The Incoming Transfers Everywhere Thread: Summer 2023

[Deutsch Wolf]

If the transfer policy is to lose out on players because Hobbs wants to be the reincarnation of Jez Moxey, constantly lowballing and waiting for clubs to back down then he's no better than Sellars, and we may as well just let Mendes do everything again.

Where have you got that from?

 

[The Bear]

Where have you got that from?

I'm seeing what is currently happening with every player worth more than a few million that we've confirmed to have bid for. Scott, Elvedi, Retegui...

We can seemingly bring in cheap/free players no problem, but anyone worth a bit more and we seem to be struggling, or unwilling to match what clubs want without testing their patience.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

But it's all guesswork off Twitter.

Scott is a huge outlay for someone with a fairly thin body of work. If the club think he's worth it then fine, but they certainly shouldn't be piling straight in with £25m in used tenners. No-one else has, after all.

Where have you seen us lowballing Gladbach on Elvedi?

 

[Dire Wolf]

Are Fosun working under different FFP rules to everyone else or something?! Fuck sake, we've brought in, what £80m or thereabouts, is it impossible for us to spend anything before getting even more money in? It's like they got close to being in FFP trouble and are now shitting themselves about doing any kind of business. I just wish they'd fuck off.

 

[HanDoJin]

Probably entirely wrong, but this looks like what a business ready to sell up would do before a new buyer comes in

 

[WsWolf]

I'm seeing what is currently happening with every player worth more than a few million that we've confirmed to have bid for. Scott, Elvedi, Retegui...

We can seemingly bring in cheap/free players no problem, but anyone worth a bit more and we seem to be struggling, or unwilling to match what clubs want without testing their patience.

Not really what I'm seeing. We've allegedly put forward the highest bid for two of those (Retegui & Scott).

Re what clubs want, there doesn't seem to be a large queue of clubs bidding £25m for Scott, that suggest to me it's not fair market value.

 

[Del Woppio]

Fosun are up to something, this FFP line is complete bollocks given the sales this Summer. Fucking pricks

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Fosun are up to something, this FFP line is complete bollocks given the sales this Summer. Fucking pricks

I mean there's no argument there, they lied about FFP in the past (then cheerfully admitted shortly afterwards that it wasn't true), they lied about how our season ticket prices were now comparable to similar clubs (no they aren't and it's a bollocks argument anyway).

However what you can't do is have two and a half years where you get pretty much every major decision wrong and expect to come out totally unscathed. We did have our PL status preserved which is fortunate as otherwise we really would be in trouble, what this is boils down to is paying the metaphorical bill for signing Fabio and Semedo for daft fees, sacking Nuno, appointing Lage, retaining Lage and signing Guedes. You take even one of those factors out and we don't have anything like the same kind of problem.

 

[The Bear]

We've already bid £18m for Scott.

If he's our top target and we think he's going to be a very good player and increase in value, then why are we not interested in upping that to £20m and including some extra addons to get it sorted as early as possible.

It just feels like we're just gambling no-one else is going to be interested IMO.

Again with Elvedi we've no idea what we've bid other than the reported €8m from one tweet. But he's not a really expensive player. If we want him we could get it done quickly no problem. Maybe he's just an option we haven't decided on yet.

 

[Wolftone]

Fosun are up to something, this FFP line is complete bollocks given the sales this Summer. Fucking pricks

Could be a good bargaining ploy. We haven't sold anyone any good* yet and those that have been sold, we've got top dollar for them.
*Except Neves obvs.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We've already bid £18m for Scott.

If he's our top target and we think he's going to be a very good player and increase in value, then why are we not interested in upping that to £20m and including some extra addons to get it sorted as early as possible.

It just feels like we're just gambling no-one else is going to be interested IMO.

If you're taking Twitter as gospel then we did that a week ago.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1680640129461780480

 

[Johnny75]

Fosun are up to something, this FFP line is complete bollocks given the sales this Summer. Fucking pricks

Initially I thought this too.

The FFP line is bullshit and we all know it. To use it as an excuse in a transfer and then pedal it to a journalist is embarrassing for them.

I have come to the sad realisation Jeff is still shit at running a football club and Guo's a tit for not replacing him.

I hope they sell up and fuck off, nothing but Chinese Ashley's.

 

[Lycan]

Might this latest FFP thing from Romano just be totally wrong? It's only him reporting that isn't it? Might be him trying to fill in the gaps.

The Argentinian journo was suggesting that we were waiting to sell a striker before we could sign anyone and Genoa had put a deadline of Friday for their offer. He decided to accept their offer rather than wait for us.

How much was it we were supposed to have offered? £18M? That's more than enough to get in a striker in the next 5 weeks and we might end up selling Fábio as well.

 

[EpsomWolf]

Fosun are up to something, this FFP line is complete bollocks given the sales this Summer. Fucking pricks

The last bit of hope I’m clinging to is that Lopetegui is still here.

Maybe through his lens this is a workable strategy that is still to play out. I can’t see it but (clutching at straws), why else would he still be here?

 

[prawnking]

Regardless of FFP (bollocks or not), we do need to be able to field a competitive PL first XI and a half decent subs bench...

A big exodus is quite exciting, but a couple of incomings this week would be most welcome

 

[sycophantia]

Just goes to show even Fab and Percy aren't averse to posting absolute bollocks.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The Argentinian journo was suggesting that we were waiting to sell a striker before we could sign anyone and Genoa had put a deadline of Friday for their offer. He decided to accept their offer rather than wait for us.

But why?

 

[Johnny75]

Just goes to show even Fab and Percy aren't averse to posting absolute bollocks.

Based on?

 

[Johnny75]

But why?

Exactly. It's absolute bobbins. At $18m we should've been doing that deal anyway.

Regardless of whether a striker was here or not. It wouldn't have changed the situation where Raul needed to be sold.

 

[YoungWolf]

Regardless of FFP (bollocks or not), we do need to be able to field a competitive PL first XI and a half decent subs bench...

A big exodus is quite exciting, but a couple of incomings this week would be most welcome

I can see Elvedi coming in this week once Monchengladbach have signed Wober on loan.

Think we will sign Scott but don’t expect it to happen soon.

I think our first 11 is alright to be honest minus a first choice number 9 (too much to expect from Sasa just yet and Fabio I have no idea what will happen yet).

Sa
Semedo Dawson Kilman Bueno
Sarabia Lemina Nunes Neto
Cunha ST

But we do need better options off the bench, especially as Julen seems very proactive during games