Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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Gone For A Walk said:
In reply to this and the 'fanny flap' post.
Tbf Jim, I don't think many / any on here are 'fanny flapping' yet.
A few of us are voicing concerns about the sheer scale of the rebuild that's now needed, which could well get even bigger if / when Greaves goes (almost certain?), Philogene (sounding increasingly likely?), and maybe one or two more unexpected's (like Tufan was). Surely understandable?
Then, it was the 1904 podcast were it was said, seemingly with some confidence, that even our first signing was likely at least a couple of weeks away and that no new faces would be there at the start of pre-season training next week. It didn't sound like there was much chance of "reveal(ing) three or four players in the next week or so". Things can of course quickly change and hopefully your expectations are correct or prove even to be pessimistic!
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The rebuild was always going to be needed. I've said before Acun has made mistakes and so did Rosenior. We signed some guff, a lot of loans and already had some stuff to get rid of when possible such as Woods and Flemming.

I'm not in agreement that rebuilds need monumental amounts of time to settle in. If we sign 12 new players in the next fortnight they will all have pretty much the same amount of time to understand what Tim Walters wants. A good manager will get the squad firing in 2 months. He is the key ingredient in all of this.
 
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Well if it is Genuine then Acun did say he would not stand in the way of anyone wanting to go or it could be TW does not see him in his plans.
 
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Nikica Jellyfish said:
Equally would be even more ridiculous building another squad for a manager not wanted or supported so the managerial search couldn’t have been avoided could it?
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Those weren't our only options though. We could have wanted and supported him but we chose not to. It's done now and LR is the past but we have to deal with the fact that we didn't know who our manager would be for the first few weeks of the summer, so we can't have been in a strong position to add to our squad when others might've been talking to players who are now our targets, and the months of work that goes into signing players, as mentioned by others, must surely have been disrupted if not scrapped altogether. We can't be surprised that we're going to have to play catch up, that was always part of the deal.
 
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I hope it's just a case of someone showing interest in our player which you can't help but I'm sure there's a number that puts a positive spin on it for anyone, what would that number be for people?
 
Ajbtiger said:
I hope it's just a case of someone showing interest in our player which you can't help but I'm sure there's a number that puts a positive spin on it for anyone, what would that number be for people?
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Well, it has to be profit doesn't it really? He'll be on a high wage too - probably with the expectation to get promotion, and that wage can't be sustainable for a full year in the Championship
 
I have been to a sponsors event at Hull City this morning and Andy Dawson was the guest speaker. He couldn't stress enough just how amazing Liam was in the way he worked. Tactics, detail, man management (staff and players). He said he has no doubts that he is going to the very top. Staff and players absolutely loved working with him. Said he hasn't met Tim yet but spoken on the phone a couple of times but all the staff who have met him have said he's a really nice guy who cares about people.

They touched upon the Philogene to Barca but didn't say whether it's happening. They did say there will be departures though which we knew anyway.
 
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Wildie said:
Well, it has to be profit doesn't it really? He'll be on a high wage too - probably with the expectation to get promotion, and that wage can't be sustainable for a full year in the Championship
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I keep hearing this.

‘He’s on a high wage, we must sell him to balance the books.’

So we just sell every player who’s on north of £20k a week like Tufan, Seri, potentially Ömür etc.? £20k+ a week is the minimum going rate for a decent Championship player these days. We cannot build a squad capable of promotion with players on 5-figure wages per week. If it’s an FFP problem, then it’s a mess Acun himself has made.
 
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Wildie said:
Well, it has to be profit doesn't it really? He'll be on a high wage too - probably with the expectation to get promotion, and that wage can't be sustainable for a full year in the Championship
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I took a suit to be cleaned this week, when it came back I realized I'd left a tenner in the inside pocket. Bloody laundered money. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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