Brighton Sky Blue
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They knew Sheaf’s fitness record when they signed him. In fact, in his only CCFC appearance he came off injured minutes after coming on. You couldn’t make it up.
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shmmeee
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Another since this one in April last year? I can’t find anything online
I think we will keep most of the squad. Rushworth will go back, Esse and Mini will go back, Bidwell, Brau, Allen, Simms, Bassette, Raphael and Wolfenden will be released or sold. We will bring in a keeper likely Rushworth or Trafford, a left back - Chilwell, a midfielder - Barkley, a couple of wingers - Azeez and Fatawu would be a good shout, and maybe a striker
torchomatic
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Probably my mistake. He got two years, but that was a year ago, so just one year left then.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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We paid 4m for both. We had competition fo both. Both are top end championship defenders.
Levship20
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Think he signed a new deal a couple of months ago but the length of the deal was not declared??? Could be wrong !
Sick Boy
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If we only sign 2 or 3 players we’d be candidates to beat Derby’s low points record.
torchomatic
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I thought the same, but maybe was thinking of the deal last April.
KenilworthSkyBlue
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And? Leicester paid £23m for Daka does that translate to what clubs would pay for him - no.
In reality Wolfenden had one good season in the Championship for Ipswich and then played a bit part role in the PL. This season he's been on the whole pretty poor.
So it's difficult to assess his actual quality at this level. I suspect it's probably somewhere in between the two. Either way I don't see clubs queuing for his signature in the summer if that's the fee we'd demand and we'd have to take a fairly sizeable loss on him if we wanted to move him on.
Kitching is albeit a different scenario as he's fairly decent at this level - vastly overrated by some - but nonetheless decent. I think we'd probably get what we paid for him there or there abouts though as he's coming up to 27 this season so his resale value is likely near enough gone and his performances have at times been pretty patchy (hence why he was dropped for our 4th choice CB).
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shmmeee
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Cant find anything online about this. Would be a bit weird to sign an extension then sign another six months later.
MvE Kitching and Dasilva did sign another extension whose length wasn’t disclosed which might be what you’re thinking of.
shmmeee
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This has him ooc next summer too:
Frank Lampard on fresh Coventry City contracts and seven pending ahead of 2027
Coventry City contract news from CoventryLive as Frank Lampard comments on the latest players to commit to the club
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Otis
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From the information I heard, there was a bit of a cock up.
Someone was tasked with bringing a face to the club to up the club's profile and they were supposed to have recruited...
But they got ..
Instead.
And not only is he not very good on a football pitch, he also looks terrible in a feather boa too.
The one thing the pair do have in common, is that they do both get quite a lot of bookings.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I think your underrated the transfer inflation going on in the championship. The average signings are costing around 3.5-5m. Teams like Stoke and Watford would definitely go for someone like Woolfenden as would Derby and Cardiff. Hull, Preston and Bristol fit into that category aswell
shmmeee
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Exactly this. We’ve signed 3 reserves this season and the cheapest was £3.5m
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Even looking at our sales - we made money on Binks. Wolfenden is a better player
KenilworthSkyBlue
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KKH was likely intended to be a first choice RB with MVE seemingly close to moving on.
Woolfenden was a panic signing as we put all our eggs in one basket with Hughes but we desperately needed depth.
Markelo i strongly suspect the upfront fee is nowhere near the reported total package.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Do people reckon we’d keep KKH around or sell/loan him out?
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I think we’re likely to keep him.MvE will remain our first choice right back. You’re not gonna get a better back up
Brighton Sky Blue
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We’ve just seen so little of him this season it’s hard to judge.
shmmeee
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Oh well if we can do this then I reckon everything was twice as much and we got an absolute bargain
Calista
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The wage bill is surely going to explode regardless. I'm no financial expert, but I imagine that's at least as significant as the outlay in transfer fees.
Calista
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Centre backs needed surely
Great bit of business. they’ll be premier league players in the summer, worth a lot more than what we brought them for
KenilworthSkyBlue
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The average age of arrivals this summer in the Championship was about 25.
So for the most part a lot those types of fees would likely have been paid on players that age or younger which means Championship clubs on the whole prefer to pay decent fees for both potential and resale value.
Then there's those which are happy to fork out for the likes of Tanganga but that's obviously less common.
Wolfenden is 28 this year and Kitching 27 so both are likely at their peak and due to their respective ages have a reduced resale value. And neither are really good enough to warrant huge fees just based on talent alone.
torchomatic
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Ha, yes. He was on as a sub for 7 minutes before going off injured. Brilliant bit of business getting that much for him.
Yes but who? Hughes?
SKYBLUES90
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Think we’d need an experienced premier league CB to go alongside Thomas.
We’ve got the starting ingredients for a decent team, MVE, Thomas i think could make the step up with someone next to him, Grimes, Onyeka, Rudoni, EMC, Wright.
I think the key is getting experienced players to be able to integrate with what we already have.
Only have to look at Sunderland with Xhaka.
Circa JH Goes off to fulfill a media career.
Sick Boy
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I think that ship has sailed - we’d probably be looking to sign someone with a decent amount of PL experience to partner Thomas.
Don't Japanese players have fewer miles on the clock as they start out later for some reason?
So not the normal concern on age?
Marty
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Please put me on ignore.
Don't give them motivation.