Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

[Moomin]

Brentfords model is not built on players from the London area but young French players

I’m aware of that.
But attracting a player from abroad to London will be easier than them moving to a small city in the South West they’ve never heard of.

 

[Bottega Don]

Brentfords model is not built on players from the London area but young French players

They have one French player in their squad

 

[Indian Dan]

Well, only 3

 

[masi51]

They have one French player in their squad

Neal Maupey 18M Benrahma 25m Mbeumo 15m all came from the lower reaches of the french lge.....They also have more players from Denmark than London

 

[AR27]

Maxime Biamou at Coventry is the latest name doing the rounds in our search for a striker. Never seen him play so no clue.

 

[Stringy]

Our youth strategy is to spend years developing substandard players and then to release them all.

 

[Bottega Don]

Neal Maupey 18M Benrahma 25m Mbeumo 15m all came from the lower reaches of the french lge.....They also have more players from Denmark than London

That's because their owner also owns FC Midtjylland. Their model is unsustainable for lower league clubs because our owners can't afford to own multiple clubs and share players across them.

 

[Devon_Lad]

Sun sport online have reported that we have received half of what villa paid for Louie Barry from Barcelona, which was 3 million. That with significant add ons.

It's difficult always being right

 

[masi51]

That's because their owner also owns FC Midtjylland. Their model is unsustainable for lower league clubs because our owners can't afford to own multiple clubs and share players across them.

The three they picked up from France plus Ollie Watkins has paid the gamble off. It is based on Moneyball.
Bolton are loosely starting to go down this route. You cannot keep buying journeymen footballers and expect to turn a profit and grow as a team/club

 

[Devon_Lad]

Does Exeter not have room for growth as a club?

You get similarish attendance to us despite being a much bigger area, don't you think if the club went up the leagues the fanbase would grow? I feel like without any teams that closeby you must have quite a large scope for growth.

EDIT: Just looked into it and you averaged around 1k more than us last season, so not as similar size attendances as I previously thought.

There's only scope for us to grow if we ditch the Trust and fan ownership model. Which won't happen. So no, we're a L2/L1 side for the foreseeable, until some rich sugar daddy comes.

 

[Devon_Lad]

Would it not be sensible at some point to put a chunk of that money into assembling a League One standard squad and getting promoted? You've been falling short of promotion so consistently these last few years, if you just bit the bullet and did what it took to get promoted would that not be better for the club financially in the long run?

Are the fan's trust allergic to spending any more than what amounts to a ninth of your transfer income (a third split over three seasons) because they think that any more than that would be boom and bust?

Seems as though they're expecting to improve as a club very gradually, but gradual improvements aren't going to bump you over the line into the automatic places in League Two.

You're trying to convince the wrong person here. I'm no fan of the way we're run and going about things..

Overly worried about sustainability and just existing after the early 2000 debacle.

 

[Devon_Lad]

infrastructure? Fuck me!

We've just built a new stand and bought an away end, and have you seen the requirements for us to improve our academy to level 2? It's going to take serious cash.

For example, one requirement for a Category 2 Academy is an indoor training area.

 

[masi51]

We've just built a new stand and bought an away end, and have you seen the requirements for us to improve our academy to level 2? It's going to take serious cash.

For example, one requirement for a Category 2 Academy is an indoor training area.

Having a Category 2 Academy will be a drain on your resources. It costs a fortune to run and you will find you will lose your better players for next to nothing.

 

[Devon_Lad]

Having a Category 2 Academy will be a drain on your resources. It costs a fortune to run and you will find you will lose your better players for next to nothing.

Yeah, absolutely true. That's why we've made millions thus far with this approach. But you know best.

I think you forget we're in Devon, with no clubs around us with an academy as good as ours. It's easier for us to pick up all the local talent ahead of clubs like Plymouth, Yeovil & Torquay now. We also don't have much bigger clubs like Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City on the doorstep regularly able to scout our players.

Ethan Ampadu, Matt Grimes, Ben Chrisiene, Ollie Watkins, Jordan Storey..... Need I go on? It more than pays for itself down here.

 

[masi51]

Aaron Ramsdale, David Brookes, Aaron Mooy,Rob Holding.....Need i go on left for little or nothing

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Sun sport online have reported that we have received half of what villa paid for Louie Barry from Barcelona, which was 3 million. That with significant add ons.

It's difficult always being right

Louie Barry: Aston Villa sign Barcelona youngster

Aston Villa sign England Under-17 striker Louie Barry from Barcelona for a fee in the region of 1m euros (£880,000).

www.bbc.co.uk

Is that a different Louie Barry to the one Villa paid £880,000 for?

 

[Indian Dan]

Where does it mention Exeter in that.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Regardless of the fact that The Sun appear to have appointed Diane Abbott as their financial correspondent, I think its clear that this is another significant amount of money that's come to us as a result of our excellent academy. Hopefully it will finance a decent signing for us in the next few weeks

 

[Bottega Don]

We've signed Tyler Cordner on loan from Bournemouth, CB who was on loan at Ebbsfleet last year.

