Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Gills have signed striker Marcus Wyllie from Enfield Town for an undisclosed fee. 34 goals last season, won the Isthmian Premier League golden boot with 30 goals.

“Undisclosed fee”

 

[Son of Cod]

I think that is where part of our frustration comes from, no offence to Wrexham but how we weren't a better option than them I'll never know. I really rate their owners despite the circus it involves and feel we'd be already in the championship under them getting 22k plus fans per week. It's a club that has far more potentially than them you name no matter how arrogant it sounds, it's just a fact. Our income isn't just through selling loads of tickets either, Pointon for instance is such a shock to us because we are very good at selling any youngsters with any talent usually, so it is rare that we get an academy player break through. We have sold a number to the PL in the last 3-4 years and received £3 million for McBurnie's sell on so we bring plenty in through that route as well. Our income is around £9 million but our budget was £2.8 million last year according to Sparks, nowhere near the 55% you are allowed. We'd have the biggest budget by far if we dare take a risk and go towards 50% which most clubs are at. True though we do have some big overheads, but you have to be prepared to make a sustainable loss when running a football club or you'll fall behind.

A better option in what sense, though? Do you mean for signing players or for Reynolds and McElhenney back when they went for Wrexham? I'd imagine it was purely down to wanting to buy a NL club as opposed to an EFL club, if the latter. If you're talking players then it's simply a case of Wrexham having a bigger wage budget, isn't it?

I guess looking at those income stats and the fact that your attendances would put you in the top 3/4 of League 1 the positive side of things is that if you do end up either taking that calculated risk on budget that you mention or managing to do it a bit more frivolously then you're way better set than any other League 2 club going up to have a proper crack at it. Wrexham are somewhat of an anomaly but I think for a variety of reasons even they'll find it a bit tough this coming season. Once momentum has run out then most clubs going up from this level are realistically just hoping to tread water for as long as possible and that includes Stockport and Mansfield who last season were two really good and well ran fourth tier sides. Bradford though, you'd like to think would average 20,000+ in League 1 and with a promotion behind them be able to have an immediate pop at the playoffs.

 

[Conker]

Even the likes of Wrexham are at mercy of others, we managed to ever so slightly outdo Peterborough financially for Lewis Brunt, only for Wrexham to come in and completely blow us both out the water but if a Birmingham or a Bolton fancied him then the same would have happened again!

 

[joethegill]

“Undisclosed fee”

They were after £20k earlier in the summer so I imagine we've just met that.

 

[loz]

A better option in what sense, though? Do you mean for signing players or for Reynolds and McElhenney back when they went for Wrexham? I'd imagine it was purely down to wanting to buy a NL club as opposed to an EFL club, if the latter. If you're talking players then it's simply a case of Wrexham having a bigger wage budget, isn't it?

I guess looking at those income stats and the fact that your attendances would put you in the top 3/4 of League 1 the positive side of things is that if you do end up either taking that calculated risk on budget that you mention or managing to do it a bit more frivolously then you're way better set than any other League 2 club going up to have a proper crack at it. Wrexham are somewhat of an anomaly but I think for a variety of reasons even they'll find it a bit tough this coming season. Once momentum has run out then most clubs going up from this level are realistically just hoping to tread water for as long as possible and that includes Stockport and Mansfield who last season were two really good and well ran fourth tier sides. Bradford though, you'd like to think would average 20,000+ in League 1 and with a promotion behind them be able to have an immediate pop at the playoffs.

To do that SOC, we'd have to be a well run club. The last few years would suggest we are not. Budget wise apparently we do well and we do have some very good players for this level. Don't suppose having to pay off so many managers has helped nor giving good contracts to £7 year olds.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

A better option in what sense, though? Do you mean for signing players or for Reynolds and McElhenney back when they went for Wrexham? I'd imagine it was purely down to wanting to buy a NL club as opposed to an EFL club, if the latter. If you're talking players then it's simply a case of Wrexham having a bigger wage budget, isn't it?

I guess looking at those income stats and the fact that your attendances would put you in the top 3/4 of League 1 the positive side of things is that if you do end up either taking that calculated risk on budget that you mention or managing to do it a bit more frivolously then you're way better set than any other League 2 club going up to have a proper crack at it. Wrexham are somewhat of an anomaly but I think for a variety of reasons even they'll find it a bit tough this coming season. Once momentum has run out then most clubs going up from this level are realistically just hoping to tread water for as long as possible and that includes Stockport and Mansfield who last season were two really good and well ran fourth tier sides. Bradford though, you'd like to think would average 20,000+ in League 1 and with a promotion behind them be able to have an immediate pop at the playoffs.

Better in the sense that we were a club in a higher division, closer to where they wanted to get a club to with bigger attendances and a better squad to start. That said I wasn't aware they had a fetish to buy a NL club as I don't watch their documentary or actually listen to them so that explains it.

 

[lordofthepies]

“Undisclosed fee”

I heard it was £800,000

 

[EnglishRed]

Better in the sense that we were a club in a higher division, closer to where they wanted to get a club to with bigger attendances and a better squad to start. That said I wasn't aware they had a fetish to buy a NL club as I don't watch their documentary or actually listen to them so that explains it.

Because it cost them £0 to buy us, and we didn't have any debt so it was a completely blank slate.

Also the underdog narrative wouldn't have rung as true- Bradford are only underdogs by virtue of historically underachieving given the size of the city.

You had your fifteen minutes of success when Geoffrey Richmond spent all that money he didn't have and you got to the Prem. It's someone else's turn now.

