Summer transfer window 2023

[Stoffee]

If you look at how they went on after Everton. I’m convinced they both could have been good here if they were given a run in the team in their preferred position. Issue is we bought 5 players to play the same position

Yeah that was my point....
Only sandro stood out as an actual stinker of a signing.
All the other players weren't bad, it's just they all played the same position

 

[billyblue80]

Maths. And I maybe wrong but...£430million losses over 5 years.

Last 3 years
£139mill loss (2019/20)
£121mill loss (2020/21)
£43mill loss (2021/22)

No matter how you add player sales into the equation we're still gonna be crawling towards £105mill rolling 3 year losses.

Take into consideration the Gordon sale clearing last year's loss. Puts us at zero. We ain't then got £50mill net to spend, hence why we need to sell to buy. While there's drop of £70odd mill from the previous year...it's still not enough for us to have "net" spends that high. Maybe £50mill spread over the next couple of years.

At a push for next season you'll be lucky to see a small net spend.

Every financial expert says we need to sell to buy.

Sounds about right, we have the drag of stadium loans and the pathetic commercial performance compared to other clubs(including losing USM funding when the war started in Ukraine) which means we can't offset these losses on P&L too. Moshiri should have looked for investment and a new board years ago but he's clueless, now he doesn't want to waste yet more of his own money on a loss-making business but this is the business he owns and has allowed/played a part in mismanaging. Probably sitting tight until the stadium move now and he can sell up. We/he better hope we are still in the PL by then.

 

[billyblue80]

I fear that another summer of inertia will surely bring the fans to near riot levels of discontent. There's only so much a fanbase can take I'm afraid.

Prediction a few small sales Simms/Maupay few others maybe gets us one player in then nothing until Onana is sold and maybe Pickford right at the end of the window. Nothing surprises you with this club.

 

[samsonthedog1]

Not worth getting into a bidding war over.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Not worth getting into a bidding war over.

I agree. I read somewhere the Coventry owner was hoping to get closer to 30m. For a 25 year old who hasn’t shown anything above Championship level that’s twice a realistic price. At some point we have to bite the bullet to get someone but this doesn’t feel like the right one for me.

 

[dutchblue54]

dele ali up front it is then

Better than Maupay or Gray to be honest

 

[chippy1722]

Would you? Portugal is a mediocre league and of the English teams you’d probably choose West Ham due to having Europe but they will have multiple options, and there’s not much between the others really. But beyond one of us, Fulham or Wolves could be in trouble next season and we could offer regular football (would he want to be second fiddle to Mitro?) with the mid term prospect of playing at an amazing new stadium etc. A couple of crap years doesn’t mean we aren’t a big club.

To most modern players we aren’t a big club, most are of an age where we haven’t done anything of note on their lifetime.

 

[Curtis]

Wolves? Nah

I think dysche did exceptional job with our limited resources to stay up but their manager definitely has a higher pedigree and profile than him. Players today don't look at how many cups we won in the 80s

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Spurs are signing a goalkeeper called Guglielmo Vicario from Empoli. I presume that's them out of the "race" for Pickford.

 

[everton1953]

I fear that another summer of inertia will surely bring the fans to near riot levels of discontent. There's only so much a fanbase can take I'm afraid.

Damn right. It is unthinkable.

 

[Nymzee]

Spurs are signing a goalkeeper called Guglielmo Vicario from Empoli. I presume that's them out of the "race" for Pickford.

They've never been in it. They won't pay £40m for Raya and we'd ask for even more.

 

[Blue peter]

I fear that another summer of inertia will surely bring the fans to near riot levels of discontent. There's only so much a fanbase can take I'm afraid.

I do wonder whether there is a deliberate delaying of things to stifle spending. They’ll spend a little to get us over the line but there’ll be another last minute dash and failure to lure the bigger value transfers in.

 

[mahermi1]

Not worth getting into a bidding war over.

must be other strikers in the world that are not in the prem or Championship, if only we had a decent scouting system.

 

[Bebeto]

He will go on a free next season...championships clubs have to learn that you can't put unrealistic demands on a player with zero premier league experience. Blackburn did the same last year and eventually lost Bereton Diaz on a free...it will be the same for gyokeres and as the post suggest he may actually suit the player better even if there are obvious risks.

 

[kenada_blue]

And yet here is one of a large number of credible reports over the last two windows linking us with loans with obligations to buy come this summer. Clearly late January we were projecting to have minimum 30m in the budget for this summer if we stayed up, because if Watford had said yes (and they should have!) we’d have spent it by now.

Everyone outside the club is guessing the budget, and no club is going to advertise what theirs is.

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We'd have done what Southampton and Wolves did and that was to spend the funds we don't have to help stay in the league. Wolves are suffering for it. Southampton will no doubt sell a lot too.

Additionally it's well known we'd have paid all that on the drip. Even Watford said no as they were in a promotion challenge.