Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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SydneyTiger14 said:
I raised as a concern last summer that if our strategy is to buy half a dozen players and then hope that we hit it rich with a few of them to sell each year in order to fund the next set of players relies on hitting it rich consistently, something incredibly hard to do in football. If we're already having to sell Oscar as well as Greaves just to keep our head above water it means we're stretched pretty thin in terms of saleable assets. What happens next summer? We're relying on another kid coming through from the Academy - maybe we're going to be trying to sell Vaughn? It just feels like a high risk strategy where we've been incredibly lucky so far and can't rely on repeating that luck year in year out.

It reminds me of the Allams seeing the fees we got for Maguire and Robertson and thinking the buy low sell high approach was easy as piss and signing guys like Kev Stewart and Kingsley who were worth **** all.
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Who said anything about keeping our heads above water?

Pretty sure anything recouped will be reinvested.

There's a difference between being skint (as under ehabs forced austerity) and finding the best way to sustainably reinvest.
 
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Mckechnie Orange said:
Who said anything about keeping our heads above water?

Pretty sure anything recouped will be reinvested.

There's a difference between being skint (as under ehabs forced austerity) and finding the best way to sustainably reinvest.
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Happy to have a broader discussion in the FFP thread if this becomes a back and forth, but please drop the he said she said gump. The comment about head above water is in regards to being competitive, not about surviving as a club. If we're relying on sales in order to be able to invest, then it's reliant on continually finding players we can sell at a profit. If we head into next summer unable to bring in decent money in player sales are we saying we wouldn't be able to invest? And if so we'd be.. going backwards, i.e. not keeping our heads above water. If we have no headroom for investment without player sales then that's a concern.
 
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I do get the feeling that this highlighting of the FFP rules and that we have to keep a close eye on it, to some degree is being used as a mechanism to temper fan's expectations. IMO if that is the case not a bad ploy to use, and at the same time is sort of highlighting the unfairness of the parachute payments, which we know Acun is critical of.

I'm all for us not overspending and getting into a financial message again, so whatever way they choose to do it, it is okay by me.
 
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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
I do get the feeling that this highlighting of the FFP rules and that we have to keep a close eye on it, to some degree is being used as a mechanism to temper fan's expectations. IMO if that is the case not a bad ploy to use, and at the same time is sort of highlighting the unfairness of the parachute payments, which we know Acun is critical of.

I'm all for us not overspending and getting into a financial message again, so whatever way they choose to do it, it is okay by me.
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Its unfair... but we have benefitted from it previously.
 
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