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21/22 Summer transfer mega-thread (22 Viewers)

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Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,741
shmmeee said:
Made some great signings. Have they had a cash injection or something?
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New owners I think. Paul Cook as manager. Signed Raheem Harper from WBA, plus a couple of others iirc.

Think Sunderland may struggle to go up again - must be galling for their fanbase, having had that billionaire get involved - but done little in the transfer market.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,742
David O'Day said:
Cranie was wasted at left back far too much last time he was here
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Wasted at left back?!? No wonder we sold him!
 

SleepyGinger

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,743
rexo87 said:
Football insider (yes they are usually reliable) saying that Bayliss is available for loan with a number of Champ and a league 1 sides interested. Would take him tbh


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He’s a Derby fan and they are desperate for players.
 

Winny the Bish

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,744
Terry_dactyl said:
Wasted at left back?!? No wonder we sold him!
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Weren't there rumours that Crainie had a bit of a drink problem while with us? A regular face in Leamington's local establishments I was told.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,745
skyblue93 said:
Weren't there rumours that Crainie had a bit of a drink problem while with us? A regular face in Leamington's local establishments I was told.
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Not heard that but Thorn was a joke figure amongst the players at the time
 
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slowpoke

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,746
shmmeee said:
I’d be happy with Cranie and a loan at CB I think.
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Cranie would be okay for a year can cover various positions and a good old head to have around the up and coming youngsters.
 
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Colin Steins Smile

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,747
skyblue93 said:
Weren't there rumours that Crainie had a bit of a drink problem while with us? A regular face in Leamington's local establishments I was told.
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I saw him in the green man in Kenilworth on a number of occasions & always had a beer
 

Evo1883

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,748
Colin Steins Smile said:
I saw him in the green man in Kenilworth on a number of occasions & always had a beer
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He has a child with a well known coventry fans daughter .
I'm sure he'd still live quite locally
 

jordan210

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,749
Has Lawrence Shanklan been a rumour this year. Has been for the past 2-3 season !
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,750
Samo said:
Apart from the investing in the team part
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Well there was an initial injection.


Edit- I think there was something dodgy around the chrystalization of the previous debt, could be wrong though.
 
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Skybluebeliever

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,751
better days said:
All quiet so far
But I think things are in hand
Hopefully no more covid positives
That would be a big help
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Hamer is moving house still in the area though !!!!no panic
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,752
David O'Day said:
Cranie was wasted at left back far too much
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So was I. But then I shouldn't have gone out the night before.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,753
Skybluebeliever said:
Hamer is moving house still in the area though !!!!no panic
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Perhaps he leaving us in stealth mode . Anybody know which direction he has moved, so we can try and guess the new club?
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,754
Samo said:
Apart from the investing in the team part
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To be fair SISU bought some decent players in when they took over. Problem was they sold them almost immediately for the quick profit when they failed to get us promotion.
 

slowpoke

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,755
Skybluebeliever said:
Hamer is moving house still in the area though !!!!no panic
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Still in West Brom territory.
 
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Grendel

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,756
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
To be fair SISU bought some decent players in when they took over. Problem was they sold them almost immediately for the quick profit when they failed to get us promotion.
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Did they? Can't think of many we made profit from - Dann stands out. I think with Fox we hardly made anything
 

COV

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,757
Grendel said:
Did they? Can't think of many we made profit from - Dann stands out. I think with Fox we hardly made anything
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Think he means hard cash injection as opposed to paper profit

Wasn’t one of the reasons Dowie left that he wanted to sign Darren Moore but we went and bought Fox & Dann?
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,758
COV said:
Think he means hard cash injection as opposed to paper profit

Wasn’t one of the reasons Dowie left that he wanted to sign Darren Moore but we went and bought Fox & Dann?
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I doubt it, Fox and Dann were scouted by Dowie and Flowers according to the latter
 

junglej13

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,759
fernandopartridge said:
I doubt it, Fox and Dann were scouted by Dowie and Flowers according to the latter
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Think when Davenport was sold we had about £250k of the proceeds to spend. Remember the Telegraph reporting we were in for Darren Moore and Malky Mackay. Think we ended up spending the money on Stern John and bringing Dean Leacock in on loan.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,760
Matt Grimes leaving Swansea for Fulham. Swansea may well be a lot weaker this season with the effect of losing parachute payments hitting them hard,
 

