Matt1892

Good luck to him and I hope he finds his place at Forest.

Is that including Lewis Hall or as well as?

Talks of both of them at one stage.

Do we have to go through the drawn out process of fair market value sign off with selling him to Saudi?

You would think that if we didn’t have such a short deadline that the club would have looked to move Almiron and Murphy on, then having Minteh plus an experienced player on the right.

The Swiss Ramble believed we needed £40 million, but that was a guess looking at previous years figures. Even if it was £30 million and we sell Minteh for £33 million, we still have to knock off £5.6 million of that for what we owe on him through the books, so would still be slightly short. I don’t know if his former club has a sell on clause either.

Do people really believe the club put out stories of Gordon being offered about to soften the blow of Minteh leaving?!😂 Hopefully this is enough, Swiss Ramble’s guess was we needed £40 million in sales.

He will be one of Everton’s best paid players and would expect a pay rise to come here.

How much was it Swiss Ramble thought we might be over by?

The sharks are circling.

Anderson and Minteh for Elanga?! How much do we value him at?

I think the desperation is more to do with with timing regarding FFP, there are likely to be others we would prefer to get rid of before Anderson if we had time on our side to do it.

A figure of around £20 million I would guess.

This answers the question I asked the other day, that if we can demonstrate a pre agreement for one of our players with a Saudi club that goes through when their transfer window opens then would we receive a points deduction. This reads that we are unlikely to.

Elanga is a decent player but if he is being bought as our main RW signing then that is disappointing.

From Olise to Elanga.😂

Both will go through as individual transfers but will rely on both happening.

I am fully on board with gambling on success at the beginning of the season, you do need an exit strategy if that gamble doesn’t pay off though.

I don’t know if he would be sold for £40 million after this month but if he was then the club would be doing it due to believing it is a good price and us having a plan, rather than out of necessity. Everyone has a price so it is possible, it depends on how much they rate him. Olise and Williams have buy out clauses so they would be leaving below their true value, a better comparison would be Kudus before coming to West Ham and Madueke to Chelsea that someone used as a comparison yesterday, similar profiles before coming to the Premier League.

If the club are facing breaching FFP and Minteh is the player attracting interest then he has to be sold. However, it is understandable people not being happy about it. We are not selling him because we don’t think he has ability, we are selling him because the club has been poorly managed financially and we could be looking at a points deduction if we don’t.

Gordon isn’t being pigeon holed, his strongest position is clearly on the left as it allows him to cut in on his right and create space for the left back overlap. That doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of playing on the right but many players are capable of playing in multiple positions, they are not pigeon holed by playing in their best position though. I thought Gordon was originally bought to replace ASM, as Joelinton was playing well out there and had formed a good partnership with Willock as the left sided midfielder, so I was surprised when we were prepared to invest more in the left side with Barnes whilst maintaining Almiron and Murphy down the right. Hopefully that side gets rectified this summer.

I think it would be different with Anderson, as he has had 2 years with the first team making 50 appearances, what with Joelinton and Willock being ahead of him.

Were any of them bought or were they all academy players?