Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[kippaxvilla2]

We can’t even persuade an unknown Kosovan to consider lowering himself to talk to us we have no chance with actual superstars.

[hilts_coolerking]

We are loaded. Just that we can’t spend the same as a team that’s not left the PL. They don’t have the same restrictions as us.

Until when?

[sickbeggar]

Yep. I don't think we would have got him - Everton are loaded, BUT if shows what you can get for 20m in that age range. 3 years of a top quality player creating chances and assists., pays for himself by keeping you up

I thought we were loaded.

*Shrugs* 20m is not a problem. the wages? But not every talented foreign 29year old is on Real Madrid wages. Anyway judging how everton fans are wetting themselves tonight, they'll probably pay for him in shirt sales by October

[aev]

We are loaded. Just that we can’t spend the same as a team that’s not left the PL. They don’t have the same restrictions as us.

Still doesn’t really explain why we are spending on a right back and another goalkeeper.

If indeed our budget is limited is much rather us get players in positions that we need. We have no pace up front and our fit strikers can’t score.

I am clinging to the fact that this means the FFP stuff is red herring and we will spend lavishly.

[Lastfootstamper]

We are loaded. Just that we can’t spend the same as a team that’s not left the PL. They don’t have the same restrictions as us.

Until when?

Another two years.

[PaulWinch again]

How did Wolves manage it then?

[Ads]

A 2nd bid for Martinez, close to £20m.

[gpbarr]

A 2nd bid for Martinez, close to £20m.

Which is bollocks if the FFP rumor is true. As I said in an earlier post, something just doesn't add up in this window. Either we have the fabled 100m and can spend it or we don't (I suspect its the latter).

Looking increasingly like another year when we will have to manage our ambitions (and frustrations) as fans and just accept this is going to take a lot longer than we'd hoped to start competing at the right end of the table.

[Ads]

FFP isn't a rumour, its been in place for a good number of years now.

[dave.woodhall]

How did Wolves manage it then?

A lot of their players are loans and Mendes valuations.

[kippaxvilla2]

I don’t believe the FFP stuff.  Wolves made a £57m loss in the championship.  They got done by UEFA but not our own FA.  It doesn’t stack up.  Surely we pay decent wages to Mings, Targett, McGinn, Heaton.  I’m surprised more of our players haven’t been linked with leaving either.

[Risso]

im glad we're better than buying a 4 times spanish and german league winner and 2 times champions league winner and concentrating on the real quality at brentford

Yeah, given the choice of someone who regularly puts them away against Rotherham and Barnsley or someone just off 14 in 32 starts at Bayern Munich and 29 in 64 at Real Madrid, and who has scored in World Cups, I know which I would plump for.

Wouldn't it be nice for us to do something exciting in the transfer market rather than the usual over priced Championship stuff we buy.

We'll probably pay more for Benhrahma than Everton did for James Rodriguez FFS.

Can't we do something that smells of ambition rather than hoping it is good enough to keep us up for a change?

10 years of this rubbish.

Yep. I don't think we would have got him - Everton are loaded, BUT if shows what you can get for 20m in that age range. 3 years of a top quality player creating chances and assists., pays for himself by keeping you up

I can't imagine a player like him wanting to play for Dean Smith, unfortunately.

[kippaxvilla2]

‘As soon as I heard that the ex Walsall coach was interested in me I couldn’t wait to join.’

[Rory]

Yep. I don't think we would have got him - Everton are loaded, BUT if shows what you can get for 20m in that age range. 3 years of a top quality player creating chances and assists., pays for himself by keeping you up

I thought we were loaded.

*Shrugs* 20m is not a problem. the wages? But not every talented foreign 29year old is on Real Madrid wages. Anyway judging how everton fans are wetting themselves tonight, they'll probably pay for him in shirt sales by October

Can't say I blame them, really. I remember the excitement when we were linked with Sneijder. Funnily enough, around the same time we were linked with Ancelotti, from what I remember, but that was in the days before top managers started seeing upper-mid table PL clubs as an option.

Having said that, how do off-pitch investments influence FFP? Aren't Everton spending a fortune on a new stadium?

[sickbeggar]

im glad we're better than buying a 4 times spanish and german league winner and 2 times champions league winner and concentrating on the real quality at brentford

Yeah, given the choice of someone who regularly puts them away against Rotherham and Barnsley or someone just off 14 in 32 starts at Bayern Munich and 29 in 64 at Real Madrid, and who has scored in World Cups, I know which I would plump for.

Wouldn't it be nice for us to do something exciting in the transfer market rather than the usual over priced Championship stuff we buy.

We'll probably pay more for Benhrahma than Everton did for James Rodriguez FFS.

Can't we do something that smells of ambition rather than hoping it is good enough to keep us up for a change?

10 years of this rubbish.

Yep. I don't think we would have got him - Everton are loaded, BUT if shows what you can get for 20m in that age range. 3 years of a top quality player creating chances and assists., pays for himself by keeping you up

I can't imagine a player like him wanting to play for Dean Smith, unfortunately.

Unfortunately i can't imagine  Dean Smith asking