The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

[Alan]

The Argentinian top flight is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit (relatively speaking).

Can still find a good player there obviously but I can’t give them the benefit of the doubt anymore.

Am I a broken enough record about this yet?

P.S., we’re always going to be stuck with mid to crap music on these highlight vids aren’t we.

 

[Lycan]

Can certainly finish though the defending on show here isn't up to much

Weirdly reminds me of the videos of Michal Zyro at Legia.

 

[Alan]

Weirdly reminds me of the videos of Michal Zyro at Legia.

Pour one out for the Pole we were denied.

 

[exfan]

Jeff says we'll sign two strikers. I give you Adams and Woods.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Who is Woods?

 

[exfan]

Sorry ditch the s and put Chris in front

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Chris Wood who is 32, under contract at Forest who paid £15m for him a year ago and on £80k a week?

Not a hope.

 

[AndyWolves]

This passes the sniff test

https://twitter.com/x/status/1795155495927378340

It does unfortunately as it means we're still tied in with Mendes.

 

[Lycan]

It does unfortunately as it means we're still tied in with Mendes.

Using Mendes isn't the end of the world as long as we don't completely rely on him or allow him to fleece us. We just need to manage the relationship, spend within our means and make sure the players we're buying suit us as we would with any other agent.

Having a positive relationship with him can be an advantage to us as we can get our hands on players we otherwise might not be able to sign. That's the kind of thing we need to be doing more, not less. As the FSA said the other day, Premier League clubs don't have an income problem, they have a spending problem. We should be looking to recruit (and sell) smarter if we want to stay at this level, not bleed our supporters dry to maximise commercial revenue to maintain the status quo.

 

[Kenny]

Using Mendes isn't the end of the world as long as we don't completely rely on him or allow him to fleece us.

Very much this.

Remove the Guedes and Nunes types and its a normalish agent relationship.


Not counting Fabio as he was an amazing find by our Exec Chairman, Head of PR, Commercial Leader & Chief Scout and we had no choice but to pay that amount and use Jorge to get the generational talent that he is.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think it's only Guedes that was a non-Fabio Mendes disaster for us (and we should have said no purely on the basis of lack of ability).

Nunes wasn't very good for us but we made money on him and got Doyle cheaply too, it worked out OK for us. I don't think anyone foresaw how poorly equipped he'd be for the Premier League, I mean Pep didn't.

I would like to know why the bulk of £13m found its way into his pocket during 2023/24 though.

 

[Sniffer]

I think it's only Guedes that was a non-Fabio Mendes disaster for us (and we should have said no purely on the basis of lack of ability).

Nunes wasn't very good for us but we made money on him and got Doyle cheaply too, it worked out OK for us. I don't think anyone foresaw how poorly equipped he'd be for the Premier League, I mean Pep didn't.

I would like to know why the bulk of £13m found its way into his pocket during 2023/24 though.

Negotiating sales?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Negotiating sales?

He shouldn't be getting a cut from a selling club, in fact no agent should. It's more bent than a Tory PPE procurement meeting.

Even if that is it, it's clearly inflated way beyond what is reasonable. As a club we cannot be 'spending' £13m on nothing.

 

[Kenny]

Was he part of the Cunha deal?

 

[Lycan]

I think it's only Guedes that was a non-Fabio Mendes disaster for us (and we should have said no purely on the basis of lack of ability).

Nunes wasn't very good for us but we made money on him and got Doyle cheaply too, it worked out OK for us. I don't think anyone foresaw how poorly equipped he'd be for the Premier League, I mean Pep didn't.

I would like to know why the bulk of £13m found its way into his pocket during 2023/24 though.

It was definitely the right move to rely on him less after Nuno. We missed out on some quality players that our scouting department had identified simply because they weren't represented by Gestifute. By all accounts there was a lot of discontent behind the scenes where a lot of hard work was being ignored. It doesn't mean we have to cut him off completely though.

It was always going to be hard to keep a club of our size competitive at this level, if we're going to do it we need to be smarter than everyone else. Unfortunately we've seemingly given that up as too much hard work and gone down the 'easy' route of squeezing every £ possible out of the commercial side at the expense of the relationship with the fans. It won't work short term as even with these increases we'll be a fair way short of the kind of revenue other clubs at this level can generate and the damage inflicted will be long lasting.

 

[The Bear]

It'll be Adams, a known quantity. And a foreign £10-20m punt.

 

[Law's Bus]

He shouldn't be getting a cut from a selling club, in fact no agent should. It's more bent than a Tory PPE procurement meeting.

Even if that is it, it's clearly inflated way beyond what is reasonable. As a club we cannot be 'spending' £13m on nothing.

That's the next two years of ST price rises right there.

 

[Tony Towner]

Was he part of the Cunha deal?

He was, but that was in the period prior. A lot will be Neves. That fee didn't really make sense given we had to sell him and there wasn't a market at that value for him

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Can certainly finish though the defending on show here isn't up to much

Has he been signed yet?

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Michi Batshite is our second striker along with Adams on a free. Happy fucking days.