Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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Longman is nowhere near as bad as many make out. Granted he’s probably not what you’d want to rely on as a first choice attacker if you’re wanting to get in the top 6 but he’s perfectly fine as a member of the squad.

I also think there’s potentially a lot more to come from him. He’s got good technique and can hit a wicked shot.

I actually think you could be right, he will always struggle here due to perception, a move away is still the best option imo.
 
Longman is nowhere near as bad as many make out. Granted he’s probably not what you’d want to rely on as a first choice attacker if you’re wanting to get in the top 6 but he’s perfectly fine as a member of the squad.

I also think there’s potentially a lot more to come from him. He’s got good technique and can hit a wicked shot.

I do agree with this, but I also think it's easy for everyone to say these pleasant things about him in pre-season when everything is hypothetical. When we're into the thick of it in winter and we've just been shut out by Plymouth at home with Longman starting because the more skillful attacking players are injured, I can see people being far less generous just as when we've relied on him in the past.
 
I do agree with this, but I also think it's easy for everyone to say these pleasant things about him in pre-season when everything is hypothetical. When we're into the thick of it in winter and we've just been shut out by Plymouth at home with Longman starting because the more skillful attacking players are injured, I can see people being far less generous just as when we've relied on him in the past.

So you comment on people being hypothetical with easy comments but then end your post with your own hypothetical scenario......
 
HDM saying today that Philogene trained and ate separately from the rest of the squad while out in Istanbul. What a strange situation for him to go out there just to do that. Seems like us disciplining him but why?
 
I like longman
But hes not going to be someone who gets you goals
Good at creating space
Wouldnt mind keeping him but also wouldnt mind if he left
I agree that he is worth keeping around the squad, I said that 12 months ago too. But I don’t agree that he won’t get us goals - when Dawson was in temporary charge and Longman was deployed up front he did really well. And before then he scored an absolute belter at Bournemouth in McCann’s last game.

Longman probably didn’t fit with the patient possession heavy style preferred by Rosenior. But if Walterball is much more up-and-at-em, that is right up Longman’s strasse.
 
We haven't really sold him for a mediocre price though. Ipswich bid £18m with a 30% sell on clause. Villa have matched that. We would have had to give Villa their sell on but means Villa now have to give us 30% whenever they sell him again.

Do they? Makes the deal slightly more palatable, although either he makes it there and stays or they don't sell him for much above 18m i think.
 
HDM saying today that Philogene trained and ate separately from the rest of the squad while out in Istanbul. What a strange situation for him to go out there just to do that. Seems like us disciplining him but why?

Probably to prove a point to his dickhead of an agent..
 
We haven't really sold him for a mediocre price though. Ipswich bid £18m with a 30% sell on clause. Villa have matched that. We would have had to give Villa their sell on but means Villa now have to give us 30% whenever they sell him again.

Who's said that they'll have to give us 30% whenever they sell him? We'd never have got a 30% sell-on from Ipswich and at best they're just got to match the deal we agreed with them.
 
He will live outside of Sheffield anyway, Hull is an hour away, he just didn’t want to come here
Most footballers here live out Dore and Totley way in Sheffield, from there to the stadium with no traffic you're looking at an hour and a half, getting to the training ground is prob a similar time. Doesn't take much to add an extra 15-30 mins with traffic at the wrong time of day. Meanwhile Sheffield U have moved their training ground to west Sheffield, like 5 mins from Dore. 5 days a week that's a hell of a lot of time saved, especially for people with young family
 
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Most footballers here live out Dore and Totley way in Sheffield, from there to the stadium with no traffic you're looking at an hour and a half, getting to the training ground is prob a similar time. Doesn't take much to add an extra 15-30 mins with traffic at the wrong time of day. Meanwhile Sheffield U have moved their training ground to west Sheffield, like 5 mins from Dore. 5 days a week that's a hell of a lot of time saved, especially for people with young family
A new training ground, and the old one retained for their academy, how very novel. That'll never catch on, certainly not around here. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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He didn’t say, but he only played half of one half. No doubt Tim will get a better look in the next friendly.

I said this last season, but the club have very high hopes for the current U21s:

Hall, Cartwright, TLT, Ashbee, Coyle, TSF, Smith, Vaughan and Sandat are all seen as players that can break through at some point.

Compare that to the crop that just left, it’s looking promising for sure.
There has never been a season where the youth don’t look good in the pre season
FACT