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

[Pliskin]

Keeping the likes of Mads and Bilal won’t harm us financially, their wages aren’t going to be astronomical. If we can offload Wilf, Faes, and potentially JJ… along with Coady going and Vardy no longer on the books, that will do a lot for FFP, that’s a huge wedge off the wage bill. 

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Will be interesting to know just how much we need to raise to a) ensure we compky with PSR and b) enable Cifuentes to shape the squad to be balanced enough.

 

Hermansen at £25m is over £20m in profit, we'd need to sell Bilal for £40m to raise the same. My horrible feeling is someone offers us north of £30m for Fatawu or even £15m for Ben Nelson.

i think it’s more likely we just gamble on selling them at the start of next summer.  which if i was playing footy manager is what i’d be doing if the right bids weren’t coming in

[Lambert09]

23 minutes ago, kingpower said:

I have a sickly feeling that someone like Leeds will come in for Abdul

I seriously doubt a club will come in for him until he’s proven to have fully shaken off the injury. 

 

it’s too much of a risk 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

16 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Keeping the likes of Mads and Bilal won’t harm us financially, their wages aren’t going to be astronomical. If we can offload Wilf, Faes, and potentially JJ… along with Coady going and Vardy no longer on the books, that will do a lot for FFP, that’s a huge wedge off the wage bill. 

This. Our wage bill is a much bigger issue than our amortised fees.

[Chelmofox]

41 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Keeping the likes of Mads and Bilal won’t harm us financially, their wages aren’t going to be astronomical. If we can offload Wilf, Faes, and potentially JJ… along with Coady going and Vardy no longer on the books, that will do a lot for FFP, that’s a huge wedge off the wage bill. 

I agree, but if we can get rid of Mads for 20mil min then thats excellent profit when we have another good keeper ready. We aren't going to be in a position to make 15 mil profit from Bilal right now.

[VLC86]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Will be interesting to know just how much we need to raise to a) ensure we compky with PSR and b) enable Cifuentes to shape the squad to be balanced enough.

 

Hermansen at £25m is over £20m in profit, we'd need to sell Bilal for £40m to raise the same. My horrible feeling is someone offers us north of £30m for Fatawu or even £15m for Ben Nelson.

We will definitely be soon at the stage where we consider selling players we would rather not sell if 2 or 3 others don’t leave this week you’d have thought.

[coolhandfox]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Will be interesting to know just how much we need to raise to a) ensure we compky with PSR and b) enable Cifuentes to shape the squad to be balanced enough.

 

Hermansen at £25m is over £20m in profit, we'd need to sell Bilal for £40m to raise the same. My horrible feeling is someone offers us north of £30m for Fatawu or even £15m for Ben Nelson.

Worth noting the year with the worse loses have dropped out of the PSR cycle, our loses for 23/24 were -£19m, we can probably get that down to nothing with health deductions.

 

Which give us £61 million head room for last season and this season. 

 

We are shedding high earners like Vardy, Coady, Ward, Iversen and look to add the likes of JJ and Ndidi, our amortization is roughly the same it was in our last championship season.  

Edited 4 August 2025 by coolhandfox

[coolhandfox]

32 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

This. Our wage bill is a much bigger issue than our amortised fees.

100% which why we have moved on the likes of Coady and Vardy and looking to add JJ and Ndidi.

 

Ward and Iversen wouldn't have been cheap either. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

All I know is that Stolarczyk was really pissed off yesterday. 

 

I was up by the tunnel and he was really unhappy with not playing and it seemed to be more than that i.e like he'd been told he's not starting next week either 

[Ric Flair]

Just now, coolhandfox said:

100% which why we have moved on the likes of Coady and Vardy and looking to add JJ and Ndidi.

 

Ward and Iversen wouldn't have been cheap either. 

Ricardo, Daka and Soumare probably the three highest paid remaining too. I'd be trying to get them out even just as a loan covering their wages.

[VLC86]

 

1 minute ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

All I know is that Stolarczyk was really pissed off yesterday. 

 

I was up by the tunnel and he was really unhappy with not playing and it seemed to be more than that i.e like he'd been told he's not starting next week either 

Understandable. If Mads is still here he will be going on loan I recon.

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

All I know is that Stolarczyk was really pissed off yesterday. 

 

I was up by the tunnel and he was really unhappy with not playing and it seemed to be more than that i.e like he'd been told he's not starting next week either 

Good. Really want our players to play.

 

In the warm up they looked in good spirits though.

[Bablemikey]

19 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Ricardo, Daka and Soumare probably the three highest paid remaining too. I'd be trying to get them out even just as a loan covering their wages.

Vestergaard is right up there in wage too I believe.

[Qwerty]

32 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

 

Understandable. If Mads is still here he will be going on loan I recon.

Surely not.  That would leave us with just 2 goalies.  

[Jimmy]

13 minutes ago, Qwerty said:

Surely not.  That would leave us with just 2 goalies.  

if it keeps Stolarczyk happy whilst we get another year out of Mads before selling I can see it, Begovic and Bausor backing up Mads

[James_lcfc]

Would love to keep him for this season - He'll be so important starting the attacks.