Skybluedownunder

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,761
Skybluebeliever said:
Hamer is moving house still in the area though !!!!no panic
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Unless he goes the baggies


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Grendel

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,762
COV said:
Think he means hard cash injection as opposed to paper profit

Wasn’t one of the reasons Dowie left that he wanted to sign Darren Moore but we went and bought Fox & Dann?
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Dowie scouted them - well his brother I assume - a lot of the cash never went on players - the funding over the length of time they’ve been here had been wafer thin really
 

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,763
rexo87 said:
Sure it’s nothing but Hamer’s missus has put a post on Instagram saying ‘last day in Kenilworth’…


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Moving upmarket too Leamington.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,764
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
Moving upmarket too Leamington.
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Kenilworth is nicer than Leamington for the most part.

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COV

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,765
Grendel said:
Dowie scouted them - well his brother I assume - a lot of the cash never went on players - the funding over the length of time they’ve been here had been wafer thin really
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Don’t disagree at all. Could have sworn there was some commotion about Darren Moore at the time, I must be mixed up.
 

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,766
TomRad85 said:
Kenilworth is nicer than Leamington for the most part.

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Yeah but when you're loaded you can be picky.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,767
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
Yeah but when you're loaded you can be picky.
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No money GIF? Slacking recently
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,768
SlowerThanPlatt said:
No money GIF? Slacking recently
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Oh it's you again.
 

TomRad85

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,769
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
Yeah but when you're loaded you can be picky.
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True, there are some seriously nice places top end of Leam

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Harries11

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,770
Evo1883 said:
He has a child with a well known coventry fans daughter .
I'm sure he'd still live quite locally
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Lives locally, married to her with two children.
 
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Irish Sky Blue

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,771
shmmeee said:
And it’s his opinion the other way, weird post
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You make statements as though they are true. Coventry Cathedral is bigger than my house, fact. Sheaf is better than Kelly, only your opinion.
 

Irish Sky Blue

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,772
Harries11 said:
Lives locally, married to her with two children.
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My son saw him outside a new house near Filongley a couple of weeks ago.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,773
Irish Sky Blue said:
You make statements as though they are true. Coventry Cathedral is bigger than my house, fact. Sheaf is better than Kelly, only your opinion.
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That’s how you choose to interpret it? How could he have made that post seem like his opinion other than adding “in my opinion”
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,774
Grendel said:
Did they? Can't think of many we made profit from - Dann stands out. I think with Fox we hardly made anything
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Pretty sure we made a hefty profit on Fox. Over a million at least. Think they also ended up funding some of the earlier transfers like Borrowdale, Best and Simpson, who we all made a profit on. Gunnarson as well we made some profit on.

But yeah some of the big signings like Eastwood, Westwood and Bell where they either failed or we didn't get them on a longer contract we made pretty big losses on.

Third season they starting selling off the silver and although they spent some of the money on transfers we still made around £4.5m profit. Almost all of those signings left on a free too.

Basically they refused to give the decent players new contracts on higher wages and eventually they just ran their contracts down and left. Any attempt to keep them with a new deal was too late by then.

After that it was clear they'd lost faith in funding transfers and started to bring in a lot of loan players and freebies and we just steadily got worse.
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jul 26, 2021
  • #5,775
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Pretty sure we made a hefty profit on Fox. Over a million at least. Think they also ended up funding some of the earlier transfers like Borrowdale, Best and Simpson, who we all made a profit on. Gunnarson as well we made some profit on.

But yeah some of the big signings like Eastwood, Westwood and Bell where they either failed or we didn't get them on a longer contract we made pretty big losses on.

Third season they starting selling off the silver and although they spent some of the money on transfers we still made around £4.5m profit. Almost all of those signings left on a free too.

Basically they refused to give the decent players new contracts on higher wages and eventually they just ran their contracts down and left. Any attempt to keep them with a new deal was too late by then.

After that it was clear they'd lost faith in funding transfers and started to bring in a lot of loan players and freebies and we just steadily got worse.
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Didn't Gunnarsson leave on a free?
 
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