NUFC Transfer Rumours

[TRC]

3 minutes ago, lovejoy said:

telegraph reckons we've bid for solanke

Decent source but not sure how that would work if him Isak and Wilson are all fit.

[TBG]

Not the player (Mbappe) I wanted so Solanke is shit and the club is terrible. 

 

Sell Bruno, Isak, Dummett and Botman and burn the club down. 

[lovejoy]

1 minute ago, TRC said:

Decent source but not sure how that would work if him Isak and Wilson are all fit.

 

Wilson is done IMO. He'll be moved on, and rightly so.

[MrRaspberryJam]

Please don't sign. Please don't sign. Please don't sign. Please don't sign. Please don't sign. Please don't sign. 

 

[SteV]

6 minutes ago, lovejoy said:

telegraph reckons we've bid for solanke

 

Spoiler

Newcastle have made an enquiry about Dominic Solanke but have been told that Bournemouth will not sell him this month.

Eddie Howe, the Newcastle manager, has been in the market for a striker to bolster his attack for the second half of the season and is a long-term admirer of Solanke, having signed him while manager at the Vitality Stadium.

The 26-year-old was signed from Liverpool five years ago in a £19 million deal and Bournemouth would stand to make a huge profit on their investment, but are determined to keep him at the club despite others showing interest.

Solanke has led Andoni Iraola’s attack this season and has scored 13 goals in 22 appearances. Iraola is understood to be reluctant to let any of his strikers go as Dango Ouattara and Antoine Semenyo are at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Wales international Kieffer Moore is his only other fit striker and he is reluctant to let him leave despite interest from several Championship teams.

Solanke, who has a long-term contract at Bournemouth, has scored eight goals in his last eight appearances and has helped push his club into midtable.

 

[TRC]

1 minute ago, lovejoy said:

 

Wilson is done IMO. He'll be moved on, and rightly so.

He's only done because Howe ran him into the ground. If he plays 30 minutes a week then he's a great striker

[Coffee_Johnny]

43 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

How much would we get for him?

Declan Rice amounts. 

[Ikon]

Personally I wouldn’t put the money towards Solanke. I imagine he would cost a bomb no? 

[SUPERTOON]

We can’t continue to bring up FFP then try shop in the most expensive market (assuming it’s true).

[STM]

4 minutes ago, TRC said:

He's only done because Howe ran him into the ground. If he plays 30 minutes a week then he's a great striker

[Joey47]

6 minutes ago, TRC said:

He's only done because Howe ran him into the ground. If he plays 30 minutes a week then he's a great striker

 

If Howe ran any players into the ground Wilson definitely wasn’t one of them. 

Edit: just read the last part and detecting sarcasm

 

 

Edited January 10, 2024 by Joey47

[STM]

Solanke would be a superb signing IMO. He's grown into a real quality PL striker.

 

He's not Isak levels obvs, but he's probably not far off Wilson, with the advantage that he's a bit of a unit, which is something we don't have in that area.

 

As always with these things, it depends on the price. 

[STM]

3 minutes ago, Joey47 said:

 

If Howe ran any players into the ground Wilson definitely wasn’t one of them. 

Edit: just read the last part and detecting sarcasm

 

 

 

Yeah I think I was done by the sarcasm.

[Ikon]

Rather see us try for Sesko personally. Not that Solanke isn’t a good player. How much would they ask for Solanke? 45-50? 

[Scoot]

14 minutes ago, TRC said:

Decent source but not sure how that would work if him Isak and Wilson are all fit.

 

[TheInfiniteOdyssey]

Solanke makes sense as a Wilson replacement imo.
 

Wilson has been a brilliant player for us but think it’s time in the summer to let him go for the right price, perhaps around £20m or so. 
 

If Solanke did sign, I’d still want anothher quality player who can function in that role.

[TRC]

We need a player that can play as a RW as well as striker IMO. He would be too expensive but Bowen would be perfect. Starting RW, can play up top if Isak is out.

[STM]

We ain't getting shit for Wilson, given his injury record and the length on his contract.

 

Although, I'm OK with that since he's one of the few players from the MA years who's actually repaid his transfer fee.

[STM]

He's just signed a new contract in September, so Bournemouth aren't vulnerable in that regard. I wonder if he has a release clause of some sort.

 

Bet he'd jump at the chance of the move mind.

[TheInfiniteOdyssey]

I’d be hopeful of trying to shift Wilson to somewhere like the Saudi league. 

[FloydianMag]

24 minutes ago, oldtype said:

FFP should be changed to be an actual salary cap. Not that that would ever happen, but it should.

Players Union would take a salary cap to court imo and would win, just like football agents did when they tried to cap fees.

 

in the early 60’s they had a maximum wage in football, Len Whie went to court and won, maximum wage was scrapped.

 

 

[TRon]

20 minutes ago, STM said:

Solanke would be a superb signing IMO. He's grown into a real quality PL striker.

 

He's not Isak levels obvs, but he's probably not far off Wilson, with the advantage that he's a bit of a unit, which is something we don't have in that area.

 

As always with these things, it depends on the price. 

 

I'm ambivalent on this one. I like him as a player, but he's only started scoring goals this season. I'd be wary of buying him when he's hit form and then finding he can't sustain it season after season.

 

Think of a similar scenario if we'd put Miggy for sale after he scored 11 goals last season. That would have been the biggest fee we would have commanded for him based on one blinding season.

[healthyaddiction]

16 minutes ago, STM said:

We ain't getting shit for Wilson, given his injury record and the length on his contract.

 

Although, I'm OK with that since he's one of the few players from the MA years who's actually repaid his transfer fee.

We got 15 million for Wood who was the same age as Wilson now, and while his injury record is a lot better, you'd still bet your house on Wilson scoring more goals and winning you more games over a season.

[oldtype]

4 minutes ago, FloydianMag said:

Players Union would take a salary cap to court imo and would win, just like football agents did when they tried to cap fees.

 

in the early 60’s they had a maximum wage in football, Len Whie went to court and won, maximum wage was scrapped.

 

 

 

You could couple it with revenue sharing, so that a percentage of any revenue past a certain threshold goes into a pot, which is shared among the non-threshold teams, with an obligation to spend that money on player salaries. That way you could make it so the total amount spent on salaries would be roughly the same. You'd basically just be shifting a portion that spending from the top clubs to other clubs.

 

Again, it's not particularly realistic but there are ways you could engineer this if you wanted it to work.

[Novocastrian]

I’d be looking at a hungry young striker from Europe. ‘Best in class’ in their age group. This signing doesn’t engender much enthusiasm from me, not for the money talked about. Almost 100% bollocks anyway.