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Reply | Dykes sold apparently
at 13:43 27 Aug 2024
Absolutely this. We’ve spent somewhere in region of 5/6/7m this summer. There were people on here saying we had to sell to be prudent, now we’re selling at what the market clearly will offer (don’t think they would have started out at this ballpark) - I recall milwall offering something similar a while back with lots of add ons - and we’re getting in a huff about it?
How many times are we going to want our cake and eat it. Frey and Celar with maybe a cheap ish loan at week’s end is all we can afford. A club like ours can’t have 3/4 first choice strikers in the ffp era [Post edited 27 Aug 13:49]
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Reply | Dykes sold apparently
at 10:10 27 Aug 2024
He’s scored 9 goals or less in the last three seasons. His best goal scoring season for us was 12. This is fair value
**and that’s as the primary penalty taker [Post edited 27 Aug 10:12]
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Reply | Dykes sold apparently
at 10:05 27 Aug 2024
Whatever the fee, it’s overdue (as was seeing the back of Willock, Adomah, Kakay etc). We needed a big shake up after the final Warbs year and the decision makers at the time didn’t act. This summer feels like the first time we’ve properly moved on from the core of that side, and I think Nourry deserves credit for seeing that early and acting decisively - whether the replacements work out is another question.
He needs to move on and so do we. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 07:45 23 Aug 2024
I don’t know how many times it needs to be said, but if another club want to know the terms of Dembele’s or Saito’s loan they can call their agents. Football clubs have a number of mechanisms to find this stuff out.
Most of us fans have the ever reliable X, friends / family, and this forum. Clubs will get the info one way or another and we won’t. [Post edited 23 Aug 7:47]
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 21:37 22 Aug 2024
The last 3/4 pages of this thread are all the evidence needed for why the “fans don’t get to know anything” strategy, for whatever perceived positives the club think it has, just isn’t worth it. Don’t want to be that guy, but I keep repeating myself here - as soon as things start to go a bit wrong on the pitch, as they well might with so many new players, this issue only balloons.
And its a complete own goal. Like the sh*t 90s football own goal against City. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 11:29 21 Aug 2024
Agree to all of this mate. My original point is more around the fees being spouted around and the conclusion of what that means financially. We just don’t know how expensive these fees/contracts/deal structures are which, while I agree is a bad strategy comms wise, does not mean the twitterati’s word becomes gospel.
Like i said vacuums create lies and this is yet more evidence for why the secret squirrel approach to our dealings is totally baffling. Doesn’t make the deals themselves bad/reckless/Arry-esque.
Just one big dollop of ambiguity |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 11:10 21 Aug 2024
I’ve been pretty vocal in agreeing with you on this one. I think 90% of the anxiety here would dissipate from better comms absolutely. But this thread getting anxious about fees is based on twitter journo nonsense - a black hole which in the absence of club comms some bloke or bot creates figures from thin air.
Jets need to be cooled until account releases as under the current media black out we don’t have a clue how much these guys have costed [Post edited 21 Aug 11:12]
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 11:04 21 Aug 2024
I get the cautiousness here guys and not saying for one moment this ownership are wise old football sages. But you cant have it both ways every window.
Sign cheap old has beens on frees? We should be investing in players to sell on in the future.
Sign 21-25 year old punts to develop and sell on, and pay (let’s guess) £5/6m in the process? Our spending is too high we need to be more prudent.
Maybe it’s a risk that is costly, maybe it’s all accounting quirks that none of us have the knowledge about and are guilty of spouting keyboard warrior answers about finances when we haven’t got a clue.
But you can’t chastise them for investing in young punts when we’ve been saying we should do this all along. If we’d spent our millions on Dembeles and not Rio No.5’s we would not be here.
We need to have some risk appetite if we’re ever to get out of this death spiral. And we can’t be having our cake and eating it every window. [Post edited 21 Aug 11:06]
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 08:47 21 Aug 2024
If we’re believing transfer fees spouted around on social media I have 7 bridges to sell you. They won’t be doing it if it tips us over ffp edge, they’ve made that very clear over the last 4-5 years. Go outside and touch some grass, and remember where we were a year ago! |
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Reply | Our starting centre forward this season
at 08:57 14 Aug 2024
Totally agree. Both KS/KD look like wingers who will get into dangerous wide positions far more regularly than anyone we’ve had out there for a while. Both Celar and Frey are (or so we’ve been told) penalty box strikers who aren’t much effective outside of it, that’s certainly true so far, so let’s wait until Oct/Nov before judging Celar too much.
We’re at threat of scapegoating a guy playing in a new, physical league having just moved across Europe. If people are willing to give Dykes 2/3 years give the new fella a few months at least. [Post edited 14 Aug 8:57]
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Reply | Saito and Dembele Join - Loan
at 13:11 13 Aug 2024
Sounds like Dembele is some kind of option/obligation, Saito seems less clear. Either way, massive upgrade on what we’ve had for years - especially in terms of their potential. Exciting. |
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Reply | Positives from today….
at 11:23 11 Aug 2024
The Beck link seems to have gone quiet - one in one out situation with Paal? He was pathetic yesterday.
Just another reason starting the season before the window closes helps no one: player doesn’t wanna ruin a move, club gets shafted by piss poor weak mentality showings, we all lose 3/4 games of our season to it and do it all again in 12 months. |
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Reply | New player incoming apparently
at 07:39 10 Aug 2024
This is such an exciting signing. Just hope we can get it over the line and there’s no massive flaw we don’t know about… |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 07:35 10 Aug 2024
Yeah this was my first thought. Hope it’s Tottenham over the oil barons, would love to see him in Postecoglou’s system |
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Reply | Back to school – Preview
at 07:25 10 Aug 2024
Wonder what the odds are on all 3 promoted sides going straight back down - worth a flutter if that lot are getting ~90 points in L1 |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 20:19 7 Aug 2024
The Rak Sakyi stuff never felt real to me, CP were always going to charge a fee we can’t afford in our position.
I am concerned at the complete lack of noise about forward targets though. Think we might have a rough start if our wingers are Kolli and Smyth until end of window (assuming Chair isn’t back for a couple weeks yet). Praying for the Eze deal to happen |
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Reply | Let's talk about Reggie
at 12:45 4 Aug 2024
If we can get any kind of fee for him, would end up being a win win given we signed him for nothing and at a time where we had nothing to spend doubt he is on much. Weird signing all round. [Post edited 4 Aug 12:45]
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