Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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No more sad then people righting us off before they've seen who'll come in and before a ball has even been kicked.....

I think it's just realism. We've probably got 7/8 players you can rely on for a proper push at this level, there's probably a few caveats in there too.

It's all well and good saying players will come in, I'm certain they will, but the number of players we need with 3 and a bit weeks to go makes it highly unlikely we'll have a chance at competing at the top end.
 
Might add a bit of steel in the engine room, I understand Sporting Lisbon are interested as well, and they have qualified for the Champions League so this may influence his choice.
No we're not interested i can assure you that. But i doubt he comes to City.
 
I think it's just realism. We've probably got 7/8 players you can rely on for a proper push at this level, there's probably a few caveats in there too.

It's all well and good saying players will come in, I'm certain they will, but the number of players we need with 3 and a bit weeks to go makes it highly unlikely we'll have a chance at competing at the top end.

There's always a chance - a team like Forest in recent years has shown that - but it's certainly the exception rather than the rule.
 
I think it's just realism. We've probably got 7/8 players you can rely on for a proper push at this level, there's probably a few caveats in there too.

It's all well and good saying players will come in, I'm certain they will, but the number of players we need with 3 and a bit weeks to go makes it highly unlikely we'll have a chance at competing at the top end.

You're possibly spot on, but whilst the window is still open, I'm not going to right us off just yet
 
I think it's just realism. We've probably got 7/8 players you can rely on for a proper push at this level, there's probably a few caveats in there too.

It's all well and good saying players will come in, I'm certain they will, but the number of players we need with 3 and a bit weeks to go makes it highly unlikely we'll have a chance at competing at the top end.
I wouldn’t say highly unlikely but certainly not doing ourselves any favours. If Walter is having a big day and that’s part of the reason for the delay I’m very pleased as it shows a commitment to building long term in terms of signings.
 
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I'm in no rush to leave the Championship, it's a great league to be apart of. If we can finish 10th with a larger number of permanent players, it would be a major success.
Spot on, id be curious to see how we’d do under this ownership in the premier league but i am in no rush watching games with VAR in and getting beat every week
 
Just watched the press conference from today and it appears we expect to do the bulk of our business in the last week of the window. It’s one hell of a risk, as we saw with Rak-Sakyi falling through on deadline day last year. Would also put us at a huge disadvantage going into the first 4 league games.

When you leave business late, you're always going to end up short. We did last year and I think if people look at the league objectively, we lost the play off race because of it.

The loan market is intriguing this year, we did really well off Delap, Morton and you can even count Jaden in that for the young players. But all those young ones we signed had Championship experience. They'd done the early parts of their learning so it gave them something to build off for us. This year, there isn't many players like that and we'll probably end up taking players who are making their first steps into senior football, or haven't played at the level before. So they'll end up learning with us and we'll get a lot of rawness and likely won't see the best out of them.
 
last season's starting line up for the Norwich game was,

Ingram
Coyle, Jones, Greaves, Vinagre
Traore. Slater, Seri. Vaughan
Tufan. Delap

bench - Simmons, Longman, Christie, McLoughlin
Fleming, Connoly, Lokilo, Lo-Tutala

by the time the season starts, I'm sure the team will look better than that - we already have Pandur, Giles and Omur
 
Just watched the press conference from today and it appears we expect to do the bulk of our business in the last week of the window. It’s one hell of a risk, as we saw with Rak-Sakyi falling through on deadline day last year. Would also put us at a huge disadvantage going into the first 4 league games.
Utter madness if that is the case.
 
When you leave business late, you're always going to end up short. We did last year and I think if people look at the league objectively, we lost the play off race because of it.

The loan market is intriguing this year, we did really well off Delap, Morton and you can even count Jaden in that for the young players. But all those young ones we signed had Championship experience. They'd done the early parts of their learning so it gave them something to build off for us. This year, there isn't many players like that and we'll probably end up taking players who are making their first steps into senior football, or haven't played at the level before. So they'll end up learning with us and we'll get a lot of rawness and likely won't see the best out of them.

Think there's still a few looking back on last year, remember Delap hadn't exactly set the world alight before he came here.

You can't say this season won't be interesting, might have a much weaker team (although by the end maybe not) but we've got a new manager, young players pushing their way in and a new style of play.

We might surprise ourselves, or **** the bed.