Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
I take your point, which on the face is a concern, but It depends, I looked at Burnley who the season they got promoted with Kompany, compared the team with the season before under Dyche and it is unrecognisable.

Kompany brought in players to suit his way of style, and the team was virtually completely different to the season before. He got them promoted and were the best team in the league that season.

So it can be done, it is not a dissimilar situation we have with TW coming in, it is all about recruitment now, if they get it right.

Yes, Burnley had parachute payments to use and got £25m for Woods, but they didn't spend heavily, their biggest signing was Twine, and had 6 loans, the best of which was Tella, so if we did sell either Greaves or Jaden, then our positions wouldn't be too far away budget wise.

I, for one, are looking forward to what develops.
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Burnley spent £40m that season, if that's not spending heavily, I don't know what is.
 
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Drew said:
I meant more the transfer fee. Obviously whether Norwood would be feasible depends on his wage demands - but regardless - someone of his experience and quality on a shorter term contract - would be more preferable to me to a player we've got to pay a fee for and maybe sign on a longer term deal that we can't get shut of in future as they don't work out (Lokilo).

We're going to have to go for a blend of punts/experience (wages medium to high and fee low) and big signings - otherwise we won't be able to get a large enough squad together in one window.
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Norwood would be a very good signing.
 
The deals Chelsea, Villa and Everton are doing right now are crazy. They all need to sell players for PSR reasons. Whereas buying players can mean the transfer fee can amortised over the length of the contract, selling players means the profit you receive immediately counts as income for that year.
 
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Kalman said:
The deals Chelsea, Villa and Everton are doing right now are crazy. They all need to sell players for PSR reasons. Whereas buying players can mean the transfer fee can amortised over the length of the contract, selling players means the profit you receive immediately counts as income for that year.
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it's the same reason that we are nailed on to sell Greaves. Pure profit accountable immediately from an FFP perspective, with incomings spread over a number of years.
 
pierredelafranchesca said:
it's the same reason that we are nailed on to sell Greaves. Pure profit accountable immediately from an FFP perspective, with incomings spread over a number of years.
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Yep. It’s clearly a loophole and Chelsea, Villa and Everton are working together. For example, Villa sell academy product Iroegbunam to Everton for £10 million. Pure profit for Villa and Everton amortise the fee. In turn, Everton sell Dobbin, also an academy product, to Villa for a similar fee. Both clubs net £10 million profit this financial football year and only spend £2 million if they sign the players on five-year contracts.
 
pierredelafranchesca said:
it's the same reason that we are nailed on to sell Greaves. Pure profit accountable immediately from an FFP perspective, with incomings spread over a number of years.
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I wouldn't exactly say it's the same reason. Those three clubs are just being smart arses exploiting a loophole by shuffling Academy players at grossly inflated values. We're selling an asset who is clearly good enough to go to the next level and will net us a massive fee.

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Amin Yapusi said:
The more I think about this Tufan business the more insane it becomes.

Either, the reported fee is total bollocks, or there’s some brown envelopes being passed around somewhere.

Either way, even if the player wants the move, there’s no way I can see the club letting him go for such a paltry sum. There’s gotta be a lot more going on there. If we’re in a tight FFP position the absolute last thing we would be doing is giving away one of our most talented and valuable assets for next to **** all.

I think we just have to trust the club with this one.
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There is something else going on here.

Remember Turks love to barter, and both City and Trabzonspor are subject to FFP rules.

In the same way that it appears Tufan's transfer fee was on the small size, the same could be said of the fee we paid for Omur coming the other way in the last transfer window.

Remember there were rumours about Tufan going back to Turkey in the last transfer window so who knows whether this deal wasn't done back then, with Acun promising Tufan a transfer back to Turkey if we didn't make the play-offs at the end of last season.

EDIT: Oh I can see someone else have picked up on this too. Was replying to a post five pages back.
 
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His wife may have wanted a move back to Turkey. I wouldn’t underestimate the influence players’ spouses and families have on transfers.
 
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