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Transfers, 2024-25 season


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Teams that have yet to spend any money this summer.... 

 

Us

Villa 

Palace

 

Mackems had that Jobe money burning a hole in their pocket like a Giro day at Wetherspoons so have spunked it all on a midfielder. 

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We’re surely not going through another window without backing Eddie, are we?

 

He absolutely deserves to be backed this summer. There are no longer any excuses to not spend money. We’re about to go into a champions league season. There is extra revenue coming because of that. We shifted Miggy, Minteh, Anderson and Kelly for decent money in recent windows with few coming in the other way.
 

I understand PSR remains a headache but there must be money to spend. Howe can’t be expected to work miracles again with a threadbare squad and all the extra fixtures in the new season. For that reason I’m not worried yet. I expect us to spend a bit of cash eventually. It would be a travesty if we don’t.
 

It must be annoying for Howe however to see other clubs getting their business done early, which is exactly what he asked the owners to do this time. I agree with Craig that some of our supporters on social media are getting hysterical - it’s still early in the window. I suppose my main worry is if he starts to lose patience. His stock has never been higher and he would have no problems getting a job somewhere else if he concludes he isn’t getting the support he needs. Howe is the golden goose - I hope the owners realise this 

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I’m happy to judge the window at the end. But it’s undeniably an uninspiring and all too familiar first month or so. I think the club need to learn that we’re not going to progress financially (and therefore on the pitch) by penny pinching on transfers to preserve PSR headroom. The PSR wiggle room needs to be generated by revenue growth and quite frankly taking the piss on the rules like Chelsea and now Villa are doing. Playing with kid gloves like we’ve been doing is incredibly naive. The other PL clubs are the enemy. The sooner the club take that approach and stop playing nice the better. 
 

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I know we have hardly come roaring out the blocks but the window only opened 16th June and is open till 1st Sept.

 

It was also widely reported we were waiting for some PSR shite to change on the 1st of July, which was literally yesterday. 

 

 

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We've missed out on Delap and Pedro and we're still miles apart on a valuation for the lad we've already agreed personal terms with. We're currently miles away from what Forest want for Elanga, and Guehi looks to be off to Liverpool. 

 

And pre season starts on Monday. 

 

Even if it's true that we had to wait til 1st July for money to go out the door, we could have had deals set up to drop on 1st July, but that hasn't happened. 

 

It's clearly not going very well.

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I recall somebody talking about the Saudi's being very slow to do anything when the takeover had just happened and it probably got lost amongst the news but he doesn't seem to be too far wide of the mark© (Alan Oliver). 

 

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What is making me piss is the Trafford situation. We have been waiting for what? Two weeks or so for 'Here we go' bollocks yet it seems like we still haven't agreed a fee yet.

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16 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

What is making me piss is the Trafford situation. We have been waiting for what? Two weeks or so for 'Here we go' bollocks yet it seems like we still haven't agreed a fee yet.


If we're wanting to secure any of these players we need to stop low-balling at 75% of a club's valuation of their player. Seems to be our default starting point, and it's not working.

Was Pedro ever a serious consideration? I read somewhere that he was our backup plan in 2022 if we failed to secure Isak and that is why the deal stalled and ultimately collapsed. If there's even a modicum of truth to that I can appreciate why, three years down the line, he's not interested in coming here. 

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5 hours ago, Howmanheyman said:

I recall somebody talking about the Saudi's being very slow to do anything when the takeover had just happened and it probably got lost amongst the news but he doesn't seem to be too far wide of the mark© (Alan Oliver). 

 


Aye, funny there was an article in The Athletic this morning that mentioned as much.

 

Still, they’re happy enough to spunk billions on golf and the CWC. The next CEO (if we ever get one) needs the balls to tell the Saudis that he calls the shots and they sign the cheques.

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