Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[Steve67]

What is our total spend now. I've actually lost count. Must be past 50 now, or at least potentially with all the add ons.

By my reckoning, and not including add ons, we've spent £42.5m and sold £12.1m.

Outs, Clark for 5, Gueye for 7.1 and Sinclair for 4? Crespo a nominal fee too.

What did Okore go for?

I thought he was free? Not sure Dave.

[Dave]

What is our total spend now. I've actually lost count. Must be past 50 now, or at least potentially with all the add ons.

By my reckoning, and not including add ons, we've spent £42.5m and sold £12.1m.

Outs, Clark for 5, Gueye for 7.1 and Sinclair for 4? Crespo a nominal fee too.

What did Okore go for?

50% of any future transfer fee that FC Copenhagen get for him according to ViD.

[PeterWithesShin]

I completely forgot about Sinclair, which is easily done. So approx £42.5m spent and approx £16.1m in plus Okore, which only seemed to be mentioned as "cut price"?

[Dave P]

On the one hand i'm glad we're rebuilding the team, but what we are spending is obscene for this level and i'm not going to be hypocritical about us spending more money than just about any other club in the division can ever dream of, having spent years moaning about Chelsea, Man City etc doing exactly the same thing.

What is really obscene is we are spending all this money, close to £50m and I have not heard of any of these players.

You've not heard of McCormack or Jedinak?

Or Elphick? Or Chester?

[Toronto Villa]

Sounds like we've spent about £26m net so far then. Not bad as what's being made out. Not close to £50m at all.

much more important than what we have spent (gross or net) is have we addressed our needs both with players in and out? That will be a more important conversation to have and we won't really know for a while.

[Dave P]

I completely forgot about Sinclair, which is easily done. So approx £42.5m spent and approx £16.1m in plus Okore, which only seemed to be mentioned as "cut price"?

It's wages as well. N'Zog, Lescott and Guzan off the bill would be very significant and would surely help in our recruitment.

[Ian.]

On the one hand i'm glad we're rebuilding the team, but what we are spending is obscene for this level and i'm not going to be hypocritical about us spending more money than just about any other club in the division can ever dream of, having spent years moaning about Chelsea, Man City etc doing exactly the same thing.

What is really obscene is we are spending all this money, close to £50m and I have not heard of any of these players.

You've not heard of McCormack or Jedinak?

Well maybe those two...but I wouldn't recognise them if I bumped into them on the street. For a start everyone has a fuckoff great big beard now

[Steve67]

Our wage bill must be in far better shape with the likes of Lescott, Zog, Clark, Richardson, Crespo, Bennett, Guzan, Gil, Sanchez, Veretout, Gueye, Sinclair and Okore, all gone. I bet Randy is pissing his pants.

[supertom]

I completely forgot about Sinclair, which is easily done. So approx £42.5m spent and approx £16.1m in plus Okore, which only seemed to be mentioned as "cut price"?

It's wages as well. N'Zog, Lescott and Guzan off the bill would be very significant and would surely help in our recruitment.

I'm actually astonished we've clawed back 16 million from our toss. And that could cross 20 when Traore goes. To be fair our net spend won't be too awful. You'd have hoped for around 20 mill. The Doc has certainly put his money where his mouth is. Yes we've overpaid but this is a world where Stones is 48 million.

[Rudy65]

On the one hand i'm glad we're rebuilding the team, but what we are spending is obscene for this level and i'm not going to be hypocritical about us spending more money than just about any other club in the division can ever dream of, having spent years moaning about Chelsea, Man City etc doing exactly the same thing.

What is really obscene is we are spending all this money, close to £50m and I have not heard of any of these players.

You've not heard of McCormack or Jedinak?

Well maybe those two...but I wouldn't recognise them if I bumped into them on the street. For a start everyone has a fuckoff great big beard now

Nor De Laat or Elphick? You do follow football dont you?

[supertom]

Our wage bill must be in far better shape with the likes of Lescott, Zog, Clark, Richardson, Crespo, Bennett, Guzan, Gil, Sanchez, Veretout, Gueye, Sinclair and Okore, all gone. I bet Randy is pissing his pants.

He must be scratching his head and wondering how we've got rid of so many of these players so easily (the out of contracts excluded). If we ship Gabby out Randy will shit out a shunnamite.

[PeterWithe]

I'm not sure we have spent that much in real terms, we've sold well and have a big parachute payment. I wouldn't be averse to spending another 20/30 m whilst players still think of us as a top division club.

[supertom]

On the one hand i'm glad we're rebuilding the team, but what we are spending is obscene for this level and i'm not going to be hypocritical about us spending more money than just about any other club in the division can ever dream of, having spent years moaning about Chelsea, Man City etc doing exactly the same thing.

What is really obscene is we are spending all this money, close to £50m and I have not heard of any of these players.

You've not heard of McCormack or Jedinak?

Well maybe those two...but I wouldn't recognise them if I bumped into them on the street. For a start everyone has a fuckoff great big beard now

Nor De Laat or Elphick? You do follow football dont you?

Or Chester.

[Ian.]

On the one hand i'm glad we're rebuilding the team, but what we are spending is obscene for this level and i'm not going to be hypocritical about us spending more money than just about any other club in the division can ever dream of, having spent years moaning about Chelsea, Man City etc doing exactly the same thing.

What is really obscene is we are spending all this money, close to £50m and I have not heard of any of these players.

You've not heard of McCormack or Jedinak?

Or Elphick? Or Chester?

Ok ok, maybe them as well!!

I'm not complaining though, don't get me wrong, it's exciting and I'm enjoying the revolution and the purging of horrible bastards within our realms. Still £50 Million is an awful lot of money on players I had to remind myself who they played for before they signed for us.

[mallo]

Just watched the Toulouse highlights with Ba playing - I hope that was his first game for them!