Summer Transfer thread - 2024

[Matt1882]

Them rules are friggin silly IMHO.

Should just be English vs foreign import. Period.

Instead, they should look at all them South Americans getting Italian, Spanish or Portuguese passports faster than a 15yo virgin splash his load on a titty mag. Friggin joke.

The issue is that players can play for the country they play in if they live there long enough and don't have caps from their home country.
So let's say Sarr had never had a call up, in a few years he could qualify as English and play for England. In order to account for that eventuality, you have to define what homegrown is.
And you could easily argue a player who has come up through a clubs academy is homegrown regardless of where they're from.
The only alternative is to have dual homegrown status. Where you're from and where you're at.

 

[Brian Fantana]

I can only speak on my behalf, but I don’t think people are falling for it.

It’s just good fun. Transfer speculation is a hoot. We get to throw names around, laugh about things and speculate.

I’d suggest the ones that get uptight about it are taking things a little too seriously.

Yeah you're probably right. On here. On Twitter it is all taken as gospel.

 

[Brian Fantana]

I don't know what's worse anymore. The level of delusion from the liar "ITK's" or the level of insanity from the "norms" who lap it up so fervently. Every single window. Despite all the shit they get wrong.

The people on that forum are a very strange lot. More post from their mother's basement than on here for sure.

 

[Jaynola]

Got a bull finish the other night too....
Been playing darts for years tbf, have the odd trophy......even have the beer belly to go with it!......☹
Keep it up anyway......

I've just started, got me one of them sweet electronic board with several game modes. Proper sucked for weeks, couldn't hit shit...but darts starting to land where I meant. Few 20s, few bulls, the odd 60 or more pts round.

Friggin addictive that thing.

 

[Matt1882]

If you want to pay for the upkeep of the site then fair play but to pay for ITK? You have to be a special type of idiot.

Most of them saying they have paid are probably in on it.

The upkeep is nowhere near as expensive as they make out. The right way to make money to pay for the upkeep is to charge users a nominal fee for some extra content. They currently have 919 members online from a quick look.
If they charged them £1 a year to access a part of the forum, that would easily pay for the forum upkeep outside of any ad revenue it could generate.

 

[Shadydan]

We don't need to ban BS links and reports, we need to learn to ignore them

 

[FOK]

Seems a few PL teams want Rodon - Southampton, Leicester, wolves.

Might make it harder to do a Gray deal unless Rodon is keen to go back to Leeds rather than playing the pl?

 

[Ionman34]

Thinking of Udogie, VDV, Vicario and Dragusin - none of whom I'd heard of until we were linked with them, I'm wondering which hidden gems we might be bringing in. They don't have to cost stupid money to make a big difference.

Now try thinking about it after putting a knotted hankie on your head, a la Monty Python.

I tried it myself and this is what I got;

SPEND BIG.
GIV ME NOO SHINEE!

Make sure there is someone else in the room to take the hankie off your head, as you'll be too stupid to remember to take it off yourself.

 

[FOK]

Bingo!!!

Classic JT post!

Great stuff. What do I win?

 

[Jaynola]

Openda
Williams or Simons
Gibbs-White or Eze
Gray
Geertruida
new backup goalie

On paper, that'd be a very strong window, defo a show of ambition.

Not being pessimistic for the sake of it, but I just can't see it happen. Openda is at least 60-70 mil, as much if not more for Williams/Xavi, reckon MGW would cost round 40 and Eze gotta be 60 with all the talk. Leeds know what they got with the kid do it'd be no less than 30 + bonuses. Geertruida is another 40.

Absolutely zero chance our beloved jeffe spends 200 or so mil this summer, especially after signing off on a massive pay packet for the best winger in the world. Heck, we could sell Porro & Cuti to Real for a combined 120 mil and it still ain't happening.

Reckon we'll overpay for Eze and probably will do the Leeds lad for a ridiculous amount (so anything over 20mil), but the rest will be punts like Morata on loan and some C-list defender out of nowhere.

 

[Richard Arlison]

Why ban it?
It's part of the fun of TW discussions to read plain stupid and/or outrageous transfer rumous and the consequently over-reactions by certain people...

Fair point.

 

[Richard Arlison]

On paper, that'd be a very strong window, defo a show of ambition.

Not being pessimistic for the sake of it, but I just can't see it happen. Openda is at least 60-70 mil, as much if not more for Williams/Xavi, reckon MGW would cost round 40 and Eze gotta be 60 with all the talk. Leeds know what they got with the kid do it'd be no less than 30 + bonuses. Geertruida is another 40.

Absolutely zero chance our beloved jeffe spends 200 or so mil this summer, especially after signing off on a massive pay packet for the best winger in the world. Heck, we could sell Porro & Cuti to Real for a combined 120 mil and it still ain't happening.

Reckon we'll overpay for Eze and probably will do the Leeds lad for a ridiculous amount (so anything over 20mil), but the rest will be punts like Morata on loan and some C-list defender out of nowhere.

Based on our history under Levy I have exactly the same expectations as you mate.

Which is why I was trying to clarify it for cretinousgoat

When people ask what I'd like to see when I say the owners don't want to invest to win, it's easy to get bogged down with that debate.

Examples make it easier. There are plenty of links out there that are just obviously lower budget versions of the better players in the positions/roles it looks like we need to invest.

 

[Richard Arlison]

Seems a few PL teams want Rodon - Southampton, Leicester, wolves.

Might make it harder to do a Gray deal unless Rodon is keen to go back to Leeds rather than playing the pl?

Leeds want Skipp apparently

 

[dudu]

Based on our history under Levy I have exactly the same expectations as you mate.

Which is why I was trying to clarify it for cretinousgoat

When people ask what I'd like to see when I say the owners don't want to invest to win, it's easy to get bogged down with that debate.

Examples make it easier. There are plenty of links out there that are just obviously lower budget versions of the better players in the positions/roles it looks like we need to invest.

But we have also been linked to the more expensive players too.

Either you believe all the links or none of them. You can't just cherry picks the links you don't like and make that what you're basing your opinion on.

Time, as always will tell.

 

[John Thomas]

 

[Matt1882]

Seems a few PL teams want Rodon - Southampton, Leicester, wolves.

Might make it harder to do a Gray deal unless Rodon is keen to go back to Leeds rather than playing the pl?

Get more money from a PL team for Rodon and pass it on to Leeds for Gray if that's what it takes.
It shouldn't make any difference to them if they're gonna have to lose Gray either way

 

[SuperHansForPM]

Of all the things you could have done when your parents were away

To be fair it was movies alongside soggy biscuit.

 

[Richard Arlison]

But we have also been linked to the more expensive players too.

Either you believe all the links or none of them. You can't just cherry picks the links you don't like and make that what you're basing your opinion on.

Time, as always will tell.

Eh?

My post was based off every link and which ones are more likely to happen considering the clubs economic model.

 

[John Thomas]

If Ange wants something different to you including a cheaper option then that's not backing the manager, that's placating yourselves.

Ha ha ha... ha ha ha......ha ha!

If we get a cheaper option it must be because Ange preferred it.



Oh my fuckin' days .

This is brilliant!

 

[dudu]

Eh?

My post was based off every link and which ones are more likely to happen considering the clubs economic model.

But our current economic model is not what you are making it out to be -

We spent 60 mil on a backup striker just 2 years ago