Winter transfer window

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Southern A said:
For example a £25m bid for Clarke comes in. Do we turn that down in the hope that the 1 in 10 shot of promotion comes off? It would be naive to assume we will get similar sized bids in the summer. (on the flip we may get even bigger ones in the summer - but look at Stewart, there's no guarantees with anything)

Personally, whilst I obviously would not turn down promotion (I was devastated after the Luton semi final last year), I don't think the club is ready for promotion to the PL yet anyway. Obviously you dont turn it down if it comes because the parachute payments alone are transformational.

I'd much rather we took a high fee now, accepted that our chances of promotion slips from 1 in 10 to 1 in 15, and use the money to sign 2-3 quality promotion ready ideally already British-based players in the summer.
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Could also be used to up our wage cap too, if we brought in the lad from Chile we were linked to it could work for all parties, in theory a big sale allows us to shop in a better pool of player, all hypothetical though and we all know nothing is guaranteed in football, interesting few weeks ahead though!
 
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Hudson92 said:
Could also be used to up our wage cap too, if we brought in the lad from Chile we were linked to it could work for all parties, in theory a big sale allows us to shop in a better pool of player, all hypothetical though and we all know nothing is guaranteed in football, interesting few weeks ahead though!
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There's so much ready made and ready to play talent we could sign for £25m.

Whitakker at Plymouth - no more than £7m
Millar at Preston on loan from Basel - no more than £7m. (Basel signed him for £1.3m from Liverpool)

That's no more than £14m on two players and still with at least £11m to spend.

Then if / when Leicester go up, there's no way Cannon is starting for them in the PL. So he will be loaned or sold to the Championship, and we'd have the money this time to make it us.

Just an example of how we could sign an entire front line of top championship ready players, having only lost one.

I just hope thats how Speakman etc see it. Rather than JUST foreign based lads.
 
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Southern A said:
There's so much ready made and ready to play talent we could sign for £25m.

Whitakker at Plymouth - no more than £7m
Millar at Preston on loan from Basel - no more than £7m. (Basel signed him for £1.3m from Liverpool)

That's no more than £14m on two players and still with at least £11m to spend.

Then if / when Leicester go up, there's no way Cannon is starting for them in the PL. So he will be loaned or sold to the Championship, and we'd have the money this time to make it us.

Just an example of how we could sign an entire front line of top championship ready players, having only lost one.

I just hope thats how Speakman etc see it. Rather than JUST foreign based lads.
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I’d much rather your list of players than the Venezuelan under 18 internationals we’d inevitably sign :emoticon-0102-bigsm I do think they will tweak the model in reality 3 coaches back to back now have mentioned experience it can’t go ignored forever, maybes we need a sale in order to make the tweaks?
 
Southern A said:
For example a £25m bid for Clarke comes in. Do we turn that down in the hope that the 1 in 10 shot of promotion comes off? It would be naive to assume we will get similar sized bids in the summer. (on the flip we may get even bigger ones in the summer - but look at Stewart, there's no guarantees with anything)

Personally, whilst I obviously would not turn down promotion (I was devastated after the Luton semi final last year), I don't think the club is ready for promotion to the PL yet anyway. Obviously you dont turn it down if it comes because the parachute payments alone are transformational.

I'd much rather we took a high fee now, accepted that our chances of promotion slips from 1 in 10 to 1 in 15, and use the money to sign 2-3 quality promotion ready ideally already British-based players in the summer.
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Remember, Spurs take a big wedge out of any fee received.
 
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Southern A said:
There's so much ready made and ready to play talent we could sign for £25m.

Whitakker at Plymouth - no more than £7m
Millar at Preston on loan from Basel - no more than £7m. (Basel signed him for £1.3m from Liverpool)

That's no more than £14m on two players and still with at least £11m to spend.

Then if / when Leicester go up, there's no way Cannon is starting for them in the PL. So he will be loaned or sold to the Championship, and we'd have the money this time to make it us.

Just an example of how we could sign an entire front line of top championship ready players, having only lost one.

I just hope thats how Speakman etc see it. Rather than JUST foreign based lads.
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Don't forget 30% of any Clarke money goes to Spurs. So we get £16.5m of a £25m transfer fee

EDIT: Should have read the rest of the thread before commenting :emoticon-0140-rofl:
 
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TopCat_ said:
Don't forget 30% of any Clarke money goes to Spurs. So we get £16.5m of a £25m transfer fee

EDIT: Should have read the rest of the thread before commenting :emoticon-0140-rofl:
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Thats a big lump of money towards improving the team, even parachute clubs might not spend that this window
 
TopCat_ said:
Don't forget 30% of any Clarke money goes to Spurs. So we get £16.5m of a £25m transfer fee

EDIT: Should have read the rest of the thread before commenting :emoticon-0140-rofl:
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Yeh fair. I was also being conservative with my numbers though. And 30% of £25m is £17.5m ;)

Although I think its just 30% of profit, so a bit more than £17.5m.

If we signed him for £3m, sell for £25m, then it's £22m profit. We'd have to give £6.6m to Spurs and be left with £18.4m.

So many hypotheticals in this post mind :D
 
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Southern A said:
There's so much ready made and ready to play talent we could sign for £25m.

Whitakker at Plymouth - no more than £7m
Millar at Preston on loan from Basel - no more than £7m. (Basel signed him for £1.3m from Liverpool)

That's no more than £14m on two players and still with at least £11m to spend.

Then if / when Leicester go up, there's no way Cannon is starting for them in the PL. So he will be loaned or sold to the Championship, and we'd have the money this time to make it us.

Just an example of how we could sign an entire front line of top championship ready players, having only lost one.

I just hope thats how Speakman etc see it. Rather than JUST foreign based lads.
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That's me convinced now, get him sold ASAP lol
 
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