Lack of transfer activity

[EastAnglianFox]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

Could be that the manager has only just arrived and is yet to asses the squad

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[DJ Barry Hammond]

59 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Could be that the manager has only just arrived and is yet to asses the squad

It certainly looks like he’s tried to give every player a fair chance so far doesn’t it.

 

I’d expect to see some more movement this week, now they’re back and with the season drawing ever closer.

 

I’m sure the club would quite like a new face in (one a little more exciting than Begovic) ahead of this weekends game to help sell some tickets.

[FLAN]

Forest fan was telling me today how much they’d raised selling fringe players. Competence 

[nnfox]

Our big earners won't go anywhere because they're on the biggest contract they'll likely get.

 

The most saleable assets are Mads and BEK. The whole world and his dog know we are desperate for cash and there's every chance we'll accept bargain bin prices in the final days of the window.

 

To make good money, we need to sell academy products but the exciting youth coming through haven't really showcased their talents yet, which realistically leaves Casey, Hamza and Luke Thomas.  They will be important for us this season and we'd be reluctant to sell.  Didn't Sunderland offer £10m for one of them in January and we turned it down?  If anyone comes in with £10m for any of those players we surely should sell and probably just bank the money.

[Trav Le Bleu]

You can't sell something if no one wants to buy it.

[Pliskin]

I don’t think we will bring anyone in that isn’t a panic, we will end up selling Mads and Bilal. Which won’t really help us financially as they’re not on big wages, and it will weaken us dramatically, and we will still have all of the over paid shite hanging around the club again for yet another season.

[James and his giant peach]

2 hours ago, smudgerfox said:

It is simply unbelievable that a relegated club facing PSR issues, needing to raise funds for transfer incomings, with 30 plus contracted senior players, has yet to sell a single player in this summer's transfer window. The club's inability to move on surplus players is an utter indictment of all those in charge. 

 

 

How on earth do you try and sell utter garbage like Soumare Vestergaard Coady etc when they are on 80k a week and haven't played well for years. No team will touch them. We have landed ourselves in this mess and that's why I have no excitement at all about the new season because I just know Page, Golding, Evans, Aluko, Nelson etc will be watching on as Justin, Skipp, Coady etc grace the pitch on day one. Utter rancid set of players which I'd banish to the reserves. 

[markko]

34 minutes ago, elangLCFC said:

You can only sponsor yourself at a fair market value so they can’t artificially pump cash in

Thanks. If we can't get anyone then FMV it may have to be!

[FoxesWalk]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

Could be that the manager has only just arrived and is yet to asses the squad

Can’t be saying stuff like that around here, outrageous 

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, Super Shinji said:

I know it’s frustrating, but you can’t sell players that no one wants to buy 

Some evidence of us not selling unwanted players due to unreasonable fees requested, only for us to not use them/pay them multiple millions in wages and then leave for a free at the end of their contracts. 

 

See Daniel Iversen, Dennis Praet and to a degree Luke Thomas. Offered several million by Hoffenheim back in January having not used him for a few years. 

[smudgerfox]

We had an offer for Coady - how on earth have we not taken that? 

[alanf0x]

It's all good, we have a 16 year old that's going to win us the league. 
 

We don't need to sign anyone!

[Grebfromgrebland]

10 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

We had an offer for Coady - how on earth have we not taken that? 

We're not letting him go apparently 

[moore_94]

13 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

We had an offer for Coady - how on earth have we not taken that? 

He won't take the wage cut

[Claridge]

10 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

It's all good, we have a 16 year old that's going to win us the league. 
 

We don't need to sign anyone!

Be 17 next year when we win the prem again

[Poznan34]

Meanwhile at Southampton...

 

 

 

[VLC86]

53 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

We had an offer for Coady - how on earth have we not taken that? 

Probably involves us paying 90% of his wages so it makes sense to not accept it.

[VLC86]

2 minutes ago, Poznan34 said:

Meanwhile at Southampton...

 

 

 

They’ve raised £31m from that squad, how  

 

Although we would have raised £70/80m from ours had the wages not been so pathetically astronomical.

[jammie82uk]

3 hours ago, JimJams said:

it might be that I'm not paying much attention to anyone else, but is there much movement going on everywhere else in the market compared to previous years?

This was posted this morning regarding premier league transfers, quite a few in & out for various clubs 

 

£1.5 billion spent 

 

https://talksport.com/football/3215774/premier-league-done-deals-signings-transfer-news-manchester-united-arsenal-chelsea-liverpool/
 

this is for the championship 

£14.5 million spent 

 

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

 

[smudgerfox]

10 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

Probably involves us paying 90% of his wages so it makes sense to not accept it.

Ive only just caught up with the Herald piece which quotes the Mercury (I missed that too) as saying that we'll only let Coady go if  we can find an experienced replacement..WTF !! 
 

We already have Faes, Okoli, Nelson and Vestergaard with Aluko looking promising ffs..it really beggars belief 

[sm1]

1 hour ago, smudgerfox said:

Ive only just caught up with the Herald piece which quotes the Mercury (I missed that too) as saying that we'll only let Coady go if  we can find an experienced replacement..WTF !! 
 

We already have Faes, Okoli, Nelson and Vestergaard with Aluko looking promising ffs..it really beggars belief 

We just never learn. Monaco wanted Soumare, we didn't sell, likewise for Thomas and McAteer.  We could've got rid of that giant turd, Vesty, but instead offered him another mega contract. I'm more interested in who's going, rather than who's coming.

[Dan]

It was entirely predictable. Plenty towards the end of last season seemed to think we would get a big overhaul in the summer. It didn't happen in 2023 to the level it should've done so it was never going to happen this time around.

 

There's no incentive for players to leave here. No serious demands on performance yet as good a wage as you can get outside of Saudi Arabia.

 

Add in a director of football who is demonstrably utterly useless at moving players on. The absolute worst in the business.

 

Sell before we buy, but we can never actually sell.

 

Cifuentes will start well here because the majority of managers do, there's a bit of a point to prove. We have a relatively kind opening few fixtures.

 

He will cotton on to what he's working under and lose interest / desire. He's got previous for it and that was under less inept people than ours. Bookmark it.

[Dan]

6 hours ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

Listened to a pod on the athletic earlier on data. Bloke from the Liverpool scouting team said they reviewed targets every month of the year and had January’s targets established by 1st Sept and summers targets by 1st Feb.

 

Parish from Palace was on the rest is football recently and he said they work a year in advance based on current players ages, contract situation and injury record.

 

Everything with us is reactive and with no strategy.

You get what you deserve in the end. We will only continue to slide. Clubs like Norwich, West Brom etc... will be the next to pass us (or we fall past them, whichever applies). There's this institutional delusion at Leicester that it will just magically get better. The penny may drop after it's far too late.

 

It isn't just us. We are very similar to Manchester United - they won't get good any time soon either. Other clubs have gotten smarter and we still have 'Jon Rudkin' as our main football person. You get what you deserve.

[Dan]

4 hours ago, Poznan34 said:

Meanwhile at Southampton...

 

 

 

£31mil raised from the second worst team in Premier League history. But it's impossible to sell a single one of our players apparently.

 

Absolutely sick to death of Rudkin.

[fox_favourite]

38 minutes ago, Dan said:

£31mil raised from the second worst team in Premier League history. But it's impossible to sell a single one of our players apparently.

 

Absolutely sick to death of Rudkin.

Yup. He's created this mess due to him being that inept again and again. We have a bloated squad that is overpaid for their ability. There are so many red flags with Rudkin, yet he carries on. We've got relegated twice, yet our DoF who over saw both is still in a job. 

 

It's just ridiculous