Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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Steven Toast said:
Absolutely and it was all about the lack of finishing, but my point is that the exact same things that were said then are being said now before we've even played our first friendly. People were saying that we had a dodgy keeper, Tetteh was useless, Macca was making mistakes etc. We actually had a good season last year by all accounts; the transfers were great, the style of football while not pleasing on the eye for some did produce some fantastic plays and while we fell short of the playoffs, the fact that we were even in the race to start with is an impressive fact that many fans seem to overlook. To go from 15th to 7th in one season is nothing to be baulked at.

We need to stop this "instant gratification" attitude that's become endemic among our fans, we need to be patient and have some trust in what the club is doing. We can't expect to magically see amazing football when we've got a new manager, a whole new coaching staff, a brand new playing style and what will be a raft of new players coming in.

That's not to excuse any poor results mind, because I what I would expect is that any players coming in should be ready to play in the Championship and be effective, but the team's performance as a whole at the start of the season should be taken in the context of events this Summer.
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My frustration is we should have replaced Greaves and Philogene before they leave. A lots said about the Brighton and Brentford model but that’s what they do. If we are having to sell 35/40 million pounds worth of players, our best players I may add, then the club isn’t run correctly. The same happened with Bowen, albeit a sinking ship at the time.

It’s difficult to replace players in the same window unless it’s a short term situation. We are going to try and do that with 7/8 players.

I hope Acun has learnt, and sticks with Walter as if he keeps changing his mind it’s going to cost the club and him a lot of money, but we will suffer the most. Also we’ve gone through a purple patch over the last 10/15 years of turning talent over especially homegrown talent.
 
Philo is going 100% right
But this deal could take weeks

We need it finished asap
 
I think posters rightly have concerns
What would our first team look like now ? Today?

looking at the first post 12 have left out of the first team squad from end of last season.

While the players who are doing the training are learning Walter’s methods you would think not many are actually first team starters

so Walter is up against it without a first team to coach and the season opener just over 4 weeks away
And as I stated earlier in the thread
A ready made excuse for any coach is they didn’t have a proper preseason!!

We have time not much tbh but we need five in at least in the next few days to give our new coach a chance
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
So maybe the buy back / matching clause was pretty smart by Villa after all?!
Issue for us is if it ends up delaying the sale, and maybe even delaying / complicating the Greaves sale. We need them done.
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I don’t think now it will delay anything. We now know definitely the money is coming and I think Ipswich will be happy just taking greaves. In this instance we should be ok
 
TIGERSCAVE said:
Can someone just clarify definitively... I was under the impression that Villa could only activate the clause if we were both in the Premiership...?
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And I've just read somewhere that Villa want him back, and have matched the Ipswich offer but Villa get a 30% reduction, which was agreed at the time with City? First I've heard about any discount?
 
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Geo10 said:
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So sells on work as such. It could be the full fee which is 5.4 million. Or a sell fee on profit.m which could be 3.9 million.

So for us it would be 12.6 million or 14.1 million. Minus the 5 million we spent on him and his wages, there’s about 6/8 million profit left.

Going to be very complicated deal with sell ones etc if he goes back too Villa.
 
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