Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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Obviously most would prefer to keep Greaves and Oscar and sign quality additions on top as it's a risk selling our better players, but as Tan has said - we have to be smart with our signings due to FFP.

If we sell Oscar for say, £10m and Greaves for £10m (plus add ons), which allows us to bring in; Dieng/Darlow, Manning, Bird, Kahveci/Twine, De La Fuente/Philogene & Haji Wright/Maxi Gomez

...I think most would also accept that risk.
 
It’s a nonsense to be honest, we have to sell two of our most valuable players to finance incomings due to FFP yet the parachute clubs can go absolutely mad and vastly increase their squad strength meanwhile with this approach we can only slightly strengthen year on year whilst having to hang on to a lot of players without any value to make up the numbers. Our owner actively wants to invest and can’t.
 
I get what you’re saying. If we sell Greaves and Óscar and replace them with Sonny Bradley and ****ing Jonson Clarke-Harris, I’ll be annoyed. But if we sell them and get Eíran Cashin and Haji Wright as replacements, I’ll be happy with that.

Agreed. It depends on the quality of players we're bringing in.

I don't think it's a surprise that Oscar is leaving given the rumours of him moving last season. It would of course be nice to have seen Greaves develop here further but I guess to keep hold of bright prospects we need to be a prem club ourselves and developing talent for profit is essential to most championship clubs without parachute payments.
 
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Obviously most would prefer to keep Greaves and Oscar and sign quality additions on top as it's a risk selling our better players, but as Tan has said - we have to be smart with our signings due to FFP.

If we sell Oscar for say, £10m and Greaves for £10m (plus add ons), which allows us to bring in; Dieng/Darlow, Manning, Bird, Kahveci/Twine, De La Fuente/Philogene & Haji Wright/Maxi Gomez

...I think most would also accept that risk.
We have to be smart with the money this year because we were extremely dumb last year. And whose fault was it?
 
Club accounts are certainly going to make for interesting viewing. By the sounds of it, the sales of Greaves/Oscar wouldn’t lead to decent fees being spent and more just ticking the club over again.

Oscar leaving in particular would be a concern. Greaves is good but more replaceable.
 
Club accounts are certainly going to make for interesting viewing. By the sounds of it, the sales of Greaves/Oscar wouldn’t lead to decent fees being spent and more just ticking the club over again.

Oscar leaving in particular would be a concern. Greaves is good but more replaceable.

Where's that been said?
 
That’s just the impression I’ve got from what I’ve read. Happy to be told if there’s been any suggestion otherwise.

That's what needs clarifying. Is it a case of we want player X but the fee is sizeable and we need to sell or are we doing this to keep it ticking over
 
Some mistakes were certainly made last summer, but to suggest the club is being badly run after the changes we’ve seen in the past year, is utterly ridiculous.

That and overall recruitment resulted in us finishing 10th in the form table over the latter 28 games despite the injuries as opposed to benefitting from points deductions to avoid a relegation scrap the season before.

Sounds like some toys are being chucked out of the pram.
 
Some mistakes were certainly made last summer, but to suggest the club is being badly run after the changes we’ve seen in the past year, is utterly ridiculous.
Football wise it has been and that will eventually impact on the fan side of things
Selling two of our best players and replacing them with inferior cheaper players but hopefully improving is a risky game
With a fickle fan base
Selling cheap passes etc is very good but. Run of poor results and it means people aren’t so arsed about going anyway
 
That's what needs clarifying. Is it a case of we want player X but the fee is sizeable and we need to sell or are we doing this to keep it ticking over

When you have Tan suggesting the owner is subsidising the playing budget then it suggests to me were not doing it just to tick over like in the Ehab years.