Bluearmyfox28

I would want the £5m in a loan fee, then an obligation to buy for £25m+

Don’t Millwall only play 1 up top? 👀

Don’t forget the one year loan at Genoa

It’s clear both parties are actively looking for a move away and that’s the reason Skipp has been starting with Winks on the bench. The same applies for Faes.

Without the sale of Bilal, I struggle to see how we could afford him.

I think people need to let go of Hamza being a defensive midfielder. Marti see’s him as a right back, last year he played solely at right back for Sheff Utd. Hamza is now a right back as far as I’m concerned and emergency cover for the defensive midfield role.

Would suit Marti’s system perfectly, can’t see them letting him go though.

Harry Amass on a season long loan seems such an obvious answer if VK goes Forest.

Your cryptic messages are very odd considering you’re not getting much of a response.

I think if we manage to sell VK to Forest on any permanent deal that it confirms for me that this is Glover’s work and not Rudkin’s

Imagine the scenes on here!

Not fully true to be honest. Often agents have agreements with the club making the transfer, that they’ll pay the loss of loyalty fee’s within their signing on fee. Sacha would have been all over a transfer request. I wouldn’t expect to see Bilal in a matchday squad until after the transfer window closes if he does stay.

Completely agree. There’s two ways of looking at it, 1) our wage structure identifies your role within the squad. Or 2) the overall financial package it would cost the club. Sadly with PSR I think the majority of clubs now work from the second point rather than the first. The one thing I would say though is IF he has a goal/assist return that he has had in his previous 2 championship seasons, then Brownhill would be a key player for us which adds to the perspective.

Well I think it’s fair to say Aluko, Nelson, Monga, Bausor, Page and Alves are firmly included in the first team numbers this season especially as depth options. Who’s our 3rd choice then? Because we definitely aren’t signing another senior pro for the role.

For context, our squad currently consists of: 3x goalkeepers 3x right back (Including Hamza) 3x left back (Including Aluko) 5x centre backs (Including Souttar) 4x centre mid / defensive mid (Including Page) 2x attacking mid (Including Alves) 2x right wingers (Including BDCR) 2x left wingers 2x strikers That’s a total of 27 players and without including any position versatility such as Aluko and Woyo offering cover to both fullback spots, Ayew being able to play in the attacking mid etc. As well as not including fringe academy players such as Silko Thomas. We still need to sell another fullback before we even have an actual balanced squad. Then you need to sell further to bring in replacements. The only positions that require a signing prior to further sale is a striker, attacking midfielder (dependent on how Marti views Alves) and a centre mid.

With regards to his wages should we offer him £60k a week on a 3 year deal that total package would cost us £9.3m. For context, that’s the equivalent of us signing someone on a £30k a week contract (£4.6m across 3 years) and a transfer fee of £4.7m. Which most would be very happy with. So truthfully from an overall package perspective, I think £60k a week for a free agent is manageable. However, it solely depends on how much he wants as a signing on fee. As that changes the maths considerably.

Now things get interesting with regards to how much our incomings were dependent on Bilal’s sale.

Palace moved on?

The squad is still way too big. The only two positions that don’t require us selling players to bring more in are a striker and box to box midfielder / defensive midfielder (dependent on where Marti see’s Winks’ role).

Agree with most that you state, however, I think this is the case for most recently promoted clubs. The Premier League is broken.

I think it’s hard to say that on the basis we are in for Stengs who’s supposedly gonna cost £5m. Could be a loan option though, time will tell.

Yeah I’ve just caught up with other threads, I clearly missed the vibe everyone is on

I have an odd feeling we are in for both Stengs and Rego.