Transfers, 2024-25 season

[David Kelly 1334]

1 minute ago, wykikitoon said:

 

 

Not saying this against you by any means, but shit that's being thrown Miggy's way on twitter is a disgrace.  We all want to see us sign someone better but the lad has done nothing but graft his bollocks since he's been here.  I realise there is a heavy moron presence on twitter but the lad deserves better.

[Holden McGroin 7508]

4 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

 

 

 

 

£75m sounds fair. Plus Laporte in exchange.

[Holden McGroin 7508]

1 minute ago, David Kelly said:

Not saying this against you by any means, but shit that's being thrown Miggy's way on twitter is a disgrace.  We all want to see us sign someone better but the lad has done nothing but graft his bollocks since he's been here.  I realise there is a heavy moron presence on twitter but the lad deserves better.

 

Wykiki is the closest thing to a twitter user on here. If someone has 3 good games they are ballon d'or contenders. Three bad ones and they should be banished to the SPL.

[Gemmill 49649]

2 minutes ago, David Kelly said:

Not saying this against you by any means, but shit that's being thrown Miggy's way on twitter is a disgrace.  We all want to see us sign someone better but the lad has done nothing but graft his bollocks since he's been here.  I realise there is a heavy moron presence on twitter but the lad deserves better.

 

Twitter is the absolute dregs. If you're ever stupid enough, and I am often am, to click beyond the top level tweet into the replies, it is invariably an absolute bin-fire of the worst of humanity. I can well believe that some absolutely terrible things are being said about Miggy, but at the same time, the lad could, at the very least, read the dishwasher manual. 

[Renton 23574]

3 hours ago, Toonpack said:

It's absolutely tragic we can't just sign players without thinking "how's that effect the books" !! Boils my ancient piss.

 

It's fucking shite like. Off field its like the accountancy olympics on this place with the specky twats like Gemmill/Dazzler/ewerk having a nerd field day.

Meanwhile the fuckers have ruined the game on the pitch with VAR. My mature piss too is turning to vinegar. 

 

 

[wykikitoon 22681]

12 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

 

Wykiki is the closest thing to a twitter user on here. If someone has 3 good games they are ballon d'or contenders. Three bad ones and they should be banished to the SPL.

[Gemmill 49649]

7 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

It's fucking shite like. Off field its like the accountancy olympics on this place with the specky twats like Gemmill/Dazzler/ewerk having a nerd field day.

Meanwhile the fuckers have ruined the game on the pitch with VAR. My mature piss too is turning to vinegar. 

 

 

 

Whatever, it wasn't me spunking in my pants at the astronomy chat in GC the other day, fucking Gamesmaster. 

[Guest MrRaspberryJam]

In Luke Edwards' article about Gordon's head being turned, it says Wilson set to stay.

[Holden McGroin 7508]

Just now, MrRaspberryJam said:

In Luke Edwards' article about Gordon's head being turned, it says Wilson set to stay.

 

I think its fair to say Edwards gets chicken feed from the club.

[Renton 23574]

2 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said:

In Luke Edwards' article about Gordon's head being turned, it says Wilson set to stay.

 

Well, with Leeds not getting promoted NUFC might be the nearest club to the Harrogate area. Just saying. 

[Dr Gloom 23528]

36 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

 

 

£50m. Not a penny less 

[aimaad22 4655]

I can't think of worse goalkeeping performances I've seen for us than what Dubravka put out last season. Vlad is probably a big upgrade. Miggy to Saudi back on, things are looking good again.

 

While I agree Almiron has been a good servant for the club and gets undue stick at times from myself included (who doesn't on Twitter though) I've found it equally ridiculous the way some have defended him just because he's got a way of putting his head down and running like someone's stuck a firebrand up his arse. Wish him the best i.e. a massive pay day for him and his family

 

 

 

 

 

[trophyshy 7304]

I’m gutted we’ve sold Anderson.  I’m also annoyed that the board has allowed this to eventuate.  He’s not quite Gazza/Waddle/Beardsley but it smacks of that era.  The difference being back then we had to sell to stay afloat.  Now we have to sell to, essentially, keep the top table free of riff-raff.  
 

Fucking bollocks man.  

[Kid Dynamite 7594]

Apparently we slashed our asking price for Ashworth as we needed the extra cash to plug the rest of the PSR hole.
 

Sorry to keep banging this drum, but that's total mismanagement to get to June 30th and still have £60-70mil left to find. To the point you're having hawk one of your best players to a rival to help you out. I wouldn't put it past the FA to argue the toss about our valuations either. 

[Gemmill 49649]

They can't argue the toss. Those are arms length transactions with clubs that we have no affiliation with. They are, by definition, market value - in fact for Minteh we accepted less than Lyon offered us because the player didn't want to go there. 

 

And I completely disagree that it was mismanagement. They wanted to sell Anderson in January but he was injured. They tried to sell Miggy in January but he refused to go. Think something similar happened with Wilson. 

 

In the end, they sold two peripheral players and got £8m for a bloke who we were paying to sit around the house. He's now off the payroll now too. 

 

It all happened at the last minute because it was in the buying clubs' interests to make us wait til the last minute. Same reason a load of transfer window business happens on the last day, cos it's the point of maximum leverage. 

 

I honestly don't see the problem with it. We had a messy situation and we got out of it without any of our big stars going. Shame about Anderson but I suspect he was never going to be good enough for where we want to go. 

 

I don't know why there's so much fuss being kicked up about it. Fans on twitter saying "we need answers from the club". Answers to what? We had a PSR hole and we sorted it. There's your fucking answer. 

