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

[Beard82]

Can someone explain the Archer deal to me? How much are we obliged to pay to bring him back if Sheff Utd go down?

£18 or £20m I think.

Which to me seems kind of nuts if true. Do we really want Cam back for what we sold him for (or a little more) given the FFP situation?

Thats FFP - we've basically remortgaged him.  Short Term headroom for a long term cost

[andyh]

Pictures on Twitter of ‘kosta’ stretching the shirt, with monchi

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1749539797407023146?s=20

[OCD]

Pictures on Twitter of ‘kosta’ stretching the shirt, with monchi

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1749539797407023146?s=20

There's talk that his age allows him to be registered as an academy prospect so doesn't effect FFP and would count as a homegrown prospect in European competition. I don't know if this is true or not, but if it is, you could see this type of move being a clever one.

[Hookeysmith]

[The £100m bit is crucial though and they will only be a handful of clubs with that sort of money.]

Only one..the one that has 115 charges of financial impropriety against them. No other club could do it.

[ChicagoLion]

Can someone explain the Archer deal to me? How much are we obliged to pay to bring him back if Sheff Utd go down?

£18 or £20m I think.

Which to me seems kind of nuts if true. Do we really want Cam back for what we sold him for (or a little more) given the FFP situation?

We sold for £20 mil that’s £20mil FFP profit, we buy him back for £20 mil on a 4 year contract, that’s an amortisation cost of £5 mil a year.

[sid1964]

Archer will be disappointed if he has to come back to us, he will go from regular 1st team football to playing in the under 23s or maybe the odd appearance as a substitute

it will be a backward step for his career.

[Toronto Villa]

Why? He’ll be part of a squad competing at the top end of the table, trying to win one of the domestic cups, possibly even playing Champions League football.

[Dave P]

He’d be part of the squad but I doubt he’d play much

[Ian.]

So if a young footballer signs for a team in the top six of the premier league where he’d fight for a place in the team he’d be disappointed?

[ozzjim]

Archer will be disappointed if he has to come back to us, he will go from regular 1st team football to playing in the under 23s or maybe the odd appearance as a substitute

it will be a backward step for his career.

Come the summer I think starting is something he will be longing for. Wilder has benched him and clearly wants a different type of forward.

[sid1964]

With the rumour that we will be signing another forward in the summer, Archer wants to play 1st team football, that is why he wanted the move to Sheffield, how many games will he start for us next season?

[ozzjim]

I think Rogers will be useful as an option across the front 3, and will work hard, has a big of pace and presence. I would love us to get a creative forward though, as I think that is the type we are missing so badly now. A player that has that extra bit of time on the ball, find a pass etc. Tielemans might do it second half of the season and has looked promising in the 10 role, but we miss Buendia a bit more than I expected as an option.

[IFWaters]

I think Rogers will be useful as an option across the front 3, and will work hard, has a big of pace and presence. I would love us to get a creative forward though, as I think that is the type we are missing so badly now. A player that has that extra bit of time on the ball, find a pass etc. Tielemans might do it second half of the season and has looked promising in the 10 role, but we miss Buendia a bit more than I expected as an option.

It's like Buendia will be a new signing!

[Gareth]

With the rumour that we will be signing another forward in the summer, Archer wants to play 1st team football, that is why he wanted the move to Sheffield, how many games will he start for us next season?

It will depend on what Unai wants, they will have been watching every game he has played for SheffUtd and if Unai feels he is a player he’d be happy to actually use (be it through the middle or as a wide forward) and if we have European football next season he’s a viable option. 

Whatever the future holds for Cam it would be very handy if he could bag a few goals before the end of the season if only to keep his value to sell on if Unai wants to go a different way.

[Sexual Ealing]

Archer has a great future ahead of him, whether we want him or not. I hope we do.