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

[Bordersfox]

1 minute ago, teblin said:

Only thing that worries me about this is we'll try a sign another more senior keeper. Illan Meslier is the one that I have a feeling is on our list, i have no info just a gut feeling.

The same Meslier who has been linked to us in the media last week you mean?  Hopefully a load of balls.  Dropped by Leeds and he is a bomb scare.   Stolarczyk is fine, has huge potential and we have much more pressing areas to spend our money in I reckon.  

[Muzzy_no7]

Still likely need to sell Bilal on top of this in order for us to actually do anything ourselves. 
 

20m by itself won’t be enough for us to then go and spend. 

Edited 1 August 2025 by Muzzy_no7

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Assuming Mads does go I think we sign another keeper.

 

Jakub needs competition, as good as Begovic has been I can’t imagine he will be trying to outperform him in training to put pressure on Marti.

 

We should either look abroad for another prospect ala Mads or see if there is a more ambitious younger keeper in England who wants to try to earn their place. 

[Ric Flair]

15 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Still likely need to sell Bilal on top of this in order for us to actually do anything ourselves. 
 

20m by itself won’t be enough for us to then go and spend. 

If we only sold Hermansen and Bilal we'd still need to shift 4-5 more. We simply have too big a squad.

 

Hopefully making some profit though enables us to move the likes of Coady, Justin, Soumare, Winks, Faes on etc for modest fees or even loan deals to just get them gone and save the wages.

[Finnegan]

19 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Still likely need to sell Bilal on top of this in order for us to actually do anything ourselves. 
 

20m by itself won’t be enough for us to then go and spend. 

 

20m goes a long way at this level. 

 

Even if amortisation wasn't a thing, that would have covered Mavididi, Hermansen, Cannon and Fatawu's loan fee. 

 

When you consider amortisation, that would have paid for our entire window last time at this level. 

 

Obviously it doesn't really work like that, we already have losses to cover and like @Ric Flair says, the squad is still too big. 

 

But I don't necessarily agree we'll need to sell 4 or 5 players before we buy anyone. There's a couple of glaring holes in the squad, in particular we're desperate for a striker, and I can't see us entirely ignoring that if we pocket 25m from Hermansen. Especially if we're confident Bilal and Coady are following him out the door in short order. 

 

I just hope we wrap those three up quickly and they don't ****ing drag on all of next week. 

 

[coolhandfox]

There is a reason Hermansen is about to be sold for around 20m and Stolarczyk isn't.

 

Stolarczyk isn't on Hermansen level, at 24 and 25 years old respectively one has a wealth of experience the other has the odd patch games here and there.

 

Jakub could get to Mads level but he's someway behind him at the moment.

 

 

 

 

[stu]

30 minutes ago, teblin said:

Only thing that worries me about this is we'll try a sign another more senior keeper. Illan Meslier is the one that I have a feeling is on our list, i have no info just a gut feeling.

You say senior, but he is only 25. Still young in goalkeeper terms.

 

Not that I want him!

[teblin]

29 minutes ago, stu said:

You say senior, but he is only 25. Still young in goalkeeper terms.

 

Not that I want him!

I meant senior in terms of 1st team experience not really meaning age.

[jammie82uk]

44 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

20m goes a long way at this level. 

It does especially when the entire championship has only spelt £14.5 million between the 24 clubs combined so far 

[dmayne7]

52 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

There is a reason Hermansen is about to be sold for around 20m and Stolarczyk isn't.

 

Stolarczyk isn't on Hermansen level, at 24 and 25 years old respectively one has a wealth of experience the other has the odd patch games here and there.

 

Jakub could get to Mads level but he's someway behind him at the moment.

 

 

 

 

Doesn't have his level of distribution but the main thing is that he's been given little opportunity, as is the case with most keepers. He's shown he's plenty capable and he has assets that Hermansen doesn't (ability to claim crosses for example).

[Finnegan]

6 minutes ago, dmayne7 said:

Doesn't have his level of distribution but the main thing is that he's been given little opportunity, as is the case with most keepers. He's shown he's plenty capable and he has assets that Hermansen doesn't (ability to claim crosses for example).

 

My attitude towards Stolarczyk is very much "he'll do." I don't share the excitement about him that some have but he's clearly good enough to fill the gap, especially in the Championship, meaning we can spend any money on more critical positions. 

 

He's not as good as Mads but he doesn't need to be. 

