Mads Hermansen (close to 18m move to West Ham)

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

2 minutes ago, AjcW said:

The fact Chelsea, desperate for a goalkeeper for a long time, have never come in for him, should tell people a lot. 
 

I think by the time both their careers end he and Jakub will have achieved similar at club and international level. 
 

Personally looking forward to Jakub getting his chance, he loves the club and the city, which is something we lack in general.

Been told that Chelsea thought he was to small

[lfu]

Could've we have held out and gotten a better fee from another club like Lille? They need a new goalkeeper after their no.1 Chevalier is off to PSG for €40m+addons

Unless Mads was dead-set on joining a London club and refusing to move anywhere else

[volpeazzurro]

7 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

That fee does not bode well for the desperation of our financial position does it, should have been pushing 10m ish more that that with add ons included. Must be a bit desperate…

If you look at the experience of somebody like Trafford who’s gone back to Man City and wanted therefore by a ‘big club’,  you’re not going to get the likes of Brentford or West Ham stumping up more money than what Trafford cost. If he was rated that highly by those supposedly in the know and not biased fans , Manchester City would have gone for Mads and saved money!

[FoxesWalk]

3 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

If you look at the experience of somebody like Trafford who’s gone back to Man City and wanted therefore by a ‘big club’,  you’re not going to get the likes of Brentford or West Ham stumping up more money than what Trafford cost. If he was rated that highly by those supposedly in the know and not biased fans , Manchester City would have gone for Mads and saved money!

It was Trafford and Petrovic that came to mind. I don’t see why Mads is worth less than the latter for example, Trafford I can see, big club comes in and pays English tax for what looks like a potential future England #1, but is he much better than Mads right now? Maybe, I’m not convinced myself. Trafford has a half season ish of PL experience, Petrovic none. 

Edited 7 August 2025 by FoxesWalk

[JimJams]

Mads is class and worked brilliantly in Enzos system.  However, at Prem level, no amount of shot stopping and being good with your feet as a goalkeeper makes up for the lack of quality in front of you.  You can play incredibly and still ship a load of goals, as we saw in the Arsenal game last season.  Get some of that money spent on making the rest of the team better, get a strong spine, and having a more solid unit in front with a marginally worse keeper should be better long term.  Maybe that's thinking too far ahead?

 

Here's hoping.

Edited 7 August 2025 by JimJams

[Staffs Fox]

Southampton let their number 1 go on loan who they spent £25m on last summer.

 

We make a £12m profit for a player who let’s face it was average at best for the 2nd half of last season and we have adequate cover for, I’m ok with this to be honest 

[danhaw]

"we'll give you £25m for mads?"

"No"

"Right ok, we'll look elsewhere then"

"Fine, have him for £18m"

Edited 7 August 2025 by danhaw

[merlin1969]

Gone to West Ham

[Finnegan]

Just now, FoxesWalk said:

It was Trafford and Petrovic that came to mind. I don’t see why Mads is worth less than the latter for example, Trafford I can see, big club comes in for what looks like a potential future England #1, but is he much better than Mads right now? Maybe, I’m not convinced myself. Trafford has a half season ish of PL experience, Petrovic none. 

 

You're thinking about it too two dimensionally.

 

A player's "value" isn't some binary number weighted perfectly by stats and Football Manger style exact, numeric attribute scores.

 

It's a complete cluster-**** of perception, reputation, stats, scouting, bargaining power, agent power, the finances of the buying club, the finances of the selling club, the position he plays, the other options on the table for them, the other options on the table for us. There's thousands of variables all cracking off at the same time in any given deal.

 

The bottom line is, a freshly relegated club with our financial problems isn't in a strong bargaining position. We have been in the past, in the last decade we've sold two central defenders for a combined 160 million and neither of them were truly worth even half what the buying clubs paid. At the same time, we've shamefully pissed away extreme ammounts on muck like Slimani and Perez.

 

We got absolutely done on N'golo Kante, then we did Chelsea back on Danny Drinkwater and arguably Chilwell and KDH. 

 

Then we turned around and spunked it all away on Oliver Skipp.

 

None of it really makes sense does it?

 

[foxfanazer]

Not like us to get the bare minimum for our players 

[Ric Flair]

16 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

That you did, fair play. Addons will remain a mystery for now I assume.

