Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[aev]

So Tanswell reckons the UEFA settlement is still in play.

[Dogtanian]

The big issue that we have in competing with the protected 6 is that percentage of revenue coming from broadcasting. That's the issue, because a poor year will slash that and we don't have the buffer from other areas to cope.

So it's now 63%, but that's down from 85% in the last 5 years.

It's a slow process, but we are creeping up, bit by bit. It was always going to take a long time to break through the financial shackles designed to stop us doing exactly what we are doing.

[paul_e]

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I agree with you that the priorities are 2 wide midfielders/wingers and a right sided defender.

Mingueza seems like a good option for the defender, even if he's a little older than I'd like to go for. As I said yesterday I'd also like to see us look at Guela Doue there who I think would be the perfect fit for us as he'd offer cover for RB, CB and in midfield.

For wingers we've seen a lot of links which suggests that there's going to be a big focus on this from the club. Soule and Munoz both look like great options for the right side and fit exactly the profile we should be targeting.


Left side winger feels a lot harder mostly because we haven't really seen any links there. Obviously the simple choice would be Rashford if he is now available at a decent price.

[rob_bridge]

The big issue that we have in competing with the protected 6 is that percentage of revenue coming from broadcasting. That's the issue, because a poor year will slash that and we don't have the buffer from other areas to cope.

So it's now 63%, but that's down from 85% in the last 5 years.

It's a slow process, but we are creeping up, bit by bit. It was always going to take a long time to break through the financial shackles designed to stop us doing exactly what we are doing.

We need to be CL every other season at least. It is hard as that needs 2 of the Big Six and Newcastle to not have good seasons and that is without considering upstarts or moonshot seasons but at least our 2023-24 doesn't look like that.

[Dogtanian]

Yes, absolutely. And the more often we are, and the more successful we are, the better commercial deals we get which help us get by when we are not.

Newcastle are in the same boat as us, though helped a little from their dodgy commercial deals inflating their commercial income.

The spotlight hasn't been on them so much as us, because they have either qualified for Champions League or no europe at all. That's meant that they have had two seasons in the last 4 without having to worry about the harder UEFA limits.

It looks like it is now starting to catch up with them, though.

[Olneythelonely]

Anyone got a free version?

https://archive.ph/PK3gH

Thank you.

[cdbearsfan]

Normally look at these transfer window threads with a bit of excitement but not so much this year. Emotionally, I'm not ready for the band to be broken up, yet. They won our first trophy in thirty years and the thought of them leaving makes me sad.

[Dave]

Yes, absolutely. And the more often we are, and the more successful we are, the better commercial deals we get which help us get by when we are not.

Newcastle are in the same boat as us, though helped a little from their dodgy commercial deals inflating their commercial income.

The spotlight hasn't been on them so much as us, because they have either qualified for Champions League or no europe at all. That's meant that they have had two seasons in the last 4 without having to worry about the harder UEFA limits.

It looks like it is now starting to catch up with them, though.

Newcastle were also starting from a position of not being able to raise revenues via transfers in the same way we were - they went from summer 2019 through to summer 2024 and the only transfer out for more than a million pounds or so across those five years was Chris Wood to Forest (£15m).

Between 2021 - 2024 they spent £400m and only brought in that Chris Wood money.

We'd have been properly screwed had we not been able to raise over £250m to help cover our spending over that same time period.

[Brazilian Villain]

We need to be CL every other season at least. It is hard as that needs 2 of the Big Six and Newcastle to not have good seasons and that is without considering upstarts or moonshot seasons but at least our 2023-24 doesn't look like that.

We just need to win the Europa League every other season.

[Dogtanian]

Normally look at these transfer window threads with a bit of excitement but not so much this year. Emotionally, I'm not ready for the band to be broken up, yet. They won our first trophy in thirty years and the thought of them leaving makes me sad.

Well if it warms your cockles any, we can't really afford to break them up anyway.

[Olneythelonely]

Thank god we have a miracle worker as our manager.