Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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Was in an interview, just been in an HDM article:

"Our wage is one of the top eight (in the Championship), not considering the teams that are coming down. We have a headroom but there's not much to play around," he told Hull Live when asked about City's FFP situation.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/hull-city-financial-fair-play-8556222
Poor old Shota keeps carrying the can for last season but **** me it was disastrous senior management that
 
Poor old Shota keeps carrying the can for last season but **** me it was disastrous senior management that

If what Tan means is that the Championship as things stand excluding the three coming down, then you have to think Luton who got promoted had a smaller budget, so really we were the 10th biggest wage last season including Burnley and Sheff U if I've understood him correctly. If so 15th is a pretty big underachievement.
 
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If what Tan means is that the Championship as things stand excluding the three coming down, then you have to think Luton who got promoted had a smaller budget, so really we were the 10th biggest wage last season including Burnley and Sheff U if I've understood him correctly. If so 15th is a pretty big underachievement.
Context. We’d gone from the smallest to 10th highest in a single transfer window.
 
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I wouldn't say horrible mismanagement, we managed to acquire some great players who will be key to the squad this season. I think anyone expecting instant results were being more than a little naive.
I think someone expecting good results this season is being more than a little naive.
 
I wouldn't say horrible mismanagement, we managed to acquire some great players who will be key to the squad this season. I think anyone expecting instant results were being more than a little naive.

The truth is somewhere in the middle, the transfer strategy last season was horribly poor but such a turnaround was never going to bear fruit overnight regardless.
 
Eaves was alright but it was just sloppy recruiting. At Gillingham, he played in a front 2 alongside a big lump. How many times did he play alongside a big target man for us? Pretty much never. I'm not saying he'd have been a big success for us if he had done, but you've at least got to provide the conditions for him to succeed. He didn't have the attributes to be a lone striker yet that's all he really played for us.
More evidence of Ehab and his infamous 'papers all over the kitchen floor' way of recruiting from data and not scouts. As with most players Eaves would fit nicely into some styles of play and not others. Ehab focussed purely on stats and data.
 
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We’ve got the basis of a settled squad, settled manager, set playing style. Why shouldn’t we expect good results?

We might underachieve, but there’s no point going into a season without optimism

Yes. The only thing there is to feel gloomy about is the relative strength of the division this year.

But as I’ve said before, rarely does it pan out as people expect. Norwich were tipped to piss the league this season and everyone thought Burnley would be an absolute mess.
 
I think the owner and manager looked at Fulham walk the division with quality and ‘ball control’ and no little pace . Naively they thought just buy ‘quality’ players / foreign internationals and that would do it . They soon found out you need a lot more than that , to be honest last season had we got it right we could have walked it Burnley did it and they were bang average, I fear this year will be way tougher due to the Ex Prem teams and others strengthening . But as every year I live in hope !
 
Yes. The only thing there is to feel gloomy about is the relative strength of the division this year.

But as I’ve said before, rarely does it pan out as people expect. Norwich were tipped to piss the league this season and everyone thought Burnley would be an absolute mess.

Birmingham are in turmoil, as are West Brom.A Wednesday fan I know says things are far from happy behind the scenes there due to spending restrictions.. Leeds could lose 7 players because of clauses in their contracts Leicester and Southampton are going to lose players. They will be quoted daft prices for replacements as clubs know they have the parachute money. Will Sunderland repeat their unexpected good position of last year. I don’t think the division is as strong as some think.
My hunch for the surprise team is Ipswich. Good crowds, over 26,000 in League 1 and decent owners,
 
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