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I wouldn't be surprised to see a left footed version of Collins in terms of profile. Feels like we know we can't get the profile for the right kind of price domestically.Addicksi said:Graham has a lot of suiters it seems. Many with deeper pockets I would think. Ethan Pye perhaps if not or a foreign signing under the radar like Collins.0 -
It doesn't matter how much money we have the amount we can spend is capped at 85% of total football revenue as well as the net revenue from player sales.Scoham said:Random Facebook rumour about our transfer budget.
This last but could be problematic as any player we would like to get rid of is likely to cost us money & therefore will go down as a loss in the player acquisition/sales ledger. Unless, of course, someone is daft enough to pay us millions for Ahadme, Apter, Olaofe etc.0 -
Leeds must have been real mugs paying £3,000,000 for Mills after we got relegated.wolfgang said:
More thoughtful posters here have demolished that sort of reasoning in several previous threads. For example, Lloyd Jones played 41 times for Cambridge Utd in League One in 2022/23, when they only missed relegation by a single point. Jarrod Bowen was first-choice for West Ham when relegated. Obviously no other club would touch him with a barge-pole for that reason.Garrymanilow said:
Good players can play for poor teams. It happens all the time. By all means turn up your nose at Joe Powell, but not for that reason.
More generally, I think those who have excessive expectations for new signings are going to be greatly disappointed.0 -
Do we know currently how much this would be? 12 million ish?golfaddick said:
It doesn't matter how much money we have the amount we can spend is capped at 85% of total football revenue as well as the net revenue from player sales.Scoham said:Random Facebook rumour about our transfer budget.
This last but could be problematic as any player we would like to get rid of is likely to cost us money & therefore will go down as a loss in the player acquisition/sales ledger. Unless, of course, someone is daft enough to pay us millions for Ahadme, Apter, Olaofe etc.0 -
Possibly an option is we swop Fevrier/Sidebeh for Olaofe at the agreed price of £1m or £2m, purchase spread over 3/4 years while sale wipes off total asset value.golfaddick said:
It doesn't matter how much money we have the amount we can spend is capped at 85% of total football revenue as well as the net revenue from player sales.Scoham said:Random Facebook rumour about our transfer budget.
This last but could be problematic as any player we would like to get rid of is likely to cost us money & therefore will go down as a loss in the player acquisition/sales ledger. Unless, of course, someone is daft enough to pay us millions for Ahadme, Apter, Olaofe etc.
Ditto similar deals, Graham or Iorpenda for Ahadme/Apter.
Carey must be worth a few bob.
Do we think other clubs dont do cynical deals?
A struggle this season but a free reign next year, and the best way to get rid of deadwood.1 -
Made 11M last season add 9M for TV revenue then potentially a few more for commercial, match day sales etc etc you’re probably looking at 20-25M meet in the middle and say 22.5M.MeerKat said:
Do we know currently how much this would be? 12 million ish?golfaddick said:
It doesn't matter how much money we have the amount we can spend is capped at 85% of total football revenue as well as the net revenue from player sales.Scoham said:Random Facebook rumour about our transfer budget.
This last but could be problematic as any player we would like to get rid of is likely to cost us money & therefore will go down as a loss in the player acquisition/sales ledger. Unless, of course, someone is daft enough to pay us millions for Ahadme, Apter, Olaofe etc.
Means we get to spend roughly 19M on transfer fees and wages. Last year we spent 13.8M on wages however it does include 200 staff members and the new rules only apply to the manager and playing squad as far as I’m aware. So we should have room to do some things but unless the owners inject 10-15M of additional funds I doubt we go guns blazing especially considering we still have to pay clubs a sum over the course of the players contract1 -
It’s football not fifa swap deals very rarely exist, the ones that do are usually clubs trading players to loophole FFP rules.Gisappointed said:
Possibly an option is we swop Fevrier/Sidebeh for Olaofe at the agreed price of £1m or £2m, purchase spread over 3/4 years while sale wipes off total asset value.golfaddick said:
It doesn't matter how much money we have the amount we can spend is capped at 85% of total football revenue as well as the net revenue from player sales.Scoham said:Random Facebook rumour about our transfer budget.
This last but could be problematic as any player we would like to get rid of is likely to cost us money & therefore will go down as a loss in the player acquisition/sales ledger. Unless, of course, someone is daft enough to pay us millions for Ahadme, Apter, Olaofe etc.
Ditto similar deals, Graham or Iorpenda for Ahadme/Apter.
Carey must be worth a few bob.
Do we think other clubs dont do cynical deals?
