Summer 2014 Transfers Mega-thread

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If Fer is in the squad for tomorrow it looks like Sky were wide of the mark when they said an £8M fee had been agreed with Koo-pee-aar. Not saying he will stay obviously, but it would appear nothing has been sorted re his future as yet.
 
Cueller would be a good appointment but he is getting on a bit ,also i seem to remember him playing for Rangers a few years back so he may no Whittacker and Lafferty.
 
Apparently some have as much as 50% relegation clauses, but not all of them. So if our entire wage bill was £50m (which looks about right based on the accounts) plus £10m operating expenses, I suspect the most we would save on wage bill is about 25-30%, or £10-15m, which does not nearly make up for the £45m drop in income.
 
Apparently Stoke City have confirmed Cameron Jerome sale has been agreed with us for £1.5m. He has to agree personal terms and pass a medical.
 
So if we don`t go up this year we are in deep **** and will probably be forced to sell pretty much anyone left of any value just to stay afloat?
 
Apparently Stoke City have confirmed Cameron Jerome sale has been agreed with us for £1.5m. He has to agree personal terms and pass a medical.

We are steadily collecting strikers ,like Supers said i hope that doesn`t mean Hooper is going to be sold we haven`t seen his full potential yet.
 
Apparently some have as much as 50% relegation clauses, but not all of them. So if our entire wage bill was £50m (which looks about right based on the accounts) plus £10m operating expenses, I suspect the most we would save on wage bill is about 25-30%, or £10-15m, which does not nearly make up for the £45m drop in income.

not sure where this snippet has come from but its absolute nonsense rob. nobody has had their wages cut by more than 20%. its still a big saving across the board!
 
not sure where this snippet has come from but its absolute nonsense rob. nobody has had their wages cut by more than 20%. its still a big saving across the board!

That's what I thought, but someone posted that on here before and was absolutely adamant.

My best estimate for our saving on wage bill under the previous numbers we looked at is £10m overall (it's really irrelevant how much each specific player has a cut, more just the overall saving) - that is a bit better than par for relegated teams because I'm positive we will have managed it well, but not much.
 
its the wages that kill football clubs, not transfer fees. important to remember that. on the surface, a club might look like its spending an absolute fortune on players but if their wages are within a sensible cap it won't harm the club as they will live within their means, where another club might appear to be spending peanuts but paying astronomical wages to attract players they can't really afford and getting themselves into trouble behind the scenes. norwich have been doing the former. bolton were doing the latter and are now £165m in debt

That's why all the rubbish about Redknapp being a wheeler dealer and picking up players for peanuts is nonsense. Yes, he may not have paid big transfer fees over his careers, but my God did he convince chairman to depart with silly money for signing on fees and wages, and that's why pretty much every club he has managed has virtually gone to the wall. John Utaka and David Nugent were both on 60k a week at Pompey about seven years ago, no wonder they went bust.
 
That's why all the rubbish about Redknapp being a wheeler dealer and picking up players for peanuts is nonsense. Yes, he may not have paid big transfer fees over his careers, but my God did he convince chairman to depart with silly money for signing on fees and wages, and that's why pretty much every club he has managed has virtually gone to the wall. John Utaka and David Nugent were both on 60k a week at Pompey about seven years ago, no wonder they went bust.

I have wondered whether it would have been worth trying to become really good mates with the Redknapps. Doesn't matter how rubbish you were at football, it would have guaranteed you serious wedge...
 
Not sure about Cameron Jerome?
Bit of a journey man who's never set the world alight any where.
I personally can't see where he's any better than what we've already got, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong if he bangs a couple in against the binners.