 

What's important is that we unearth a few more Hermansens, not necessarily goalkeepers but £5m footballers that improve the first team and can be sold on for a large profit. 

 

[K789]

[Finnegan]

26 minutes ago, K789 said:

 

Oh ffs we've been used.

 

[LFEFox23]

29 minutes ago, K789 said:

Just trying to scare us into lowering our asking price, great agent work!

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Seeing that news I'd usually I'd be happy that one of our best players now might not be leaving. 

 

But because of a combination of our incompetent owners and the PSR rules "for the good of the game" you can't really celebrate it because it means either we'll have to sell someone else (likely bilal) or we get shafted again on finances.

 

The fun has been totally stripped from football. 

[HankMarvin]

2 hours ago, jammie82uk said:

It does especially when the entire championship has only spelt £14.5 million between the 24 clubs combined so far 

more like 120m

Edited 1 August 2025 by HankMarvin

[cityfanlee23]

Jakub was ideally a ready made replacement under Ruud/Cooper, is he a ready made replacement under Marti-ball? his distribution and passing under pressure is his biggest weakness. 

Honestly, I'd love Jakub to prove me wrong as I think he's prem potential in most systems, but he's yet to show he is good enough on the ball so can only hope he improves. 
Jakub has a pass accuracy of 51%, long ball accuracy of 30%. 

As much as I want us to stand with Wednesday and the thought of them being asset stripped in their current situation is awful, Pierce Charles is far better on the ball and imo is going to be a top 6 goalkeeper for years to come when he escapes Wednesday. Would be cheap given their situation, Pass accuracy of 76%, 52% long ball accuracy, Goals prevented 2.4 (Jakub -0.62 albeit at a higher level)

Pierce charles is the real deal. I hope Jakub can be too. 

https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/players/1096327/jakub-stolarczyk
https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/players/1420144/pierce-charles

Edited 1 August 2025 by cityfanlee23

[HankMarvin]

7 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

Jakub has a pass accuracy of 51%, long ball accuracy of 30%. 

Most of his game time has been in the Prem, where he was encouraged to punt it long. 
What was Mads stats last season?

Edit just seen

not a huge difference 

56%pass 
27% long ball 

Edited 1 August 2025 by HankMarvin

[Chelmofox]

5 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Most of his game time has been in the Prem, where he was encouraged to punt it long. 
What was Mads stats last season?

Edit just seen

not a huge difference 

56%pass 
27% long ball 

I've noticed a lot of people making quite a bit of this, including one or 2 youtube fan channels who have referred to Jakubs foot work as 'awful'. I think it's unfair, and Jakub has always looked comfortable to me passing around at the back. I felt Mads struggled playing long a lot last season as well, although i do think Mads is better. I'm just not sure its a massive problem for Jakub who is still learning on the job.

 

Towards the end of last season i could see that Jakub was taking more risks and some of this wasn't great, but that's part of the learning and as we were relegated the right time to do it. 

[lcfcbluearmy]

21 hours ago, K789 said:

He's very reliable too. Seems a certainty this one. I'm going for 18 mill. In this gk market which is horrific probably a good price 

Not really he says the clubs are still along way apart and Rudkin isn't exactly known to accept offers below evaluation 

[lcfcbluearmy]

16 hours ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

The problem we have is we’ve rather visibly replaced him already - to the point it would be down right awkward if we didn’t sell him.

 

I don’t think we dare risk not selling him now.

No we replaced iverson we haven't brought in another first choice keeper and if sold would still only have 2 senior keepers

[lcfc_forever]

Is this back up at West Ham, or for their no.1?

 

 

[fleshdaddy]

Must be nice, being able to bid on and make offers for players!

[jammie82uk]

1 hour ago, HankMarvin said:

more like 120m

Really? Not according to this, but anyway doesn’t matter if it’s £15 million or £120 million total spend, the point still stands that £20 million is a substantial number in the championship especially when the premier league have just broken the £1.5 billion barrier 

 

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/blackburn-rovers/transfer-talk/feature/championship-transfers-confirmed-ins-and-outs_574195.html

 

Championship total spent to date: £14.47m

 

Championship total received to date: £58.64m

 

Championship net transfer spend: £44.17m

Edited 1 August 2025 by jammie82uk

[Mickyblueeyes]

25 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

Is this back up at West Ham, or for their no.1?

 

 

They have Mads if we can have him. I’ve always wanted a Brazilian keeps since Claudio Taffarel.