Transfer Rumours January 2021 Transfer Window

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Uber_Hoop said:
I don’t think there’s a single person on this board that doesn’t want Austin to be an instant success and start banging them in for fun.

From my perspective it’s a curious deal and I’d be interested to understand the underlying financials. It’s strikes me as fascinating that we can afford to take a PL-quality striker - albeit an injury prone and ageing one - when we couldn’t compete for Wells or Hughill within the last 12 months or less. Presumably, we’ve balanced the books some more since then and done a great deal with WBA, but then again we’ve no gate revenue coming through at the moment.

Absent any insight into the above it feels like we’ve possibly broken our pay structure in an act of desperation... and maybe also to take some fans’ heat off Warbles.

Nevertheless, I’m delighted to have Austin back and hope he’s at least 70% the player he was the last time we had him here. But the Austin of 7 years ago was surrounded by some very different (and better) faces.
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Just a guess but expect we have loaned Austin in a similar way to the loans of Wells and Hughill. We "lost" these two because we couldn't afford or would not compete with the offers made to their parent Clubs to buy them. FFP rules may have been a problem last season too. Since Wells left we have sold Eze, and maybe FFP is not as big a problem this season. If Austin does well for us the rest of this season, WBA get a good offer for him from another Club, we can't or won't compete with, think they have an option on him for another year, then we could "lose' Austin the same way.
 
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QPR Oslo said:
Just a guess but expect we have loaned Austin in a similar way to the loans of Wells and Hughill. We "lost" these two because we couldn't afford or would not compete with the offers made to their parent Clubs to buy them. FFP rules may have been a problem last season too. Since Wells left we have sold Eze, and maybe FFP is not as big a problem this season. If Austin does well for us the rest of this season, WBA get a good offer for him from another Club, we can't or won't compete with, think they have an option on him for another year, then we could "lose' Austin the same way.
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That's my assumption, if Charlie bangs a few goals in he's back in the shop window for everyone then.
 
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If we stay up he may want to stay. If he scores goals then he has options. However, he has hardly set the world on fire since he left us.....maybe he is better in hoops....
 
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Yorkshire-Rs said:
Dont get this, we were interested, they were interested in Lumley, Lumley is crap yet we recall him. We also recalled Dillon so surely a deal could have been done with Donny?
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Maybe he preferred Preston. Worth considering that Championship players’ wages are not that enormous. It’s possible that the cost of living in London (and London/South East itself) might have put him off. If he’s taking home £20k a month after tax, spending perhaps £7500 a month on rent in London against far less in Preston might be a strong consideration.
 
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