Famewo, Tanto and Galbraith next week would be nice
Galbraith isn't happening.
Based on...?
He hates Charlton remember.
Ahhhh yes....the vileness.....how could I forget...
He doesn’t hate Charlton, the rumours (which are rumours) is that he said that Charlton are not a championship club, which given we have been between the Championship/League One during his career is a fair comment. The vileness part is what was added on but their (Leyton Orient) fans.
I was joking mate. More pointing out that there is nothing concrete to say he wouldn't come.
Definitely isn't coming.
Okay 😂 if you're right then fair enough. I'm not on tenterhooks when you say "you'll see next week" when you could just say you know someone who knows him or something similar.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Are you sure you weren't at Glyndebourne rather than Glastonbury
If a wage budget of about £16m is true then with a squad of 25 players that could give us room to pay around £20k a week for our top players (from playing around with the numbers).
From Googling, depending which source you believe, it would put us around 12th and possibly as high as 6th/7th.
We'll know soon enough from the signings we make and the fees we're rumoured to have paid.
Players like Carey and Famewo don't scream of a budget of that size, neither does losing Small to Preston. I would imagine they're the type of players around the range of £8-12k.
If a wage budget of about £16m is true then with a squad of 25 players that could give us room to pay around £20k a week for our top players (from playing around with the numbers).
From Googling, depending which source you believe, it would put us around 12th and possibly as high as 6th/7th.
We'll know soon enough from the signings we make and the fees we're rumoured to have paid.
Players like Carey and Famewo don't scream of a budget of that size, neither does losing Small to Preston. I would imagine they're the type of players around the range of £8-12k.
Fits with the idea of signing a CB & GK with PL & Champ experience though.
Still think Small was a value for money decision and not about what we could afford
If the Samson Tovide link is genuine he is an interesting one, but the very definition of a punt.
Hasn't played higher than League 2, hasn't managed more than 30 league games in one season across the last 3, really struggles with injuries. Only 21 though and very talented. He is very similar to Chuks in stature and how he moves with the ball, just a lot quicker.
If we can sort out his injury issues, he could be a real asset.
Have to say those, that's two strikers in Tanto & Tovide (if true) without any real championship experience. We would be paying for pure potential and not the finished products.
I would like to see us sign someone who has been there and done it. Nothing wrong with signing talents, but there has to be a balance.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Not saying you didn't hear this, but I would be very surprised if true. Our current wage bill is approximately 8 million, that's over a double in increase of wages in one season, and would put us on par with Hull, and just behind the likes of West Brom.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Not saying you didn't hear this, but I would be very surprised if true. Our current wage bill is approximately 8 million, that's over a double in increase of wages in one season, and would put us on par with Hull, and just behind the likes of West Brom.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
You forget that a lot of the current players will get a wage increase on our promotion, assuming they had competent agents.
Olaofe still looks to me like a bit of a punt. Has the right credentials but unproven for where we are. Much like Carey really although the latter has played at Championship level. I sincerely hope that some of our signings are going to have a better Championship profile than those two.
I hear you but until we get a proven Championship player across the line and I'm thinking for 25/26 and not some one who peaked a few years ago we will continue to have more punts than odds on certs.
It should be an interesting window with a few coming in under the rumour radar.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Not saying you didn't hear this, but I would be very surprised if true. Our current wage bill is approximately 8 million, that's over a double in increase of wages in one season, and would put us on par with Hull, and just behind the likes of West Brom.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
While i'd also be a bit surprised if true, if we're not going to try and compete with the likes of Hull (currently 17th in bookmakers odds) then there's not much point in giving The Championship a go and just forever consign ourselves to being a League One team with ambitions of playing in The Championship. If we go in with a bottom three budget then bottom three is where you expect to be.
I'm sure it was you who's posted on this thread about needing to spend the going rate to sign the players to compete, well with what Preston were allegedly paying then maybe this is the kind of rate to pay to compete.
I'm sure someone with all the stats and numbers could probably work out based on last season's Championship wage budgets what season in the Premier League in terms of transfer fees and wages it looks like, i'll hazard a guess transfer fees and wages don't now look too dissimilar to our first year in The Premier League 98/99?
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Are you sure you weren't at Glyndebourne rather than Glastonbury
lol, you have no idea nowadays, the interstage area between pyramid and Woodsies is a who’s who gallery of celebs and sports people. I started typing this 30 mins ago but got side tracked chatting to Aimme Lou Wood about filming experiences on White Lotus. 😂😂
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Not saying you didn't hear this, but I would be very surprised if true. Our current wage bill is approximately 8 million, that's over a double in increase of wages in one season, and would put us on par with Hull, and just behind the likes of West Brom.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
You forget that a lot of the current players will get a wage increase on our promotion, assuming they had competent agents.
