NUFC Transfer Rumours

[FloydianMag]

4 hours ago, relámpago blanco said:

Im surprised we havent signed any of the saudi lads on loan

I’m not, don’t think we ever intended to. In that TV interview with Ashworth early November the club were fishing and the cartel clubs quickly took the bait and convened a meeting to make the FMV rules more onerous. I’m sure, although no proof, that the club are building a case against FMV certainly and hopefully FFP.

[The Prophet]

Manquillo?

[Ikon]

Wouldn’t mind Leny Yoro like. Not sure if realistic considering the clubs linked and price From the little I have seen of him he looks bloody fantastic and would be ideal for us. 
 

Edit, probably the wrong thread but..

 

 

Edited January 8, 2024 by Ikon

[MagSA]

5 hours ago, The Prophet said:

 

Why are they trying to Dragusin to this?

Gold

[FloydianMag]

4 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Manquillo?

Aye to RM, well why not Joselu ended up there.

[timeEd32]

3 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Selling a non-first teamer? We trying to scrabble together £100,000 - £500,000 worth of player sales?

 

The wages are what matter for a lot of these. For example, Fraser on £2.1m (not sure how much Southampton are covering). Even if we sell no one in January, we have the following (potentially) coming off the books at the end of June:

 

- Krafth: £2.86m

- Ritchie: £2.34m

- Hendrick: £2.10m

- Dummett: £1.82m

- Manquillo: £1.82m

 

While that might not seem like a ton, just those five account for about 6-10% of our wage bill and they are, for the most part, entirely inconsequential to our performance. I didn't include Lascelles as my assumption is we'll extend him. There's also Karius and Gillespie on ~£500k each. Fraser and Lewis both go through 24-25 (that's another £4.1m combined).

 

I don't know what we'll do this January, but I'm pretty hopeful that the next three windows (Summer '24, January '25, Summer '25) will be lively. Adidas, Sela, new revenue streams, 21/22 out of the three year period, a likely player sale or two, and these burdensome wages starting to disappear. 

[gbandit]

Don’t get me wrong, I’d absolutely love to get Ritchie, Hendrick, Hayden or Manquillo off the books properly but I can’t see it happening with any of them. Do we even know what the situation is with how much wages we’re covering for Hayden or Hendrick?

[Deuce]

7 hours ago, r0cafella said:

He was past it for the last year at Liverpool, 6 months on holiday in Saudi and he’s begging to come back? No thanks avoid like the plague. Adds absolutely nothing to us. 

This. He’s finished.

[TheBrownBottle]

4 hours ago, timeEd32 said:

 

The wages are what matter for a lot of these. For example, Fraser on £2.1m (not sure how much Southampton are covering). Even if we sell no one in January, we have the following (potentially) coming off the books at the end of June:

 

- Krafth: £2.86m

- Ritchie: £2.34m

- Hendrick: £2.10m

- Dummett: £1.82m

- Manquillo: £1.82m

 

While that might not seem like a ton, just those five account for about 6-10% of our wage bill and they are, for the most part, entirely inconsequential to our performance. I didn't include Lascelles as my assumption is we'll extend him. There's also Karius and Gillespie on ~£500k each. Fraser and Lewis both go through 24-25 (that's another £4.1m combined).

 

I don't know what we'll do this January, but I'm pretty hopeful that the next three windows (Summer '24, January '25, Summer '25) will be lively. Adidas, Sela, new revenue streams, 21/22 out of the three year period, a likely player sale or two, and these burdensome wages starting to disappear. 

I’m expecting Manquillo and Hendrick to be gone.

 

I think Dummett will get another year, Krafth will if the club has confidence in his fitness, and Ritchie might if he’s a player / coach and on a vastly reduced wage

[TheBrownBottle]

5 hours ago, duo said:

Surely the dosh from CL gives us some wiggle room?

 

 

5 hours ago, Joey47 said:

This is what I thought, and also the big rises in sponsorship already. They’re not crazy deals but still more than any club outside of the big 6 right? Also the Adidas kit deal is supposed to be a big jump on what we currently have. 
 

Maybe it’s a case of that extra revenue (CL money and obviously the kit deal) not being accounted for in our FFP yet? But the SELA deal should be making a difference already.

 

Another thought I had is that they are still making a conscious effort to not appear as though we have a blank cheque book so that selling clubs don’t take the piss. If you compare Man City and Man Utd in that regard, the difference is massive. Man Utd get taken the piss out of much more than Man City because clubs know that in the end they will pay up. Even though Man City have more (or at least on par) spending power than Man Utd they are very shrewd and never pay extortionate fees, maybe excluding Grealish.

No, the CL revenue would have already been sank in the summer.  We knew we were in the group stage.  Getting knocked out means no more revenue - even staying in the UEFA Cup would have potentially meant millions more coming in.  You don’t need to wait until it has come in - FFP is in the football financial year.  

[timeEd32]

1 hour ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I’m expecting Manquillo and Hendrick to be gone.

 

I think Dummett will get another year, Krafth will if the club has confidence in his fitness, and Ritchie might if he’s a player / coach and on a vastly reduced wage

I’m ok with these feel good extensions if we do it at much reduced wages. Not £2m plus. 
 

And I seriously hope we don’t bring Krafth back unless it’s with the intent to sell him if we think there’s a market. Trippier / Tino / Burn / Hall / Targett is more than enough at FB and he’s on way too much money.

[TheBrownBottle]

35 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

I’m ok with these feel good extensions if we do it at much reduced wages. Not £2m plus. 
 

