Other clubs' transfers

[gbandit]

Not seen him play at all, is he any good? Seems a solid fee to pay unless he’s quality 

[leffe186]

41 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Not seen him play at all, is he any good? Seems a solid fee to pay unless he’s quality 

They’ll only actually pay it if he’s quality tbf.

[54]

Miggys not worth £10m though.

[Interpolic]

8 minutes ago, 54 said:

Miggys not worth £10m though.

 

I like that, I'll have a go. 

 

Benrahma being linked with Brentford and others. A year and a half younger than Miggy, but has less Premier League pedigree and hasn't recently helped his side into the UCL either. Has barely played this season. Rumoured £20m fee. 

 

Miggy's not worth £10m though. 

[Bizza]

 

What the fuck  

[Unbelievable]

[brummie]

This story is bat shit mental.

 

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/15/chelsea-transfer-news-aston-villa-star-jhon-duran-becomes-target-20117751/

 

Chelsea want to borrow our (clearly not yet good enough to be) second choice striker?

 

He's promising but very young and really not ready to get much game time with us, so no idea why Chelsea think he might do for them. Or that we'd lend them him.

[leffe186]

1 hour ago, brummie said:

This story is bat shit mental.

 

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/15/chelsea-transfer-news-aston-villa-star-jhon-duran-becomes-target-20117751/

 

Chelsea want to borrow our (clearly not yet good enough to be) second choice striker?

 

He's promising but very young and really not ready to get much game time with us, so no idea why Chelsea think he might do for them. Or that we'd lend them him.

It’s the Metro

 

On further inspection, it’s based on a “report” - a tweet from a Chelsea guy called Nathan Gissing who might write for Di Marzio but who definitely writes for Chelsea. So it’s par for the course. 

[TheBrownBottle]

On 13/01/2024 at 07:11, SUPERTOON said:

Same as we got for ASM

We’d have got more if someone was willing to pay it

[Danh1]

Remember when the transfer window (not for us like :lol:) used to be quite entertaining? Just seems utterly pointless nowadays. 

[brummie]

4 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Remember when the transfer window (not for us like :lol:) used to be quite entertaining? Just seems utterly pointless nowadays. 

 

It has got harder and harder to do anything at all in January, it's all very much an anti-climax these days.

 

I remember 2007 when we signed Ashley Young and John Carew in the same January window. These days it's all about maybe a promising kid from somewhere or a loan.

 

Although having said that, we bought Alex Moreno in Jan last year and he's worked out really well, so maybe I am being pessimistic.

[leffe186]

5 minutes ago, brummie said:

 

It has got harder and harder to do anything at all in January, it's all very much an anti-climax these days.

 

I remember 2007 when we signed Ashley Young and John Carew in the same January window. These days it's all about maybe a promising kid from somewhere or a loan.

 

Although having said that, we bought Alex Moreno in Jan last year and he's worked out really well, so maybe I am being pessimistic.

All circumstantial isn’t it? Our Jan windows this year and two years ago are and were mint. This Jan it looks like most of the big clubs with obvious issues don’t have the FFP room to splurge.

 

Our last two Jan windows have turned out amazing but didn’t seem so at the time. This window seems amazing for us but might turn out to be the opposite.
 

Jan does seem to mainly be loan or loan-to-buy deals and getting rid of deadwood - which often amounts to the same thing. Look at 2022. Juve give us two players they didn’t want, we get rid of players we don’t want (Dele Alli, Ndombele etc). Villa pick up Coutinho. Arsenal get rid of PEA. There’s always one or two big transfers though - 2022 had Bruno Guimaraes and Luis Diaz among others. I still think the end of the window will be busy.

[The College Dropout]

On 12/01/2024 at 21:15, Interpolic said:

 

I like that, I'll have a go. 

 

Benrahma being linked with Brentford and others. A year and a half younger than Miggy, but has less Premier League pedigree and hasn't recently helped his side into the UCL either. Has barely played this season. Rumoured £20m fee. 

