Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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What’s happened with Hannibal at Man Utd?
He was on loan last year at Birmingham, he’d be a decent player to have in midfield if we could get him.
 
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Kalman said:
Not very good management of our FFP headroom when Stoke and Brum can out-spend us, is it? Really shows how ****e last summer was.
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I wouldn't be talking about Stoke as a shining example of managing FFP headroom.

They've been ****ed for years.

And don't Brum still have a year of parachute money?
 
Stoke get round their FFP issues by effectively having the owner write off hundreds of millions, they’ve already sold pretty much everything they own (ground/ training ground etc) to Bet365 and converted tens of millions from debt to equity, but they’re running out of options.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Stoke get round their FFP issues by effectively having the owner write off hundreds of millions, they’ve already sold pretty much everything they own (ground/ training ground etc) to Bet365 and converted tens of millions from debt to equity, but they’re running out of options.
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Writing off the debt has no bearing on FFP. While they sold their ground and also wrote off highly valued player contracts during the grace period of COVID, they 'should' have been much more heavily restricted this summer, so I wouldn't expect them to be spending too much going forward.
 
Kalman said:
I can. There was a documentary about Crystal Palace’s academy not too long ago and he was a stroppy twat then too. I think that’s just how he is.
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Are you talking about Ebiowei here? He came through the Arsenal academy, not Crystal Palace.
 
originallambrettaman said:
The £5m is what Newcastle were quoting, nobody was willing to pay it and once everyone but Leeds had pulled out, they had to take what they could get.

It’s a great deal, though it still comes with a £30k a week wage.
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If we were able to get Darlow for under 2m all up then I'm a bit surprised we didn't do it, or weren't able to. How cheap did we think he was going to be?
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
Simons and Christie were both decent late acquisitions. One a PL loan and one a free agent showcasing the two types that can become available later in the window as interest and other deals firm up their options.
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I don’t understand how Simons was a great acquisition syd
He barely played
He might have potential but so what
It was a loan who did nothing
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
No argument here,merely a question.

Haven't the expectations and time-scale came from the owner? Not once have I heard,or seen quoted by Acun or Kessler a statement to the effect that this is a long-term project?
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There’s no such thing as a long term project in football mate
 
Chazz Rheinhold said:
I don’t understand how Simons was a great acquisition syd
He barely played
He might have potential but so what
It was a loan who did nothing
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I said decent not great, I think he's one for the future who's clearly shown enough to be offered a deal, that makes it worthwhile picking someone up that late.
 
originallambrettaman said:
£30k a week isn’t cheap, it would make him our best paid player, regardless of the fee.
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I'm aware, but whether we're paying Newcastle or Darlow himself, the package is still under 2m and is more than reasonable. Hell, if we'd been quoted 2m as a transfer fee ignoring wages I'd have thought that was reasonable for him. Didn't we pay 3.5m for Sinik (no clue what he's on as a wage)?

If we signed Darlow to a 4-year deal, it'd take until the end of the third year for his wages + fee to have cost us as much as Sinik's fee alone.
 
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