He's full **** apparently. None of that ordering 6-12 months in advance bollocks, it's all so Chazz can't spend his points.
When we were in the Premier League, just sold Shane Long for £12 million and had the safety net of parachute payments if we went down? No, I wasn’t worried.
Just been taken over so part of planned investment, 20m bid in for an academy player who cost **** all, biggest FFP headroom in the league. You shouldn't be worried this time either.
Fair enough, you’re probably right. I did look up most expensive transfer fees paid by Championship clubs and whilst £10 million is a lot, the likes of Villa, Forest, Boro, Wolves have spent much more on a single player in the Championship.
I have to say the quality of players we are trying to sign is always going to make it difficult to get it over the line, we are a championship team, and Acun is trying to get them here to carry out his dream, some may dial into that, others won't. Given the type of players we are targetting of course other potentially bigger clubs will be looking too. What is nice is the intent to up the standard.. and I'm sure given Keslers contacts we will have plan A through to Z, unlike the other clueless fkrs who put every egg they had into one basket, or should I say pocket ! Let's have a little common sense eh , and not wet our knickers everytime we miss out.
I think your concerns are fair, Tufan is costing £4m which is already miles ahead of what we've spent in the last three seasons alone. Our outlay for this window could top £20m if Muriqi joins for £10m, Sayaadmanesh for £2.2m and Wright for £2m, plus the loan fee for Baxter and whoever else we are after. But our FFP headroom is massive, we're talking Ant McPartland proportions here, it's all good.
According to Tan, Allahyar is our player already. That fee has been paid already. Could spend a lot more if KLP goes and the vast majority of the fee is reinvested on top as Baz suggests will happen.
Yes, he is, but he cost £2.2m, so I bunged his transfer fee in with our Summer spend. Incidentally, I think he's a player we'll make a huge profit on.
Theres potential for that on Traore, Figuerido as they were free's weren't they? 4 m for Tufan - could get our money back in 2 years - was a 9m.player last year wasn't he?
Yep, very popular player in Turkey, a really good larker. Longman too, £700k in, can't see us not getting a seven figure fee for him if he keeps developing like he has.
I’m glad it’s taking a while in a sense, it means the players want to be going to a genuine project for the benefit of their career.
I do worry where the money is coming from, I believe Acuns personal wealth isn't that great in football terms. There were rumours of wealthy backers, but as far as i'm aware that isn't actually true. As you say, theres no one better positioned FFP wise than us, so as long as Acun can afford to keep pumping the money in i'm not going to complain.
Theres a difference between backers and joint owners. Besides, the forthcoming sponsorship deals are supposed to be fairly significant.
The £20m for KLP should help with that as well though We've been desperate for somebody to come in and invest in our side and as long as we keep producing from the academy and developing younger players then we should be fine
