The Incoming Transfers Everywhere Thread: Summer 2023

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Was the new big thing when Spurs signed him for 40mill or so?

I think there are a few players that Spurs ruined the potential of, bloke needs a move.

I wouldn't be upset if we signed him, but unless we're paying in buttons it's not happening.

 

[Bigbadwulf07]

JL 6/4 for next manager to go. pathetic shitshow

 

[Lichens]

JL 6/4 for next manager to go. pathetic shitshow

Can I take 4/6 that he isn’t? I’d put a decent amount on that.

If he was going to walk he’d have done it already

 

[Sniffer]

JL 6/4 for next manager to go. pathetic shitshow

3/1 with Sky Bet. Moyes is a clear favourite with all bookies.

At least if Julen goes after Moyes, we can put a reliable British person in charge. Oh its not that kind of foreign worker you object to.......

 

[Bigbadwulf07]

Depends really on what he was told during interviews but then he should be aware of FFP and should have checked our position for himself. I can't see this being what he signed up for

 

[Mel Evo]

Depends really on what he was told during interviews but then he should be aware of FFP and should have checked our position for himself. I can't see this being what he signed up for

If he’d checked out FFP position he’d have found we were alright. That’s not the issue.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

If he’d checked out FFP position he’d have found we were alright. That’s not the issue.

What is the issue, does anyone know?

 

[Johnny75]

What is the issue, does anyone know?

Ah the old trick question of 'how do you know?'

If you look at all the information available (as Penk has done) it's fairly easy to work out we won't fall foul of FFP. But those arguments have been done to death by now.

 

[Alan]

What is the issue, does anyone know?

That we've whiffed on every 30m+ signing so far, I'd guess.

Semedo probably the best value we've got in that neighborhood but as much as I like him, we overspent.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Ah the old trick question of 'how do you know?'

If you look at all the information available (as Penk has done) it's fairly easy to work out we won't fall foul of FFP. But those arguments have been done to death by now.

I didn't/don't have an agenda.

If FFP isn't the "real" issue, and looking at the evidence, it isn't.

Then what is the "real" issue?

 

[BGreenWolf]

That we've whiffed on every 30m+ signing so far, I'd guess.

...Raul?

 

[Kenny]

I didn't/don't have an agenda.

If FFP isn't the "real" issue, and looking at the evidence, it isn't.

Then what is the "real" issue?

Profit requirement from the owners,

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Profit requirement from the owners,

Not selling Kilman contradicts that though?

 

[Kenny]

Not selling Kilman contradicts that though?

Not really as we have made that profit from getting the max for Neves, Collins going and higher figures for Coady & Raul (well higher than I thought we would get)

If Collins had stayed then I think Max would have gone for the initial bid.

 

[HanDoJin]

But those arguments have been done to death by now.

Never stopped anyone before

 

[Mel Evo]

I didn't/don't have an agenda.

If FFP isn't the "real" issue, and looking at the evidence, it isn't.

Then what is the "real" issue?

Likewise. So the issue is they don’t want to spend, not that they can’t. Why they don’t could be one of a number of reasons, though the likely ones have been covered extensively given we’ve had nothing else to talk about for weeks.

At some level, with an unknown degree of urgency, it’s the P&L - unless we are the only business with PE investment in the entire world* who don’t need to look better on that front than when we were invested in. The logic of PE is pretty simple, and we could have worse or better owners when it changes, which it will in the not very distant. Again, unless we are unique in the investment world.

*We’re not.

 

[Alan]

...Raul?

Admit I'd forgotten just how much he cost.

Okay, we got one right.

 

[Aikiwolf]

Alex Scott incoming. I've had a text.

 

[Kenny]

Scott incoming. I've had a text.

Parker to replace Lopetegui?

 

[Aikiwolf]

Parker to replace Lopetegui?

Not according to my text.