Stickied Transfer Rumours & Confirmed Deals Thread 2024/25

[QPR_Matt]

Sylla on his way to Blackburn. Season long with a view to a perm. Good luck to him, scores goals but is bloody awkward to watch. Can't dribble, or pass. Hold up play isn't great ... but he'll score goals.

 

[MagpieBee]

Woods gone to Stoke. Hopefully our last departure and we move on quickly. Need to get back to winning ways next week

 

[SMH]

Blackburn paying over 6m for the kid from Forest. Oh those evil Venkys!

 

[M Dogg]

Weird one, he’s either gonna be amazing or at very worst a decent championship striker. For £6m I’d rather we found out ourselves

Must mean someone is coming in and the Post says we want two of Oliveira, Gestede, Defoe and Abraham

I don’t think so somehow on the last 2

 

[SUTSS]

I don't think you'd have to pay too much for Oliveira, we're pretty desperate to get rid.

 

[Gerry Gow]

We’re after Harrison Reed from Southampton. Was on loan at Norwich last season?

Is he any good?

 

[SUTSS]

Reed is a very tidy player who, if he can develop some areas of his game, can become a very good player. He's strength are his passing ability, his ability to drive forward with the ball and he is very hard to knock off the ball. His main issue when he was here was his positional discipline. When he was played as a lone defensive midfielder it was horrendous as he drifts from side to side. This was countered when we played with two defensive midfielders and he could drift without compromising the team's shape, he looked very good in that system.

Toward the end of the season we played him as a right back quite a lot and he really started to develop in that position. There was talk of us trying to sign him to be our first choice right back and I think that might be the position he ends up playing going forwards.

 

[CT70]

Harrison Reed in on a season long loan from Southampton.
Pleased with this one, Mowbray doing some good business this summer.

 

[SMH]

Graeme Bailey on a one man mission to try and tout Nick Powell about once again. Bellend!

 

[JJH]

7.5m George Saville to Boro. A lot of money for someone who'll barely get a game there I'd think.

We ought to sign Adam Clayton now he'll be surplus up there,

 

[SoutheySWFC]

Football is just fucked isn't it.

 

[SoutheySWFC]

Genuine point, what is the reasoning behind FFP if parachute payments skew the market to the extent that players, average players, go for fees of £5m+.

Slowly beginning to hate it more and more, not bothering tonight and it's a ten minute walk and avoiding Reading, didn't go midweek either, not like me at all.

 

[MagpieBee]

If Saville is worth £7.5m then we should have got £10m+ for Woods! Feel like we’ve been robbed!

 

[Jockney]

Saville has only just turned 25 and scored ten goals from central midfield in a team that nearly made then play-offs last season. Of course the fee is mad in any normal world, but it is correct value for him in this market I think.

Anyway, I do wonder how much we’ll be left with after Wolves take their 20% and clauses are put in. I don’t imagine we’ll receive all that much up front either.

 

[markwwfc1992]

George Saville

Hope we had a sell on clause but I doubt it. Nobody at Wolves would have thought he would one day be worth that much in this ridiculous market.

EDIT: we have 20%?

 

[MagpieBee]

Saville has only just turned 25 and scored ten goals from central midfield in a team that nearly made then play-offs last season. Of course the fee is mad in any normal world, but it is correct value for him in this market I think.

Anyway, I do wonder how much we’ll be left with after Wolves take their 20% and clauses are put in. I don’t imagine we’ll receive all that much up front either.

Don't blame you guys for asking for the fee - just surprised no one else was jumping at the chance to get Woods if this is the type of fee in this market.

 

[markwwfc1992]

He's basically a younger Dave Edwards. Lots of workrate but his ability is questionable. Can get away with it at Championship level.

 

[SMH]

Genuine point, what is the reasoning behind FFP if parachute payments skew the market to the extent that players, average players, go for fees of £5m+.

Slowly beginning to hate it more and more, not bothering tonight and it's a ten minute walk and avoiding Reading, didn't go midweek either, not like me at all.

The irony being that Sheff Wed have played a huge part in skewing the market. Derby as well. It’s not all been clubs with parachute payments.

 

[SoutheySWFC]

The irony being that Sheff Wed have played a huge part in skewing the market. Derby as well. It’s not all been clubs with parachute payments.

Yes we are as culpable, the Rhodes deal perhaps the low point, we have paid silly monies for some although to be fair it is the first time in 20 years that we have done.

The key players were relatively cheap mind

Westwood - Feee
Lees - Free
Bannan - Free
Lee - Free
Hooper - £3m
Forestieri - £3m
Reach - £3m (add ons take it to 5)

We did spunk around 15m on Rhodes, Abdi and Van Aken though

 

[blademan89]

Yes we are as culpable, the Rhodes deal perhaps the low point, we have paid silly monies for some although to be fair it is the first time in 20 years that we have done.

The key players were relatively cheap mind

Westwood - Feee
Lees - Free
Bannan - Free
Lee - Free
Hooper - £3m
Forestieri - £3m
Reach - £3m (add ons take it to 5)

We did spunk around 15m on Rhodes, Abdi and Van Aken though

Think it must be stupid wages that have fucked you up, only guessing like.

 

[SF_]

If Saville is worth £7.5m then we should have got £10m+ for Woods! Feel like we’ve been robbed!

It was low, Stoke were interested in Pearson and £12m didn't even tempt us.

Can't knock Saville's goal return last season.

 

[TomPNE94]

Slowly beginning to hate it more and more, not bothering tonight and it's a ten minute walk and avoiding Reading, didn't go midweek either, not like me at all.

