January Transfer Window 2023

[Number_25]

If we stay up, I don't think we'll have a budget that isn't sell to buy and consolodate.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

If we sold Pickford and replaced with e.g Bazunu and Johnson for the same fee....there could be 50%+ upside.

If we could hold onto Onana we'd still need to bring in another midfielder. We wouldnt make money on Billing but its a sensible low cost signing.

i do see alot of upside in Lavia and Danilo while someone like a Bowen/Paqueta should have an immediate impact.

Theres quite a range there as well as players already in the championsip...the Chelsea and City u21s etc...

Im sure we'll see some great players linked like last summer (Hojlund?)and am hopeful we could pick out a couple to add to the squad.




The issue is how much we 'need' to spend on incoming players.

If we did sell Holgate, Maupay and Gomes I would expect us to generate £20-25mil + small amounts for Nkounkou etc

Added to a possible £35-40mil budget?

That probably brings in 2 good young players without a major sale.

If we done that this season we would be rock bottom. How are you watching all these underperforming young players and going 'yep that's what we're missing'

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

If we survive this season , you would imagine any monies we generate via player sales etc will have to be used to correct any imbalances in the finances.
Possibly very few , if any , incomings I suspect.

 

[twoblue]

As I said, it's not that I don't think they're good players or that they're hugely overpriced at what you're quoting, just that I don't think they represent good value. Paqueta would be a 26 year old who had effectively failed in Italy and then in England. It would be an enormous risk spending £30m+ on him, and I just don't think we're in a position to do that. Someone like Billing I've liked since he was at Huddersfield but £20m for a bloke who's been knocking around in this country for 8 years yoyoing between the Championship and the PL relegation zone doesn't seem good value either. We have got to get better at identifying and attracting talent before they take the next step. Paying £25m for Danilo 6 months after Forest got him for £15m is simply not a model we can afford to follow.

Our policy next window will be go to forest cup in hand and ask them what scraps they have.

 

[Zatara]

Matevž Vidovšek linked. 23 year old Slovenian keeper, used to play in Italian clubs youth teams before returning to his country.

Backup to Oblak in the international team.

 

[Zatara]

As I said, it's not that I don't think they're good players or that they're hugely overpriced at what you're quoting, just that I don't think they represent good value. Paqueta would be a 26 year old who had effectively failed in Italy and then in England. It would be an enormous risk spending £30m+ on him, and I just don't think we're in a position to do that. Someone like Billing I've liked since he was at Huddersfield but £20m for a bloke who's been knocking around in this country for 8 years yoyoing between the Championship and the PL relegation zone doesn't seem good value either. We have got to get better at identifying and attracting talent before they take the next step. Paying £25m for Danilo 6 months after Forest got him for £15m is simply not a model we can afford to follow.

I think £15mil is pretty much the standard fee now for a premier league player. Think they signed him for that price.

On Danilo, depends if you want to take a risk at £15mil for a player directly from Brazil...or recognise that you were too slow and pay a small premium to bring him in after a 6 month adaption period

Hasnt Paqueta been one of West Hams best players?

I think johnson has a 20 millions release relegation clause

Id drop 50 mill on Johnson (if we had it) NEA.

Good investment.

The only thing with Johnson is, I think he has a release clause.

But yes, I think he will have more attractive suitors.

We could probably do a lot worse, at looking to the championship, for lads with a shorter time frame on a contract for recruitment. Avoid the "marquee" names people tend to go for and there should be some reasonable value available.

Could be a great signing and would mean both a goal threat and a long term right hand side (with Patterson).

Id be shocked if the release clause was only £20mil.

If we done that this season we would be rock bottom. How are you watching all these underperforming young players and going 'yep that's what we're missing'

Youve highlighted me saying "sell Pickford, sign Bazunu" but omitted "and Johnson".

This summer, would you prefer to have Pickford OR Johnson + Bazunu?

 

[windymiller]

Think we will spend a reasonable bit mate, unless we have a ban.

How?

 

[windymiller]

I think johnson has a 20 millions release relegation clause

Then he'll have many, many options.

 

[Neiler]

How?

We’ve about 20mill + wiggle room in P/S if we drop the 111 mill loss this summer.

I think that will be spent. The rest of the Gordon and Kean fees will just go to serving the business losses.

So in and around spending what we did last summer IMO.

 

[catcherintherye]

We’ve about 20mill + wiggle room in P/S if we drop the 111 mill loss this summer.

I think that will be spent. The rest of the Gordon and Kean fees will just go to serving the business losses.

So in and around spending what we did last summer IMO.

Especially as some suggest we are in profit this year. That is before other wage deductions are factored in.

We do have wriggle room. But we cant go wild.

 

[mccole]

Matevž Vidovšek linked. 23 year old Slovenian keeper, used to play in Italian clubs youth teams before returning to his country.

Backup to Oblak in the international team.

Now we are talking non of this first team player rubbish, it's not Everton until we sign a highly rated young goalkeeper who will never play a single minute for us.

 

[Goat]

Matevž Vidovšek linked. 23 year old Slovenian keeper, used to play in Italian clubs youth teams before returning to his country.

Backup to Oblak in the international team.

He doesnt have a single International cap.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Especially as some suggest we are in profit this year. That is before other wage deductions are factored in.

We do have wriggle room. But we cant go wild.

Bring Lukaku home.

His gols alone will take us into the top 10 and the prize money required to sort us out.

 

[blulouie]

Some of these posts will look very far fetched and rather silly when we get slapped with a transfer ban.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Especially as some suggest we are in profit this year. That is before other wage deductions are factored in.

We do have wriggle room. But we cant go wild.

A lot of the deals we were reportedly trying to do in Jan (and last summer too) were reportedly loan with obligation deals with the full transfer to go through this summer coming. The picture may change depending on the PL charge, but that suggests we believe the improving P&S position means there is a decent budget available for the summer.