 

Miggy's not worth £10m though. 

Benrahma is a more talented footballer than Almiron. He's worth £10-20m for a relegated PL side looking to bounce straight back-up. He scored a  lot of goals in the Championship and was a standout player. He's good enough to do v. well in Portugal or Turkey somewhere. He has a similar amount of goals and assists at West Ham as Almiron has for us in considerably fewer minutes.

 

Benrahma has that skilful style of play that goes for a premium. Miguel Almiron doesn't.

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Remember when we signed all those french players for like £10. 

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

1 hour ago, brummie said:

 

It has got harder and harder to do anything at all in January, it's all very much an anti-climax these days.

 

I remember 2007 when we signed Ashley Young and John Carew in the same January window. These days it's all about maybe a promising kid from somewhere or a loan.

 

Although having said that, we bought Alex Moreno in Jan last year and he's worked out really well, so maybe I am being pessimistic.

People going on about ffp and how restrictive it is, I’m personally amazed the whole window system hasn’t been scrapped tbh. Not just because of the situations it potentially leaves clubs in, but also restricting the options of players frozen out by managers etc too. I’m not sure who it serves other than the person who sells Jim White a yellow tie every six months

[leffe186]

3 hours ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

People going on about ffp and how restrictive it is, I’m personally amazed the whole window system hasn’t been scrapped tbh. Not just because of the situations it potentially leaves clubs in, but also restricting the options of players frozen out by managers etc too. I’m not sure who it serves other than the person who sells Jim White a yellow tie every six months

It serves all the non-cartel or lower division teams and fans by preventing wealthier clubs unsettling and/or taking their best players at any point during the season. It serves fringe squad players and youth development by making clubs give them opportunities when players are injured rather than just going out and buying a player.

 

It’s definitely worth discussing, because you could argue that a lower division club in financial trouble in, say, March can‘t sell players to make ends meet. You could argue that that’s a bad thing too. Just…every window somebody says  “I don’t know why we do this” and every window we have to say the same thing. 

[Kanj]

4 hours ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said:

Remember when we signed all those french players for like £10. 

was like a matter of days too. lol. 

[joeyt]

Reguillon joining Brentford on loan

[sempuki]

Toney wants out. Hope that unlikely sell-on clause we supposedly have is correct. Not much loyalty to Brentford but not surprising. 

[Nine]

 

[gbandit]

Don’t have a lot of respect for him, poor loyalty really. I know everyone’s out for themselves and he doesn’t owe his career to Brentford but feels a bit cheap basically coming out with a “come get me” plea at the absolute first opportunity 

[Nine]

Just now, gbandit said:

Don’t have a lot of respect for him, poor loyalty really. I know everyone’s out for themselves and he doesn’t owe his career to Brentford but feels a bit cheap basically coming out with a “come get me” plea at the absolute first opportunity 

Never been convinced of his character either, huge ego there I think.

[gbandit]

Just now, Nine said:

Never been convinced of his character either, huge ego there I think.

aye, just imagine if he’d been with us and had come back from a ban and we were still owned by Ashley and he was basically saying he wanted out as soon as possible. We’d fucking hate the lad and that’s before all the “fuck Brentford” stuff

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

1 hour ago, sempuki said:

Toney wants out. Hope that unlikely sell-on clause we supposedly have is correct. Not much loyalty to Brentford but not surprising. 

Seen some quotes that we get 30% of the sell on fee that goes to Peterborough as that was part of how they got him from us for such a relatively low fee.

Explains it here apparently

 

https://onefootball.com/en/news/ivan-toney-sale-made-public-what-newcastle-united-share-of-transfer-fee-will-be-ifwhen-sold-38891137

[Decky]

Complete piece of shit tbh.  I didn't expect him to stay long term but at least stay until the end of the season and try and keep Brentford in the PL, as a reward for them paying your wages while you sat about doing fuck all. Honestly, imagine Tonali's ban expires next August and the first thing he does is ask for a transfer.