Counter point: Brentford, with their data-based scouting our fanbase demanded we use, were in for him last month - only for Forest to reject their £35m offer
I'm with you on this. Never seen the guy play live, but based on the delights (highlights?) on YouTube I don't see a £50m player. I have to trust that I am missing plenty that others are seeing....
A couple of Portuguese sources claim we offerd €60m to Porto for Pepe That's the Brazilian winger Pepe, not the superannuated Portuguese CB Pepe
I think he’s a decent player to be fair and he’s got significant scope for improvement too but agree on the price, it’s way too high even in this crazy market. Then gotta also factor where he exactly fits. Is the club gonna sanction another big money move for an initial squad player? As I doubt he’d start over Kulu at RW which is his best position, could maybe try him at LW with Son as CF? He’s played CF for Forest a few times too but I’d be surprised if we’d buy him for that role, neither he or Richarlison are who you’d want taking over Kane’s spot permanently.
Laporte boards the oil gravy train. £24m. Only 29 years old and while he has had his fair share of injury problems, I'd say this is a sell out at that age for a player of his quality.
TBH a chunk of that price is Forest admitting that, if they lost him, their season would suck While the goals and assists are the easy things to spot, after all he scored 8 of Forest's 38 league goals last season and created 3 more (making him their second-highest for both goals and assists), what really stands out is how he plays when Forest don't have the ball, as he harasses defenders all match long and has the speed and stamina to be an utter menace So if we're looking for players who keep us on the front foot by pressing the crap out of opponents (apologies for the mental image...) plus has end product to go with it, he does tick a lot of boxes I'd certainly take him over the bloke at Porto we suddenly got linked to, who looks just as likely to drive us nuts overplaying every dribble
With Adarabioyo to Monaco looking to have spluttered out, some form of swap involving him coming our way and Dier headed theirs seems to be the obvious solution given their reported interest - especially as the Mansourites have a 20% sell-on clause that a straight cash deal would eat into
I don’t have major issues going for him but I don’t think he should be the only forward we should sign as we need someone with a bit of pedigree of scoring a significant amount of goals, because we can’t lose one of the best strikers in world football and replace with someone who gets around 8-10 - but then I also don’t see us signing two forwards considering we still have Richarlison, Son, Kulu, Perisic, Solomon and Gil all still here. Son, Richarlison and Kulusevski have all drawn a blank in the first two games, it wouldn’t usually be something to concern ourselves about so early on but when you consider they managed just 19 goals between them in all comps last season (and Richarlison is just **** in general), it leaves me concerned because for as a great as it is seeing midfielders and defenders chipping in early on, I don’t see that being a regular thing throughout the season, we need a forward to step up. Usually that’d be Sonny but it’s hard to say if we’re gonna get pre-22/23 Son yet or not.
Troy Parrott has joined Dutch Eredivisie side Excelsior Rotterdam on loan for the remainder of the 2023/24 season. They are currently 6th after two games, having won at NEC and drawn against Ajax. They finished 15th last season and their top league scorer got 4.
I think Troy's time at Spurs is over ,shame as I had great hopes for him but injuries and bad loans seem to have done for him , l hope I'm wrong
There's been lots of rumours about the company that he keeps. Perhaps a move abroad may help him get back on track? Definitely not Premier League level. They're something of a yo-yo club in an ok league. They're the 3rd team in Rotterdam, behind Feyenoord and Sparta. Their stadium only holds 4,500. That's smaller than Barnet's.
Ally Gold has updated his piece from a week ago about the complete halt to our transfer business. It's simply a case of needing to move players out before more come in. I don't even think we're hugely concerned about how much we sell them for, it's a matter of either having 6-8 senior players taking a salary without even having a squad number, or selling to any bidder. The snag is that the world and his dog knows we're desperate to sell, so they're playing Levy at his own game, waiting until 10pm on deadline day to warm up the fax machine in the hope that we give them a bargain and leaving us with no time to bring in replacements. After a lot of mulling, I've decided that the absolute priority now is getting this group of players off the books and out the door. Forget the financial side of it, it simply isn't helpful having more than half a dozen players moping around the place because they've been excluded from the squad. It was bad enough when we had to do it to GKN and Janssen but here we're talking about four times as many players, some of whom are senior figures with years of experience. Even if it means stumbling along until January without the defensive and attacking upgrades we need, so be it. Out with the old before in with the new.
Which is why it is so hard to shift him. But there are plenty others not on crazy money and/or with decent enough reputations who I was convinced would be gone by now. Hugo, Sanchez, Reguilon, Tanganga, Spence etc. Baffling.
That's long been debunked: he's on £120k p/w and the rest is tied up in bonuses, which he's not going to trigger if he doesn't play That also underlines what was so lunkheaded about the summer of 2019: before then it took a player two or three contract renewals to break the £100k barrier (i.e. H, Sonny, Hugo, Dele) and there's some players who never managed it like Eriksen or Dembele - but in the summer of 2019 we immediately signed off on Ndombele getting £120k base salary and Lo Celso getting £100k on arrival Obviously we've breached that barrier a few times since, with Romero, Deki and Perisic were all firmly in the Six Figure Club on arrival, but with the uptick in wages in general they don;t stand out as much and basically flinging everything at Pini Zahavi Ndombele to get him to sign
A bit less baffling in Reguilon's case: as per Ornstein, Sociedad are lining up a loan deal for Kieran Tierney instead of taking Reggie off our hands, presumably as we were trying to push for an obligation in any loan deal which they couldn't afford due to La Liga having approximately £3.50 in its collective coffers
That just reinforces my point. The idea that one team in the whole of Spain/the world had concrete interest in him but found a cheaper option so now not a single club on the planet has concrete interest in him, is baffling.