 

He can be the fund-raiser next Summer...

[MPH]

1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

Keeping the likes of Mads and Bilal won’t harm us financially, their wages aren’t going to be astronomical. If we can offload Wilf, Faes, and potentially JJ… along with Coady going and Vardy no longer on the books, that will do a lot for FFP, that’s a huge wedge off the wage bill. 

hmm. I see what you’re saying, but I think we can all agree that we desperately need a striker. If we can’t shift the gaff then we MUST sell either of those because it has to be u fathomable to go into the new season without a new striker…

 

 

we simply can’t afford to keep waiting and waiting to sell the gaff and then end up with no new striker..

Edited 4 August 2025 by MPH

[Pliskin]

13 minutes ago, MPH said:

hmm. I see what you’re saying, but I think we can all agree that we desperately need a striker. If we can’t shift the gaff then we MUST sell either of those because it has to be u fathomable to go into the new season without a new striker…

 

 

we simply can’t afford to keep waiting and waiting to sell the gaff and then end up with no new striker..

But, would selling them over let’s say, JJ, Wilf (entertain me for a second) Soumare and Faes. And not being able to sell any of those mentioned, free up any money for a striker? As the money would likely cover their wages? So, if we can shift those wage leeches out of the team, that would be better. Whereas a huge some will help us, of course, the wage bill would still be huge. 

[MPH]

1 minute ago, Pliskin said:

But, would selling them over let’s say, JJ, Wilf (entertain me for a second) Soumare and Faes. And not being able to sell any of those mentioned, free up any money for a striker? As the money would likely cover their wages? So, if we can shift those wage leeches out of the team, that would be better. Whereas a huge some will help us, of course, the wage bill would still be huge. 

 

im not sure of a season in recent memory where we have always been able to sell those we want to sell.. sure we’d prefer to sell those you mention.. but we might not be able to.

 

Kone would be a 5m fee likely over 5 years. I’d say a max of 40k a week that’s 2m a year selling any of those mentioned should be able to cover that.. Wycombe will want this sorting  soon you’d imagine  so we can’t risk losing him to Swansea so really we are in a position where we have to make deals for those we get offers for first. We just can’t risk going into the new season without a new striker…

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Ricardo, Daka and Soumare probably the three highest paid remaining too. I'd be trying to get them out even just as a loan covering their wages.

My season prediction is that soumare has a moderate to okay season and if we go up he gets a  new 3 year deal on the same wage.  It’s just a too predictable trap for us to fall in 
 

 

 

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Ricardo, Daka and Soumare probably the three highest paid remaining too. I'd be trying to get them out even just as a loan covering their wages.

Around 1.7m left on his amortisation.

 

I think he goes back Portugal next summer on a free.  

 

I can't see him going if JJ does. 

[st albans fox]

13 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Around 1.7m left on his amortisation.

 

I think he goes back Portugal next summer on a free.  

 

I can't see him going if JJ does. 

How can Ricky have anything left of his amortisation.  His initial five years expired two years ago. 

[Pliskin]

44 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

im not sure of a season in recent memory where we have always been able to sell those we want to sell.. sure we’d prefer to sell those you mention.. but we might not be able to.

 

Kone would be a 5m fee likely over 5 years. I’d say a max of 40k a week that’s 2m a year selling any of those mentioned should be able to cover that.. Wycombe will want this sorting  soon you’d imagine  so we can’t risk losing him to Swansea so really we are in a position where we have to make deals for those we get offers for first. We just can’t risk going into the new season without a new striker…

You’re spot on, I think I’m getting carried away because we’ve shifted Coady, and potentially Wilf. I think Hermensen will leave, but I’m pretty sure we can afford Kone now, I’d imagine it’s more of a case of if they’re willing to take a risk on him. He could be the next Toney, or he could be the next Craig Makail-Smith and flop. 

[moore_94]

10 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

How can Ricky have anything left of his amortisation.  His initial five years expired two years ago. 

Up until 2023 whenever a player signed a new contract whatever value was still on them was then spread out across the length of the new contract

 

JJ has about £800k on him

Edited 4 August 2025 by moore_94

[2ndtierfox]

53 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

im not sure of a season in recent memory where we have always been able to sell those we want to sell.. sure we’d prefer to sell those you mention.. but we might not be able to.

 

Kone would be a 5m fee likely over 5 years. I’d say a max of 40k a week that’s 2m a year selling any of those mentioned should be able to cover that.. Wycombe will want this sorting  soon you’d imagine  so we can’t risk losing him to Swansea so really we are in a position where we have to make deals for those we get offers for first. We just can’t risk going into the new season without a new striker…

Can’t remember the last time there was no deadwood in this club.

 

Striker has to be priority.. Surely. 
 

Sure Ayew might score, but with the opportunity to get Kone in and some good games in the tank, for only 5 million. No brainer surely?