Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

[Brainy Dose]

I’ve got some big news - I am retiring from the world of work.

So I bought my first ever season ticket, it’s bit of a trek from Berkshire but I have more time on my hands and do plan to continue with the match threads

Good news marra....for you and for us!

 

[APC]

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Morning campers

 

[DELETED ACCOUNT 1234]

What an appointment Ghisolfi is, this guy is so highly rated in scouting circles that getting him is potentially HUGE!!

I know some are concern about what this means for KS but I actually think it'll be a good thing.

From a club point of view
- no single point of failure at recruitment level
- improved knowledge of the European market
- someone experienced in recruiting at top flight level
- knows what it's like to be in a high pressured role at a big club where there's expectation
- fits our philosophy

For Speakman
- someone to share the workload with
- someone to learn from
-) someone to take the pressure off slightly

They'll have defined roles but it's very common across the continent (even in the UK now) to have 2 senior people in director of football type roles.

We should always be looking to improve as a club and this, on paper at least, massively improves us

This sounds really positive and I trust your view on it.

I've not really got much of an idea how the details of this stuff work, but is it not a little late for him to come in and be heavily involved in this window? He won't have seen enough of our players and presumably he's not seen much of our data or scouting network. Is this going to be one of school transfer windows where we're trusting this guy based off his contacts and network rather than the clubs data based models?

 

[Brainy Dose]

Not sure he's being gazumped.

He probably needs someone to share the workload.

This seems to be a move to help reduce KS workload and it's likely that Harvey will work with Ghisolfi in recruitment leaving KS to concentrate on matters concerning players who are already at the club. KS has said in the last few days he's been bombing around Europe,when there are significant contract issues, we've still not had any announcements on,here at home.
As we grow as a club into the PL,it looks like a very shrewd move to me.

 

[Brainy Dose]

This sounds really positive and I trust your view on it.

I've not really got much of an idea how the details of this stuff work, but is it not a little late for him to come in and be heavily involved in this window? He won't have seen enough of our players and presumably he's not seen much of our data or scouting network. Is this going to be one of school transfer windows where we're trusting this guy based off his contacts and network rather than the clubs data based models?

i wouldn't have thought it would take that long for KS,SH and RLB to bring him up to speed with where we are in our squad build.He may also bring some oven ready ideas in support.

 

[Southern A]

This sounds really positive and I trust your view on it.

I've not really got much of an idea how the details of this stuff work, but is it not a little late for him to come in and be heavily involved in this window? He won't have seen enough of our players and presumably he's not seen much of our data or scouting network. Is this going to be one of school transfer windows where we're trusting this guy based off his contacts and network rather than the clubs data based models?

I reckon we will still see the benefit this window from improved negotiating, decisiveness and ability to get deals done. This isn’t a dig at Speakman, more a reflection on having somebody doing the deals who has the contacts and the experience on a global stage

 

[Brainy Dose]

What an appointment Ghisolfi is, this guy is so highly rated in scouting circles that getting him is potentially HUGE!!

I know some are concern about what this means for KS but I actually think it'll be a good thing.

From a club point of view
- no single point of failure at recruitment level
- improved knowledge of the European market
- someone experienced in recruiting at top flight level
- knows what it's like to be in a high pressured role at a big club where there's expectation
- fits our philosophy

For Speakman
- someone to share the workload with
- someone to learn from
-) someone to take the pressure off slightly

They'll have defined roles but it's very common across the continent (even in the UK now) to have 2 senior people in director of football type roles.

We should always be looking to improve as a club and this, on paper at least, massively improves us

I've come to respect your knowledge and insight over time and am delighted with your assessment.

 

[MadMackem77]

This sounds really positive and I trust your view on it.

I've not really got much of an idea how the details of this stuff work, but is it not a little late for him to come in and be heavily involved in this window? He won't have seen enough of our players and presumably he's not seen much of our data or scouting network. Is this going to be one of school transfer windows where we're trusting this guy based off his contacts and network rather than the clubs data based models?

L’equipe reckons we were talking to him for a long time so plans probably already in place for his arrival

 

[ristac]

This seems to be a move to help reduce KS workload and it's likely that Harvey will work with Ghisolfi in recruitment leaving KS to concentrate on matters concerning players who are already at the club. KS has said in the last few days he's been bombing around Europe,when there are significant contract issues, we've still not had any announcements on,here at home.
As we grow as a club into the PL,it looks like a very shrewd move to me.

I never get the excitement over these kind of signings, if he opens his book of contacts and players then every other coach will open the same book.

We’ve all seen how it works on our transfer pages, agents run the show drumming up interest and if you haven’t got players already firmly in your sights then the boat is already sailing and you need to jump on quick.

 

[Frazier the Lion]

I hope we maintain what we've done well (targeting UK Academies (I'm most excited by the Gray and Lennon Miller links), trying to implement a playing style that will most appeal to our crowd and therefore utilise them as an asset, provision of pathway for Academy players etc) and that this is just a move to improve the things we've perhaps not done so well rather than a complete revamp.

