Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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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.

No he hadn't, but my point was he'd still had 30+ games at this level, and we got a better version of him because of that experience. I've seen it mentioned a few times now that we've got great relationships with Man City and Liverpool but having a quick look at their kids, there's not many that have been out on loan before, never mind in the Championship.
 
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No he hadn't, but my point was he'd still had 30+ games at this level, and we got a better version of him because of that experience. I've seen it mentioned a few times now that we've got great relationships with Man City and Liverpool but having a quick look at their kids, there's not many that have been out on loan before, never mind in the Championship.

On the other hand you could end up with the next Omari Hutchinson who also hadn't been out on loan prior to last season, and smashed it.
 
On the other hand you could end up with the next Omari Hutchinson who also hadn't been out on loan prior to last season, and smashed it.

Maybe but they're very few and far between. This is the problem with this short-term strategy, you're completely reliant on being able to get very good loans each year. There are a tonne of reasons why that might not be possible.
 
Good and bad?
Good that Tim appears to have a big say and is being selective.
Bad in that 80% sounds a high rejected rate, meaning a bit of a disconnect in thinking?

80% isn't a worrying number, the lists of potential players clubs have are absolutely huge, they will only ever actually sign 5/7% of them