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The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

Wolves remain in the market for a defender and a winger as replacements for Kilman and Neto, but O'Neil sounded a note of caution over their ability to pay big fees.

"I hope the other clubs aren't treating us as super rich and charging what they want because it's not what we are," he said.

"We are working really hard on doing something which we think will help us. The budget doesn't seem too different to last season. The club is still not in a place where it's able to go and free spend on things.

"Would I love to say that centre-forward over there looks fantastic, he's £55m and let's get him in? Of course, but what we're doing is something very different and we're trying our best to maximise it.

"It makes the reward at the end when you are successful much sweeter, when you have to work this hard for stuff."
 
Jinky said:
Fabio has been spotted at Birmingham airport this morning. Could be off on another holiday, but hopefully it’s because we’re finally selling him.

I know we’ve had this discussion before, but in my eyes, he’ll go down as our worst signing ever.
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He will. They were told he was a generational talent and Fosun hoped to see that development, get some good years out of him, then flip him for a big profit. Didn't work, and he's essentially worthless. But we wouldn't do that now, we're shopping in the bargain basement that will eventually see us relegated.
 
They know we can do maths though right? £90m in from two players and we spent what like 40 odd on 3 players (ignoring the fact that it’s not even a straight in vs out for PSR reasons).
 
The Bear said:
Wolves remain in the market for a defender and a winger as replacements for Kilman and Neto, but O'Neil sounded a note of caution over their ability to pay big fees.

"I hope the other clubs aren't treating us as super rich and charging what they want because it's not what we are," he said.

"We are working really hard on doing something which we think will help us. The budget doesn't seem too different to last season. The club is still not in a place where it's able to go and free spend on things.

"Would I love to say that centre-forward over there looks fantastic, he's £55m and let's get him in? Of course, but what we're doing is something very different and we're trying our best to maximise it.

"It makes the reward at the end when you are successful much sweeter, when you have to work this hard for stuff."
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They think we are so thick
 
Carrotdude said:
They know we can do maths though right? £90m in from two players and we spent what like 40 odd on 3 players (ignoring the fact that it’s not even a straight in vs out for PSR reasons).
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We haven't even spent that as Strand Larsen is a loan so the money for him will be in next years. We've got loads we could spend, it's definitely a choice from them not to not an inability
 
The Bear said:
Wolves remain in the market for a defender and a winger as replacements for Kilman and Neto, but O'Neil sounded a note of caution over their ability to pay big fees.

"I hope the other clubs aren't treating us as super rich and charging what they want because it's not what we are," he said.

"We are working really hard on doing something which we think will help us. The budget doesn't seem too different to last season. The club is still not in a place where it's able to go and free spend on things.

"Would I love to say that centre-forward over there looks fantastic, he's £55m and let's get him in? Of course, but what we're doing is something very different and we're trying our best to maximise it.

"It makes the reward at the end when you are successful much sweeter, when you have to work this hard for stuff."
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Why are we always so skint and all the other clubs around us (Palace, Fulham, Bournemouth, West Ham) are spending freely on decent players?

Makes zero sense to me.
 
Carrotdude said:
They know we can do maths though right? £90m in from two players and we spent what like 40 odd on 3 players (ignoring the fact that it’s not even a straight in vs out for PSR reasons).
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As the wage differences to that too. I can't imagine those 3 are comparable to Neto and Kilman's wage and more likely to be comparable to just Kilman.

Probably saved more on these transactions than raising season ticket prices for the last 2 seasons.

Still Bank Balance FC will be healthy.
 
Compared to the top 6/7 our matchday income is relatively small. Spurs make something like £4 million every matchday, we are around £0.5 million. We are operating in a different league with very little room for growth and the club is using revenue from transfer fees to bridge the gap. Nothing is going to change, there’s no 10 year plan anymore…it’s a perennial battle against relegation with a hope for something better. Any half decent player we develop is basically a sale waiting to happen.

It’s like all those years trying to get promoted, but more expensive.
 
I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is part of a their negotiation technique but I have eyes, ears and a memory.
 
I suppose what he’s actually saying is Fosun don’t want to spend big on signings as they want to buy low and sell high like they’ve managed to recently. Trouble is we still need players and sometimes the perfect low price asset isn’t available. Bournemouth dropped £40m of the £65m they got for Solanke about a week later on a replacement.
 
The Bear said:
Wolves remain in the market for a defender and a winger as replacements for Kilman and Neto, but O'Neil sounded a note of caution over their ability to pay big fees.

"I hope the other clubs aren't treating us as super rich and charging what they want because it's not what we are," he said.

"We are working really hard on doing something which we think will help us. The budget doesn't seem too different to last season. The club is still not in a place where it's able to go and free spend on things.

"Would I love to say that centre-forward over there looks fantastic, he's £55m and let's get him in? Of course, but what we're doing is something very different and we're trying our best to maximise it.

"It makes the reward at the end when you are successful much sweeter, when you have to work this hard for stuff."
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And that's why they unnecessarily gave him a new contract
 
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