2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[AV84]

A couple of Turkish clubs have been spending big-ish lately. Coutinho was linked to one of them recently, you'd have to assume his wages are quite high. Another one is offering to make AOC their highest paid player, although I suppose that's relative and doesn't necessarily mean big.

[Sexual Ealing]

(I'm sure I've made this mistake before ((about footballers, rather than myself. I don't need to worry about tax rates))) I think there's a 20% income tax rate for high earners in Turkey, which makes it attractive.

[Risso]

(I'm sure I've made this mistake before ((about footballers, rather than myself. I don't need to worry about tax rates))) I think there's a 20% income tax rate for high earners in Turkey, which makes it attractive.

Stopped a few years ago. It's 40% now.

[Sexual Ealing]

Then that's a fucking bizarre decision by him. He should've come here!

[Gareth]

There are going to be some teams losing their best players this summer that will be very interesting to see if they rebuild or slump - Palace losing Mr WhinyAngry, Wolves losing Neves/ Moutinho and talk of Podence, Fulham losing Mitrovic could all suffer, Brighton you’d assume will have a plan for MacAllister & to top it all would be Spurs possibly losing Kane

[sid1964]

Read elsewhere that Percy reckons we are after Bamford.

[frank black]

Read elsewhere that Percy reckons we are after Bamford.

Imagine 😂

[Chris Smith]

Read elsewhere that Percy reckons we are after Bamford.

…and if we catch him we’ll kick his fucking head in.

[PaulTheVillan]

Bamford. Instant vomit.

[Gareth]

Read elsewhere that Percy reckons we are after Bamford.

If he could stay fit he’d be a very different option than we already have….if he could stay fit his team probably wouldn’t have been relegated.

Not a player I would personally want here.

Was also thinking yesterday whether Weighorst would  be a good option if we wanted a striker in the squad with different physical options?

Not exactly sexy options as players but different to what we have currently….particularly if we are saying Keinan is done at the club.

[PaulWinch again]

Then that's a fucking bizarre decision by him. He should've come here!

I don’t know. It’s Champions League football at a team competing for the title. It’s also a very passionate football culture, so he’ll be a big star. His options in the Premier League probably weren’t at the equivalent level. Clearly it’s a lower profile league, but I can see the attraction.

[Dogtanian]

Patrick Bamford has 26 goals in 110 Premier League appearances and turns 30 in September.

He’s literally had one good season in the top flight, in a Leeds side that was all-out, gung ho attack. Most average strikers would also have scored a load that season with the chances they were creating. And he still missed a bucket load that a good striker would have converted.

He’s also a grade A twat.

[Gareth]

Patrick Bamford has 26 goals in 110 Premier League appearances and turns 30 in September.

He’s literally had one good season in the top flight, in a Leeds side that was all-out, gung ho attack. Most average strikers would also have scored a load that season with the chances they were creating. And he still missed a bucket load that a good striker would have converted.

He’s also a grade A twat.

Always thought he had the look of a public school bully about him but when I’ve heard him interviewed he comes across as ok.

As for his good season we did contribute massively to that with his hat trick against us :-) 3 very good goals, 3 very bad bits of defending

[sid1964]

People think that Bamford is related to the family that owns JCB - He is not, his father is an architect.

Whenever I have heard him interviewed he sounds like a decent bloke.

I cannot imagine that we are really interested in signing him.

[dr.chekov]

Yeah, he does come across well in interviews. Would be an underwhelming signing though.