Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 Transfer Thread…

If he can handle the physical demands, then let's hope so.

 

He could have just said "We won't be signing Ndiaye" and saved a lot of words.

 

He types like he talks. Endless waves of fluff to wade through to get to the simple point.

 

Has he not seen the news that he's off to the middle East, UAE?

 

Man Utd don’t owe us any favours. Another club in a much more stable position has come in and offered Man Utd a better deal to take him on loan.

I know a lot of people have said the fee restriction is a blessing in disguise but I can’t agree with that. Some of our transfers this summer have been really prudent but it’s better to self-regulate and show some restraint rather than be told what you can and can’t do by someone else. Unfortunately, we’re in this position because Acun has zero impulse control and didn’t pay what he owed on time.

If we didn’t have the fee restriction, we probably sign Frigan for about £6.5 million, have Owen Beck and Toby Collyer on loan, Puerta and Laalaoui registered and not having to ask the EFL permission for every signing we make.

 

No sell on value though

 

Very true. However you’re overseeing the fact this is Acun we are talking about. So he wouldn’t have signed just Collyer, he would have signed about 3 loans on big fees. Usually only 1 is any good.

 

Baz mate, how can they impose a points deduction when its them that authorise the transfer in the first place?

 

As it stands our squad is also fairly lopsided.

Decent options in central attack, wide players will be better in a few weeks (almost overloaded in fact)

But midfield and left back still needs to be bulked up a bit. That could really bite us on the arse as the season gets going and it seems we are dependent on the EFL to solve those problems, which is a frustrating position to be in.

 

Probably because PSR is a whole of club measure for our P&L and isn't just judged on player wages (although they play a big part). If we spend money on other things at the club that are not deductible why would the EFL have oversight over that currently?

 

Defo midfield. Need another option for the deeper positions

 

When has PSR ever ‘saved’ a club from its owners? Most clubs that go to **** financially do so because of cash flow issues. We haven’t breached PSR but still have cash flow issues. The clubs that have breached PSR like Everton, Forest, Villa etc. have flush owners and no cash flow issues. In fact, these clubs’ owners have converted a lot of the debt from shareholder loans into equity so they’re clearly willing and able to write off tens of millions of their own money to fund the clubs they own.

PSR is there just to prevent wealthy owners acquiring clubs and pumping lots of money into them over a short period of time to greatly improve their squads and make them more competitive at a higher level. That’s it. It’s nothing to do with making sure clubs are sustainable.

 

PSR isn't fit for purpose but that doesn't mean we could potentially fail it despite the EFL being able to veto signings as they are assessing the signings against one particular metric (seemingly a wage cap) not against the total impact on our P&L.

 

They obviously know they need a midfielder or they wouldn’t have gone after Collyer. Even decent loans need paying for though.

 

I guess it stops those pumping in loads of money and then losing interest resulting in them stopping and running clubs into the ground like Chansiri has done

 

I know but we don’t have a lot of expenditure beyond transfer fees and wages anyway. It’s not like we’ve spent loads on infrastructure under Acun or built a new stadium at huge cost like Spurs, West Ham or Everton, for example.

 

We just have the amortisation of previous fees.

Infrastructure spend is excluded for PSR purposes.

 

Are you sure West Ham "built" a new stadium?

 

Did they buy it or rent it after the Olympics? Either way, I can’t imagine it was cheap to move there.

 

I thought that only applied to academy infrastructure? I’d class new training grounds and stadiums as infrastructure and I’m pretty sure they count towards PSR. I could be wrong.