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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Yes.
Cause there is inherent value of having exclusively players 17-25.
It automatically makes the side better (and 30yo players inherently worse) right?

Fucksake.

We also need a player that can close down the channels and win back the ball.
Not all of our midfielders have to have Maddisson passing range/creativity.

Palinha would be an amazing signing, most proven and high quality than literally any of the alternative.

Meh
 
Anything online now will be pure speculation (as always).

On one hand, it would make sense not to travel if his wife is pregnant and high risk. On the other hand he is an elite athlete and it’s pre-season - not many players take time off or stop travelling in such circumstances. Many have missed their children’s birth in fact.

Also, it’s only Portugal. With access to private jets, he’d only be 3 hours or so away if anything signalled an emergency.

His partner’s post indicated she’d been for a check up. Given she only has a small bump, the birth must be a good number of weeks away.

I doubt he’d be given time off from work unless something worrying has happened. Her post doesn’t indicate this.

There you go, more speculation!
 
So bored of this MGW shit now. It was a really nice and welcome suprise when we moved for him a couple of weeks ago, and now it's just dragged on and it really doesn't look like he's coming here.

What I am more worried about, is how quiet it is on other targets.

All our rivals doing huge business, we are nearly in August now and we've signed one player after finishing 17th.

It's fucking shocking it really is. Same old shite under ENIC.
 
So bored of this MGW shit now. It was a really nice and welcome suprise when we moved for him a couple of weeks ago, and now it's just dragged on and it really doesn't look like he's coming here.

What I am more worried about, is how quiet it is on other targets.

All our rivals doing huge business, we are nearly in August now and we've signed one player after finishing 17th.

It's fucking shocking it really is. Same old shite under ENIC.
the silence on other fronts is what makes me think the mgw thing is still active.
 
I think we're getting sidetracked. I'm not saying 'we' broke the confidentiality clause or any other agreement. I'm saying that, if it's true the clause was an oddly specific number, and if it's true we bid exactly that number, then we revealed that either MWG or his agent broke confidentiality and that gave Forest grounds to reject the offer. And, by extension, if we knew the clause was confidential, it was a rookie error to offer that exact amount, since we should have anticipated the potential consequences.

The caveat to your original post and my replies is, of course, that none of us really knows, so it's all speculation.

Forest don't have grounds to reject the offer though nor should we be dealing with any consequences as we have done nothing wrong, for all we know had we offered say £100k over the amount then they'd still be acting up.

They're just salty they didn't do their due diligence and have been trying to get rid of this release clause from his contract for a year and didn't expect anyone to his the clause.
 
So bored of this MGW shit now. It was a really nice and welcome suprise when we moved for him a couple of weeks ago, and now it's just dragged on and it really doesn't look like he's coming here.

What I am more worried about, is how quiet it is on other targets.

All our rivals doing huge business, we are nearly in August now and we've signed one player after finishing 17th.

It's fucking shocking it really is. Same old shite under ENIC.

Why does it look like he's not coming here? What changed?
 
Forest don't have grounds to reject the offer though nor should we be dealing with any consequences as we have done nothing wrong, for all we know had we offered say £100k over the amount then they'd still be acting up.

They're just salty they didn't do their due diligence and have been trying to get rid of this release clause from his contract for a year and didn't expect anyone to his the clause.

I think we'll discover if this is true in due course.
 
Honestly the silence ought to be taken as a positive sign that we're finally sorting things out behind the scenes and stoping the leaks. How many of our recent transfers were leaked in advance? Yes it's frustrating as we all want signings to happen, but I'd rather the whole world didn't know our business before we've got it locked down.
 
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