And I seriously hope we don’t bring Krafth back unless it’s with the intent to sell him if we think there’s a market. Trippier / Tino / Burn / Hall / Targett is more than enough at FB and he’s on way too much money.

Dummett being an academy product means that he’ll probably be kept if we’re in Europe (and he’s not as old as he sometimes seems) as much as anything.  Agreed re Krafth.  

[r0cafella]

No point keeping anyone who can’t contribute imo. 

[aussiemag]

I suppose it will be 3-5 years down the track when those outer squad roles are filled by talented academy youngsters like at City and Liverpool. Our youth arent good enough currently, hence we are overpaying 

old pro's like Ritchie, Dummett, Manquillo, Krafth etc. 

[janpawel]

10 hours ago, Ikon said:

Wouldn’t mind Leny Yoro like. Not sure if realistic considering the clubs linked and price From the little I have seen of him he looks bloody fantastic and would be ideal for us. 
 

Edit, probably the wrong thread but..

 

 

 

Looks like he's going to be world class very soon

[Nucasol]

3 hours ago, aussiemag said:

I suppose it will be 3-5 years down the track when those outer squad roles are filled by talented academy youngsters like at City and Liverpool. Our youth arent good enough currently, hence we are overpaying 

old pro's like Ritchie, Dummett, Manquillo, Krafth etc. 

Think that’s what it’ll be. Likes of Heffernan, Neave, Shahar, Sanusi etc are about 2-3 years from being battle ready if they live up to their potential. However, Murphy is already that age and hasn’t been trusted by Howe really, even when Schar and Lascelles have been limping about during games.

[WilliamPS]

Some academy players are only in the academy to make up the numbers and the club will have no expectation they ever play at PL level - including most of the new boys.

 

Bringing them in was about raising the overall standard as the few players who will make it need to be in a good enough team and training squad to progress. A lot of the new academy signings will be league 1 or 2 level players. And that’s fine, that’s the deal - they make up the numbers in the academy and in return get top level coaching so they can have a career as a professional footballer - just don’t expect a load of 18 or 19 year olds bought for the academy to all be first teamers in 3 years.

[The College Dropout]

5 hours ago, r0cafella said:

No point keeping anyone who can’t contribute imo. 

Agreed. What’s the point in keeping Dummett to play 2 games a season?

 

Unless they are on academy equivalent wages, Dummett and co. should be moved on. 
 

I thought Krafth might be able to contribute during the injury crisis but Howe rarely played him. If Howe isn’t going to play him, let him go.  

[Coffee_Johnny]

On 06/01/2024 at 19:27, SUPERTOON said:

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if they just take what we can in terms of cup progression, write-off this season, save further signings for summer targets, and return to the original planned timeline; which possibly had Champions League next year. I would be disappointed though.

[Mikky]

13 hours ago, Ikon said:

Wouldn’t mind Leny Yoro like. Not sure if realistic considering the clubs linked and price From the little I have seen of him he looks bloody fantastic and would be ideal for us. 
 

Edit, probably the wrong thread but..

 

 

 

Or Scalvini - Scalvini plays all 4 positions at the back and at 6

[Ikon]

2 minutes ago, Mikky said:

Or Scalvini - Scalvini plays all 4 positions at the back and at 6

 

Read a lot about him but not seen much at all tbh. Does he have a lot of pace? Leny Yoro is probably out of our reach but damn he looks good.

[Mikky]

2 minutes ago, Ikon said:

 

Read a lot about him but not seen much at all tbh. Does he have a lot of pace? Leny Yoro is probably out of our reach but damn he looks good.

He’s a cross between Rice and Joachim Anderson in his playing style - typical rugged Italian defender - comfortable on the ball - bit dirty - can dribble and play out - got a decent turn of pace - pace wise similar to Lascelles?

 

He is my number 1 choice 

[The College Dropout]

I don't understand this "write off the season" talk.

 

 

We are 5 points off 6th. All but 1 of the clubs above us is in Europe.

 

IMO I expect us to finish above West Ham who are 5 points ahead in 6th. And Brighton who are 2 points ahead in 7th. We play both at home and I expect both to make deep runs in the Europa where we should catch them slipping.

[Coffee_Johnny]

17 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

I don't understand this "write off the season" talk.

 

 

We are 5 points off 6th. All but 1 of the clubs above us is in Europe.

 

IMO I expect us to finish above West Ham who are 5 points ahead in 6th. And Brighton who are 2 points ahead in 7th. We play both at home and I expect both to make deep runs in the Europa where we should catch them slipping.

If you’re referring to my comment, I meant stretching ourselves financially (to future detriment of planned targets available in the summer) in January to pursue the outside chance of Champions League again. Could see them deciding to see where we get to this season with what we’ve got and recruiting in the summer. Hope they don’t but wouldn’t be surprised, as I don’t think there is the urgency from PIF that the media are pushing. 

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

I don't understand this "write off the season" talk.

 

 

We are 5 points off 6th. All but 1 of the clubs above us is in Europe.

 

IMO I expect us to finish above West Ham who are 5 points ahead in 6th. And Brighton who are 2 points ahead in 7th. We play both at home and I expect both to make deep runs in the Europa where we should catch them slipping.

 

Stay ahead of Chelsea, catch Brighton and West Ham (all 3 very realistic) and we've probably achieved our bare minimum objective for the season. Man Utd are only 2 clear of us. There's a lot to play for. We should make top 6 the target but be in reach if Spurs have a wobble to try and nick 5th.

 

 

Edited January 9, 2024 by Optimistic Nut