January transfer thread

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Jarca said:
I'm sure if we had a chance at promotion we'd go for it. The main thing is to carry on the path we are going on. All the building blocks are now in place for future success
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oh i will take it if it comes along, i just feel that the club at this time might not be ready to 'throw everything' towards that...i mean for 100M+ parachutes the end result would be very welcome, even staying up with the extra revenue.

guess the fulham game could give us a wee insight into how these lads would handle it.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Promotion would be great, even if it's 'too early', as I'm sure the club have planned for that scenario as well. I'm sure that planning would be to keep things pretty much as they are and not disrupt the squad too much. A relegation wouldn't be a disaster providing we continue to play good football and end up with a similar squad who now have a season's PL experience behind them.
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Disagree mate. If we go up as we are,and we don't disrupt the squad as you suggest, we will get murdered. We would have to do a Forest to gut our squad,sign a dozen players for massive fees,just to stand a chance of staying up,and we would be back where we were under Ellis Short.
No,patience,marra,patience. We've spent 5 years in the wilderness.....it'll take that to get back to where we feel we belong.
We're on the right road,I don't want to go back to those days where every home match we were sitting deep hoping to get a point without being taken apart.....can't go back to those days again.I'd rather stay where we are.
 
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samwise_new said:
not sure why there is an expectation for players to be moving around in the january window, it always seems a bit of a let down most seasons...i would hope we can get cover for strikers and maybe an 'evans' replacement/cover, after that any loans for lads that need the experience would do as our current squad is doing canny.

maybe the club does not want promotion yet and will be happy with a middle league position for a season or two.
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I would suggest that we are way ahead of where KLD and his management team probably expected us to be , however I think that if we were to end up in the Premier league with the riches it provides would be gladly received . This of course would mean quite a readjustment by the management team but they have proved themselves very competent in most aspects and would be up to the challenge . We have shown that we can compete with established Championship sides and are just outside of the playoff places but who knows if we can pull off a remarkable achievement , I know one thing an unlikely promotion would be too good an opportunity to turn down !!!
 
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https://www.footmercato.net/a5747949113152164266-west-ham-pierre-ekwah-va-signer-a-sunderland

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Passed by Clairefontaine and FC Nantes, Pierre Ekwah had been transferred very young to Chelsea despite his desire to stay in France. After signing at West Ham in 2021, this very versatile international U20 tricolor, much appreciated by Bernard Diomède in selection, will leave the London club in the coming hours to commit definitively to Sunderland.


Pillar of the Hammers U21 team, Ekwah is able to play in midfield as a torchbearer and shift into the left lane. The one who played two matches with the Bleuets against Portugal last March, will sign a long-term contract with the Black Cats, current 9th in the Championship. The native of Massy was convinced by the project of the club of Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, the son of the former emblematic president of OM, Robert Louis-Dreyfus.
 
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Hopefully that’s what the hold up was, we went back and made a permanent offer instead of a loan, fingers crossed anyway
 
Brainy Dose said:
Disagree mate. If we go up as we are,and we don't disrupt the squad as you suggest, we will get murdered. We would have to do a Forest to gut our squad,sign a dozen players for massive fees,just to stand a chance of staying up,and we would be back where we were under Ellis Short.
No,patience,marra,patience. We've spent 5 years in the wilderness.....it'll take that to get back to where we feel we belong.
We're on the right road,I don't want to go back to those days where every home match we were sitting deep hoping to get a point without being taken apart.....can't go back to those days again.I'd rather stay where we are.
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I probably didn't explain myself too well.

What I'm saying is that we may go up 'by accident' in the same way Boro or Blackburn might. If that happened I'd hate us to do a Forest and end up with players like Chris Wood. I'd prefer us to make a few sensible additions, keep the squad together and treat the season as another learning process. If we stay up we can make more improvements but, if we go down, we'd be richer for it in many ways. Of course we may lose a few players, who've impressed in the PL, but I'd expect our recruitment to be ahead of that.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
I probably didn't exain myself too well.

What I'm saying is that we may go up 'by accident' in the same way Boro or Blackburn might. If that happened I'd hate us to do a Forest and end up with players like Chris Wood. I'd prefer us to make a few sensible additions, keep the squad together and treat the season as another learning process. If we stay up we can make more improvements but, if we go down, we'd be richer for it in many ways. Of course we may lose a few players, who've impressed in the PL, but I'd expect our recruitment to be ahead of that.
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Aye I agree, if by some miracle we go up I’d hope we don’t spend stupid money buying has beens and unknowns but I doubt that would happen with our new model. Most fans would expect us to come down straight away but would be great experience for the young squad we have.

We would also get a wedge of TV money, no idea how the parachute payments work these days. The bad side to it would be possibly losing some good players and also the wage increases that come with promotion. Hopefully the player contracts will cover that depending on the league they are in.
 
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