The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

[Lupo]

Fabrizio Romano
@FabrizioRomano
Daniel Podence joins Al Shabab on €5m fee from Wolves, also with a 35% sell-on clause included in the deal.

 

[Squeak]

Did he post a goodbye message to Wolves fans too?

It is a bit strange. Personally I couldn't give two shits but who was paying his wages at the end? Not the first time he's failed to show some respect to us. Maybe that's just how he feels he has been treated though?

 

[Jinky]

Who gives a shit? Social media goodbyes are an empty thing at best

I apologise for asking

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I apologise for asking

Neves's was class.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

He went for the money in the end, all the Olympiakos fans on Twitter trying the freedanpodence shit look mighty foolish now.

 

[Lupo]

 

[sycophantia]

5m seems too cheap to me, surely the whole point of selling a player to a Saudi club is so you get an over inflated price? Although he's a little shit, he's a decent player, surely even at European prices his value is a least 10m? I guess the club just wanted rid at any price.

 

[Sniffer]

IIRC, last summer he agreed to a contract extension which meant that we've got £5m in the bank now instead of nothing. He was in a high profile shop window having been on a run to win the Europa Conference League last season so I doubt there was a higher market price on offer.
Despite his foibles he did OK for us and contributed in his time here.

 

[Tony Towner]

5m seems too cheap to me, surely the whole point of selling a player to a Saudi club is so you get an over inflated price? Although he's a little shit, he's a decent player, surely even at European prices his value is a least 10m? I guess the club just wanted rid at any price.

He was under contract, you can't sell him, if he won't sign. He wanted the money, so we keep him and his volatile personality and he walks next Summer or we take what we can now. It's the same fee Olympiakos could have signed him for at the end of last season but he didn't want the wages they offered.

 

[Tony Towner]

Unless he's refusing to play / threatening to not try, then while he's here, this doesn't make sense.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1830926629859684608

 

[Jinky]

Something really weird has happened behind closed doors with Sa.

 

[Squeak]

Something really weird has happened behind closed doors with Sa.

Certainly looks that way. It's unsettling. And perhaps he doesn't like competition for his place?

 

[Del Woppio]

Ugh. My guess is that we fucked around with a Saudi bid trying to get more money, they pulled out and he's pissed off.

 

[AndyWolves]

I think we tried to make Sa sign for someone, he didn't want to, and now we're punishing him.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Who knows. But it reeks.

 

[sycophantia]

He was under contract, you can't sell him, if he won't sign. He wanted the money, so we keep him and his volatile personality and he walks next Summer or we take what we can now. It's the same fee Olympiakos could have signed him for at the end of last season but he didn't want the wages they offered.

Yeah, I know I'm just shouting at the moon really, just frustrates me when we pay way over the odds for players, yet when we sell its sometimes way below market value.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

I presume it’s not simply because Bentley is home grown?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That doesn't matter when you're naming a matchday squad. Assuming we are going to name Sa in the squad submitted to the Premier League (13th Sep I think is the deadline) and we're within the HG limits (I am fairly sure we are) then it makes no difference whether he sits on the bench or Bentley does.

 

[Tony Towner]

By my maths we can name 2 of Sasa, Traore and Sa.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

No chance Sasa is fit before Christmas and O'Neil doesn't rate him anyway so he'll miss out.