Indeed. Change always brings with it excitement for new possibilities but it also brings concern. What does this mean for Stuart Harvey for instance? New people, new relationships. It may not work as well as it has to date - and we may lose talent in the process. Guess we just hope for the best outcome - and that this is considered the natural evolution by all at the club rather than an indictment of how we’ve operated to date.

 

[Southern A]

FG will know every player in Europe worth signing anyway. It will take him all of 2 hours to be told which positions need strengthening and to identify players to fill those voids that might be available.

We’re shopping in the same markets as Roma and Nice were anyway. It’s not like he’s coming in from somewhere completely alien

 

[Southern A]

I never get the excitement over these kind of signings, if he opens his book of contacts and players then every other coach will open the same book.

We’ve all seen how it works on our transfer pages, agents run the show drumming up interest and if you haven’t got players already firmly in your sights then the boat is already sailing and you need to jump on quick.

our excitement is that less than 5 years ago our DoF was a chap who used to be assistant manager at Eastleigh and was doing a favour for his mate. And now we have this guy.

 

[Prehab26]

I reckon we will still see the benefit this window from improved negotiating, decisiveness and ability to get deals done. This isn’t a dig at Speakman, more a reflection on having somebody doing the deals who has the contacts and the experience on a global stage

Absolutely. I think it will be interesting to watch speakmans reaction to it all TBH. Had his own way on essentially all matters to this point..

 

[Brainy Dose]

I never get the excitement over these kind of signings, if he opens his book of contacts and players then every other coach will open the same book.

We’ve all seen how it works on our transfer pages, agents run the show drumming up interest and if you haven’t got players already firmly in your sights then the boat is already sailing and you need to jump on quick.

Having very good people running the club in whatever capacity can only be good news,particularly relevant to us,as we gradually erase the pain of the Short era, when there was nobody with an ounce of competence running the club.As other clubs have discovered,the quality off the field can often be as important as the quality on it.

 

[Pure River Slut]

I know the square root of **** all about this bloke and 90% of the players linked so I’m going to walk my dog

 

[ristac]

Having very good people running the club in whatever capacity can only be good news,particularly relevant to us,as we gradually erase the pain of the Short era, when there was nobody with an ounce of competence running the club.As other clubs have discovered,the quality off the field can often be as important as the quality on it.

He doesn’t sound that good mate

They believe that tensions were lingering at the club due to the situation of Mile Svilar, whose contract situation was being delayed. While the farewell took place by mutual agreement, the goalkeeper’s renewal proved to be the last straw for the Friedkins.

The newspaper claim that Ghisolfi had a strained relationship with many agents – including those of Alexis Saelemaekers. The ownership wanted to cash in on the sale of Angelino and the failure to do has fallen on Ghisolfi’s shoulders.

More than that, there were issues regarding the renewals of many Primavera players. These issues emerged in a clear video call involving the parties and the Friedkins learned that only Claudio Ranieri’s intervention was making sure of Svilar’s renewal.

A solution was reached early in the morning and CFO Lorenzo Vitali was the one to show Ghisolfi the door, with Ricky Massara in pole position to replace the Frenchman.

 

[Brainy Dose]

He doesn’t sound that good mate

They believe that tensions were lingering at the club due to the situation of Mile Svilar, whose contract situation was being delayed. While the farewell took place by mutual agreement, the goalkeeper’s renewal proved to be the last straw for the Friedkins.

The newspaper claim that Ghisolfi had a strained relationship with many agents – including those of Alexis Saelemaekers. The ownership wanted to cash in on the sale of Angelino and the failure to do has fallen on Ghisolfi’s shoulders.

More than that, there were issues regarding the renewals of many Primavera players. These issues emerged in a clear video call involving the parties and the Friedkins learned that only Claudio Ranieri’s intervention was making sure of Svilar’s renewal.

A solution was reached early in the morning and CFO Lorenzo Vitali was the one to show Ghisolfi the door, with Ricky Massara in pole position to replace the Frenchman.

Ok,we'll see,I have no knowledge of any of it. Trusted posters on here who do have knowledge appear to disagree with you.

 

[Hannah1989]

just a few of the free agents out there https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5yk8xx17ngo

 

[Southern A]

He doesn’t sound that good mate

They believe that tensions were lingering at the club due to the situation of Mile Svilar, whose contract situation was being delayed. While the farewell took place by mutual agreement, the goalkeeper’s renewal proved to be the last straw for the Friedkins.

The newspaper claim that Ghisolfi had a strained relationship with many agents – including those of Alexis Saelemaekers. The ownership wanted to cash in on the sale of Angelino and the failure to do has fallen on Ghisolfi’s shoulders.

More than that, there were issues regarding the renewals of many Primavera players. These issues emerged in a clear video call involving the parties and the Friedkins learned that only Claudio Ranieri’s intervention was making sure of Svilar’s renewal.

A solution was reached early in the morning and CFO Lorenzo Vitali was the one to show Ghisolfi the door, with Ricky Massara in pole position to replace the Frenchman.

It definitely seems his time at Roma wasn’t brilliant but his history predating that is nothing but positive

 

[Chunksafc]

From what I've read this really strengthens the recruitment team, we appear to have the best of both worlds now, Speakman and his academy UK based expertise and Ghisolfi with his European experience.

This is getting very exciting, feels like we are going to have a proper go at this