Transfer rumours?

Todds_right_hook

So konsa and lookman go, what other playing assets are there left for Roland to sell? Bauer maybe? Hopefully these sales will mean he will sell

sam3110

Todds_right_hook said:

So konsa and lookman go, what other playing assets are there left for Roland to sell? Bauer maybe? Hopefully these sales will mean he will sell

Bauer is a right primadonna if you refuse to let him sign for Hoffenheim or Bremen!

Source. FM 2017

Also, players like Solly and Teixeira come to you to tell you they want to leave for a better team, and when questioned it turns out to be Fulham (fecking Fulham?!) which i laugh at and tell them to go away.

Incidentally I sold Konsa in the January window to Stoke of all places for 3.5m includong add ons. Mind you I had been playing him every week and he had grown in ability a lot

Covered End

I have to say we'd be crazy to turn down £11M for Lookman, presuming the majority is paid upfront.

I just hope that we spend at least half of it, to get in 4/5 1st team players, that should take us into and hopefully win the play offs at Wembley.

seth plum

Agents will be perking up, even Vaz Te's.
I don't think the buy one get one free regarding Lookman and Konsa to Everton.
I might be wrong but I believe that Konsa was being initially monitored by Everton, but their indifferent form and an ageing squad brought Lookman into the equation.

killerandflash

ShootersHillGuru said:

J BLOCK said:

I hope lookman and Konsa go for as a little as possible

I think I know what you mean but I think it's skewed logic.

The less money Duchatelet pockets to offset his expenditure the more money he needs to find from other areas of the club be that playing budget or on capital projects.

I don't want RD making wads from the sale of young talent every season and reinforcing his view that his scheme can work but equally I don't want to see the club go further down the shitter with lack of funding where it's needed.

Rock and a hard place.

The money wouldn't go into his pockets anyway, but rather would reduce the massive debt that we owe RD.

LargeAddick

killerandflash said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

J BLOCK said:

I hope lookman and Konsa go for as a little as possible

I think I know what you mean but I think it's skewed logic.

The less money Duchatelet pockets to offset his expenditure the more money he needs to find from other areas of the club be that playing budget or on capital projects.

I don't want RD making wads from the sale of young talent every season and reinforcing his view that his scheme can work but equally I don't want to see the club go further down the shitter with lack of funding where it's needed.

Rock and a hard place.

The money wouldn't go into his pockets anyway, but rather would reduce the massive debt that we owe RD.

if it reduces the debt enough to enable a sale then I'm happy to see Lookie & Konsa go

johnny73

Robinson has already said he will work within financial fair play. Wages must already be close to that limit. He will have to sell before he can bring anyone else in because Duche will not want to pay any fine for going over the wages limit.

With the mess the owners have put us in, with half a first team squad out on loan, I'd imagine it would be impossible for KR to build a decent squad and stay within reasonable finances.

Redhenry

Cawley has good contacts, there is probably some truth in it.

All_Thaid_Up

LargeAddick said:

killerandflash said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

J BLOCK said:

I hope lookman and Konsa go for as a little as possible

I think I know what you mean but I think it's skewed logic.

The less money Duchatelet pockets to offset his expenditure the more money he needs to find from other areas of the club be that playing budget or on capital projects.

I don't want RD making wads from the sale of young talent every season and reinforcing his view that his scheme can work but equally I don't want to see the club go further down the shitter with lack of funding where it's needed.

Rock and a hard place.

The money wouldn't go into his pockets anyway, but rather would reduce the massive debt that we owe RD.

if it reduces the debt enough to enable a sale then I'm happy to see Lookie & Konsa go

This is exactly what I was thinking.

harveys_gardener

johnny73 said:

Robinson has already said he will work within financial fair play. Wages must already be close to that limit. He will have to sell before he can bring anyone else in because Duche will not want to pay any fine for going over the wages limit.

With the mess the owners have put us in, with half a first team squad out on loan, I'd imagine it would be impossible for KR to build a decent squad and stay within reasonable finances.

I find it hard to believe that we comply with FFP given we have 8 players on loan with inferior leagues including Watt and Igor who must be on big bucks not covered by their current sides, and Tex. Plus we have two high profile spin doctors, an army of security all paid for by about 8,000 "customers".

sam3110

harveys gardener said:

johnny73 said:

Robinson has already said he will work within financial fair play. Wages must already be close to that limit. He will have to sell before he can bring anyone else in because Duche will not want to pay any fine for going over the wages limit.

With the mess the owners have put us in, with half a first team squad out on loan, I'd imagine it would be impossible for KR to build a decent squad and stay within reasonable finances.

I find it hard to believe that we comply with FFP given we have 8 players on loan with inferior leagues including Watt and Igor who must be on big bucks not covered by their current sides, and Tex. Plus we have two high profile spin doctors, an army of security all paid for by about 8,000 "customers".

