Summer transfer window 2023

[Nymzee]

What I cant still get my head - and leaving aside the phantom bids we've now arrrived at - is how Thelwell and Dyche have spent cash on a player 'for the future' like Chermeti when we are desperate for a PL-ready forward to save our bacon this season.

Did no one think of asking that blindingly obvioius question to Dyche at the press conference? It's like the club live in an anti-DCL replacement universe to the one we live in where we can clearly see the gaping jaws of the Championship opening up.

Yes Dave, hence we've been joking about it all afternoon on the site.

 

[sd_1992]

The club now briefing that they are deliberately underbidding for players is an interesting strategy.

 

[COYBL25]

What I cant still get my head - and leaving aside the phantom bids we've now arrrived at - is how Thelwell and Dyche have spent cash on a player 'for the future' like Chermeti when we are desperate for a PL-ready forward to save our bacon this season.

Did no one think of asking that blindingly obvioius question to Dyche at the press conference? It's like the club live in an anti-DCL replacement universe to the one we live in where we can clearly see the gaping jaws of the Championship opening up.

He was bought for the future.

The future in the Championship.

 

[ADT]

More fake bids

 

[davek]

People keep saying it’s not kevs fault we can’t spent whilst ignoring the fact he has spent on a player dyche wont use

It's bizarre.

I know the answer could be the structure of payoments were acceptable to Sporting, but really the first player in should have been a good to go forward...and they could have been lined up for about £5M-£10M if we had a decent network of scouts trawling through the European leagues.

I said the other day that Walsh would have sorted us out by now. Whatever you think of Walsh THAT is undeniably true I'd say.

Thelwell is what he is: Moshiri's man put there to claw money in for players and spend the very bare minimum on incomings. He is not a DoF.

 

[Lapeno77]

What I cant still get my head - and leaving aside the phantom bids we've now arrrived at - is how Thelwell and Dyche have spent cash on a player 'for the future' like Chermeti when we are desperate for a PL-ready forward to save our bacon this season.

Did no one think of asking that blindingly obvioius question to Dyche at the press conference? It's like the club live in an anti-DCL replacement universe to the one we live in where we can clearly see the gaping jaws of the Championship opening up.

Another NTL rerun, spending money we thought was coming in from MSP only to have the rug pulled from beneath us with impeccable comic timing

 

[davek]

He was bought for the future.

The future in the Championship.

Probably.

 

[Dddddd]

What I cant still get my head - and leaving aside the phantom bids we've now arrrived at - is how Thelwell and Dyche have spent cash on a player 'for the future' like Chermeti when we are desperate for a PL-ready forward to save our bacon this season.

Did no one think of asking that blindingly obvioius question to Dyche at the press conference? It's like the club live in an anti-DCL replacement universe to the one we live in where we can clearly see the gaping jaws of the Championship opening up.

I’m pretty sure someone did ask him at the press conference and he answered that we bought the players that we could sign

The interviewer pressed him and he said Harry Kane wasn’t up for coming

 

[davek]

Another NTL rerun, spending money we thought was coming in from MSP only to have the rug pulled from beneath us with impeccable comic timing

I doubt that deal was ever serioulsy on tbh.

No one was counting on that cash, IMO.

 

[Lob]

Let's make a bid that we know we cannot afford and know they will reject so it looks like we tried to bring in players.

 

[CalBuckeye_Rob]

The club now briefing that they are deliberately underbidding for players is an interesting strategy.

There are times when I think all the bidding is an elaborate illusion of trying to get players to please the fans when they really don't intend to sign them at all. Underbid for targets. Offer the money with conditions on payments that make the offer much lower in fact. Anything that will string out the process until the transfer window closes.

 

[StuckToffee1987]

What I cant still get my head - and leaving aside the phantom bids we've now arrrived at - is how Thelwell and Dyche have spent cash on a player 'for the future' like Chermeti when we are desperate for a PL-ready forward to save our bacon this season.

Did no one think of asking that blindingly obvioius question to Dyche at the press conference? It's like the club live in an anti-DCL replacement universe to the one we live in where we can clearly see the gaping jaws of the Championship opening up.

Think someone did ask precisely this before the end and Dyche got quite prickly about saying when he’d play Chermiti and then banged on about how it was all down to the structure and clubs being willing to deal with us. Got the impression that Dyche had no intention of ever playing Chermiti.

 

[lurky]

25/26m? I'm sure it's just the way he's phrased it, but can totally imagine the scenario...

Us: Hello. We'd like to bid 25m or 26m for Beto please?

Them: Well, which is it? 25m or 26m?

Us: Well, we'd prefer 25m. Is that ok?

Them: We'll choose, 26m, thanks.

Us: Are you sure we can't tempt you with 25m? We'd much prefer it.

Them: But you said 26m, so obviously we're going to choose that one.

Us: Oh. When you put it like that, it was a bit silly of us. Ok then. 26m it is! We bid 26m for Beto.

Them: Thanks.

Us: Do you accept?

Them: No. He costs 35m which you well know.

Us: Can we talk about 25m again?

Them: *click*

 

[Milkman]

Exactly.

If he thinks this is the time for sarcastic answers to questions that every fan wants to know the answers to he's very wrong.

Maybe he could be as bold to his employers and demand a little harder that he's handed a forward who is team-ready for the now-in-progress third relegation threatened season.

 

[Wat Tyler]

No more incoming