With the summer transfer window approaching, members of Craig Bellamy’s national squad are reportedly eager to be packaged as pure accounting profit to help their Premier League employers avoid points deductions.
CARDIFF, Wales — Ahead of the upcoming international break, Wales manager Craig Bellamy confirmed Thursday that several key figures in his squad are highly liquid assets who could be transferred between multi-club syndicates before the Premier League's June 30 fiscal deadline.
Rather than seeking moves for playing time or tactical development, representatives for the Welsh internationals indicated their clients are currently looking for clubs that desperately need to register home-grown player sales to comply with the league's Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR). Several defenders are actively exploring options to be sold to a sister club in France's Ligue 1, a move that would neatly offset the first-year amortization costs of a £70 million South American winger.
Every young boy kicking a ball against a wall in Swansea dreams of one day being swapped for a heavily inflated fee to a sovereign wealth fund just in time to erase a £40 million operating loss.
The upcoming transfer window is expected to be one of the most active in Welsh football history, driven entirely by American investment groups realizing that domestic academy graduates represent zero-cost inventory on a balance sheet. Sources close to the national team noted that at least two starting midfielders have already agreed to personal terms regarding the exact duration over which their transfer fees will be legally depreciated.
The Wales squad will gather for training camp next week at the Vale Resort, where Bellamy is expected to run tactical drills dividing the team into those whose book value has fully depreciated and those who can still be used as collateral against a stadium naming-rights loan.