Summer '24 transfer window

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I really like how Ipswich are recruiting btw. In recent years promoted teams have basically signed loads of random foreigners.

Ipswich are building a championship super team so that if they get relegated they’re ready to bounce straight back. Whilst also giving them a shot at staying up by not having to worry about culture settling in. Smart.

I honestly think they're staying up reasonably comfortably. I don't know why people are saying they'll easily come straight back down if they watch them. They're a totally different kind of team to what you usually see come up from the Championship and they'll catch teams off guard (not this weekend mind).
 
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The players we will get massive fees for in this squad are Jobe and Rigg. They are both unique profiles which is what the top clubs look for. Clarke, unfortunately for him, is not a unique player and the fact it's Ipswich he's going to proves that (all respect for Ipswich, great club and a top coach).

Rutter is a unique profile who has done well in the Bundesliga and the championship. His ability to carry the ball through congested areas and his final ball is top notch. 40m for a reason. Grey is a unique profile, hence why he's going to a top 4 challenger. Summerville is arguably the best player to step foot in the championship in a long time, his game translates very well to top half PL football.

I love Clarke, but there's an abundance of wingers like him.

True mind. Wingers galore. We have about 97 of them.
 
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Stupidly I did on RTG and even more stupidly reacted to a post, which I don't normally do, to be told that I am part of the problem because I am a happy clapper!!! Thank you Barney73 :emoticon-0127-lipss

And brave Barney isn't part of the problem because he's whinging on a chat forum <laugh>

How can these people manage to keep talking out of their aresholes while they're sitting on it ...

... they really think they're freedom fighters <laugh>
 
SAFC twitter has massive headloss on this. Some just bashing the club as soon as they can.

my opinion on this is if this funds the rumoured 3 to come in then the team will be in a better place with more quality. The model is working as it should be.
It's an absolute cess pit.
 
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I honestly think they're staying up reasonably comfortably. I don't know why people are saying they'll easily come straight back down if they watch them. They're a totally different kind of team to what you usually see come up from the Championship and they'll catch teams off guard (not this weekend mind).

absolutely they definitely have the best chance of the promoted sides. I wasn’t suggesting they’re planning to come back down, more that they’re future proofing themselves sensibly if they do.
 
RLB mentioned today how they were already looking at potential replacements
I reckon this will have been planned for a while and we should move quickly to strengthen the squad.

despite what quite a few safc fans on twitter and RTG think Speakman and our recruitment team aren’t stupid. They will have a plan for this and it’s now being put into action.
 
As soon as RLB said that Clarke was available at the weekend “for the moment” it was pretty clear to me he wouldn’t be playing this weekend.
 
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As soon as RLB said that Clarke was available at the weekend “for the moment” it was pretty clear to me he wouldn’t be playing this weekend.
He wouldn’t mention looking at replacements either


Speakshite man he signed Clarke when he wasn’t very good we’ve made him good and sold him what we doing there’s no way any other winger at the club or elsewhere in the world could be this good for us
 
Hopefully we make it clear he’s a CF and we are looking for left wingers
Like even if we state “we are delighted to sign Wilson Isidor, the striker joins from zenit” blah blah blah and have him mention on how he likes to play in his interview etc.

After RLB’s comments saying they’ve been looking at replacements for Jack Clarke as well as the two strikers mentioned it makes me think we will still have Isidor as CF. Who knows tho
 
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As soon as RLB said that Clarke was available at the weekend “for the moment” it was pretty clear to me he wouldn’t be playing this weekend.
Yeah and mentioning the club was looking at replacements. Then the simic news which we probs need the Clarke funds for. I think the simic deal could be more expensive than we were thinking, was it £10m he was valued at a year ago?
 
Simic
Isidor
Loan winger
Defensive midfielder
Fullback
Centre back.

Replace the loan winger with Mendy if we see Isidor as a winger.

Remove some of the deadwood that we have and this is all very possible.

It will be interesting to see the type of player we look at. Somewhere like DM, you would assume we'd go for more experience. But at centre back, I'd love to see us buy someone young with a high ceiling, with an eye on them being an upgrade on Ballard 18 months from now.
 
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I reckon this will have been planned for a while and we should move quickly to strengthen the squad.

despite what quite a few safc fans on twitter and RTG think Speakman and our recruitment team aren’t stupid. They will have a plan for this and it’s now being put into action.

Clarke 'came on the cheap' and didn't do too bad ...

... some people only see 'success' as SPEND SPEND SPEND.

Newcastle have spent billions and haven't had any success since 1955 <whistle>
 
Clarke 'came on the cheap' and didn't do too bad ...

... some people only see 'success' as SPEND SPEND SPEND.

Newcastle have spent billions and haven't had and success since 1955 <whistle>
Look at our best players they all came cheap. This is the model.

I think 20 million now is a fair price with time to replace and sign others