Tom Cannon - signed for Sheffield United

[adam]

Seems a bit short sighted this deal. Especially If that sell on fee to Everton is true. We will be crying out for a championship goal scorer next season.

Edited 17 January by adam

[Lambert09]

This deal is very risky from the club for a number of reasons. I understand you need to roll the dice sometimes but given that we don’t have a youth team striker standing out, a likely retiring vardy and a poor record of recent recruitment…. We might have to accept that next season we will be lining up with ayew for 46 games. 

[glos-fox]

Baffling move as we are Championship bound 😎 unless they have a decent replacement lined up but as our recruitment fire more blanks than a neutered dog 🐕 I am not hopeful.

Edited 17 January by glos-fox

[lanefox]

47 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Excellent. Now we can afford Hamza’s contract extension before we send him out on loan to them.

Pay rise to 75k a week

[goose2010]

30 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

This deal is very risky from the club for a number of reasons. I understand you need to roll the dice sometimes but given that we don’t have a youth team striker standing out, a likely retiring vardy and a poor record of recent recruitment…. We might have to accept that next season we will be lining up with ayew for 46 games. 

i'm not backing the club here at all but ever thought it could be the player pushing this? May be he doesnt want to be here?? 

[AKCJ]

We'll need to buy a couple of strikers but you can't turn down £13m for Cannon.

[The boy Linacre]

1 hour ago, coolhandfox said:

Needs to be done quickly, feels like getting players out has to happen before we get players in. 

 

Woyo, Ndidi and Hermansen back soon and a couple more new face we may have a chance. 

Too late, if we had beaten Palace who did look eminently beatable we would have been only 4 pts behind them, now they're gone.  Not so sure about Wolves now but Everton will survive.  Unless we have another great escape, this side needs a considerable increase in quality and I can't see it in the next 2 weeks.  But I really hope I am wrong, I'm not going to Bristol & Plymouth again on Fridays!!!!!

Edited 17 January by The boy Linacre

[henry56]

Absolutely ridiculous . Almost certainly be in the Championship next season and we sell a proven scorer at that level . Sums up the short term nonsense of our DoF . 
If by some  miracle 3 teams are worse than us come May , sell him then if he hasn’t impressed . 

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, henry56 said:

Absolutely ridiculous . Almost certainly be in the Championship next season and we sell a proven scorer at that level . Sums up the short term nonsense of our DoF . 
If by some  miracle 3 teams are worse than us come May , sell him then if he hasn’t impressed . 

We need the money now though to reinvest (wisely, ha!) before next season. It's too much to turn down in our precarious (?) financial position. 

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, henry56 said:

Absolutely ridiculous . Almost certainly be in the Championship next season and we sell a proven scorer at that level . Sums up the short term nonsense of our DoF . 
If by some  miracle 3 teams are worse than us come May , sell him then if he hasn’t impressed . 

Happy with our defence then?  

[The boy Linacre]

4 hours ago, Haywood_6 said:

Couldn't agree more.

I thought he was pretty poor, felt he was just lazy, but yes he could finish.  But we didn't give him a chance or play to his strength's BUT if we go down, we'd be crying out for a player like that, even if he was an impact sub.

I'm guessing needs must and money they spunk on wages to Daka, Hamza, Vesty, Ward etc means we need cashflow NOW, missed opportunity for both sides I suggest.  Stats do look good from penos mind.

[Tuna]

4 minutes ago, henry56 said:

Absolutely ridiculous . Almost certainly be in the Championship next season and we sell a proven scorer at that level . Sums up the short term nonsense of our DoF . 
If by some  miracle 3 teams are worse than us come May , sell him then if he hasn’t impressed . 

I'm sure Wolves, Ipswich and Everton will be delighted to hear we have given up and have accepted relegation with 17 games left and 3 points from safety.

 

We plan for the here and now and that is trying to stay up, selling Cannon helps us buy players to help us stay up.

[StriderHiryu]

48 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

This deal is very risky from the club for a number of reasons. I understand you need to roll the dice sometimes but given that we don’t have a youth team striker standing out, a likely retiring vardy and a poor record of recent recruitment…. We might have to accept that next season we will be lining up with ayew for 46 games. 

That might be one of the reasons why they are comfortable with it. Ayew as a striker in the Championship would bag a lot. I appreciate we’d want cover, but we could try some of the u21’s like Popov or even try Mavididi up there. And that assumes we can’t sign anyone even on loan, which I don’t think would be the case. 
 

