Transfers, 2024-25 season

[thebrokendoll 10241]

3 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

People who seem to know their football stuff very well, insist that we have two first class operators in Eales and Mitchell. 

 

I heard you were stood at front of the stage holding your cigarette lighter aloft when he was singing at the stack the other week.

[Gemmill 49834]

It's all the lads down south who are getting hysterical about this. Too much smashed avo on toast, I reckon. 

[Christmas Tree 5103]

3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Waiting for point number 2 though. 

This is coming from a lazy soak in the bath. I was rushing to try and get the forum caught up so I could get some Pornhub in while the house is empty.

 

Have that mental imagery with your cornflakes  

[Gemmill 49834]

Just now, Christmas Tree said:

This is coming from a lazy soak in the bath. I was rushing to try and get the forum caught up so I could get some Pornhub in while the house is empty.

 

Have that mental imagery with your cornflakes  

 

 oh god, you lying spent with webs of poached spunk floating all around you. Dear me. 

 

[Toonpack 11343]

1 minute ago, Christmas Tree said:

This is coming from a lazy soak in the bath. I was rushing to try and get the forum caught up so I could get some Pornhub in while the house is empty.

 

Have that mental imagery with your cornflakes  

 

Be warned. from Billy Connolly's autobiography, one of his mates died having a wank in the bath - just sayin'.

[Holden McGroin 7562]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

It's all the lads down south who are getting hysterical about this. Too much smashed avo on toast, I reckon. 

 

You don’t have smashed avo without chilli flakes on a fresh sourdough.  Peasant

[Holden McGroin 7562]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

 

 oh god, you lying spent with webs of poached spunk floating all around you. Dear me. 

 

i believe the term is “pearl diving”

[Toonpack 11343]

Just now, Holden McGroin said:

 

You don’t have smashed avo without two poached eggs and hollandaise on a fresh toasted sourdough.  Peasant

 FYP

[Gemmill 49834]

2 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

 

You don’t have smashed avo without chilli flakes on a fresh sourdough.  Peasant

 

 

 

Please don't lecture the fabulous baker boy about fresh sourdough. I invented fresh sourdough. 

 

[Christmas Tree 5103]

5 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

Be warned. from Billy Connolly's autobiography, one of his mates died having a wank in the bath - just sayin'.

Theres worse ways to go  

[The Fish 11313]

Yeah too many have seen the sensationalised accounts first and (justifiably given the clubs last 20yrs) leapt to the worst case scenario. My read is that the way we were doing things is unsustainable. Either we massively grow our commercial revenue streams so we can afford to buy expensive players and just swallow the cost, or we recruit players before they hit the heights and develop them ourselves, either to use or sell. Or do both at the same time. 

 

The issue isn't just recruiting new players for a reasonable price, it's offloading old players without throwing money down the hole. Fraser, Lewis, Hendrick, Hayden, Almiron, Krafth, Lascelles, all of these players would be moved on for decent money if their analogues were at a "Big 6" club. Man Utd helped fund their recruitment by selling off Brown, Kleberson, Djemba Djemba for real cash money, chiefly due to the aura of being a "Man Utd player". 

 

Is The Fish saying we need more Minteh's and fewer Frasers? Yeah, we do.

[ewerk 33151]

5 minutes ago, The Fish said:

Man Utd helped fund their recruitment by selling off Brown, Kleberson, Djemba Djemba for real cash money, chiefly due to the aura of being a "Man Utd player". 

 

 

All sold for a combined £5.5m. You may want to find some better examples.

[The Fish 11313]

4 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

All sold for a combined £5.5m. You may want to find some better examples.

I'll need you to look at what they paid for them, look what they sold them for, adjust it for football inflation, and then I'm going to need you to get the hell off my fucking back.

[Howmanheyman 36524]

Him saying we need to be better at selling is fair enough until you look at what we want to sell, what contract they're on and the chances of selling them, (especially now under PSR) being slim to none. If he wants to point the finger for that then it has to go back to the Ashley regime. Or is he saying we should've bought players in under the level of Bruno etc to let them grow before selling? The long-term aim of development is the way to go but if you can't sell the shite then you have to grow the income till the development takes shape and the shite eventually leaves through not renewing their contracts. Or we sell a diamond with a potential diamond already in place when the polished diamond is sold. Absolutely nobody wants the likes of isak to go so either they up their game on the income front or they get selling the stars. 

[zico martin 101]

44 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

All sold for a combined £5.5m. You may want to find some better examples.

 

Isn't getting them off the wage bill the major factor here though?

[ewerk 33151]

2 minutes ago, zico martin said:

 

Isn't getting them off the wage bill the major factor here though?

 

Absolutely. We couldn't give them away with the money they're on.

[Toonpack 11343]

Call the joiner, Fish needs help

[PaddockLad 18985]

I’ve now read the Atlantic article and the way they’ve interpreted what Mitchell says gives the foul stench of a jonnie come lately patronisingly schooling the incumbent staff, whilst thinking that he’s smoothing things over. I know this because I’ve both done it and been on the receiving end of that sort of bullshit. Trust me, I’m an expert on this ☺️

[ewerk 33151]

13 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I’ve now read the Atlantic article and the way they’ve interpreted what Mitchell says gives the foul stench of a jonnie come lately patronisingly schooling the incumbent staff, whilst thinking that he’s smoothing things over. I know this because I’ve both done it and been on the receiving end of that sort of bullshit. Trust me, I’m an expert on this ☺️

 

An outsider's view.

 

 

[The Fish 11313]

1 hour ago, Howmanheyman said:

Him saying we need to be better at selling is fair enough until you look at what we want to sell, what contract they're on and the chances of selling them, (especially now under PSR) being slim to none. If he wants to point the finger for that then it has to go back to the Ashley regime. Or is he saying we should've bought players in under the level of Bruno etc to let them grow before selling? The long-term aim of development is the way to go but if you can't sell the shite then you have to grow the income till the development takes shape and the shite eventually leaves through not renewing their contracts. Or we sell a diamond with a potential diamond already in place when the polished diamond is sold. Absolutely nobody wants the likes of isak to go so either they up their game on the income front or they get selling the stars. 

 

Well, they are getting more income, but that'll take time. And these stars you speak of? Who exactly could we sell and make good money on? We've tried offloading Almiron in two separate windows, no joy. 

[Howmanheyman 36524]

2 minutes ago, The Fish said:

 

Well, they are getting more income, but that'll take time. And these stars you speak of? Who exactly could we sell and make good money on? We've tried offloading Almiron in two separate windows, no joy. 

 

Almiron is one of the people we can't sell from the Ashley regime. The stars we could sell at a profit would be Bruno, Isak or Gordon. I'd add Botman to that but that's now a wait and see as it's a bad injury which has been unnecessarily aggravated. Do I want to sell the crown jewels? Of course not.

[Gemmill 49834]

2 minutes ago, LongTimeAdmirer said:

Sounds like Mitchell is going to hoover up a whole bunch of 18 year old wonderkids with the 70mil instead, great news for the Official Loan watch Thread™. 

 

"Look at all this extra work I won't do". 

 

Unbelievable. 

[Alex 36695]

3 hours ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

chris waugh was lee ryder's underling.

nowt more needs saying.

Craig Hope was KD’s

Ditto

[thebrokendoll 10241]

14 minutes ago, Alex said:

Craig Hope was KD’s

Ditto

 

Kid Dynamite??

[PaddockLad 18985]

Just now, thebrokendoll said:

 

Kid Dynamite??

I was hoping it was a typo