 

[Son of Cod]

Because it cost them £0 to buy us, and we didn't have any debt so it was a completely blank slate.

I thought it was £2M?

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

A Wrexham fan underplaying a purchase price for their club, a transfer fee paid, a weekly salary awarded in North Wales???? I won't hear of it, they don't do rumoured they know the exact figures to the pence. No point questioning it, that approach failed a couple of seasons ago.

 

[クレイグ]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1815416765654118693

No Oliver or Kevin McDonald in the pic. Hope both have found a new home.

 

[クレイグ]

Why is Callum Johnson out Bradford fans? I believe other than last season his injury record is okay so hopefully too early to call him crocked.

Don't think the exact cause for his absence has been revealed by the club.

 

[lordofthepies]

Also the underdog narrative wouldn't have rung as true

Do you imagine that an underdog narrative rings true at your club?

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Because it cost them £0 to buy us, and we didn't have any debt so it was a completely blank slate.

Also the underdog narrative wouldn't have rung as true- Bradford are only underdogs by virtue of historically underachieving given the size of the city.

You had your fifteen minutes of success when Geoffrey Richmond spent all that money he didn't have and you got to the Prem. It's someone else's turn now.

We have zero debt as well, hence why our fans bang on about sustainability so often. That said ours is a hefty price to buy the club, rumoured to be £10 million so I suppose the pub league isn’t a bad place to look.

 

[spireite]

Because it cost them £0 to buy us, and we didn't have any debt so it was a completely blank slate.

Also the underdog narrative wouldn't have rung as true- Bradford are only underdogs by virtue of historically underachieving given the size of the city.

You had your fifteen minutes of success when Geoffrey Richmond spent all that money he didn't have and you got to the Prem. It's someone else's turn now.

Well, absolutely. As Wrexham were throwing around 6 figure sums like confetti, sometimes on players who hardly ever played, I often thought 'this heartwarming underdog story really rings true'.

 

[クレイグ]

Seems we also have Jordan Amissah on trial. Ex Sheff United 'keeper. Looks a big lad.

 

[Son of Cod]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1815416765654118693

No Oliver or Kevin McDonald in the pic. Hope both have found a new home.

Ilkley Moor really is a nice spot in the summer.

 

[hellogregory]

Seems we also have Jordan Amissah on trial. Ex Sheff United 'keeper. Looks a big lad.

Is he the trialist keeper who I saw was getting absolutely filleted by some of your fans on Twitter (fucking algorithms!) for mistakes in a friendly last week?

 

[クレイグ]

Is he the trialist keeper who I saw was getting absolutely filleted by some of your fans on Twitter (fucking algorithms!) for mistakes in a friendly last week?

Different goalie. The one we had on trial signed for Spennymoore...I think.

 

[EnglishRed]

Well, absolutely. As Wrexham were throwing around 6 figure sums like confetti, sometimes on players who hardly ever played, I often thought 'this heartwarming underdog story really rings true'.

Which players have we spent that much on who have never played?

 

[EnglishRed]

Do you imagine that an underdog narrative rings true at your club?

Depends what you mean by underdogs. We are a club who had to put up with a lot of shit for two decades (and a town with a decimated economic base and not much going for it for a long time) so in that sense we are underdogs who have finally had our day. We also had a team full of players playing one or two leagues below their level so in that sense we were in no way underdogs. The TV show makes the first point.

I don't expect a Crewe fan to have anything positive to say about us though, you lot seem to dislike us for some unknown reason.

 

[EnglishRed]

I thought it was £2M?

They initially invested 2m into the club and team but there was no purchase as such. Just the Trust voting it through.

 

[spireite]

Which players have we spent that much on who have never played?

Oh come on there's got to be some, your incomings list since takeover resembles a wedding invite round. I'd answer a question with a question; has there been a team spent more on transfers in the national league ever? You boys spent millions, and that's just on transfers. I don't begrudge you boys the success you've had, also no doubt had to spend more on rep alone, but to call it an underdog story in any way is a stretch not since since that time I tried to get in lycra running shorts.

 

[lordofthepies]

I don't expect a Crewe fan to have anything positive to say about us though, you lot seem to dislike us for some unknown reason.

Hated you since the early 90s because you were horrid. Still do because you still are x

 

[GTFCfish]

Anyone for popcorn?

 

[Indian Dan]

What is football if not a place for a bit of healthy, random hatred.

 

[spireite]

Hey no hatred on my part. Having spent half a decade in the NL, faced down regional football and nearly lost our club, supporters trust ownership etc, there is some parallels. I'm happy for and even a bit jealous of the success they've had. We all know what it's like to have a shit club in the lower leagues. I just always found the 'what an underdog story' line hard to swallow as Parky dives into his pit of expensive signings like scrooge mcduck. It's success found with money, but more power to them for it.

 

[Si Robin]

We're apparently set to sign an experienced forward. People are assuming it's Charlie Austin, but I'm still not convinced to be honest.

 

[leedsvaliant]

We're apparently set to sign an experienced forward. People are assuming it's Charlie Austin, but I'm still not convinced to be honest.

Be a decent signing that I think.

 

[The Terminator]

dedwardp I've been told we're trying to buy Noah Chilvers off you, saw he hasn't featured in pre season for you so far and Robbie Cowling has said in the local press he's playing hard ball with clubs who want him.

Also someone on our forum reckons you're gonna take George Moncur off us, but I don't think that one is true.