FoxinNotts

I hear ya, I just don’t think we get enough (if any) profit from Faes after what we’ve paid. Same goes for most our purchased sqaud

What will people pay us for him, in your opinion?

There are no profits to be had on Faes, or Soumare, or Kristiansen, or ….. this is the point

No, not 'nothing', but as much as we can get. And, it's not 'youngsters' but those players which have come through the academy, as it's pure profit. I do wonder sometimes if people read about the PSR difficulties we are in, and understand why, and also how clubs can comply. These are not my own personal choices, but they are the options imposed upon us to comply with FFP

No. We're really short on numbers in those midfield departments, I'd rather sell: Iversen Thomas Nelson Brunt Choudhury McAteer What we'd get for these combined, plus the circa £10m we get for Maresca and staff, would surely be enough 'pure profit' from the sales side, to appease PSR so that we didn't have to sell KDH, Alves or Braybrooke? I suspect PSR is the reason we didn't want to part with £4m for Corberan

The value of selling him is worth more than the profit of selling anyone else

Even if it relatively small amount, say £1m, that’s still pure profit

Yeah maybe. Yet to be seen though. Had his pants pulled down last night. He completely switched off.

I see what you're saying here, and I do agree to an extent, but I feel this is the case with the vast majority of center backs (getting the blame for 50% of goals conceded. It kinda goes with the job). I actually quite like Faes, as a defender, and I feel he is actually quite a bit better than he is given credit for. However, him and Vestergaard, in a two, is pure suicide in the Premier League, and should never be seen or even considered.

And to be fair to Cooper, we can talk a lot about tactics, but he is know for building team spirit and galvanising clubs in general It's a massive thing in the game. A real positive.

Those two posts i loaded above are really interesting actually. So much to discuss. Neither of Forest formations are traditional 4-3-3, yet that's supposed to be Coopers preferred Formation He's not afraid to play without a recognised striker. His Center backs we're even slower than anything we have (maybe not Vestergaard!) He likes players in midfield with a lot of energy

And again. TBF, we need to get used to losing away. Cooper's Premier league teams are dreadful away from home

look at those line ups, on paper, and look how his team battered us!

Beautiful 🤩

He’s the epitome of ‘Pragmatism’. His preference is actually 4-3-3, but he’ll adapt to play any formation to suit the team he is facing.

Great. Sell him for whatever we can get then.

Happy days. Get the money in then.

Apparently, we need profit, pure 'profit' to satisfy PSR, getting the monies in the bank before June 30th. The best way to do this is to sell academy products. (I don't want to, but that's what FFP forces clubs to do).

I agree. I don't think we need to be spending that much. I think we should play the market much, much better. What about those players, soon to be free agent? 10 minute work on line..... what about Juan Miranda from Betis, for example?

Perfectly good squad option, but I think we need another out and out solid traditional left back. Sell/let go of Luke Thomas. Riccy and Justin cover the Right Back slot. A Another and Kristiansen Left Back.

Plan: If we could get say £3m combined for these two, we should take it. Bank it before June 30th PSR pure profit. Then we need a Centre back with a bit of Pace. Leaving us 5 options (even Vestergaard could get some game time, if we deploy a low block with three at the back. Cooper is pragmatic. He mixes up the formation quite frequently).

Agree 👍🏼

Yeah, crap wasn’t it

To be honest mate Forest had a shortage of decent wingers, until they got CHO and Elanga

I genuinely can’t remember what VK was like as a ‘normal’ Left Back, as part of a back 4. Was he any good!