Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

[SydneyTiger14]

The stupidest part to PSR in my mind is the three year cycle applies to your losses AND profits. You can't 'bank' profits. So we basically lost the Jarrod Bowen sale benefits because the Allams didn't want to push the boat out. So they just evaporate. If we sat on our hands and turned a profit for the next three years, then in the fourth year the profit we made in the first year drops out of the calculation. We don't get to bank it to use at a later point. So in a way we're actually encouraged to burn through the Philogene and Greaves money over the next three years, which seems the opposite of sustainable.

 

[Tigerite]

Well we lost the Bowen sale because they trousered the cash, but yes.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

all the players who came in January did it to play for rosenior and took pay cuts etc and they’re parent clubs paid the majority anyway
I know cos I was told so on here by experts

 

[Tony Angelino]

If he does read the forum can they ban the phrase "I say this with all due respect" whenever they want to say something even mildly disparaging about any club or player? Like ffs lads we get it, you're talking about things in relative terms. Saying that Ipswich aren't as big a club as Everton is ok to say. Saying that Philogene would be a surprise signing for Barcelona is ok to say. No one is going to get offended or worked up by you saying things like that. Seems every second comment is "With the greatest respect .... "

He’s a bag of ****
With the greatest respect hes a bag of ****


“I’ve shagged your wife”
“You ****”

“with the greatest respect, I’ve shagged your wife”
“Yeah that’s fine, fancy a pint”

 

[Charon]

Yeah, we’re ****ed. Feel sorry for Walter. And I would feel sorry for Rosenior if he was still coach and in this situation.

with the team we had and the position we were in at Christmas we should have been in the Premier League now, which is where a number of our players are heading or returning to - don't feel sorry for Rosenior, he was a major part of the problem and the reason we are where we are today - has anyone snapped up our ex young talented manager who we should never have sacked - it's all gone very quiet

 

[SydneyTiger14]

Well we lost the Bowen sale because they trousered the cash, but yes.

Sorry I mean for FFP purposes but yes same thing.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

all the players who came in January did it to play for rosenior and took pay cuts etc and they’re parent clubs paid the majority anyway
I know cos I was told so on here by experts

I think actually Buckingham in the athletic said it Chazz. He said carvalho only cost us 500k or something.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

with the team we had and the position we were in at Christmas we should have been in the Premier League now, which is where a number of our players are heading or returning to - don't feel sorry for Rosenior, he was a major part of the problem and the reason we are where we are today - has anyone snapped up our ex young talented manager who we should never have sacked - it's all gone very quiet

No we should not have been. We were still 15-20 points off the top 4 or something mad.

 

[greene]

I was pleasantly surprised when I read through the tweets, it felt like a noticeable shift to previous years as we're taking kids from sides with good academies but it does show how ours is lacking.

The 16-18 age bracket is such a strange age for youth development and you see it with the England u17s. Some go on to be absolute superstars whereas others end up out of the game or at a low level even when they looked like gems at 16.

I was talking to a former teacher friend yesterday who in the past taught the kids in the academy at Southampton. (As an aside also taught Mane English). He said about 5 percent of the academy make it through to a professional contract with Southampton but pretty much all the ones they release go on to a good career in football. I have no issue with picking up players from the top academies and hope one day we could establish a Category 1 academy and emulate Southampton.

 

[Gone For A Walk]

This bit jumped out ....

" ....I think we have a very good team..."

Eh? No we don't. We barely have a team, and if that team played we'd be nailed on for relegation.

I pulled up Rosenior on his comment about 'leaving a great foundation'. He didn't at all. And the picture has got far worse since then now that we have seen who else, in addition to all those loanees and released players, has left or are still to leave, and seen that we actually had no chance of re-signing the likes of Delap, Carvahlo, and Morton, and that there are no early signings, etc.

I'm sure they'll somehow pull it around by the end of the window, but that still doesn't mean it isn't currently a **** show.

 

[Gone For A Walk]

Don't shoot the messenger but the 2 names I'm hearing ....
Gordon Zola
Mo Zarella.
Zola is no for me, imo would stink the place out. Mo is a decent, versatile option.
Muslin socks firmly on.

 

[NewcastleTiger]

I’m really concerned people thought we were going to spend the big out of the transfer fees we are accumulating now. Nowhere has it said we won’t be spending on players, just that we are taking a more refined approach looking for value in the free agent market etc. We should’ve done this 2 years ago and it’s absolutely the right approach when you need to bring in 8/10 permanent players alone

 

[Kalman]

Baz reporting Saudi interest in Seri.

 

[Ajbtiger]

I'm told we're signing Grant Padano.

And Seri is on his way.

One of those is made up.

 

[Gone For A Walk]

Baz reporting Saudi interest in Seri.

Here we go.
Called it weeks ago.
Not saying it would be a bad thing, as good as he has been at times. But just makes the enormous task even more ...err.. enormouser.

 

[NewcastleTiger]

Baz reporting Saudi interest in Seri.

Is an interesting one as he’s probably our highest paid player but under Walter we seem to be moving away from needing a midfielder like him. I’ve always wondered how much we are actually paying him to be here given he didn’t even want to come in the first place really

 

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[Newland Tiger]

with the team we had and the position we were in at Christmas we should have been in the Premier League now, which is where a number of our players are heading or returning to - don't feel sorry for Rosenior, he was a major part of the problem and the reason we are where we are today - has anyone snapped up our ex young talented manager who we should never have sacked - it's all gone very quiet

Should have been in the Premier League ?
Based on what ?
You think we had a better team than Leeds and Southampton ?

 

[Ajbtiger]

Here we go.
Called it weeks ago.
Not saying it would be a bad thing, as good as he has been at times. But just makes the enormous task even more ...err.. enormouser.

Yeh, in isolation most of the decisions seem sensible but all at once makes it a huge job.

 

[Charon]

Should have been in the Premier League ?
Based on what ?
You think we had a better team than Leeds and Southampton ?

yes