Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion (DEADLINE DAY from Page 814)

Bedsaddick

RonnieMoore said:

wolfgang said:

Crispywood said:

Personally think we pulled the trigger on signing Alli too early 

Too early? We should never have signed him at all. Nowhere near Championship standard. Even Fevrier would have been better, and he was not great.

So you made that judgement on what ??? He looks a very tricky winger who showed last week like Grant yesterday he can cross a ball and create chances … 

Blimey i’m agreeing with Colin (RM) . Wonders will never cease 

Bostonaddick

The argument of whether to sell/loan between JRC and Doc is an interesting.  JRC is more skilled on the ball but not as good defensively than Doc.  My initial reaction is NJwould want the the more defense minded mid but given the lineup yesterday, maybe he thinks between Ouma and potentially Sichenje that we have enough defensive cover.

golfaddick

gringo said:

Could someone not just phone up and bloody ask him!? This endless "he's on....", "no he's not!" is doing my melon in.

And whilst we're at it can't we drop the "per week" crap. This isn't the 1970's with brown wage packets on a Friday. Why cant footballers salaries be expressed as an annual salary like 99% of the working population.......esp when they are earning millions.  

StreekDerek

Maybe Edward’s is further away from fitness than we think and will be sacrificed from the squad naming, giving him the opportunity to come back into the squad in the next window.

fenaddick

StreekDerek said:

Maybe Edward’s is further away from fitness than we think and will be sacrificed from the squad naming, giving him the opportunity to come back into the squad in the next window.

Would be an incredibly demoralising thing to do to him, highly doubt it will happen 

DubaiCAFC

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Okonkwo signed for Wrexham when they were in league one after a successful loan (in league two). Even with the money they throw at players, surely his wages aren't crazy high?

Suppose what he was on at the club he was on loan from, which I believe he had a silly contract for a young goalkeeper. So maybe true.

ForeverAddickted

fenaddick said:

StreekDerek said:

Maybe Edward’s is further away from fitness than we think and will be sacrificed from the squad naming, giving him the opportunity to come back into the squad in the next window.

Would be an incredibly demoralising thing to do to him, highly doubt it will happen 

Wouldn't make sense either given this line from the OS Match Preview

Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Nathan Jones confirmed that Charlie Kelman and Kayne Ramsay are his only two players who remain sidelined through injury, while Josh Edwards has returned to training as he nears a return to action. 

ShootersHillGuru

Jojo Wollacott is currently a free agent. Not suggesting we should go for him but I always thought he was hard done by a The Valley.

ross1

fenaddick said:

Covered_End_Lad said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Okonkwo signed for Wrexham when they were in league one after a successful loan (in league two). Even with the money they throw at players, surely his wages aren't crazy high?

Agree even with a promotion wage hike I would be surprised if he’s on any more than 10k

I would guess he’s somewhere between 10 and 20. Wrexham were paying L1 wages to players they deemed worth it while in the NL. That and him coming from Arsenal means I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on 9/10k in L1 and then had a 20% bump on promotion

I believe he is on a bit more than me, but then I am not going to say what I earn so keep guessing for what it is worth as you will probably never know for certain.
So what is the point of this conversation 🤔 

balham red

golfaddick said:

gringo said:

Could someone not just phone up and bloody ask him!? This endless "he's on....", "no he's not!" is doing my melon in.

And whilst we're at it can't we drop the "per week" crap. This isn't the 1970's with brown wage packets on a Friday. Why cant footballers salaries be expressed as an annual salary like 99% of the working population.......esp when they are earning millions.  

Good point 

000__Jaaaaay__000

Callumcafc said:

I think it’s a distant one now but Holsgrove is not involved in the Estoril squad again today.

Let it go mate

Gisappointed

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

With Kelman coming back with Mbick, I'd let Godden go for money. L1 is his level.

TheHerminator

Gisappointed said:

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

A ten from abroad. Simple really 

ForeverAddickted

TheHerminator said:

Gisappointed said:

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

A ten from abroad. Simple really 

Are we signing Ana de Armas

SiFry

Braziliance said:

CAFCsayer said:

LargeAddick said:

Don’t know where this Okonkwo on 20k has come from. He signed when they were in League One. Someone posted something the other day that stated he earned the least of their four keepers on 5k pw hence why he wanted a move. The fact is no one really knows what he earns but I’d wager 20k is way wide of the mark.

Rich Cawley said on his podcast that the salary he has heard Onkonkwo is on would make him by far our highest earner

Interesting. I trust Rich more than anyone, all I heard was that he was closer to higher League 1 wages than upper Championship.

Either way, we are interested in him definitely from what I have heard.

Can’t imagine AO being on anywhere near TK’s wages. TK has come from (fairly recently) The Prem, AO from Lge 1. I saw this the other day which would suggest his wages are the lowest of the Wrexham keepers….. but who knows?!? 

eastterrace6168

Gisappointed said:

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

With Kelman coming back with Mbick, I'd let Godden go for money. L1 is his level.

This manager lark is a piece of cake...🤦‍♂️

sam3110

Gisappointed said:

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

With Kelman coming back with Mbick, I'd let Godden go for money. L1 is his level.

Thank God you're not in charge then

Crispywood

Gisappointed said:

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

With Kelman coming back with Mbick, I'd let Godden go for money. L1 is his level.

Really hope this is meant to be ragebait, I understand football is about a game of  opinions, but some opinions just really don’t deserved to be had 

TheHerminator

Crispywood said:

Gisappointed said:

I'd get rid of Doc, Asiimwe, JRC, Carey (high 6 figures, as with Kanu) Burke & Knibbs. Possibly minor fees.That leaves us with 4 CDMs and I'd buy a ten from Huddersfield or abroad (Holsgrove?). Keeper in and out and JRS for £2m.

With Kelman coming back with Mbick, I'd let Godden go for money. L1 is his level.

Really hope this is meant to be ragebait, I understand football is about a game of  opinions, but some opinions just really don’t deserved to be had 

I can’t work them out. This reads as total rage bait but part of me thinks they also genuinely believe this 

Gisappointed

Sorry, who of those would you keep and why? How many starters in my list?

mcgrandall

Gisappointed said:

Sorry, who of those would you keep and why? How many starters in my list?

I think you had people going, until you said high 6 figures for Carey and selling our two most proven goal scorers at this level. 

ButtleJR

Carey for high six figures with 8 goals from midfield in the championship? 😂

golfaddick

Gisappointed said:

Sorry, who of those would you keep and why? How many starters in my list?

Carey started yesterday & the cup win (and scored) last week.

JRC came on yesterday. 

Holsgrove will cost too much

And you can probably doubt the fee for JRS 

Apart from that you're all good 🙄

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TheHerminator

Gisappointed said:

Sorry, who of those would you keep and why? How many starters in my list?

Don’t apologise mate, we all write dumb things occasionally.

Granted some more than others

Malone_Addick

So, Okwonkwo? 

To_Be_Franck

Malone_Addick said:

So, Okwonkwo? 

Bless you

ButtleJR

Malone_Addick said:

So, Okwonkwo? 

Official bid has gone in according to the other site. I personally think he'd be a vast improvement. I wonder if Ouma is a loan to enable us to bring him in on a perm.

Southbank

StreekDerek said:

Maybe Edward’s is further away from fitness than we think and will be sacrificed from the squad naming, giving him the opportunity to come back into the squad in the next window.

Maybe Kelman won't make it back until Xmas

Covered End

I'll keep it brief.
I've heard/read the same as everyone else.