Quote Originally Posted by I am invisible View Post
Actually, the ludicrous story on that one was that we’d buy Coutinho for £109m and then sell them Guendouzi for £100m, all to help them get around ffp rules?!! Seriously, why would we do Barcelona any favours? Let their DNA get them out of whatever mess they’re in.
Maybe I'm being stupid, but how does that help? The net difference is the same.
[When I was 6 my parents moved house and, unusually, the people they bought from moved into my parents' old place - they effectively swapped houses. So they both lowered the prices as the only thing that mattered was the difference. I guess that got around stamp duty, if that was a thing back then. Not sure how that applies here though?]