NUFC Transfer Rumours

[SteV]

23 minutes ago, Ellis H said:

Brighton, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Tottenham have all strengthened in some way. 

Who have Spurs signed?

[Ben]

Do you think we are at the stage where we send Yasir Al-Rumayyans wife a bunch of flowers ?

[KennyUtd]

2 minutes ago, SteV said:

Who have Spurs signed?

Thomas Frank. That's a massive upgrade on last season.

[Ellis H]

2 minutes ago, SteV said:

Who have Spurs signed?

They’ve signed a couple but I meant the new manager. 

[Theregulars]

19 minutes ago, LFEE said:

You’ve just named the teams with all the PSR headroom. Everyone else is quiet.

I think people's point is that surely we now have PSR headroom?! We've been inactive for 2 years. We have been told by Eddie that we have PSR headroom. 

 

The squad is badly under-prepared for the campaign ahead, and the campaign starts on July 7th. 

[SUPERTOON]

8 minutes ago, SteV said:

Who have Spurs signed?

That Tel permanent, no one new I don’t think.

[Whitley mag]

Don’t think there’s any need to panic providing they’ve done their scouting and have a few targets in each position lined up.

 

The age of the squad needs bringing down so hopefully some exciting young players who’ve not yet been leaked in press.

 

No way can we enter next season without at least 4 additions who can challenge for 1st team places and ideally 5 including a midfielder.

[SteV]

5 minutes ago, Ellis H said:

They’ve signed a couple but I meant the new manager. 

Not sure upgrading our manager is actually possible.

[LFEE]

5 minutes ago, Theregulars said:

I think people's point is that surely we now have PSR headroom?! We've been inactive for 2 years. We have been told by Eddie that we have PSR headroom. 

 

The squad is badly under-prepared for the campaign ahead, and the campaign starts on July 7th. 

We’ve some but can’t overspend to get all our targets.

 

If you’ve only £4 and you need 3 apples and they are £2 each because in season and it’s a busy start of the day with lots of shoppers out who have £6 and more. You need for their price to drop at the end of the day hoping their will be three unbruised apples left or just buy two apples knowing ultimately that’s insufficient.

[Theregulars]

2 minutes ago, LFEE said:

We’ve some but can’t overspend to get all our targets.

 

If you’ve only £4 and you need 3 apples and they are £2 each because in season and it’s a busy start of the day with lots of shoppers out who have £6 and more. You need for their price to drop at the end of the day hoping their will be three unbruised apples left or just buy two apples knowing ultimately that’s insufficient.

I’m not sure the comparison works, it’s too simple.

 

The club has had a long time to identify targets and to do the research necessary to consider whether they’d be interested in joining and at what wages, and it has been open to the club to ask agents about asking prices. As soon as an expensive target (apple) is off the table, you move to the next one. You don’t really need that degree of research, discussion and strategy about your apples. You also don’t buy apples to complement the pre-existing set of apples you already have at home, you normally buy them because you want / need new apples. 
 

Im ok with price haggling at this stage but my concern is that it continues so far into pre season that we’re deprived of the impact of new players in the squad because it takes Howe a while to trust and involve new players. 
 

It doesn’t help that we’re seeing a second consecutive summer of boardroom uncertainty and confusion as to who is in charge of getting players through the door. Coupled with what seems to me to be a bit of drift (eales still in post, Mitchell still in post where doesn’t appear to be a reason for it, no replacements for star key and ghodoussi) at boardroom level and there’s plenty room for chin scratching now.

[Miggys First Goal]

18 minutes ago, LFEE said:

You need for their price to drop at the end of the day

So Friday 3pm?

[JUICE690]

20 minutes ago, LFEE said:

We’ve some but can’t overspend to get all our targets.

 

If you’ve only £4 and you need 3 apples and they are £2 each because in season and it’s a busy start of the day with lots of shoppers out who have £6 and more. You need for their price to drop at the end of the day hoping their will be three unbruised apples left or just buy two apples knowing ultimately that’s insufficient.

How much are your pears?

[KaKa]

13 minutes ago, Theregulars said:

I’m not sure the comparison works, it’s too simple.

 

The club has had a long time to identify targets and to do the research necessary to consider whether they’d be interested in joining and at what wages, and it has been open to the club to ask agents about asking prices. As soon as an expensive target (apple) is off the table, you move to the next one. You don’t really need that degree of research, discussion and strategy about your apples. You also don’t buy apples to complement the pre-existing set of apples you already have at home, you normally buy them because you want / need new apples. 
 

