NUFC Transfer Rumours

[The Prophet]

Edwards has taken a lot of abuse over the £75 million budget even though it was Hope who reported it

[Yorkie]

If you only count year 1 of your incoming player's fee, due to amortisation, our 'net spend' would comfortably be in the black, wouldn't it?

 

One fifth of Tonali's fee + Minteh's fee + Barnes' fee + Livramento's fee is 30.6million Euros according to Transfermarkt; whereas we've brought in 44million.

[St1pe]

Cucurella is arguably worse defensively than Burn at left back. 
 

Tierney for me. 

[McCormick]

9 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Edwards has taken a lot of abuse over the £75 million budget even though it was Hope who reported it

We’re about at that figure (net) currently no? That’s without taking add-ons into account too.

[The Prophet]

Aye. Think the total gross spend (minus add ons) is circa £125 million. 

 

From an accountancy perspective it'll be about £31 million this window. We do have to consider deals still on that books though (Joelinton, Trippier, Bruno, Targett, Pope, Isak, Gordon, etc).

 

We've brought in about £40 million for Wood and ASM combined which isn't terrible going.

[Kid Icarus]

Most journos get things wrong, Edwards mainly gets stick because he's a bellend  Him being wrong a lot of the time is just an excuse to give him more stick 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by Kid Icarus

[The Prophet]

4 minutes ago, McCormick said:

We’re about at that figure (net) currently no? That’s without taking add-ons into account too.

 

Aye, we're at circa £85 million net spend I think.

[SUPERTOON]

I’d take either on loan with an option. Don’t think either are long term solutions though.

[KingArthur]

I see no reason why neither of these teams would loan us their player and help us out.

Cucurella is a possibility, but has expensive wages and has not been very good.

[McCormick]

Tierney would be a fantastic addition imo. 

[Ben]

Every thing he writes is so open though he constantly sets himself up for an "I told you so" I'm one of the worst posters on here and I could write better content than Luke Edwards.

 

If he hadn't blocked me I'd tell him as well.

[Manxst]

Just now, McCormick said:

Tierney would be a fantastic addition imo. 

He would be, IF he can stay fit. 

[Hanshithispantz]

I reckon Cucarella would be class for us tbh, he's more in the Trippier mould and with Livramento on the other side we'd have a pretty varied selection of fullbacks. He seems a bit underrated defensively, and wouldn't have an issue dropping into a back three in possession if we go that route.

[The Prophet]

Apparently Tierney isn't the best in the air, but Arsenal fans seem to rate him really highly other than that.

 

He's always looked really good whenever I've watched him.

[Zero]

Cucu would be expensive. If we have that much of money may be we should enquire Milan for Hernandez

[Manxst]

Just now, Zero said:

Cucu would be expensive. If we have that much of money may be we should enquire Milan for Hernandez

It’s talking about a loan to buy because of our lack of (allowed) funds- no way would Milan do that. 

[Stifler]

Milan have probably blocked our number now.

If we get them in the Champions League (which is think we will), we’ll probably have to call Inter’s offices to deal with the fixture details.

[Kimbo]

I would hope that we have a foreign option as well, we can’t rely on being able to do a deal with Arsenal or Chelsea.

[Optimistic Nut]

Tierney would be perfect, Cucarella more of a risk it seems but could be a gem if he gets Howe'd. 

[STM]

If we get CL again, we should go back in for Barella. 

[Matt1892]

31 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

If you only count year 1 of your incoming player's fee, due to amortisation, our 'net spend' would comfortably be in the black, wouldn't it?

 

One fifth of Tonali's fee + Minteh's fee + Barnes' fee + Livramento's fee is 30.6million Euros according to Transfermarkt; whereas we've brought in 44million.

I don’t know how the players sold column works in full as while you can book it all this year you still have to deduct what is owed on those players, although the argument then would be we would have budgeted for that anyway.

 

As an example if we sold Wood for £15m then we only book £5m as profit as we have £10m still against him as amortisation, yet we would have budgeted for that £10m when working out what we can afford to spend.

 

A proper rabbit hole.

[Keegans Export]

39 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

If you only count year 1 of your incoming player's fee, due to amortisation, our 'net spend' would comfortably be in the black, wouldn't it?

 

One fifth of Tonali's fee + Minteh's fee + Barnes' fee + Livramento's fee is 30.6million Euros according to Transfermarkt; whereas we've brought in 44million.

That's right but the issue is that we're also still paying off the amortisation of Bruno, Isak, Botman etc 

 

That's why we couldn't go mad this summer on the back of "The Champions League money" - that money is only guaranteed for one season at a time and until our secured revenue (sponsorship mostly, or a stream of sellable reserves like Man City, Chelsea etc) goes up we're always vulnerable down the line.

[Cronky]

Tierney would feel like the last piece of a jigsaw fitting into place. It would free Burn up to cover the CB positions, and boost us both in both attack and defence. I imagine the player (partly on the basis of his being Scots) would be very keen to join us.

 

Having said that, I suspect Arsenal would be very reluctant to help us out. Likewise Chelsea.

[Matt1892]

I would be happy with either of Tierney or Cucarella on loan, Tierney is the better player but comes with the issues of having a number of serious issues which the club is unlikely to be concerned about considering how much they have just dropped on Livramento. I read somewhere that Tierney is the second fastest defender in the league after Walker.

 

I know Howe is saying one more but I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t sign a LB and a RCB, I think they might want to get the loan out of the way first if we are pleading poverty as the reason for us not signing a LB outright this window.

[KaKa]

24 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

I reckon Cucarella would be class for us tbh, he's more in the Trippier mould and with Livramento on the other side we'd have a pretty varied selection of fullbacks. He seems a bit underrated defensively, and wouldn't have an issue dropping into a back three in possession if we go that route.

 

It's astonishing how quickly people have forgotten his season at Brighton.

 

The guy was superb. Absolutely relentless getting up and down the pitch on that left side, and so good in possession as his passing is great.

 

Defensively he struggled in a Chelsea side that was a complete mess. We are far better organised defensively and he'll have Joelinton supporting him on that side too.

 

Think getting either of Tierney or Cucurella on an initial loan would be incredible business.