Transfer goss and rumours, Summer 2016.

I thought we might give him a little chance at Championship level, seeing as though we need strikers and spend so much money on him. Just a bit of a shame if we don't get any money at all back from him.

 

Well that's that, he is finally gone.

 

He's been farmed out to France and Spain on season long loans and nothing longer term came of it.
Good god, imagine if Chase was still in charge and we'd spent that sort of money on ostensibly one goal

 

Haha! There you go!! Some money for him! I wonder how much it is.

 

That's somewhat different to a loan to Birmingham!

 

Well, it seems he has now been sold to Vitesse Arnhem on a 3 year contract. No loan to our competitor, but a clean sale and he's now gone. The fee is undisclosed of course.

http://www.football-oranje.com/vitesse-sign-van-wolfswinkel/

Best solution all around as RvW returns to the club where he started his career and will probably finish it. The final irony is that Vitesse was the club that City knocked out of Europe just before doing the same to Bayern Munich at the Olympic Stadium. Great stuff!

 

I wish him well and I'm disappointed he was never given a proper chance with us, if only we'd never signed Snoddy, the one-footed wonder!

 

Good riddance, will go down in PL history as one of the very worst signings. If he can't persuade AN that he is worth a shot in the champ or his attitude can't reconcile the division then getting shot of his wages was a job well done no matter how little we got for him. Hopefully paves the way to sign a striker now a top earner is off the books

Bah!

 

With his ~£30k a week off the wage bill, Jerome and Lafferty as our only senior strikers, and Fulham spending £6m on a striker, surely McCormack can't be far off?

 

See ya Wolfie, thanks for the memories.

 

Now how can I put this? Ah yes, **** OFF !

 

So we've now saved wages on Mbokani, Wisdom, Redmond, O'Neil, Kean, and RvW and replaced them effectively with Canos, Mcgovern, the Murphys, and Toffolo all on reasonable wages, with Thompson, Maddison, Morris and Godfrey also possibles for breaking into the squad on reasonable wages. Even the relatively hefty wages of Mccormack, should he join, would leave us with sizeable savings and, IMO, a stronger squad for the season ahead.

 

Ricky was a major disappointment, but he was one of ours for a while and a good guy. I wish him all the best.

 

Didn't we buy Leroy Fer from Vitesse ?

 

It was FC Twente.

Shame about Ricky. I think with his loan deals I doubt we paid a huge amount of his wages over the past two seasons. That said, big waste of money in the whole scheme of things, especially the transfer fee. Wish him well at Vitesse.

 

Which, for most clubs owned by sheikhs, oligarchs or Tony Fernandes, wouldn't be a massive problem. Norwich basically need to recoup that money (£8.5m?) from player sales or just write it off

 

I guess the next question is, would McNally have sold him for a probably nominal fee?

 

Also liked seeing how crap the "ITK" blogs, etc are. Some of them were still reporting Birmingham's interest in Ricky 2 hours after the club had announced he'd left.

 

We will have recouped some of that in loan fees, but overall it has held the club back over the last three years and it's good to have closure on it so all concerned can move on. It was wrong for us and wrong for him.

 

Yes, I was amused by that looking at NewsNow this morning, DH.