Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

A dead ringer for Woods. I don't think we require another Woods.

 

He’s nothing like Woods he gets about and breaks the play up.

only similarity is the ginger barnet

 

Every night I grab some money and I go down to the bar….

 

Laura? Can't have too many of her.

 

Simons starting for England U20 against Iraq

 

I do have to ask how Iraq U20s managed to qualify but then the senior team just bottle every qualifying campaign for every major tournament.

 

I don't know anything about him - he could be everything we're dreaming of

 

Isn't that Wood's job?
What about Lewis O'Brien from Forest? Though it would appear that Blunts are sniffing.

 

He would be a signing that would get us top 6 but yeah probably above what we are capable of

 

Time to wake up and smell the coffee old chap.

 

Tit

 

Didn't know where to leave this.

 

Doing a Brighton
It is often claimed that struggling teams could fix their problems by just copying Brighton’s model, and snapping up talented youngsters from all corners of the globe. Brighton have an incredible scouting structure that sees them identify targets in countries where they feel they can get greater value for money than shopping around in Europe and, specifically, England. Moisés Caicedo has been great, Alexis Mac Allister is a world beater and their latest South American talent, Julio Enciso, looks highly promising. These successes do not mean there is an endless conveyor belt of talent for clubs to pick up, however. Other teams copying Brighton and exploring untapped markets will just push up the price of the players and make the model inoperable. Clubs need to come up with their own, smarter methods to compete in the market, because taking Brighton as their example will not immediately lead to success.

 

I think they're certainly a good example, but people talk as if it's easy for every club to just start doing the same. Clubs have wanted to buy cheap and sell high for years, it's actually pulling it off that's the hard part. It'll be fascinating to see how long it continues working for Brighton, and how long it takes the richer clubs to catch up in that regard.

 

Perfect

 

No one has the access to what Tony Bloom has either. People talk about Brighton when in reality it’s him

 

I’ll be disappointed for him if he ends up in non-league again. At his age, and his ability, he should be setting his sights for League Two at least.

 

Former Halifax teammate now at Grimsby Maher chipping in to tell him to sign for them

 

League 2 or League 12? That’s not going to be a tough choice.