A struggle this season but a free rein next year, and the best way to get rid of deadwood.Theres thousands of footballers the likelihood that 2 clubs number 1 target plays for opposite sides and then both having the perfect wage structure to compliment the deal whilst also getting both players to agree the move is very very unrealistic.Personally I’d be getting on the phone to a Cambridge asking if they want Ahadme, a Stevenage if they want a Tanto etc etc1 -
We got no money need a Jones masterclass again… even tho reams hates him the helmet3
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I’m confident that we will sign some decent players this summer maybe unexpectedly good. Although I’m still sulking at not getting the Japanese fella !5
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Haha I see the posts on the other place transfer thread, originally it was just Jones out and then He edited it to add more context apparently the majority of our players who got promoted are league two standard and then someone echoe'd most of our players are league one standard with just a few being championship 🤣Charlton43 said:We got no money need a Jones masterclass again… even tho reams hates him the helmet
Considering we finished 19th those few must be Messi levels to have kept us up and surely by default playing and staying in the championship atleast makes a lot of them the standard, sure we can upgrade and we need to but it's very negative.3 -
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I’ve always thought Josh Edwards would end up as a LCB, he’s tall for a full back but not quite good enough going forward to be a wingback at this level.7
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Always been my thought and like Bell, playing LCB should reduce his injury prospects.Covered_End_Lad said:I’ve always thought Josh Edwards would end up as a LCB, he’s tall for a full back but not quite good enough going forward to be a wingback at this level.1 -
Totally agree with this.Covered_End_Lad said:I’ve always thought Josh Edwards would end up as a LCB, he’s tall for a full back but not quite good enough going forward to be a wingback at this level.0 -
How strict is this 85% football revenue rule? Could clubs like Wrexham and West Ham abuse it with commercial or investor income?
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I agree.Covered_End_Lad said:I’ve always thought Josh Edwards would end up as a LCB, he’s tall for a full back but not quite good enough going forward to be a wingback at this level.
Sadly that would mean we have to sign 4 Champ level wingbacks from somewhere. That seems extremely unlikely.0 -
Commercial yes investor no, owners can only put in 33M over 3 seasons (Max 15M in a 1 yr period) to spend on the playing squad fees and wages but it also means they will be able to utilise more much funds from revenue than other clubsThe Red Robin said:How strict is this 85% football revenue rule? Could clubs like Wrexham and West Ham abuse it with commercial or investor income?
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Tbf to Josh Edwards his injuries haven’t been loading he’s just been extremely unfortunate with impact injuries.bolloxbolder said:
Always been my thought and like Bell, playing LCB should reduce his injury prospects.Covered_End_Lad said:I’ve always thought Josh Edwards would end up as a LCB, he’s tall for a full back but not quite good enough going forward to be a wingback at this level.4 -
The clamber for overseas players is understandable when thinking about attacking flair, but I don’t think we need discount defensive players like Pye when considering our transfer plan, even if they are League 1 players like Apter and Olaofe.
After all, Jones came from Cambridge and Ramsey from Harrogate.
For me, the big money should be spent (maybe abroad) on our attacking threat like a 10, a fast winger and one or two forwards. Picking up tough League 1 defenders is fine.
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First time I've missed the old site when reading this thread. Used to be much easier skimming through looking for posts with higher number of likes as something worth reading. All a bit grey now. Sigh4
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We do have a decent budget for second season in the championshipCharlton43 said:We got no money need a Jones masterclass again… even tho reams hates him the helmet2 -
Mills was someone who proved himself in the same division as Leeds, so like us buying a player from Oxford this summer, or buying Luton players last summer. Completely different from buying a player relegated from the division below us.AddicksAddict said:
Leeds must have been real mugs paying £3,000,000 for Mills after we got relegated.wolfgang said:
More thoughtful posters here have demolished that sort of reasoning in several previous threads. For example, Lloyd Jones played 41 times for Cambridge Utd in League One in 2022/23, when they only missed relegation by a single point. Jarrod Bowen was first-choice for West Ham when relegated. Obviously no other club would touch him with a barge-pole for that reason.Garrymanilow said:
Good players can play for poor teams. It happens all the time. By all means turn up your nose at Joe Powell, but not for that reason.
More generally, I think those who have excessive expectations for new signings are going to be greatly disappointed.0 -
The massive third party commercial income that Wrexham get is entirely legitimate. If United Airlines or Expedia want to sponsor Wrexham because of the TV series, that's something which gives them a big advantage over us.The Red Robin said:How strict is this 85% football revenue rule? Could clubs like Wrexham and West Ham abuse it with commercial or investor income?
If of course the TV series ends, then their commercial income will then fall4 -
Sooner or later the interest will end. They need to get into The Premier League next season or the one after that or people will just get bored. Tall order. They’ll strengthen again this summer no doubt but it’s no guarantee of getting promoted. Add in the fact that they are amassing a squad of players who aren’t good enough for their team or even squad. They’ll be loaning out quite a few and paying a lot of dead wages to boot.killerandflash said:
The massive third party commercial income that Wrexham get is entirely legitimate. If United Airlines or Expedia want to sponsor Wrexham because of the TV series, that's something which gives them a big advantage over us.The Red Robin said:How strict is this 85% football revenue rule? Could clubs like Wrexham and West Ham abuse it with commercial or investor income?
