The Transfer Thread 2023/24 - Everything Not Wolves

[Tony Towner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1749373759377875175

£100m?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The fee will be whatever Newcastle need to avoid potential financial rulebook problems plus an extra £20m just to take the piss

 

[Alan]

Blegh

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They didn't get an inflated fee for Saint-Maximin who is a far better player than Almiron.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

People in glass houses… After Neves we, more than any PL bar perhaps Chelsea , should probably keep quiet.

 

[Kenny]

Always going to be suspicious glances if Newcastle sell to a club in Saudi.

We got lucky that Jorge had the sense to muscle his way into that market early doors.

 

[darlowolf64]

People in glass houses… After Neves we, more than any PL bar perhaps Chelsea , should probably keep quiet.

The team that bought Neves isn't an affiliate of Wolves?
He was worth the amount because he's a quality player... £45m?

 

[Wilf Wolf]

The team that bought Neves isn't an affiliate of Wolves?
He was worth the amount because he's a quality player... £45m?

Yet we were hoping to push Barcelona to £30m. Nobody else was paying anywhere close to £45m.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We definitely got a good deal out of it, no-one in Europe was willing to pay that much, especially with only a year of his contract left. I wouldn't sell Barcelona anything under their current ownership but for a while it looked like they were the only game in town and they were struggling to put together half that.

 

[AndyWolves]

You'd think Newcastle will be savvy enough to not take the piss too much. As soon as they do then it'll get clamped down on

Whilst they're "playing nicely" i doubt much will be done

 

[darlowolf64]

The Saudi League were looking to make a splash and "made us an offer we couldn't refuse" to get their man... The fact it was well above what we could have hoped for doesn't reflect badly on us, just the buying team.

We're hardly going to say "no, just give us £30m please"

Newcastle's ownership are in bed with the Saudi's, different argument altogether.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

The Saudi League were looking to make a splash and "made us an offer we couldn't refuse" to get their man... The fact it was well above what we could have hoped for doesn't reflect badly on us, just the buying team.

We're hardly going to say "no, just give us £30m please"

Newcastle's ownership are in bed with the Saudi's, different argument altogether.

I agree but we benefited massively from their desire to make a splash.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Mendes represents Neves, Fabinho, fake Jota and of course Ronaldo and Nuno, all high profile Saudi imports in recent times. It's hardly a massive leap to suggest he has significant sway with the powers-that-be over there and we cannot pretend he doesn't at Wolves. Not a thread we really want to pull at.

 

[Tony Towner]

Ignoring the Saudi element, it's exactly the type of deal the Newcastle Chief Exec said they'd need to do, bought 5 years ago on an original 5 1/2 year deal, so 90% of the fee gets banked straight as profit from an FFP perspective

 

[Alan]

The Saudi League were looking to make a splash and "made us an offer we couldn't refuse" to get their man... The fact it was well above what we could have hoped for doesn't reflect badly on us, just the buying team.

We're hardly going to say "no, just give us £30m please"

Newcastle's ownership are in bed with the Saudi's, different argument altogether.

In bed with? Aren’t many of the people just exactly the same on both sides?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ignoring the Saudi element, it's exactly the type of deal the Newcastle Chief Exec said they'd need to do, bought 5 years ago on an original 5 1/2 year deal, so 90% of the fee gets banked straight as profit from an FFP perspective

Just savvy business on a footballing level. 30 soon and if they aspire to be a regular top four challenger he isn't the kind of technical level they need, nor does he have enough in terms of raw goal involvement numbers. But move him on before he starts to decline physically and while he's still seen as a decent PL player.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Just savvy business on a footballing level. 30 soon and if they aspire to be a regular top four challenger he isn't the kind of technical level they need, nor does he have enough in terms of raw goal involvement numbers. But move him on before he starts to decline physically and while he's still seen as a decent PL player.

Same goes for Trippier and Poppadom Wilson.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Just savvy business on a footballing level. 30 soon and if they aspire to be a regular top four challenger he isn't the kind of technical level they need, nor does he have enough in terms of raw goal involvement numbers. But move him on before he starts to decline physically and while he's still seen as a decent PL player.

One footed wonder so astonishing price for one leg n'est ce pas?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Same goes for Trippier and Poppadom Wilson.

Sky saying they basically want back what they paid for Trippier two years ago (about £12m).

In Spreadsheet FC world that's ideal, 33 and had a bad run recently (is it a few bad games or a Gary Neville style drop off a cliff), book a load of profit for FFP and you've already signed the long-term replacement who has started well when he's been given games.

Of course as fans Newcastle will be no different to us, you don't want Excel to look nice, you want to watch the best footballers in your shirt for as long as possible. But the rules are where they are for now and those are the decisions you have to make.

Bayern can swallow that kind of fee even if it is dead money.

 

[Kenny]

Kalvin Phillips to West Ham on loan just got the Here we Go treatment