It wasn't designed for clubs to buying reserve players off each other, and then buying one back for a similar fee in the same window. You scratch my back, i'll scratch yours.... that's the loophole.
You don't honestly believe that do you?
There is nothing anyone can say that can convince me this transfer is anything other than a PSR reach around between the two clubs.
He might turn out to be a useful player, but there is 0% chance we'd be signing him if we were;t repaying the favour to Everton for signing Tim.
Is it just me or does it seem like we're getting bombarded with news or opinions from former players. The past few months all i've seen is Keane this, Ferdinand that. They're everywhere, we see them more than we see current footballers. The other month there was about 5 different Wayne Rooney articles on the same front page.
They can still sell players to each other, it just won;t count towards PSR. Same way as Chelsea can still offer people 8 year contracts, it just anything over 5 years dosen't count towards PSR, so there is no benefit in doing it anymore.
PSR already only benefits the high income teams, hence why we're doing this.
That doesn't change the fact the the transfer of Tim/Dobbins is mutually beneficial to both team in terms of PSR, we're trading players we won't miss to circumvent the shit PSR rules, that is the "loophole" they will try and close.
It' pretty obvious that we're exploiting this to circumvent PSR, that's the loophole.
They can close it by not allowing sales between traded players to count towards PSR, you can still trade players but their sales won;t count so will be pointless unless the two clubs actually want the players.
There is nothing to prove, they just need to close the loophole same as they did with the 8 year contracts that Chelsea were doing. They were't punished for it, as it was technically allowed, they just changed the rules so it's not.
The “conveyor belt” of talent that gets talked about, this is what it looks like. 95% of them won’t play for us much, they’ll be sold to fund the first team.
Madrid activated Vinicius release clause of €45m a week after he made his senior debut, yet nobody batted an eyelid.
Teams buying these players are buying their potential, some will be worth it, some won’t.