Transfer Rumours Summer '22 Transfer Thread

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Shark Sports said:
It was meant to be under £10k pw. I'd have offered Honeyman £10k-12k but I'm sure Millwall would have comfortably beaten that anyway. I don't think it changes our recruitment too much though, we'd still need a no.10
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From that Honeyman interview it didn't necessarily seem like he wanted us to match Milwall's offer, but just to make him feel wanted by giving him a reasonable contract offer, which we didn't. As he said, that's fine, he left as a result and we move on, but it was clearly about the way we went about negotiating a deal with him that put him off.
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
It doesn't really matter what they were on pre-Acun since they were all on tiny wages. If we're now in the business of reflecting a player's quality, we should be offering the best players in the team (KLP, Honeyman, Greaves, Fleming, etc.) 10-15k I would have thought. The fact he's on around 15k at Milwall if those reports are to be believed just reinforces that in my mind. I don't think 15k for Honeyman is 'overs' or unreasonable. It's also not the same wage Tufan and Seri will be commanding.
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I imagine Flemings new deal is significantly less than 10k
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
From that Honeyman interview it didn't necessarily seem like he wanted us to match Milwall's offer, but just to make him feel wanted by giving him a reasonable contract offer, which we didn't. As he said, that's fine, he left as a result and we move on, but it was clearly about the way we went about negotiating a deal with him that put him off.
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That's fine and his prerogative.

I think the honest truth was that the plan wasn't for him to be first choice though and as such giving him £15k a week isn't reasonable in my mind anyway
 
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I do wonder if there's going to be a few cliques at the club as a result as there's going to be some massive disparities in wages.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
I do wonder if there's going to be a few cliques at the club as a result as there's going to be some massive disparities in wages.
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I don't think it'll matter because by the end of the summer window next year I don't think there will be much of the squad left from the Grant/Allam era. I'd imagine only the 2 keepers, Greaves, Fleming, Slater, Longman and Alfie.
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
From that Honeyman interview it didn't necessarily seem like he wanted us to match Milwall's offer, but just to make him feel wanted by giving him a reasonable contract offer, which we didn't. As he said, that's fine, he left as a result and we move on, but it was clearly about the way we went about negotiating a deal with him that put him off.
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What was the offer? Do tell.

And clearly we honestly said 'you're not first choice' and agreed to let him go.
 
Shark Sports said:
I don't think it'll matter because by the end of the summer window next year I don't think there will be much of the squad left from the Grant/Allam era. I'd imagine only the 2 keepers, Greaves, Fleming, Slater, Longman and Alfie.
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I agree, it's the same group I called out above. I'm not saying that Slater should be on the same as Seri, but that if we're going to have 'tiers' of wages, they'll need to eventually be a bit closer together than having some on 5k a week and others on 30k. Feels a bit of a chasm.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
I agree, it's the same group I called out above. I'm not saying that Slater should be on the same as Seri, but that if we're going to have 'tiers' of wages, they'll need to eventually be a bit closer together than having some on 5k a week and others on 30k. Feels a bit of a chasm.
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We offered George a lot more than 5k.

And Slater is unlikely to be on that either.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
I agree, it's the same group I called out above. I'm not saying that Slater should be on the same as Seri, but that if we're going to have 'tiers' of wages, they'll need to eventually be a bit closer together than having some on 5k a week and others on 30k. Feels a bit of a chasm.
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I think if Slater carries on, he'll have a new contract on the table within 6 months and I think the gap will naturally close a bit. As a base of him and Seri, it's a really nice combo, it's just a shame they're both vertically challenged.
 
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Shark Sports said:
I think if Slater carries on, he'll have a new contract on the table within 6 months and I think the gap will naturally close a bit. As a base of him and Seri, it's a really nice combo, it's just a shame they're both vertically challenged.
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Is height that important? They've got 3 massive CBs behind them. Chelsea play the same system and often have Kante and Kovacic as a pair
 
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HullCityInEurope said:
Is height that important? They've got 3 massive CBs behind them. Chelsea play the same system and often have Kante and Kovacic as a pair
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Yes and no. It depends who we play. It's nice to have a bit of height in there. I still think it'll be Seri, Tufan and a new attacking midfielder when everyone's up to speed. If we bring in a DM as well Slater could be pushed out of the picture.

If Nwakaeme is this mystery player and we don't bring in an AM, it makes the midfield a little simpler.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
You're quoting a post that has nothing to do with Honeyman.
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Look mate. Name your dog something else if it makes you feel better. He's gone. We can only now hold to account the decision makers if the transfer policy fails. On paper we're bringing in higher rated players on more money than we were prepared to offer George.

Time will only tell if it was right or wrong, or most likely just indifferent.
 
Mckechnie Orange said:
Look mate. Name your dog something else if it makes you fell better. He's gone. We can only now hold to account the decision makers if the transfer policy fails. On paper we're bringing in higher rated players on more money than we were prepared to offer George.

Time will only tell if it was right or wrong, or most likely just indifferent.
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??

I have no idea what this is responding to. For a third time, we had moved on and were discussing current players and the wage structure. I wasn't talking about Honeyman.
 
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