Jacob Ramsey

[Percy McCarthy]

I don’t think it’s a great move for him. He won’t get in for Gordon when he’s fully fit unless they change their system, or in their midfield three. To me, judging by how they set up now, he’s an upgrade on Willock, who doesn’t play much I don’t think. We’ll soon see I suppose.

I have often thought he had the potential to be our best player, but after a stuttering last two seasons and at 24, it’s still potential, because he’s quite a way off being our best player at the moment.

I suppose if someone has to go, they first have to have somewhere to go, and sadly the ones we want to leave don’t have that without us taking a financial hit.

[Nii Lamptey]

Our best left midfielder is Ramsey. Through the middle, Rogers, and on the right, nobody…. So hopefully this B tier Fella from the French league can make that right side his own.
Bailey should have been the PSR makeweight this summer. Offered nothing apart from that one season wonder, and if preseason was anything to go by, we’re in for more of the same.
Absolutely gutted if we lose JJ.
Fuck football.

[Brazilian Villain]

He could be worth a lot more, on the flip side a 3rd consecutive stop start season with 1 league goal and only 12 months left he'd be worth a lot less.

That's my view too. £40m may end up being cheap if he stays injury-free, but I'd be more upset if it were Rogers or Ollie leaving.

[ozzjim]

Had a contact on the table for a while and not signed, has spent much of the last 2 seasons in and out with injury, frustratingly has piss poor ability to shoot or play a decent final ball. Huge potential, but for the money, considering his contract, has to be sold. Got to go replace him and get a good replacement.

[Percy McCarthy]

Our best left midfielder is Ramsey. Through the middle, Rogers, and on the right, nobody…. So hopefully this B tier Fella from the French league can make that right side his own.
Bailey should have been the PSR makeweight this summer. Offered nothing apart from that one season wonder, and if preseason was anything to go by, we’re in for more of the same.
Absolutely gutted if we lose JJ.
Fuck football.

I don’t think there’s much doubt who we’d prefer to be our SCR makeweights, (the women’s team was our PSR one), but what if nobody wants them?

[VinnieChase84]

What a shite window .

It’s not closed yet.
As said ages back, sales were needed for us to readress balance of the squad and try and improve.
JJ has rejected multiple contracts so clubs been forced to cash in

The sale however will allow for the rebalancing and more incomings

2-3 more in

[Nii Lamptey]

True I suppose Perce 🙁
Really falling out of love with football. It’s supposed to be a place where we can release ourselves from the stresses of every day life, not create more of them!
How broken is the current system where we get to the CL quarter final, FaCup semi, finish top 7 3 seasons running, massively improve commercial deals, supposedly generate £245m in player sales since June 2024 and STILL be penny pinching!?
I hit 50 later this year. The way it’s going, I think it’ll be a nice round number to call it quits with modern football. It’s bollocks.

[eamonn]

We're strengthening a fucking rival. Could we have not sold him to Napoli or someone?

We need to end the summer with a surplus in transfer profit, which leaves £15m or so once the Guessand deal is deducted from this. Doesn't feel like we can do much. Presumably there are no takers for Bailey and Buendia.

Gutted about this, he was one of our own, the only current one of our own so we can't even name a homegrown player of note in our European squad.

[Ads]

The Gussand deal is worth £4.6m on the books for this financial year.

[eamonn]

Do we know for sure that UEFA are taking contract-spread into account on our summer signings?

[django]

This sucks. I get we have little choice with the numerous restrictions but I feel like Ramsey is frequently involved when we hit our best form.

The rules restricting spending are absurd. It will drive me away eventually but I already can’t afford to attend many games and I won’t be able to afford any when they’re played in the states so I won’t be much loss.

[Toronto Villa]

This is fucking rank.

It is. It’s a real shame we are ultimately being forced to sell him. But then again that’s what it is right now and to be honest he wasn’t a guaranteed starter. And it will be really weird if he is in their squad or line up first game of the season on Saturday. Let’s just hope this frees us up to get stronger with some good signings.

[SaddVillan]

Unai arrived Oct 2022
JJ got crocked summer 2023, so Unai only saw a fully fit JJ for 6 months,?

He's been on the road to recovery for the past 2 seasons but hasn't really got back to where he was, let alone improved on that level. During that time Unai's given him plenty of starts and appearances off the bench, so he must think that JJ has something.

In terms of his overall potential he's a £60-£80m player, but that appears to be a long way off.

We've offered him a new contract (guessing better terms) because we either have faith that he will actually become the player we all want him to be, or, (more cynically) to protectv his value as a saleable asset.

For whatever reason, he's decided he wants to leave, which puts us in a tricky position.

Keep an "unhappy" player and let his contract and sale value run down in the hope he has a brilliant season (increases his sale value) and/or he has change of heart so he re-signs.

OR we bite the bullet, say thanks for everything and ship him out for the best price possible. Which seems to be where we are.

Emery's obviously sanctioned his departure, and in Unai we trust.

Up to Monchi to screw Toon for as much as possible, along with some serious add-ons and a proper sell-on clause.

And we move on.

Thumping Toon on Satuday would be a good start.

[paul_e]

Do we know for sure that UEFA are taking contract-spread into account on our summer signings?

The initial reporting made it sound like it would be about making a profit on transfers but the actual UEFA documents make it clear that it's still based on amortised costs.

[Drummond]

I fucking hate ManU.

However, we're keeping Watkins, Martinez, Rogers, McGinn, Mings, Digne, Konsa, Kamara, Tielemans.... We've signed Guessand.

Wr have other kids coming through.

He wouldn't sign a new deal, he wasn't first choice, he's not done much over the past couple of years, we move onwards.