So then if selling Cannon gives us a chance to stay up this season, I think it’s worth taking the risk. 

[ClaphamFox]

5 minutes ago, Tuna said:

I'm sure Wolves, Ipswich and Everton will be delighted to hear we have given up and have accepted relegation with 17 games left and 3 points from safety.

 

We plan for the here and now and that is trying to stay up, selling Cannon helps us buy players to help us stay up.

Yep. Cannon is a decent Championship striker but not a PL striker. If his sale can facilitate the purchase of a player than can improve the first eleven now, then that's what we should do. 

Edited 17 January by ClaphamFox

[LCFCJohn]

Short sighted me me. This squad is so broken, we simply aren’t going to be able to fix that in what is left of this window. Add to that our recruitment is awful, who actually has faith that we will spend whatever profit form Cannon wisely? 

Also, it’s all very well saying £5mill is a £20mill signing over 4 years or £25mill over a 5 year contract etc but what about where that money is coming from in the next year or after that? 
 

I would say it’s far more likely we end up back in the EFL, possibly under an embargo without a decent striker than it is this small profit will fund survival. I hope to be wrong of course.

[Pliskin]

43 minutes ago, glos-fox said:

Baffling move as we are Championship bound 😎 unless they have a decent replacement lined up but as our recruitment fire more blanks than a neutered dog 🐕 I am not hopeful.

It’s hardly baffling is it? Let’s face it, the lad isn’t all that…. I’d rather have the money in the bank and we go a reinvest which is what the club are planning. We’ve got to sell some players in order to get players in……

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

We can sell the keeper before the end of June as stay up or not he will not hang around and is destined for much bigger things. Selling someone who can score 20 goals a season in the championship now who still has a lot of room to hit his ceiling given we’re more likely than not to be in the championship next season, add we also give Everton a financial boost, all so we can spend (waste) money now. Just spend the money now and worry about it later, keep cannon in case we do go down. I’d even stick him in the squad now, he’s certainly no worse than Daka and should have some confidence as he’s been bagging.

[baldeagle]

8 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

We can sell the keeper before the end of June as stay up or not he will not hang around and is destined for much bigger things. Selling someone who can score 20 goals a season in the championship now who still has a lot of room to hit his ceiling given we’re more likely than not to be in the championship next season, add we also give Everton a financial boost, all so we can spend (waste) money now. Just spend the money now and worry about it later, keep cannon in case we do go down. I’d even stick him in the squad now, he’s certainly no worse than Daka and should have some confidence as he’s been bagging.

Spending money we haven’t  got  has partially got us into this mess so you are suggesting we carry on ?

It’s obvious we need to sell before we can spend for PSR reasons . 

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Three managers haven’t had faith in him and he doesn’t fit the profile of striker we’re desperate for.

 

Worth rolling the dice imo. 

[The boy Linacre]

1 hour ago, glos-fox said:

Baffling move as we are Championship bound 😎 unless they have a decent replacement lined up but as our recruitment fire more blanks than a neutered dog 🐕 I am not hopeful.

Put that on the Euphemism thread

[HankMarvin]

47 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

We'll need to buy a couple of strikers but you can't turn down £13m for Cannon.

Well you can, if he had gone on loan to a half decent team he could easily be on course for 20 plus goals and given his age command a higher fee or be utilised next season by us 

[HankMarvin]

4 minutes ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

Three managers haven’t had faith in him and he doesn’t fit the profile of striker we’re desperate for.

 

Worth rolling the dice imo. 

Meanwhile we have Daka and after 3 seasons the only compliments about him are he is fast and good at pressing 

[accessory]

52 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

i'm not backing the club here at all but ever thought it could be the player pushing this? May be he doesnt want to be here?? 

With all the comforts that Seagrave has to offer? Surely not..

 

Seriously, though, there's a lot of talk about "attitude issues" (often turning up late for training, not making much effort when he's there, and so on), which may help to explain why Cannon is being moved on.

 

Hope the proceeds of the sale will be put to good use in the next two weeks..

[Dahnsouff]

10 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Meanwhile we have Daka and after 3 seasons the only compliments about him are he is fast and good at pressing 

He has a lovely smile

[Foxin_Mad]

This is gonna be another Jon Rudkin cunttm classic move. Probably end up being a top goal scorer and keeping some shite in the Prem whilst we rot in the Championship with Daka and an embargo. **** off Rudkin!