Hopefully at the very least a sell on % ourselves should he get to the level we expect him to. I still think £18-20m in our position for a goalkeeper is above average. You don't take that if you are in a good position and can unreasonably rejects large bids but we aren't. It is however a big fee for a goalkeeper.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

You're thinking about it tutu dimensionally.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[DezFox]

Without the blue to tinted specs this is on the low side. When do we ever get the good side of the deal anymore. Always fee like we have under sold or overpaid. I give you mads, barnes, KDB, Maddison, Golding, skipp, Ayew. All prime examples just in the last couple of seasons. We give bargains not benefit from them

[Ric Flair]

Also, we need to ourselves stop overpaying for players. If we are in a poor negotiating position to maximise the amount we get from sales, we cannot further inhibit ourselves by overpaying. It is possible for us to do so, but we've been a soft touch for too long it might be difficult in the short term. 

[Kasey Keller]

The fact is we never know what the actual deals are, we just speculate as does Rob Dorsett.

Clubs feed us and the media the propaganda numbers they want us to hear and believe.

[EastAnglianFox]

It was him or Bek (hopefully)

 

Fantastic shot stopper, lovely guy but has a ceiling for me, more than comfortable with his replacement.

Bek on the other hand, if we can keep then we sell for over double what we’ve got for Mads if he does the business this season

 

[Jattdogg]

24 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Said it would be £18m

Smoke a pipe and play the lotto.

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

1 minute ago, EastAnglianFox said:

It was him or Bek (hopefully)

 

Fantastic shot stopper, lovely guy but has a ceiling for me, more than comfortable with his replacement.

Bek on the other hand, if we can keep then we sell for over double what we’ve got for Mads if he does the business this season

 

Nah he'll be gone as well.

[EastAnglianFox]

1 minute ago, ROB-THE-BLUE said:

Nah he'll be gone as well.

mods

[ronnup]

Hes also unproven at Prem level. He didnt shine last season. 

[FOXYTALK]

5 hours ago, Ashley said:

 

He's not a Championship level keeper though. I dont buy that argument. 

 

Lets just say and hypothetically speaking here. Man City get relegated, or any other clubs of that calibre get relegated let's go with the ffp stuff for now. Those players values dont drop just because theyre a Championship player all of a sudden do they? 

 

Why would it be the same for this? 

But it is though, we got lowered offers for Barnes and maddison when we got relegated. 

[Jattdogg]

Has westham put any other feelers out today for another goalie to try and get this 18 mill down further?  Stay tuned

Edited 7 August 2025 by Jattdogg

[Nolucklcfc]

Crap fee but pleased that Yakub will be the number 1 now. 

[slymunn]

18 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

It was Trafford and Petrovic that came to mind. I don’t see why Mads is worth less than the latter for example, Trafford I can see, big club comes in and pays English tax for what looks like a potential future England #1, but is he much better than Mads right now? Maybe, I’m not convinced myself. Trafford has a half season ish of PL experience, Petrovic none. 

Petrovic was voted RC Strasbourg Player of the season. Also second in ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the season.

 

According to FotMob, he is the highest rated goalkeeper in Europe's top five leagues in 2024/25.

 

Petrovic kept 10 clean sheets in the French top tier last season. Only one keeper, Lille's Lucas Chevalier (11), kept more shutouts. 

 

The Serbia international recorded the second-best save percentage in Ligue 1 last season: 78%. 

 

Petrovic out-performed his post-shot xG by +9.9 last season. Petrovic conceded 38 Ligue 1 goals, but the xG metric states that he 'should' have conceded 45.9 goals based on the quality of the shots he faced. 

 

Petrovic ranked third in Ligue 1 last season for defensive actions OUTSIDE of his penalty area, with 47. 

 

Petrovic led all Ligue 1 goalkeepers with 1,117 successful passes. 

Most Touches: He also topped the charts for total touches by a goalkeeper with 1,736. 

Passing Accuracy: While not the most accurate, his passing accuracy was still a respectable 78.8%. 

Touches in a Single Match: Petrovic recorded a record-breaking 79 touches in a match against Rennes, with 64 successful passes, demonstrating his comfort and ability to distribute the ball. 

[Bert]

So with the 3 leaving, we’ll have gained £28m in transfer fees, plus a saving of at least £7.5m a year in wages. Hopefully we can get a couple in on sensible wages and try to start keeping our heads above the water.