Summer window

Great article,thanks for posting.I would have to go back a long time to say I felt more optimistic about our prospects than I do at the minute.

 

I live away from tbe North East but when we are back to visit we love Roker Beach. We were there a couple weeks ago and I was blown away by bow clean the sea and Beach were.

The work has been amazing Iver the last few years but the sea and beached seemed even cleaner (I assume off the back.of the triathlon event)

 

Not exactly the summer window but this apparently gives some details of the deal we made to bring Ekwah to the club

https://www.thewesthamway.com/2023/...sFOXFXmBk8r2mTMmHdaKLfPza4N2o5O3usMmbZbnozKeE

 

Like that there’s no buy back and can live with us getting 65% of £20 + M

 

Th club is clever these days, 35% sell on fee is significant but I don't think the transfer fee was? So we pay for him if or when we sell him on for a fee, more attractive to the selling club then a low fee and low risk to us because we pay dependent on how good he has been here and how much he is sold for.

Ideally signing him for a low fee with no clause would have been the choice but I bet the sell on fee got it over the line.

 

*Shrinking and dragging

 

Great new that no buy back on Ekwah as there were rumours over weekend.

They’d 100% have taken that option, we need to not be putting buy backs in with the way we develop players now.

 

It’s nice to see that nowadays we are the ones during and controlling the players we are selling and buying
Gone are the days when we “had” to sell players no one wanted so we can now control what we get and when we sell . The recruitment team seem to be able to get good deals which we as fans now are looking at and thinking why wasn’t that happening before .
The main reason was that our previous recruitment bought ready made players at the top end of valuations and at an age where that was unlikely to increase , so when we sold a player he was at the end of his career and on a downward spiral , so no one really wanted them .
The new players we are now buying and even if they don’t quite work out they are still young and can be moved on easily to lower leagues and we will still get most of our money back.
With the model when we get in the premiership we will have a crop of young players coming through so will only have to buy one or two carefully selected more experienced players to supplement , paid for by the sales of the younger players that don’t quite make it . In the premiership younger players will be worth more and can also be loaned out to the championship to gain experience and increase there value.

 

Yeah give them a higher % on sell on fee or even first refusal if we sell. But no but back clause at a set price.

If we do put buy back clauses in they should be "can buy back for x million but must start in over 60% of matches that season unless injured and can not be sold for 2 seasons. If player is sold before this time period SAFC are entitled to 40% of the sell on fee."

Stop all this buying them to sell them on and they are only buying if there is a place in first team for them.

 

35% is a canny chunk of any future fee but I doubt we would be getting lads in from PL academies without these sort of clauses.

 

35% of £40million is a canny wedge, but we paid nothing so it’s still a win.

What it does show is West Ham rated him, cos that’s high for a sell on.

 

Try not to get too attached to Pierre emotionally. He's my favourite player but I think we are getting bids not just from Premier League clubs for him come the summer.

 

I still cant believe we got him for free and a sliding scale of payments. West Ham must be cursing

 

You're probably right,but our attitude to any bids will firstly depend on which league we're in.

 

Hmmm...reported that at least 57 triathletes fell sick and suffered from diarrhea after competing in sea swimming events at the World Triathlon Championship Series in Sunderland.

 

There's upwards of £600 million getting spent regenerating the city centre over the next few years. From plans I've seen, most of High Street is getting rebuilt, down to Mackie's Corner. There are apparently plans, separate to High Street/Vaux/Sheepfolds, for Holmeside and Park Lane area, not that I've seen them. The plan is basically to reverse the "doughnut effect" the city centre has gone through since the late 70s and get people living and working in the city centre again. It'll take time though for it to start to work.

Sadly, though, retail us screwed. The internet and COVID have pretty much finished off the High Street. Add in that too many retailers now want to be on our of town retail parks, where business rates and rents are much cheaper than town and city centres, so are closing and relocating high street branches.

 

I remember reading about this but I read an article saying the tests of the water came back fine before, during and after the event so it was suggested it was picked up elsewhere.

But this article suggests the tests of the water showed it wasn't safe.

 

We’ve got a lot of sea swimming going on and lots of other clubs like kite surfing normal surfing amongst others which is generally everyday none of them seem to fall Ill and the water quality was checked before and after the race and it was fine,I’d be looking at what hotels they were staying in

 

This was my take on it Ted. Catering somewhere along the line but that article linked says the e.coli levels were 39 times higher than usual 3 days before the event.