Transfer Rumours 2016/17 City Transfer Thread

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Not seen any sign of our retained list thus far, thought it was coming out today? That'll dictate some of the transfer needs so let's have it
 
Aiden Flint - Bristol City - strong defender - £2.5 million
Matty Taylor - Bristol Rovers - striker - £2.0 millio
Both young, developing and would add to squad
 
Bum_Chinned_Crab said:
I dont know why people are obsessed with doing this.

Brady would be a bad signing cos a) he'd stunt Robertson's development and b) he's not good enough.
Chester would be a bad signing cos a) he'd stunt Harry's development and b) he's not better than Dawson or Davies.
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Brady is 100% good enough, and Chester was much better than Davies when Davies' form dropped.
 
RoKo10 said:
Don't think we should sign him, but anyone saying Brady isn't premier league quality are completely wrong.
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He's too slow, never beats his man and is far too predictable, crossing from deep every time. After 2 straight relegations let's see how he does next season if a Premier League club signs him.
 
Irememberwaggy said:
I've only just looked at this thread so apologies if I'm repeating anything, but do we need any wholesale changes? The squad we have got is a much better one that we had last time we got promoted.
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It's not so much about the last time we got promoted as the last time we got relegated, and how much improvement is needed based on that.
 
Agree on the Brady front - we should not be touching with a bargepole. Disagree on Chester as thought he was a great player.

The names on this thread worry me - Gestede / Adam / Martin / Powell etc - Let's hope our scouts are out there looking beyond the relegated teams.

Think we need some creativity from the person who would play behind the striker as face it we're playing one up front next season. I'd like to think we could get Ryan Gauld from Sporting, but think after a season playing for their B team he might be considered ready for the first XI. Along with him, Robertson and Souttar Dundee United had three players with great potential

I think we need a back up for Robertson as Tymon, despite home grown loyalty is too much of an unknown quantity. Similarly with Lenihan - is he good enough as a deputy - we really don't know

Whats the deal on Max Clark these days - he must be 36 by now!
 
ellewoods said:
Or try to sign players now who play in different countries. An MLS player just to use as an example isnt going to have gone up in price by 100% just because the PL is giving out more TV money this year as the MLS teams are not getting more money. That players market value is most likely the amount he is worth in the league he plays in or some amount close to that.
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They'll know they can ask for more from us. Particularly because they aren't getting more money themselves.
 
Mr. Hat said:
Oh and give Nick Powell a deal, I think there's a lot more to come from him. On a free, can't cost a great deal can he? No big premier league clubs will be waving a large salary at him anyway.
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That lad is class. Unfortunate he didn't get much playing time since he arrived. I reckon he'll have matured by not playing much and realizing he'll need to toe the line more to fulfill his ambitions. Get him fit& I believe he'll be capable of opening up defenses and providing chances for whoever's up front. Chip in a few himself too.
 
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tigerscanada said:
That lad is class. Unfortunate he didn't get much playing time since he arrived. I reckon he'll have matured by not playing much and realizing he'll need to toe the line more to fulfill his ambitions. Get him fit& I believe he'll be capable of opening up defenses and providing chances for whoever's up front. Chip in a few himself too.
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I noticed he Favorited a few tweets telling him to sign permanently. He also stuck around for a few months despite being injured. Both suggest to me that something may already be in place.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
They'll know they can ask for more from us. Particularly because they aren't getting more money themselves.
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Yes but they wont be asking as much as a club in the PL and thats my point. The PL getting more revenue does not jump up prices in other leagues by the same amount as it will towards PL to PL transfers.
 
ellewoods said:
Yes but they wont be asking as much as a club in the PL and thats my point. The PL getting more revenue does not jump up prices in other leagues by the same amount as it will towards PL to PL transfers.
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If anything it's the opposite.. PL clubs have huge revenue, so holding out for 6m instead of 4m is relatively meaningless to them.

For MLS or another league, knowing a club with 100m behind them will make them want to squeeze the deal for every pound.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
If anything it's the opposite.. PL clubs have huge revenue, so holding out for 6m instead of 4m is relatively meaningless to them.

For MLS or another league, knowing a club with 100m behind them will make them want to squeeze the deal for every pound.
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You are just wrong. If you come into a league like the Australian league or the MLS or some other league like that and offer 50% above what a player in that league would cost you are going to get him for that 50% more, you are not going to have to pay PL costs for that player. The Melborne whatevers did not just have their player asset value increase by 100% because the PL got more revenue. Its just idiotic to try and make that argument. Did their value go up when being purchased from PL clubs? Of course it did, but its just nonsense to try and argue that they will hold out for ridiculous prices.
 
ellewoods said:
You are just wrong. If you come into a league like the Australian league or the MLS or some other league like that and offer 50% above what a player in that league would cost you are going to get him for that 50% more, you are not going to have to pay PL costs for that player. The Melborne whatevers did not just have their player asset value increase by 100% because the PL got more revenue. Its just idiotic to try and make that argument. Did their value go up when being purchased from PL clubs? Of course it did, but its just nonsense to try and argue that they will hold out for ridiculous prices.
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What are you even on about? I'm not wrong at all, it's simple economics.

If you have an asset in a market where people can pay X, but someone comes along and offers more, you'll sell to them.

Why do you think Spurs tried to spend their Bale money before the sale? So they wouldn't be forced to pay more because clubs knew how much money they had available.

You're really making a weird argument.

Are you seriously trying to say 2m pounds means more to Watford than it does LA Galaxy?
 
If arsenal try to buy rogic from Celtic, do you think Celtic will happily accept arsenal's first offer or will they try and up the price since they know arsenal can afford to spend more? An extra 5m for them could be a couple of decent players.

If Watford try to buy clucas, and offer 5m, are we going to sit there and think "I reckon we can get 6m, let's delay the sale"? I mean, maybe, but who gives a **** about 1m when our budget is 100m?
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
Are you seriously trying to say 2m pounds means more to Watford than it does LA Galaxy?
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Of course 2m means more to the LA Galaxy then it does to Watford. Look think of it this way, LA has a wage cap right and a spending cap. If you come in and offer 2m more for a player than it costs to buy that same caliber player in the MLS LA then gets to take that extra 2 mill and use it to decrease their total spent then the can take the original value and buy a player of the same caliber. LA is not going to hold out for the same $ value that a PL club would because A) its extremely hard to sell players to the PL and B) they will not risk losing such a value sale deal. Watford knows it can pay X for a PL player, they know that LA will take less than X for a PL player. Its not rocket science.
 
ellewoods said:
Of course 2m means more to the LA Galaxy then it does to Watford. Look think of it this way, LA has a wage cap right and a spending cap. If you come in and offer 2m more for a player than it costs to buy that same caliber player in the MLS LA then gets to take that extra 2 mill and use it to decrease their total spent then the can take the original value and buy a player of the same caliber. LA is not going to hold out for the same $ value that a PL club would because A) its extremely hard to sell players to the PL and B) they will not risk losing such a value sale deal. Watford knows it can pay X for a PL player, they know that LA will take less than X for a PL player. Its not rocket science.
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So in your first sentence you agreed with my entire point, so what the **** are you trying to argue?

Why do you think the PL consistently spends the most of any league in the world? Hint: It's not just from transfers between pl clubs.

Remind me how much Man City spent on KDB and how drawn out that was?
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
So in your first sentence you agreed with my entire point, so what the **** are you trying to argue?
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I am not arguing anything you quoted my post and tried to correct me. If you are saying the same thing as me what the **** was your point?

You dont have to pay PL prices if you buy outside the PL. Its not ****ing rocket science sydney. I seriously got no idea why you started this.
 
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