If of course the TV series ends, then their commercial income will then fall3 -
Plus .....'out of contract' player contracts don't end until 30th JuneCovered_End_Lad said:
The summer window makes no difference at all, it’s a registration window. You can sign any player at any time in or out of a window you just can’t register them to play for you. As their are no games in the summer it doesn’t matter.RonnieMoore said:Why the window not opening on the 1st of June after the play off weekend is ridiculous…0 -
A lot of it is the way he plays. Firstly, sometimes instead of trying to nip in first, he will deliberately let his opponent half-control the ball so he can give him a legal whack. Secondly, he will wait until the last minute to release the ball, thus inviting a late tackle. Anderson is another who plays tht way, but his timing is not as good as Edwards. Both relish the physical side and are good at it, but it takes its toll.Crispywood said:
Tbf to Josh Edwards his injuries haven’t been loading he’s just been extremely unfortunate with impact injuries.6 -
I see your point but that Just comes down to how Edwards plays as a player not the physical demands of the position. Personally think he’d be completely capable at LCB or LWB we will see what the plan is once we start making some signings.wolfgang said:
A lot of it is the way he plays. Firstly, sometimes instead of trying to nip in first, he will deliberately let his opponent half-control the ball so he can give him a legal whack. Secondly, he will wait until the last minute to release the ball, thus inviting a late tackle. Anderson is another who plays tht way, but his timing is not as good as Edwards. Both relish the physical side and are good at it, but it takes its toll.Crispywood said:
Tbf to Josh Edwards his injuries haven’t been loading he’s just been extremely unfortunate with impact injuries.With an entire month before players contract run out hopefully the recruitment team are putting in the hours0 -
I'm not sure what attributes Edwards shows as a LWB. He is not particularly quick, not a dribbler and I don't recall too many decent crosses. He may have got away with playing there at L1 but hasn't really played there at this level.Crispywood said:
I see your point but that Just comes down to how Edwards plays as a player not the physical demands of the position. Personally think he’d be completely capable at LCB or LWB we will see what the plan is once we start making some signings.wolfgang said:
A lot of it is the way he plays. Firstly, sometimes instead of trying to nip in first, he will deliberately let his opponent half-control the ball so he can give him a legal whack. Secondly, he will wait until the last minute to release the ball, thus inviting a late tackle. Anderson is another who plays tht way, but his timing is not as good as Edwards. Both relish the physical side and are good at it, but it takes its toll.Crispywood said:
Tbf to Josh Edwards his injuries haven’t been loading he’s just been extremely unfortunate with impact injuries.With an entire month before players contract run out hopefully the recruitment team are putting in the hours
LCB or LB yes. LWB no.
Ramsay has also struggled at RCB at this level and isn't a RWB. This is why I think we need to move to a back four, otherwise we have to spend £5m+ on 3/4 WBs before we even start on midfield and a goalscorer.10 -
Have to remember that in NJ's preferred system he effectively does just play at LB. On top of that, he had a good relationship on the pitch with TC, something that would be forfeited at LCBGisappointed said:
I'm not sure what attributes Edwards shows as a LWB. He is not particularly quick, not a dribbler and I don't recall too many decent crosses. He may have got away with playing there at L1 but hasn't really played there at this level.Crispywood said:
I see your point but that Just comes down to how Edwards plays as a player not the physical demands of the position. Personally think he’d be completely capable at LCB or LWB we will see what the plan is once we start making some signings.wolfgang said:
A lot of it is the way he plays. Firstly, sometimes instead of trying to nip in first, he will deliberately let his opponent half-control the ball so he can give him a legal whack. Secondly, he will wait until the last minute to release the ball, thus inviting a late tackle. Anderson is another who plays tht way, but his timing is not as good as Edwards. Both relish the physical side and are good at it, but it takes its toll.Crispywood said:
Tbf to Josh Edwards his injuries haven’t been loading he’s just been extremely unfortunate with impact injuries.With an entire month before players contract run out hopefully the recruitment team are putting in the hours
LCB or LB yes. LWB no.
Ramsay has also struggled at RCB at this level. This is why I think we need to move to a back four, otherwise we need to spend £5m+ on WBs before we even start on midfield and a goalscorer.10 -
I’m not sure we will spend big money on a 10 when we have Carey and Knibbs, or a fast winger when we have TC. A forward I would completely get pushing the boat out on - that, and two very solid Championship CMs are the priority. Two wing backs as well - maybe we will have a chance of getting Bree, and a PL loanValley11 said:The clamber for overseas players is understandable when thinking about attacking flair, but I don’t think we need discount defensive players like Pye when considering our transfer plan, even if they are League 1 players like Apter and Olaofe.
After all, Jones came from Cambridge and Ramsey from Harrogate.
For me, the big money should be spent (maybe abroad) on our attacking threat like a 10, a fast winger and one or two forwards. Picking up tough League 1 defenders is fine.
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