Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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As you sort of say, not money laundering.
Maybe there's some win-win going on in the sort of thing you are touching on, but it's not money laundering (which was my point / question).

To clarify, I'm pointing out there are multiple reasons it could happen, and listed one, money laundering, and another, circumventing FFP. You expressed incredulity at how money laundering could happen or why.
 
Not going to be many championship players on 35k a week at clubs that aren’t receiving power shoot payments.

There’s a lesson to learn from the likes of Sunderland, Derby, Reading, Wendies etc.

Wow, when did we get to 35k? We were talking about 20-22k.
 
Greatest City keeper of all time
FACT

I was never confident with him at free kicks though, to the point I just knew Santi Cazorla was going to score. I remember not minding too much about the result that day because we did so well to get there and put in a great performance in the final but the more I look back the more I realise it was perhaps the only opportunity we will have in my lifetime to win something.
 
I was never confident with him at free kicks though, to the point I just knew Santi Cazorla was going to score. I remember not minding too much about the result that day because we did so well to get there and put in a great performance in the final but the more I look back the more I realise it was perhaps the only opportunity we will have in my lifetime to win something.

same, it's petty but i still hold a grudge over that freekick <laugh>
 
Fair enough. So the question then becomes something like is Ingram good enough to get us there or is Darlow considered to be that bit better and therefore more likely to help us get there. I honestly don't know the answer or the thinking going on around this subject.

The thinking is we need 2 decent championship keepers to withstand a full.campaign.
 
Yep, I get that, but as said, no logical sense! I would be absolutely gobsmacked if anything like that was going on.
That doesn't mean to say that there isn't an even more wealthy backer in the background (the biscuit guy for example), like Wilkinson was to Pearson. But that's a different matter.

Doesn't really ring true given Pelkas was a loan and Ali a try before you buy. Only one we paid an upfront fee to fenerbache for was Ozan and he was less than they'd agreed with watford the year before. Hardly inflated fees.
 
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