Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

[Nads]

Just depends how active you are on social media I suppose because pretty much every signing we've made in recent years has been linked at least one day in advance.

One day in advance isn’t a leak man; it’s a ‘here we go’

 

[Frazier the Lion]

Thing is, other than the odd one, most of our signings have not been leaked. Let’s be honest. Who knew we were signing Ballard? Cirkin? And plenty of others.

The Cirkin one was funny. Signed mere minutes after that fraud Nixon posted some inflammatory stuff about how nothing whatsoever was going on at Sunderland

 

[HSAFC73]

Had my first ‘I’ve heard summat’ text.

Kossonou plays for Bayer Leverkusen, Atalanta declining buy option.

Sounds far fetched but it’s the first one I’ve had so am sharing

Oooh! Fan of his

 

[Nads]

Can’t with for Fabrizio to ‘hear we go’ Gabri Veiga

 

[CR17]

Serious question. Who has been leaked? I think we all knew Jobe was coming. As for the others I can honestly say I never heard of most of them and didn’t know they were going to sign for us.

Will be easier to tell you who wasn’t. Which was Alese, Ballard and Seelt as far as I can remember I personally heard and seen reports about everyone else.

 

[CR17]

Already loving seeing all the leaks and stuff just nice to see us active and shopping higher. Speakman will be loving the new transfer budget, the FM save will reach the fun part for him

 

[Nads]

Already loving seeing all the leaks and stuff just nice to see us active and shopping higher. Speakman will be loving the new transfer budget, the FM save will reach the fun part for him

Can just seeing him cracking his knuckles, sparking up a Cuban

‘reet ya bastards’

 

[young2077]

Very true. And club will have been looking for a long time.

Think Ballard is the closest we have had to a reactionary signing. We dived in at death and nicked him.

Harder to sneak up on PL quality targets though, fierce competition and their agents want it leaked.

Iirc wasn't there a lad on his way from Liverpool in the car to sign a deal and before he got to the AOL we realised Ballard was available and ****ed the deal off?

 

[LD19SAFC]

Iirc wasn't there a lad on his way from Liverpool in the car to sign a deal and before he got to the AOL we realised Ballard was available and ****ed the deal off?

That’s true but it was a LB from Liverpool and he was sent back when we were successful with Cirkin

 

[Nads]

Iirc wasn't there a lad on his way from Liverpool in the car to sign a deal and before he got to the AOL we realised Ballard was available and ****ed the deal off?

Aye that rings a bell, and I don’t recall the lad in question so we clearly did a solid switcheroo.

 

[LD19SAFC]

Aye that rings a bell, and I don’t recall the lad in question so we clearly did a solid switcheroo.

Tony Gallacher.

 

[Nads]

Tony Gallacher.

Who? Ha

 

[MadMackem77]

Aye that rings a bell, and I don’t recall the lad in question so we clearly did a solid switcheroo.

Tony Gallacher, now playing for hamilton

 

[LD19SAFC]

Who? Ha

That’s who we were gonna sign from Liverpool before Cirkin

 

[Frazier the Lion]

Aye that rings a bell, and I don’t recall the lad in question so we clearly did a solid switcheroo.

Think that’s why Cirkin was a little bit of a surprise in the end. Everyone online was too busy getting the torches out because Speakman had failed to get a left back over the line

 

[Nads]

Tony Gallacher, now playing for hamilton

Should have been Accrington Stanley would have been a beautiful moment.

 

[Southern A]

They arent daft mate either. He has been relegated to sub since Ballard is back. He will already be looking at options imo. If he sees us splashing money on a top centre half, which I think we should, I reckon he will look for a place to play. He should do too.

There is a more general point here though. We are all on board with strengthening the team. But we cant realistically expect a 27 year old with International ambitions to be a sqaud player. Same with others like Neil and Rigg. They arent going to be interested in going from regulars to something else. Sportsmen dont operate like that. This talk of being rotation options doesnt seem realistic either. Our premier league team will be set of thereabouts. Suspensions and injuries will be about it. We arent going to letting Rigg and Neil take turns.

My overall point is as we strengthen we would be mad to assume some of our current squad will hang around for less game time. That is ok, if the club deem new lads better, of course.

I understand your point but think you’re neglecting the fact that it’s the premier league and a squad game. Players will get reduced game time but in the premier league and on premier league money.

Tommy Watson was willing to leave us to get that. Some of our players WILL be willing to stay for less game time. That’s just how the premier league works.

If Dan Neil is suddenly playing 25 games instead of 38 he’s hardly going to go back to the championship. And any other premier league move would see him playing even less. Which is a move he wouldn’t make based off your argument that players only sign for clubs if they’re going to start games.

 

[Southern A]

Will be easier to tell you who wasn’t. Which was Alese, Ballard and Seelt as far as I can remember I personally heard and seen reports about everyone else.

Jenson Seelt was the only one who was announced by the club before it was on twitter. Alese and Ballard broke a few hours at least before.

 

[LD19SAFC]

Jenson Seelt was the only one who was announced by the club before it was on twitter. Alese and Ballard broke a few hours at least before.

I can remember that, a complete surprise

Speaking of Seelt - does he get a loan move?

 

[darthmixalot1]

I think Huggins, Seelt and, to a lesser extent, Alese, will get looked at over pre-season if they can make the step up. Loans if they can't yet.

I'm a big fan of Alese at CB and think less distance to cover will help put his injuries behind him. Obviously do think he has the quality to potentially make the step up as well but it's hard to judge.