The Incoming Transfers Everywhere Thread: Summer 2023

[Deutsch Wolf]

Maybe this will be another Kilman type bid turn down?

*runs and hides*

Of all the events this summer, that one pisses me off the most and by a distance.

Very sad to let bona fide modern legends like Moutinho and Raul (and maybe Jonny) go but I know it's time.

I'd prepared myself for Neves going years before and it still hurt.

In some ways a missed opportunity with Lopetegui but he really is a bit of a wanker, so I don't need him in my life.

Whatever Matheus does at City (if he goes), it wouldn't happen here.

Alex Scott, good player no doubt, not much end product, expensive and injured. You can easily make the case for backing away.

BUT HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU TURNING DOWN £30M FOR MAX BLOODY KILMAN. It's off the scale for nonsense.

 

[PuntsWolf]

It seems wrong that players can agree personal terms before a bid has been accepted by the club.

I know it's probably always the case. But it doesn't seem right.

It’s just Mendes working on everyone’s behalf. No biggie

 

[The Bear]

The fee is nowhere near enough. We shouldn't be selling at anything less than £80m after what's happened this window with other clubs.

If he goes, we'd better start signing some half decent players or Fosun can get fucked as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Lycan]

It seems wrong that players can agree personal terms before a bid has been accepted by the club.

I know it's probably always the case. But it doesn't seem right.

I don't know, it seems like a better way than it was before when clubs could spend all summer trying to agree a fee with a club for a player, have it accepted and then find out the player didn't want to join them.

 

[Wolvensam]

Of all the events this summer, that one pisses me off the most and by a distance.

Very sad to let bona fide modern legends like Moutinho and Raul (and maybe Jonny) go but I know it's time.

I'd prepared myself for Neves going years before and it still hurt.

In some ways a missed opportunity with Lopetegui but he really is a bit of a wanker, so I don't need him in my life.

Whatever Matheus does at City (if he goes), it wouldn't happen here.

Alex Scott, good player no doubt, not much end product, expensive and injured. You can easily make the case for backing away.

BUT HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU TURNING DOWN £30M FOR MAX BLOODY KILMAN. It's off the scale for nonsense.

Also would be £30m of profit on Max Kilman in the books too - we won’t make that profit on Nunes. And we didn’t make that on Collins.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The fee is nowhere near enough. We shouldn't be selling at anything less than £80m after what's happened this window with other clubs.

If he goes, we'd better start signing some half decent players or Fosun can get fucked as far as I'm concerned.

Josh Brownhill and Cresswell?

 

[Alan]

Lifelong fan*

Until he moved to Inter anyway.

He used a similar line when he signed for LA Galaxy. Weird guy.

 

[AndyWolves]

I don't know, it seems like a better way than it was before when clubs could spend all summer trying to agree a fee with a club for a player, have it accepted and then find out the player didn't want to join them.

I don't think clubs actually agree with the player, but agree with the agent instead. I think it's tapping up otherwise.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I don't think clubs actually agree with the player, but agree with the agent instead. I think it's tapping up otherwise.

It just seems dodgy, but it's accepted as normal.

 

[Alan]

It just seems dodgy, but it's accepted as normal.

Now there's a rabbit hole of a statement if I've ever seen one.

 

[AndyWolves]

It just seems dodgy, but it's accepted as normal.

Totally agree, it doesn't seem right at all

 

[MARKakaJIM]

It just seems dodgy, but it's accepted as normal.

Only what happens in ordinary life isn't it? Recruitment agents touting people for jobs, individuals going for interviews behind their current employers' backs and then when the right numbers turn up suddenly you're telling your boss you don't want to be there anymore.

 

[Derby Wolf]

He used a similar line when he signed for LA Galaxy. Weird guy.

After being told he couldn't, he grew up playing football on the streets of Dublin dreaming of the day he could play in the Indian Super League for ATK.

 

[Woburn Wolf]

Silly bid being what we paid for him?

Fabrizio described it as an “initial” bid. If they really want him we should be able to get them to up that quite a bit. The negative part though is that he has already agreed terms with Citeh. Thanks Jorge

 

[Derby Wolf]

The murkier thing for me is why clubs pay agents fees.

If we've engaged an agent to broker a deal or identify a specific player fair enough but players ought to be paying their representative.

 

[Wolvensam]

Fabrizio described it as an “initial” bid. If they really want him we should be able to get them to up that quite a bit. The negative part though is that he has already agreed terms with Citeh. Thanks Jorge

Well apparently it would take “vastly inflated fees” for us to sell anyone now, so let’s see what that looks like eh?

 

[Kenny]

It seems wrong that players can agree personal terms before a bid has been accepted by the club.

I know it's probably always the case. But it doesn't seem right.

Used to be called tapping up. Now the norm in football.

Teams won't bid until they have agreed shit with the player.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Used to be called tapping up. Now the norm in football.

Teams won't bid until they have agreed shit with the player.

Unless you're Jeff, sign the player and drop an unmotivated prick who doesnt want to be here on the manager...

 

[Woburn Wolf]

The murkier thing for me is why clubs pay agents fees.

If we've engaged an agent to broker a deal or identify a specific player fair enough but players ought to be paying their representative.

It makes no difference. Players would just demand a bigger wage to cover the agents fee.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Unless you're Jeff, sign the player and drop an unmotivated prick who doesnt want to be here on the manager...

I'll keep telling you. It's not motivation with Guedes (although he is a bellend). It's ability.

He's just rubbish.