Im ok with price haggling at this stage but my concern is that it continues so far into pre season that we’re deprived of the impact of new players in the squad because it takes Howe a while to trust and involve new players. 
 

It doesn’t help that we’re seeing a second consecutive summer of boardroom uncertainty and confusion as to who is in charge of getting players through the door. Coupled with what seems to me to be a bit of drift (eales still in post, Mitchell still in post where doesn’t appear to be a reason for it, no replacements for star key and ghodoussi) at boardroom level and there’s plenty room for chin scratching now.

 

Howe now has the people he trusts the most in charge of transfer negotiations.

 

It will be up to him to let them know when to pivot to other options, if things are at a point of no return.

 

I think it will be fine.

[wong989]

3 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Howe now has the people he trusts the most in charge of transfer negotiations.

 

It will be up to him to let them know when to pivot to other options, if things are at a point of no return.

 

I think it will be fine.

I don’t, we stayed on Guehi when other clubs signed better/near as good centre backs for half price or less. Seems we don’t have near broad enough scouting or place too much weight on whether they’ve played premiership football. Love Eddie but if any aspect of his management is open to question it’s transfers…arguments to be made either way, but modern Bournemouth are spending money far more effectively than Howe Bournemouth 

[Theregulars]

9 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Howe now has the people he trusts the most in charge of transfer negotiations.

 

It will be up to him to let them know when to pivot to other options, if things are at a point of no return.

 

I think it will be fine.

Ultimately I think and hope you are right. I accept that they may be waiting for prices to come down, but I also accept the clock ticks each day

[kingxlnc]

I can see us getting Xavi Simons 

[KaKa]

3 minutes ago, wong989 said:

I don’t, we stayed on Guehi when other clubs signed better/near as good centre backs for half price or less. Seems we don’t have near broad enough scouting or place too much weight on whether they’ve played premiership football. Love Eddie but if any aspect of his management is open to question it’s transfers…arguments to be made either way, but modern Bournemouth are spending money far more effectively than Howe Bournemouth 

 

Okay. We'll catch up at the end of the window.

[KaKa]

Just now, kingxlnc said:

I can see us getting Xavi Simons 

 

I think he's on our list.

 

We were linked last summer as Romano mentioned we enquired.

 

Think not being in the Champions League then, lessened our chances.

[Mikky]

55 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

That Tel permanent, no one new I don’t think.

Guessing it’s Tel and Danso

[nufc123]

8 minutes ago, kingxlnc said:

I can see us getting Xavi Simons 

Whats his position really?

[Memphis]

Nature abhors a vacuum. 

 

We run a tight ship. We are doing things - surely no one actually believes we are just twiddling our thumbs, waiting for some date in the future to act - but no one outside of the club truly knows what they are. When there's no information from anywhere, people just cannot accept that. That's where weird theories, strange names, baseless rumours, etc come from. We deal with attention seeking behavior from people who thrive on getting a response from the public. 

 

Long story short, wait until something happens before reacting to it. 

[toontownman]

All the top 6 clubs that have signed players simply dont have the restriction we do on wages and PSR. We can continue to get bent out of shape about it or accept, the same as last year and the year before, that is our reality for the next 5 years at least until we can try and bridge the gap.

 

That comes commercially, waiting for our academy to create consistent players to sell on and forcing out the dead wood. We have made good inroads on the latter. 

 

We all know this obviousy, its not new info. Lots of us, myself included just all like a grumble and feel better about ourselves flying into knee jerk panic and posting adnauseum as therapy.

 

The only surefire way to bridge the gap quicker is by selling the likes of Isak and Bruno. I think the meltdown if/when that happens will be even worse than this 2 weeks into the window panic.

[Joe1984]

1 hour ago, LFEE said:

You’ve just named the teams with all the PSR headroom. Everyone else is quiet.

How do Man U have PSR headroom?

 

They are £1billion in debt aren't they? 🤔

[healthyaddiction]

Just now, Joe1984 said:

How do Man U have PSR headroom?

 

They are £1billion in debt aren't they? 🤔

The debt doesn't matter. Though I'm sure I've seen they don't have much PSR headroom without sales. Probably why they're struggling to get to Mbeumo deal done.

[andycap]

I just hope we have people who can sell the club to the player well enough when we negotiate. 

Mbuemo wanted a hefty wedge but with a bit of persuading with champions league football and guaranteed first team starter surely we could've gotten that wage down a bit maybes added incentive based clauses.