to leave he didn't go for free so lets say he was on 170k as you claim we wouldn't leave and only be paid 20k if you have a contract and it is to be terminated etc you pay what remains unless you can agree otherwise well he wouldn't take a massive hit would he.

These player will leave for free so we invested in them Ben and Sak £30m each we get 0 for them that is awful business the wages mean nothing they are assets.

They are not “assets” as they have no value... it’s deprecated to zero. Nobody wants them and they know that and won’t leave. Every time we give them another contract it just wastes millions in wages we will never get back. It’s throwing good money after bad.

Do you mean that the clubs finances would list, under the heading 'assets' the current playing squad with a nominal transfer value next to each player, as part of the overall current value of the club?

Not my area of expertise at all, but I can see how it would work. You can't borrow money from a bank unless you have assets to secure it against, and for a football club that generally means having players you can sell if you have to. Not that borrowing from a bank is on the agenda, but I suppose the value of a club is relevant if someone wanted to buy it?

Is it not the case though that by reducing the wage bill we achieve similar credit? Would a post-Sakho, Benteke, Wickham, Meyer etc CPFC not have significantly greater affordability credentials for a loan?

I suppose not if we replaced those lot with equally expensive new players, but then we'd have replaced the assets anyway?

I'm asking this like you're the clubs accountant!

i think Spurs were the first football club to list players as an asset.

The issue is that players are difficult to value, and an asset can quickly become a liability.

Meyer is a classic example. When we signed him we probably thought we'd saved about £20m in transfer fees, so gave him an inflated salary. After a few months it was pretty obvious he wouldn't cut it and then he suddenly became an expensive liability. Even giving him a free transfer wouldn't work as his salary was so high and no one would be prepared to pay him anywhere near the level we were paying.
Hence we had to pay him off.