Transfers, 2024-25 season

[ewerk 33672]

  On 29/08/2024 at 12:49, Kid Dynamite said:

https://x.com/GraemeBailey/status/1829134162936164418
 

 

It's laughable now

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[Howmanheyman 37322]

  On 29/08/2024 at 12:49, Kid Dynamite said:

https://x.com/GraemeBailey/status/1829134162936164418
 

 

It's laughable now

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He's a fucking duck egg tbh. 

 

(A smoggy duck egg).

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[Gemmill 51416]

SHITC more like amirite. 

[Dr Gloom 23993]

  On 29/08/2024 at 12:49, Kid Dynamite said:

https://x.com/GraemeBailey/status/1829134162936164418
 

 

It's laughable now

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[Gemmill 51416]

BTW KD, post this stuff in your Marc Guehi thread. Never mind trying to slip your bad news about Guehi posts elsewhere. Own that shit. 

[Kid Dynamite 7835]

  On 29/08/2024 at 13:09, Gemmill said:

BTW KD, post this stuff in your Marc Guehi thread. Never mind trying to slip your bad news about Guehi posts elsewhere. Own that shit. 

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[Gemmill 51416]

Hey I'm still confident. But then I don't follow Graeme Bailey on twitter.

[ewerk 33672]

  On 29/08/2024 at 13:27, Gemmill said:

Hey I'm still confident. 

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This is the new Alan Oliver / Brett Emerton.

[Kid Dynamite 7835]

What sort of wages is he asking for!?

[ewerk 33672]

  On 29/08/2024 at 13:35, Kid Dynamite said:

What sort of wages is he asking for!?

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I hope he's not benchmarking his expectations off some offer he got from Saudi.

[Gemmill 51416]

  On 29/08/2024 at 13:35, Kid Dynamite said:

What sort of wages is he asking for!?

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Every chance Howe has said we can't sell him with no replacement, and we don't look like we can whip up a replacement in the next 30 hours. 

[Dr Gloom 23993]

  On 29/08/2024 at 13:35, ewerk said:

 

This is the new Alan Oliver / Brett Emerton.

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signing by friday

 

or was that leighton baines 

[ewerk 33672]

  On 29/08/2024 at 13:47, Dr Gloom said:

 

signing by friday

 

or was that leighton baines 

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Either way Gemmill is certainly wide of the mark.

[wykikitoon 23394]

We are worse off. Teams around us have strengthened.  What sort of message is this sending to Isak, Bruno etc?

[Gemmill 51416]

Let's wait and see what happens in the next 30 odd hours before we start ringing the alarm bells. 

 

At the end of the day, most of the restrictions we're facing are external, and there's nothing we can do about them. If that means Bruno and Isak leave, there's really fuck all we can do about it. 

 

Obviously if we buy no one in the next 30 odd hours, we've totally fucked this window and these lads will be scratching their heads and asking questions. 

[Dr Gloom 23993]

if we assume this deal is off, we have to have been working on other targets and we have to hope they’re close because if we haven’t, we are properly entering panic buy territory, or LTA is right, we stick to our guns and sign no one.
 

If the latter is true it would be the first real failure since the takeover. Not backing Howe in January was understandable given the looming psr crisis but not spending anything this window, when there is clearly money there to spend, would leave the new recruitment team looking pretty silly and the fans starting to turn for the first time since the takeover.  

Edited August 29, 2024 by Dr Gloom

[Dazzler 12272]

If the window closes and we sign no one then we're keeping our powder dry for January when Man City (with our help) shag the EPL into submission over their anti-competitive rules.

 

Then we buy everyone.

[Polarboy 2317]

Mandy and Mehrdad will be feeling pretty smug come Friday if we don't sign anyone. Even if it's only a perception, and the actual reality is more complicated, there will be a perception that they were far more competent when it came to signing players. 

[Dr Gloom 23993]

  On 29/08/2024 at 14:03, Polarboy said:

Mandy and Mehrdad will be feeling pretty smug come Friday if we don't sign anyone. Even if it's only a perception, and the actual reality is more complicated, there will be a perception that they were far more competent when it came to signing players. 

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plenty of fans on social media are already coming to that conclusion. there is still time for the club to prove them wrong - and i bloody hope they do 

[Dr Gloom 23993]

CN reckons LTA could have been right all along 

 

 

[ewerk 33672]

  On 29/08/2024 at 14:40, Dr Gloom said:

CN reckons LTA could have been right all along 

 

 

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Well look, if we've exhausted our list then what else can we expect them to do?

 

The list:

 

 

[David Kelly 1346]

I've been positive throughout this summer but at this point, It's hard to conclude that this window is anything other than a clusterfuck now.  We've lost two of our most promising young players while replacing nothing more than players we allowed to go for free.  If we have our first choice starting 11 we still have a very good team and a bench that can actually make a difference, but we all know in this game, if you stand still you actually go backwards.  And I'm not even sure we've stood still at this point.

Whatever the reason behind this, it's not a good look and it sends us into the season on a down note straight away.  It's difficult to believe we will be in the mix for top four as things stands and without that, we had better get used to the idea that we are going to lose our top players because Bruno, Isak and Gordon are good enough to be expecting to challenge for trophies and if the project stops looking like it's heading anywhere.  So disappointing.

[aimaad22 4865]

  On 29/08/2024 at 14:51, David Kelly said:

I've been positive throughout this summer but at this point, It's hard to conclude that this window is anything other than a clusterfuck now.  We've lost two of our most promising young players while replacing nothing more than players we allowed to go for free.  If we have our first choice starting 11 we still have a very good team and a bench that can actually make a difference, but we all know in this game, if you stand still you actually go backwards.  And I'm not even sure we've stood still at this point.

Whatever the reason behind this, it's not a good look and it sends us into the season on a down note straight away.  It's difficult to believe we will be in the mix for top four as things stands and without that, we had better get used to the idea that we are going to lose our top players because Bruno, Isak and Gordon are good enough to be expecting to challenge for trophies and if the project stops looking like it's heading anywhere.  So disappointing.

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Same feeling here, I really did think we'd sign 2-3 players in the last week but there's barely a day to go and we've not done shite.

 

You can talk all you want about PSR etc yet all teams above and below us have found ways to strengthen while we have sold our best young players. Some look for the project this. 

[ewerk 33672]

Since (and including) the summer 2023 window Brentford, Bournemouth and even fucking Ipswich have spent more than us.

[PaddockLad 19399]

The tweet the E-Mags have been waiting for all summer