Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[mallo]

Darn, beaten by Tuscans :-(

[berneboy]

 @patmurphy says it's Jedinak but needs medical and something about visa as he's Aussie.

[CJ]

I wonder if the visa thing will become more of an issue once we're out of the EU and the current freedom of movement rules change

[rob_bridge]

I wonder if the visa thing will become more of an issue once we're out of the EU and the current freedom of movement rules change

It depends what the updated rules are. I'd suspect proof of existing prior to entry (easier for some than others) funds and a contract job offer would be used as some form of qualifier.
It should (in theory I hasten to add) make development of younger home grown talent more of a priority.

If any Private Sector employer wished to hire from abroad there should be one serious condition - make sure said employer is demonstrating what he/she is doing to fill any homegrown skill shortage longer term (Training courses, education, apprenticeships etc. ) which should be relatively easy for football clubs.
In fact it should be easy for any decent company.

[ASHTONVILLA]

I wonder if the visa thing will become more of an issue once we're out of the EU and the current freedom of movement rules change

Well if we signed a trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand (has been mooted) it would make this one easier.

[RussellC]

Whilst a good signing, £4m for a 32 year-old seems a bit steep!

[nigel]

I wonder if the visa thing will become more of an issue once we're out of the EU and the current freedom of movement rules change

I don't know,  but, I'd think the opposite.

[Villa in Denmark]

I wonder if the visa thing will become more of an issue once we're out of the EU and the current freedom of movement rules change

Well if we signed a trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand (has been mooted) it would make this one easier.

At the risk of polluting this with "Should we stay or go stuff", only if that deal includes free movement of people, which is the supposedly the whole point of Brexit, that you can have free movement of goods and services without free movement of people, so no such a deal wouldn't include freedom of movement unless the whole premise is bunkum.

[eamonn]

Whilst a good signing, £4m for a 32 year-old seems a bit steep!

As long as he's fit and he knows it.

[UK Redsox]

At the risk of polluting this with "Should we stay or go stuff",

A H&V thread going off on a tangent......nope, that never happens

[MoetVillan]

I think with the way we are spending money, promotion has to happen this year.  Im worried that if we don't make it, we will get a whammy of high wages, tiny parachute payments left and competing against next years drop downs with the far bigger parachutes really worries me.

[Villafirst]

Whilst a good signing, £4m for a 32 year-old seems a bit steep!

Do you think so? £100m guaranteed TV money in the Premier League from now on with the new deal.

[Percy McCarthy]

I wonder if the visa thing will become more of an issue once we're out of the EU and the current freedom of movement rules change

Well if we signed a trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand (has been mooted) it would make this one easier.

We can't even begin to negotiate one until we leave (2 and a half years at the earliest). China said if we had 600 negotiators like they have it would take ten years to agree one with them. We have 24, who have to negotiate our exit from EU, our future relationship with EU, the 50-odd existing trade deals we currently have through the EU, replacing trade deals we have with the 27 remaining EU members and the replacement for the hugely complex legislation that is the Commin Agricultural Policy.

I think he might be a bit past it by the time we get round to bothering to negotiate new agreements about the relatively tiny bit of trade we'll do with Australia and New Zealand.

Or probably in a home.

[RussellC]

Whilst a good signing, £4m for a 32 year-old seems a bit steep!

Do you think so? £100m guaranteed TV money in the Premier League from now on with the new deal.

And if we don't get promoted? I see your point, but he only has one year left on his contract too. I would have thought £2m tops would be about right.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Whilst a good signing, £4m for a 32 year-old seems a bit steep!

Do you think so? £100m guaranteed TV money in the Premier League from now on with the new deal.

Newsflash, we aren't in the premier league