Try all the friends and family of suppliers who hadn't been paid and club employees who were genuinely concerned and the compliance bods at the EFL. It's just be easier for you to be paraded around with an Acun mask and a kappa top with 'sycophant No 1' on the back.
Frigan won't be playing a part before January at the earliest, barring a miracle and another player sale or two.
But come Wednesday and if the EFL reduce it to a 1 window ban, could we not get him on loan with an obligation to buy for an agreed fee Even a 2 window ban would work with this model…if allowed?
I believe if dropped to 1 window we still can’t agree to a fee in Jan, but he could do a deal with westerlo for a no fee loan however he seems to get them done.
Yes. Don't know why everyone seems to think bullard was our most expensive pl player.. Jelavic would have been on more.
We wouldn't be able to agree to any fee, deferred or otherwise. And we're sailing close to FFP too, regardless of any EFL sanction.
Every signing is a gamble in that you don't know what's going to happen. Look at Millar last season for example. But there has to be some aspiration and statement of intent now and again. We were criticised last summer for chasing players and not landing them. We've pushed the boat out a little more this time to make sure that doesn't happen. It's seemingly worked.
I think it's more the concern around the huge wages and shifting them if he is a bust. Everyone seems to be equating a 5m fee + 25k a week to 45k a week for a player but it's really not that simple. If he comes in and gets 1-2 goals for the season, are we just going to persist with him next season? If he's on a huge wage, we basically just have to.
Gelhardt will be significant if we get him, he'll be stronger and more effective in a stronger team, has the embargo actually helped us by not blowing the budget on transfer fees but strategically on high calibre free transfers and their wages instead? The desire to come and join our great club is also very encouraging.
I'm shocked Leeds are letting him come here presumably subsidising his wage, in the last year of his deal, with no loan fee. No idea how we've worked that.
On the face of it under difficult circumstances yet we appear to have done better this term than any previous where we had ‘real’ money , seems odd but got to give credit .
Based on this forum in previous years and the ITK mob and the ‘we are doomed ‘ lot I basically do not believe a player is coming til it’s done nor that our star player is staying forever . Or is it just age and experience ?
This would be a great signing. Cant imagine us signing Frigan as well, which I don't mind due to the commitment to a large signing fee. Gelhardt is a strange one. You would think Leeds would be trying to cash in with only a year left on his contract. Maybe his wages putting teams off. Seems like a win-win for us. Good player, we pay some of his wages and then we get him for nowt.
Can we operate under an embargo every window? Probably the best transfer window under Acun. Gelhardt returning would be superb!
It's strange isn't it? How can you operate so badly when able to spend money but, operate superbly when not able to? Acun is certainly an odd one