They will get an increase, but it won't be that much, won't be double wages increase, put it that way.
If we use 17 million as a base yearly salary across a 25 man squad, that would be 19k per player, per week.
We can't go from saying how expensive wages are (thinking Small for 10k is too much & saying we can't disrupt the squads wages), to believing we would have this kinda of drastic turnaround in a single window. So far all of our strongest links have been league 1 players.
West Broms wage bill is 19 million, and they've been a Prem/championship side for as long as I can remember. I would take what Pav heard (not having a dig at Pav, I believe he was told that) with a pinch of salt or you'll be likely setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'd love us to chuck the money at it but we need a bit of realism here.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Not saying you didn't hear this, but I would be very surprised if true. Our current wage bill is approximately 8 million, that's over a double in increase of wages in one season, and would put us on par with Hull, and just behind the likes of West Brom.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
While i'd also be a bit surprised if true, if we're not going to try and compete with the likes of Hull (currently 17th in bookmakers odds) then there's not much point in giving The Championship a go and just forever consign ourselves to being a League One team with ambitions of playing in The Championship. If we go in with a bottom three budget then bottom three is where you expect to be.
I'm sure it was you who's posted on this thread about needing to spend the going rate to sign the players to compete, well with what Preston were allegedly paying then maybe this is the kind of rate to pay to compete.
I'm sure someone with all the stats and numbers could probably work out based on last season's Championship wage budgets what season in the Premier League in terms of transfer fees and wages it looks like, i'll hazard a guess transfer fees and wages don't now look too dissimilar to our first year in The Premier League 98/99?
But this is the nature of the Championship. It is full of big clubs who deserve to be there and arguably a higher level. 3 have to go down.
I think when I checked, for the last 15 years or so, at least one newly promoted side has been immediately relegated the following season.
I want the club to sign the going rate of course, I just feel a rumoured wage bill of 17 million is very unrealistic. Something like 10-13 is a lot more realistic.
I want to us to spend, but I also what us to be sustainable, it is possible. There are also limits to how much you can spend.
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It's like the life of Brian again 😲
Blessed are the Cheese makers 😁
That must've been a shock to his personality to be at Millwall; hopefully not too scarred after being in the Lion's den.🙏🏻
From Googling, depending which source you believe, it would put us around 12th and possibly as high as 6th/7th.
We'll know soon enough from the signings we make and the fees we're rumoured to have paid.
Players like Carey and Famewo don't scream of a budget of that size, neither does losing Small to Preston. I would imagine they're the type of players around the range of £8-12k.
Still think Small was a value for money decision and not about what we could afford
Hasn't played higher than League 2, hasn't managed more than 30 league games in one season across the last 3, really struggles with injuries. Only 21 though and very talented. He is very similar to Chuks in stature and how he moves with the ball, just a lot quicker.
If we can sort out his injury issues, he could be a real asset.
Have to say those, that's two strikers in Tanto & Tovide (if true) without any real championship experience. We would be paying for pure potential and not the finished products.
I would like to see us sign someone who has been there and done it. Nothing wrong with signing talents, but there has to be a balance.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
I hear you but until we get a proven Championship player across the line and I'm thinking for 25/26 and not some one who peaked a few years ago we will continue to have more punts than odds on certs.
It should be an interesting window with a few coming in under the rumour radar.
I'm sure it was you who's posted on this thread about needing to spend the going rate to sign the players to compete, well with what Preston were allegedly paying then maybe this is the kind of rate to pay to compete.
I'm sure someone with all the stats and numbers could probably work out based on last season's Championship wage budgets what season in the Premier League in terms of transfer fees and wages it looks like, i'll hazard a guess transfer fees and wages don't now look too dissimilar to our first year in The Premier League 98/99?
If we use 17 million as a base yearly salary across a 25 man squad, that would be 19k per player, per week.
We can't go from saying how expensive wages are (thinking Small for 10k is too much & saying we can't disrupt the squads wages), to believing we would have this kinda of drastic turnaround in a single window. So far all of our strongest links have been league 1 players.
West Broms wage bill is 19 million, and they've been a Prem/championship side for as long as I can remember. I would take what Pav heard (not having a dig at Pav, I believe he was told that) with a pinch of salt or you'll be likely setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'd love us to chuck the money at it but we need a bit of realism here.
I think when I checked, for the last 15 years or so, at least one newly promoted side has been immediately relegated the following season.
I want the club to sign the going rate of course, I just feel a rumoured wage bill of 17 million is very unrealistic. Something like 10-13 is a lot more realistic.
I want to us to spend, but I also what us to be sustainable, it is possible. There are also limits to how much you can spend.