2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[chrisw1]

They'll have CL money coming through their accounts and any added commercial income. If our second half of the season mirrors our first, that added CL and commercial income added to youth player sales would really boost what we can do.

It's the dodgy sponsorship deals and match day income where they'll leave us behind.

[DrGonzo]

Anybody getting nervous about Ihenacho?  On one hand it doesn't seem to fit with the way we have operated in the last 12 months, on the other it makes a sort of distressing sense.  If we allow Jhon Duran to leave for a fee in the region of what we paid and can bring him in for the 7-10m that is being mooted...we create extra wiggle room in the FFP budget and end up with a player who isn't prolific but is dependable as back up for Ollie.  I'm conflicted.

[Monty]

Anybody getting nervous about Ihenacho?  On one hand it doesn't seem to fit with the way we have operated in the last 12 months, on the other it makes a sort of distressing sense.  If we allow Jhon Duran to leave for a fee in the region of what we paid and can bring him in for the 7-10m that is being mooted...we create extra wiggle room in the FFP budget and end up with a player who isn't prolific but is dependable as back up for Ollie.  I'm conflicted.

Literally the first time I've heard anything about him.

[Axl Rose]

Buying him stops him scoring against us when that horrible lot come back up, I suppose.

[LeeB]

Buying him stops him scoring against us when that horrible lot come back up, I suppose.

The lad turns into Gerd Muller when he's surrounded by claret and blue shirts so it's worth a shot.

Also, what's Shane Long up to these days?

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

BBC gossip page have AC Milan interested in Duran.

[Risso]

Anybody getting nervous about Ihenacho?  On one hand it doesn't seem to fit with the way we have operated in the last 12 months, on the other it makes a sort of distressing sense.  If we allow Jhon Duran to leave for a fee in the region of what we paid and can bring him in for the 7-10m that is being mooted...we create extra wiggle room in the FFP budget and end up with a player who isn't prolific but is dependable as back up for Ollie.  I'm conflicted.

I think it would be doubtful, he's injured but also away with Nigeria for AFCON.

[DrGonzo]

AFCON is a max of missing 4 games.

[Risso]

I know, but it surely makes doing a deal difficult, uless you leave it until the end of Jan when they get back.

[pauliewalnuts]

Those Ngonge links are a classic case of a rumour started on a not very reliable site and then being picked up - from that site - by other not very realiable sites.

[pauliewalnuts]

I know, but it surely makes doing a deal difficult, uless you leave it until the end of Jan when they get back.

And then they don't even arrive to start to bed in until February.

[LeeB]

Those Ngonge links are a classic case of a rumour started on a not very reliable site and then being picked up - from that site - by other not very realiable sites.

The Duran link to Milan seems similar.

[Dave]

I know, but it surely makes doing a deal difficult, uless you leave it until the end of Jan when they get back.

It definitely feels like it would be a bit out of character for us to do that sort of deal. A half-fit player with a history of injuries and flying all our guys out to Ivory Coast for medicals etc, just to bring him in over any of the other strikers out there?

If we'd had an interest in Iheahancho to the extent that we're happy to do all that, you'd think last summer would have been the time we'd have done it rather than risking the first part of the season with just Watkins and Duran. It's not like he's done much since August that means we've suddenly seen something we hadn't seen before.

[Risso]

Well anyway, I've just sent a text to my mate who's good friends with Iheanacho to ask if there's anything going on, and he said no.

[Lsvilla]

Well anyway, I've just sent a text to my mate who's good friends with Iheanacho to ask if there's anything going on, and he said no.

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