I believe FFP in league 1 is dictated by what was spent in the championship, and even if we are paying half of Watt and Vetokeles' wages then that's probably a good 7-8k off the bill a week. Add to that the contract JBG signed (rumours of as much as 15k,probably more like 10-12 and the money generated by the sales of Cousins, Harriott, Pope and the wages freed up from Henderson, Reza, Diarra, Motta and Fanni, and I think you'll find there's a fair bit knocking around.

Off field payments, I don't think they come into it at all, and are probably covered by Melexis as opposed to coming out of the playing squad budget.

The Red Robin

Lookman isn't going anywhere, Katrien said so remember.....oh.

Addictedoldgit

When it comes to our outgoing players, transfer fee inflation seems to run rampant. Regarding the article above and looking past the headline figure of £11m.

I quote the sides will 'probably settle on a fee close to £8m with another £3m in ad on's'. Just to keep the record straight.

Alwaysneil

More like £5m + 2m for lookman and £1m + 0.5p for Konsa.

Remember our negotiating team.

guinnessaddick

The Red Robin said:

Lookman isn't going anywhere, Katrien said so remember.....oh.

She said he wouldn't be sold in January, that means the deal has be done in December.

lancashire lad

Lookman isn't going anywhere.
Thst nice Mr Murray said that now we have the very rich Mr D we don't have to sell our young players so soon.

cafcfan

sam3110 said:

harveys gardener said:

johnny73 said:

Robinson has already said he will work within financial fair play. Wages must already be close to that limit. He will have to sell before he can bring anyone else in because Duche will not want to pay any fine for going over the wages limit.

With the mess the owners have put us in, with half a first team squad out on loan, I'd imagine it would be impossible for KR to build a decent squad and stay within reasonable finances.

I find it hard to believe that we comply with FFP given we have 8 players on loan with inferior leagues including Watt and Igor who must be on big bucks not covered by their current sides, and Tex. Plus we have two high profile spin doctors, an army of security all paid for by about 8,000 "customers".

I believe FFP in league 1 is dictated by what was spent in the championship, and even if we are paying half of Watt and Vetokeles' wages then that's probably a good 7-8k off the bill a week. Add to that the contract JBG signed (rumours of as much as 15k,probably more like 10-12 and the money generated by the sales of Cousins, Harriott, Pope and the wages freed up from Henderson, Reza, Diarra, Motta and Fanni, and I think you'll find there's a fair bit knocking around.

Off field payments, I don't think they come into it at all, and are probably covered by Melexis as opposed to coming out of the playing squad budget.

I'm not sure any of this is necessarily a problem. First it's called the Salary Cost Management Protocol. Specifically, and from the EFL web site: These rules require League 1 clubs to limit their spending on players’ wages to 60% of turnover plus 100% of Football Fortune income (e.g. financial donations, transfer income, revenue from cup matches), with a club relegated from the Championship being able to operate at 75% of turnover for a transitional period of one season. (My emphasis)

So, in short, if we got a random £10mn from a player sale, we could spend the lot of it on players wages (if we so wished). I'm not even sure whether any transfer fees out would come into the equation.

Henry Irving

Sources* saying we have a Belgian trialist playing for the U23s tonight in the Kent Senior Cup.

Name is N'ji.

















*Olly on twitter

Redrobo

N'ji Turtle?

RedChaser

Redrobo said:

N'ji Turtle?

Looks like he might have come out of his shell.

Scoham

Robinson more open to suggestions from the network scouts?

We went from one extreme to the other with Slade. We shouldn't limit ourselves only to players in British football (assuming they've been scouted properly).

CAFCsayer

Redrobo said:

N'ji Turtle?

Played well... Gave their defence Rafae'hell tonight

AddicksAddict

SomervilleAddick said:

LoOkOuT said:

Is that true about the British Sausage? Is it?

We can't allow that to happen.

I thought that was why you all voted for Brexit. If you don't get out quickly, the country will be overrun by knock wurst and andouille.

Partial to a bit of wurst but andouille is revolting. Boudin noir and morcilla are my favourites, though.

seth plum

This bloke?

http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.johan.n-zi.243254.en.html

Driesen.

Subbed after about an hour.

Dizzle

https://youtu.be/z72bZh8dy1Y

Courtesy of Thomas

iaitch

That clip says he's an offensive midfielder, oh well he'll go well with our offensive centre half Roger Johnson.

cfgs

Decent eye for a pass and great touch.......in that video, League 1 cloggers will be a different prospect.

Henry Irving

seth plum said:

This bloke?

http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.johan.n-zi.243254.en.html

Driesen.

Subbed after about an hour.

was playing at Racing Club Schaerbeek who appear to be a 5th division team in Belgium regional leagues.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgisch_provinciaal_voetbal

Doesn't mean he's not a great player though.

Amos on the wing

Sunday league standard judging by that clip

Redrobo

Takes too many touches before doing anything. Only scored one of his 1 on 1 chances. Not particularly fast. The standard of football being played looked non league.

He may look better with good players around him but does not look like a player that can come straight into the squad.