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

[tomd2103]

I’d be disappointed / underwhelmed with Harry Wilson. He’s fine, nothing special, and 29.

No transfer fee, summer off and he would surely be better than Bailey, Sancho, Guessand

I think we need a higher bar than better than Bailey, Sancho and Guessand. Using crisp packets as oven gloves would surely be better than your bear hands.

All we need from Wilson is what Lindelof has given us this year, just in the attacking positions. The breaks that will allow our first choice players will sustain us longer and means we harvest more points, the absence of a fee means we can spend in addition.

It's a no brainer for us, in our position.

Yep, would be a back up to McGinn on the right and can play at number 10 as well.  'Number 10' is the position I'd be looking to invest heavily in the summer if we can afford to (with Rogers going out to his more natural position on the left) and honestly think that Gibbs-White would be the ideal target. 

[Sexual Ealing]

Who's buying Dobbin, for example? Whoever it is will be offering significantly less than his current deal.

You reckon? His current deal is supposedly around £20k per week, so less than the Championship average. He's 23 and just popped in ten goals from the wing for a lower mid-table side.

I'd be surprised if he's not getting a wage increase wherever he goes next.

The Championship average is more than £20k per week?! Fucking hell. Ignore me then.

[Somniloquism]

Obviously various caveats on the accuracies but this site shows Dobbin on 17.5k with several pages of 100 players each below him, and around 150 odd players above him.

https://www.capology.com/uk/championship/salaries/

[Dave]

Who's buying Dobbin, for example? Whoever it is will be offering significantly less than his current deal.

You reckon? His current deal is supposedly around £20k per week, so less than the Championship average. He's 23 and just popped in ten goals from the wing for a lower mid-table side.

I'd be surprised if he's not getting a wage increase wherever he goes next.

The Championship average is more than £20k per week?! Fucking hell. Ignore me then.

Actually, it's not quite that much - more like £15k per week having looked a bit deeper. West Brom's wage bill (so not one with recent history of big wage earners hanging around from former Premier League days, is £20m. Nat Phillips (?) was supposedly given £40k per week when he joined from Liverpool last summer.

So when you consider that average wage is going to be skewed by lots of clubs padding their squads with youth teamers on £2-3k per week, he'd definitely be moving for an amount no worse than he's currently getting.