[Dr Gloom 23528]

Blame psr, not the clubs doing what they can to navigate this bullshit and avoid a points deduction. Hopefully this will be the end of it in its current form. It’s killing the game, along with VAR 

[Gemmill 49649]

Agreed. And btw the only way for us to not have got into this situation is by not buying the likes of Gordon, Isak and Tonali. In other words, by staying shit for a lot longer. 

 

I like the way they've done it better. And we'd have been hearing fucking plenty from the twitter experts if transfer window after transfer window had gone by without us buying anyone of note. I'm sure they'd have wanted "answers from the club" for that scenario too. 

[Holden McGroin 7508]

16 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

They can't argue the toss. Those are arms length transactions with clubs that we have no affiliation with. They are, by definition, market value - in fact for Minteh we accepted less than Lyon offered us because the player didn't want to go there. 

 

And I completely disagree that it was mismanagement. They wanted to sell Anderson in January but he was injured. They tried to sell Miggy in January but he refused to go. Think something similar happened with Wilson. 

 

In the end, they sold two peripheral players and got £8m for a bloke who we were paying to sit around the house. He's now off the payroll now too. 

 

It all happened at the last minute because it was in the buying clubs' interests to make us wait til the last minute. Same reason a load of transfer window business happens on the last day, cos it's the point of maximum leverage. 

 

I honestly don't see the problem with it. We had a messy situation and we got out of it without any of our big stars going. Shame about Anderson but I suspect he was never going to be good enough for where we want to go. 

 

I don't know why there's so much fuss being kicked up about it. Fans on twitter saying "we need answers from the club". Answers to what? We had a PSR hole and we sorted it. There's your fucking answer. 

Good post. I’m sure we tried our utmost to sell the unwanted first (Almirón, Wilson, Trippier, Targett, Hayden, Lewis etc etc) but in the end we had no choice but to sell two young prospects. 
 

It doesn’t really matter when it got done, just that it did. 

[Gemmill 49649]

2 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

Good post. I’m sure we tried our utmost to sell the unwanted first (Almirón, Wilson, Trippier, Targett, Hayden, Lewis etc etc) but in the end we had no choice but to sell two young prospects. 
 

It doesn’t really matter when it got done, just that it did. 

 

The Gordon stuff is regrettable, but even that I think was necessary as a last resort. 

 

As it turned out though, I actually think they've done a pretty excellent job of getting us out of the situation with minimal impact to the first team squad. 

[Isegrim 10321]

18 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

They can't argue the toss. Those are arms length transactions with clubs that we have no affiliation with. They are, by definition, market value - in fact for Minteh we accepted less than Lyon offered us because the player didn't want to go there. 

 

And I completely disagree that it was mismanagement. They wanted to sell Anderson in January but he was injured. They tried to sell Miggy in January but he refused to go. Think something similar happened with Wilson. 

 

In the end, they sold two peripheral players and got £8m for a bloke who we were paying to sit around the house. He's now off the payroll now too. 

 

It all happened at the last minute because it was in the buying clubs' interests to make us wait til the last minute. Same reason a load of transfer window business happens on the last day, cos it's the point of maximum leverage. 

 

I honestly don't see the problem with it. We had a messy situation and we got out of it without any of our big stars going. Shame about Anderson but I suspect he was never going to be good enough for where we want to go. 

 

I don't know why there's so much fuss being kicked up about it. Fans on twitter saying "we need answers from the club". Answers to what? We had a PSR hole and we sorted it. There's your fucking answer. 

“Planning”

I do agree that there are circumstances that lead to our desperation that were out of our hands. But I do still think that a club should be better prepared for a scenario like this.

 

But it does also prove that we really spent all we had in recent transfer windows when fans were moaning about our lack of activity.

 

The English system is really nonsense and not fit for purpose but won’t change as long as there is a block of clubs who can’t allow a level playing field.

[Holden McGroin 7508]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

 

The Gordon stuff is regrettable, but even that I think was necessary as a last resort. 

 

As it turned out though, I actually think they've done a pretty excellent job of getting us out of the situation with minimal impact to the first team squad. 

£100m for Gordon wouldn’t have been the end of the world. He isn’t the same calibre as Bruno and Isak. 

[Gemmill 49649]

1 minute ago, Isegrim said:

“Planning”

I do agree that there are circumstances that lead to our desperation that were out of our hands. But I do still think that a club should be better prepared for a scenario like this.

 

But it does also prove that we really spent all we had in recent transfer windows when fans were moaning about our lack of activity.

 

The English system is really nonsense and not fit for purpose but won’t change as long as there is a block of clubs who can’t allow a level playing field.

 

Can you explain what you would have done differently, bearing in mind they had tried to make the sales in earlier windows? 

[aimaad22 4655]

I'm pretty happy with how its been handled eventually. It's the ultra panic mode we seemed to be on for a couple of days what worried me, we're not used to the club acting like that anymore.

[aimaad22 4655]

6 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

£100m for Gordon wouldn’t have been the end of the world. He isn’t the same calibre as Bruno and Isak. 

 

He's 3-4 years younger than them, and you could argue his contributions were more important last season. He was central to everything good we did going forward, that ability to drive at defences relentlessly with quality end product is near priceless. And he's going to get so much better. If we'd sold him that would have been a massive slap in the face to whatever ambition we have.  

 

I think he's underrated because he doesn't usually try the flicks and tricks the likes of Palmer and Saka do, but he does so many other things as well or better than them. Southgate apparently doesn't get it either.

[wykikitoon 22681]

Several people on Twitter (I know) say we never touted Gordon.