Me too, although I think a lot of it is how shit we've been so far this season. I'm struggling to see the point anymore when the rumours are that our owner refuses to back the manager with who he wants.

Going to Leeds tonight but only because my brother wanted to, I'd happily have given it a miss. Didn't go to Derby either and not sure when my first league away game will be.

 

[Luke_1884]

The irony being that Sheff Wed have played a huge part in skewing the market. Derby as well. It’s not all been clubs with parachute payments.

You spent a million pounds on James Perch ya daft bastard. You ain't blameless!

 

[SMH]

You spent a million pounds on James Perch ya daft bastard. You ain't blameless!

Was one of our better purchases of the parachute payment era that, he did very well for us. The less said about Grant Holt though, the better.

As much as a clown Coyle was, I do wish Whelan had backed him on that 2013 deadline day and greenlit the Jordan Rhodes deal for 8m that Coyle had lined up using the 12m we were getting for James McCarthy. Would have smashed the Championship transfer record fee at the time and caused an absolute meltdown. Think it was a year later when Fulham paid a shedload for Ross McCormack from Leeds and everyone blew up about it.

 

[91SPP]

Players are worth as much as the selling clubs rate them at, which is why I find it laughable at the 'skewed' market.

Players at this level come in and out of fashion very quickly, not only that but players seem to hit huge peaks and troughs if they're a career Championship player. Stockdale went from winning the goalkeeper of the year award to sitting behind Lee Camp, another player who has seen better days. Chris Martin went from being on the best target men in this division to playing with our U23s, comfortably fourth or fifth choice centre forward on our books.

In the 15/16 season, Wells & Hemed were two of the top goalscorers at this level - both scored 17 in promotion chasing sides. Now they're at the QPR on loan, who have obviously needed to go about the transfer market a little bit smarter. I would say they've done that on the back of those two signings.

If your scouting network is worth it's weight or even if your coaching staff & manager are up to scratch then you shouldn't need to spend much money at all. Leicester won the Premier League down to good coaching, finding the right balance & signing some good players. It's worth noting that Kante signed for Leicester less than a month before we signed Bradley Johnson. The fee & wages were very similar, in fact Johnson may have been more. It just shows the power of scouting.

 

[JJH]

Yes we are as culpable, the Rhodes deal perhaps the low point, we have paid silly monies for some although to be fair it is the first time in 20 years that we have done.

The key players were relatively cheap mind

Westwood - Feee
Lees - Free
Bannan - Free
Lee - Free
Hooper - £3m
Forestieri - £3m
Reach - £3m (add ons take it to 5)

We did spunk around 15m on Rhodes, Abdi and Van Aken though

Isn't Van Aken a good player mate?

And I get what you're saying, FFP just makes the playing field in this division even more uneven and it fucks me off that we sell to clubs like Villa and Boro but we're powerless really, we can't offer players 35k per week like they do and expect it to be sustainable.

It'll catch up with a few clubs though. I don't think we're blameless, as a newly promoted club we were chucking 9m at players like it was nothing (even if they didn't join) but since Cotterill's gone we've been somewhat more sensible in the transfer market fee wise, other than the potential bloody 8m for Webster

 

[SoutheySWFC]

Isn't Van Aken a good player mate?

And I get what you're saying, FFP just makes the playing field in this division even more uneven and it fucks me off that we sell to clubs like Villa and Boro but we're powerless really, we can't offer players 35k per week like they do and expect it to be sustainable.

It'll catch up with a few clubs though. I don't think we're blameless, as a newly promoted club we were chucking 9m at players like it was nothing (even if they didn't join) but since Cotterill's gone we've been somewhat more sensible in the transfer market fee wise, other than the potential bloody 8m for Webster

Van Aken looked great at the start but he got destroyed mentally and physically in the Derby and looks a shadow of his old self and is injured AGAIN.

The fact is you have a wealthy owner as do several clubs but cannot spend their monies whilst half the clubs in the division are being rewarded for their failure upstairs with being able to chuck monies out of the reach of most for players.

91SPP, I get what you are saying but recently we've had clubs come down, and considering we paid 3m for 1FF barely 3 years back, have blown the market to stupid levels by using PP to not protect themselves but to load more costs on the board, Kodjia, Hogan etc being inflated fees IMHO but ones Villa paid and then made it the norm for the rest of us.

 

[SMH]

Yeah of the parachute payment clubs that have come down since the Prem TV deal in 2014 which changed the game completely, Villa have without a doubt been the biggest culprits of market and wage inflation. Paying huge money and big wages for failures like Lansbury, Hogan, McCormack etc. Dr Tony gambled everything on promotion and failed, changing the market for everyone else in the process.

 

[SoutheySWFC]

Yeah of the parachute payment clubs that have come down since the Prem TV deal in 2014 which changed the game completely, Villa have without a doubt been the biggest culprits of market and wage inflation. Paying huge money and big wages for failures like Lansbury, Hogan, McCormack etc. Dr Tony gambled everything on promotion and failed, changing the market for everyone else in the process.

Newcastle too to be fair.

 

[Jockney]

Reliable forum ITK reckons it’s £7m rising to £9m in clauses. Also says we’re negotiating with Sheffield United for Ryan Leonard, who we’ve been after for a couple of years but hasn’t hit it off at the Blades. Josh Morris also been mentioned, though I’m lukewarm about his ability to come in and make a difference.

Mad sums of money for a club of our size, though. More than treble the fee of our current outgoing transfer record.