 

[masi51]

Regardless of the fact that The Sun appear to have appointed Diane Abbott as their financial correspondent, I think its clear that this is another significant amount of money that's come to us as a result of our excellent academy. Hopefully it will finance a decent signing for us in the next few weeks

So your actually signing someone and not acting for a feeder club

 

[Devon_Lad]

Louie Barry: Aston Villa sign Barcelona youngster

Aston Villa sign England Under-17 striker Louie Barry from Barcelona for a fee in the region of 1m euros (£880,000).

www.bbc.co.uk

Is that a different Louie Barry to the one Villa paid £880,000 for?

I wouldn't trust BBC Sport. They're still peddling the lie about Watkins having an £18m buyout clause. A rumour that started on Facebook and followed up by the Athletc. That's as good as their sources go.

You can see the article here - it also mentions snubbing Bayern Munich. That's Liverpool, Chelsea & Bayern Munich that were after him, by the way! Just because you lot haven't heard of him, you think he's not worth over a few hundred k. People said the same about Amps, how wrong they were

Villa snap up Ben Chrisene after Exeter wonderkid snubbed Bayern Munich transfer

EXETER CITY’S 16-year-old superkid Ben Chrisene has snubbed Bayern Munich to sign for Aston Villa. The England youth midfielder impressed Bayern’s coaches when he played for the German side&#…

www.google.com

 

[Back in the DHSS]

Chuffed to bits Mark Ellis has re-signed for us. That’s our defence sorted out for next season now.

 

[Devon_Lad]

Ignore the professional broadcaster that employs professional sports journalists in favour of an internet forum gobshite

The BBC got their Ollie Watkins story from Facebook ffs. Professional broadcaster or not, they're evidently not reliable and Brentford have already confirmed he hasn't got a buyout clause. Bbc still haven't taken their article down.

Call me a forum gobshite all you like, I posted my reasoning behind why I think itll be north of £1m with pretty good answers. A forum is where people chat and discuss things. Its a thread relevant to what I posted about. Why get to aggy? Are you a child or something? A Sun Article then backs the figure I GUESSED at up....

The majority of fans on our forum are saying it'll be around the £1.5m figure, too.

Not sure why so many of you are so quick to use ad hominems and abuse people on here, behave like a pact of animals targeting someone. Its embarrassing. If you don't have summant nice or productive to say then keep it to yourself rather than try to inflate your own ego by having a pop at others.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

I wouldn't trust BBC Sport. They're still peddling the lie about Watkins having an £18m buyout clause. A rumour that started on Facebook and followed up by the Athletc. That's as good as their sources go.

You can see the article here - it also mentions snubbing Bayern Munich. This Liverpool, Chelsea & Bayern Munich that were after him, by the way! Just because you lot haven't heard of him, you think he's not worth over a few hundred k. People said the same about Amps, how wrong they were

Villa snap up Ben Chrisene after Exeter wonderkid snubbed Bayern Munich transfer

EXETER CITY’S 16-year-old superkid Ben Chrisene has snubbed Bayern Munich to sign for Aston Villa. The England youth midfielder impressed Bayern’s coaches when he played for the German side&#…

www.google.com

The link in that Sun story also takes you to an article about him costing £880,000! Brilliant!

 

[Devon_Lad]

The link in that Sun story also takes you to an article about him costing £880,000! Brilliant!

He went for £3m

West Brom threatening to sue Aston Villa over £3million Louie Barry transfer

EXCLUSIVE: Louie Barry moved to Barcelona from West Brom in the summer for just a compensation figure of £235,000 but is now on the brink of signing for Aston Villa

www.google.com

Barcelona Wonderkid Louie Barry,16, Set To Join Aston Villa For £3 Million

The young striker only moved to Catalunya in the summer of 2019 and is on his way back to England.

www.google.com

Louie Barry, loopholes and a Fifa system that’s ripe for abuse

He is just 16 years old and yet to make a professional appearance.

www.expressandstar.com

Just google it. £880,000 with over 2m in appearances etc added on, bringing the deal up to 3m. Regardless, the point is Ben Chrisiene will have likely left for North of £1m with sell ons attached. Don't worry we aren't going to be a threat with an extra £100,000 playing budget for the next 3 years.

 

[AR27]

We're now in the race for Matty Blair according to Gloucestershire Live

 

[masi51]

Chuffed to bits Mark Ellis has re-signed for us. That’s our defence sorted out for next season now.

Another who quite could not make it at our place

 

[chipmunx]

We've signed Tyler Cordner on loan from Bournemouth, CB who was on loan at Ebbsfleet last year.

I hope for your sake he wasn't playing last season when we played them - we scored 11 in 2 games against them

 

[Vale on Trent]

I have a feeling Nicky Maynard will be signing for Vale tomorrow.

 

[Devon_Lad]

I have a feeling Nicky Maynard will be signing for Vale tomorrow.

Seen quite a bit about that today. Will be a good signing for you. Deffo around the autos this season