At 25, he definitely hasn't hit his ceiling
Transfer Rumours Summer 2026 Transfer Thread…
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At 25, he definitely hasn't hit his ceiling
June 31st - rarer than Feb 29th
Well the need to raise 6 m and by the end of this month does rather put a damper on things. Dont we have any bean counters at City. It seems sloppy accounting to get into this situation. I can count but never dealt with accounts (a lie, my first job out of school was with a Chartered Accountants down Silver Street with a view to becoming an Articled Clarke where my big achievement during the short while I was there was to learn to count Pounds Shillings and Pence in gigantic books at Dickensian offices such as Brown Booksellers but not as fast as the lead Auditor Pete who could scan a whole foolscap page and add the lot up in his head in the blink of an eye). So I dont get the ins and outs of it but 6m seems an awful lot unless we are talking about Pandur or Hughes. Like others cant see us getting that for a bunch of the fringe players. To go into the Premier League, where getting points will be a huge challenge, to start with a deduction is to say the least (and pun intended here) is a big downer.
You’d get £2m for Drameh alone. Probably another £2m for Burstow given age and performance last season. The rest would sort itself out
I say again, you'd get exactly what someone is prepared to pay, they'll know our situation, and will use it to their advantage. I'll flash my arse in binns window if we get £2m for either given the urgency to sell
Selling Drameh would be ideal because we signed him on a free transfer so any transfer fee would be pure profit. The same is true of Ajayi, Akintola, Phillips, Jacob (academy player), Famewo and Dowell. Gyabi and Destan were also signed on free transfers but Leeds and Trabzonspor have a 50% sell-on clause.
If push comes to shove and we can’t scrape enough profit to get us below the line, we might have to sell Pandur or Slater, maybe even both…
We could do with finding a club that have similar PSR problems and do one of those inflated player swap deals. They sign Akintola for £20m and we sign one of theirs for a similar amount. Problem solved
I remember Villa and Everton doing something similar a while back. Basically traded an academy player each for about £30m.
But other clubs know they are only going to get a bargain in June. No point them going too low that it gets rejected then the price goes up in July
Ok, slightly different take on this. How desperate are we to sell? Of course we don't want a points penalty in the PL, it would obviously increase our chance of relegation. But Acun has already floated the notion that relegation shouldn't be the end of the world as he's hoping to have a young, improving squad and parachute money which will give us a good chance of coming straight back up again with no financial problems and a squad fit for PL survival.
Not saying we're planning for relegation but we might not feel inclined to give our players away for nothing.
Gyabi and Destan were both free transfers though so 50% of profit would be 50% of the whole fee we sell them for.
Anyone else a bit pissed off that we have to deal with something like this after the season we've just had. I know its not the same as what we were punished for before but I really would have thought we'd have made damn sure we got everything spot on and got the books balanced in January.
Im guessing there will be some really creative wheeling and dealing, players with zero sell on fees... credit notes against outstanding if they play x number of games...
if your going to be serious, make it Holland and Barratt they're still open...
Can't we all chill and stop worrying about what might happen. Imagine living your life like this.
Also, I don’t really rate Dan Neil. I think he’s a bang-average midfielder even in the Championship so he’s nowhere near Premier League level.