January 2020 transfer rumours thread (Deadline Day starts Page 283)

Thommo said:

I would hate to lose Lyle, but £3m for a player with so little time left on his contract would actually be good money.

£3m would not get us a player of Lyle’s quality.

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

@ForeverAddickted Just heard your went Nando's for you stag do, please confirm or deny

Is there really anybody here who thinks we will be better off over the next 4 months without Taylor?  Whatever we may get for him?
If Southall sells Taylor and we get relegated, how many years will it take Southall to get his reputation back? Remember the impact selling Kermogant had in an almost identical situation. How many fewer people will buy another season ticket in League 1 if they think it is due to selling Taylor? Whatever we may get for him now will be nothing compared to the loss of reputation and revenue if we get relegated.
Whatever it costs to keep Taylor now will be worth way more than those financial and reputational losses.

Southbank said:

Is there really anybody here who thinks we will be better off over the next 4 months without Taylor?  Whatever we may get for him?
If Southall sells Taylor and we get relegated, how many years will it take him to get his reputation back? How many fewer people will buy another season ticket in League 1 if they think it is due to selling Taylor? Whatever we may get for him now will be nothing compared to the loss if reputation and revenue if we get relegated 

Agreed but it hasnt happened yet . HE is on his way over - he won’t want to fly into a PR Disaster. 

ValleyGary said:

Moo said:

Think JHC is inbound. Bristol rovers just signed a sticker on loan. 

Panini?

Excellent, to get the young midfielder from AC Milan.

But I got another mention in a Grapevine post which is officially worth five promotes.

billysboots said:

Southbank said:

Is there really anybody here who thinks we will be better off over the next 4 months without Taylor?  Whatever we may get for him?
If Southall sells Taylor and we get relegated, how many years will it take him to get his reputation back? How many fewer people will buy another season ticket in League 1 if they think it is due to selling Taylor? Whatever we may get for him now will be nothing compared to the loss if reputation and revenue if we get relegated 

Agreed but it hasnt happened yet . HE is on his way over - he won’t want to fly into a PR Disaster. 

The only way it will happen if Lyle backs the club into a corner - if that happens there isn’t much of a way back. He may be better off hanging on and taking that 3-5 mil as a signing on fee in the summer 

The club could match any wage offer made to Taylor now for the next 5 months and still be way better off than selling him and buying an untested replacement.

SoundAsa£ said:

AppyAddick said:

Henry Irving said:

Everybody's happy nowadays

I'm Appy 

No I’m Appy!

Long live Appy 

Southbank said:

billysboots said:

Southbank said:

Is there really anybody here who thinks we will be better off over the next 4 months without Taylor?  Whatever we may get for him?
If Southall sells Taylor and we get relegated, how many years will it take him to get his reputation back? How many fewer people will buy another season ticket in League 1 if they think it is due to selling Taylor? Whatever we may get for him now will be nothing compared to the loss if reputation and revenue if we get relegated 

Agreed but it hasnt happened yet . HE is on his way over - he won’t want to fly into a PR Disaster. 

The only way it will happen if Lyle backs the club into a corner - if that happens there isn’t much of a way back. He may be better off hanging on and taking that 3-5 mil as a signing on fee in the summer 

The club could match any wage offer made to Taylor now for the next 5 months and still be way better off than selling him and buying an untested replacement.

That’s fine if it’s just money - if a prem club comes in  or one of the ones at the very top of the championship then that may a reason to turn his head .

i agree i think they will pull out all of the stops short term to keep him . 

carly burn said:

Relax.
Have heard that one of the reasons Tahnoon Nimer got into football is because he absolutely loves transfer deadline day and Jim White.

He's got a war chest of £millions set aside to spend on the last day and he will be watching in his office with anticipation wearing his yellow gown and head dress as Jimbo wets his knickers each time we get a big signing through the door.

  Chill yer beans people.
..THIS IS HAPPENING!

Really can’t see Lyle going this late in the window. 

So Lyle's going to Brentford and Matt's bought a load of crisps. Why's everyone suddenly so giddy?

Clem_Snide said:

This thread is unbelievable. The sense of entitlement that some of our fans display is utterly cringe worthy.

If anyone genuinely believes that we are in a worse position now than we were under Roland then you need to take a long hard look at yourselves.

I have no idea what our budget is now and only know from snippets on here what it previously was.

MS has made no secret of the fact that this is a long term project, teams in the Championship are now being found out in relation to flouting FFP. Do people honestly think with our current revenue streams that it is credible for us to go and splash 3/4/5 million on players and God knows what else on wages? I don't profess to know the intricacies of FFP but I have seen the threat of points deductions. Do we  want to risk that.

ESI are taking over years of mis-management and negligence and there is no way they can fix all of that in the 4/5 weeks they have actually owned the club.

People keep banding "disaster" round in respect of relegation. Why? We have been relegated before and will be again. If we go down this year it will be largely down to a horrific injury list and paltry squad Roland provided at the start of the season.

I have no idea whether ESI will be a long term success, I sincerely hope they are. If we only get a couple of loans in between now and the end of the window I certainly won't be spitting my dummy out and branding them failures.

Any change takes time, change that is undoing utter incompetency over a number of years will take even longer. It won't happen overnight.

As an aside, people.saying they have no money. Isn't part of the EFL test proof of funds? They may not have shelled out for all the fixtures and fittings yet, but they have a legal obligation to do so within a set time frame. I am guessing that they would have had to prove that they had the funding to do that.

We need to accept that the new owners are running a business and not going to come in an burn money to appease a disenfranchised fanbase.

Give them a chance, you never know in 2/3 years time we may be back up and challenging for promotion.

Someone with a clear head and a logical outlook, thankyou Clem.

Scoham said:

AFKABartram said:

*awaits issue with medical*

In our case that means we turn down players without a history of season ending injuries.

Lose £5m and play Accrington twice a year. 

soapboxsam said:

Thommo said:

I would hate to lose Lyle, but £3m for a player with so little time left on his contract would actually be good money.

IF we were going to sell Lyle in this window and it would be crazy in my opinion then we had to do it after the Fulham game for say 3 million and then we had time to spend about 1 million on Clarke-Harris and up the offer on Maddison or another Midfielder who can score Goals as well. IF we sell our top player on deadline day it is history repeating itself, I don't believe Matt Southall can be that inept.

 Too right. I’m confident ESI won’t have their heads turn by a few £million.

10 and maybe were are talking, but even then we’d all be pissed off.

If they’re as good as their word then Lyle is going nowhere.
Why would they tarnish their reputation before its even started?
If he sulks off into the reserves then that’s on him. Not them.

Lyle son. You’re going nowhere.