Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (39 Viewers)

Chris1987 said:

Unless I'm very much mistaken my question was about who was in which list and not whether we had been successful in signing a player.
What is your definition of cheap in monetary terms.

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Ccfcisparks said:

Well thus far we have spent £3m, sold for £2.5m alongside releasing players. We have a net spend of next to nil.

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Chris1987 said:

Answer the question. What is your definition of cheap ?

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Ccfcisparks said:

Cheap is bidding for players well under their value just so we can say "we are going for quality"

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Chris1987 said:

That's not answering the question. Let me put it again . What in monetary terms is cheap ?

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Ccfcisparks said:

Cheap is relative.

Loans are cheap, free's are cheap but bidding £3m for a player valued at £10m+ by his club is being cheap also.

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Ccfcisparks said:

How is it throwing money down the toilet?

Worst case scenario he costs them £5m-£8m and they sell him for £7.5m. If thats the case he's had a storming season for them and its just the equivalent of a loan.

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SHUNT31 said:

All their revenue comes from ‘commercial’ deals. It’s shit as they’re a tiny club but when you have people like Reynolds and McElhenney they’re going to be attractive to US investors.

The way football has gone, unfortunately. I hate it as much as the next person. Remember being a kid in the early 00’s and my dad said money had ruined football and that was back then, even truer now.

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Warwickhunt said:

Disney boys can spend as much as they like! You cannot buy the dressing room comeradre and spirit required to lay it all on the line to win at all costs. It will go tit's up eventually

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fatso said:

We'd definitely have their signings over ours this summer.

If it works for them then good luck to them, they've certainly given it a go.

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SkyBlue_Adam said:

What signing have they made that would get in our team?

Infact- I would say they haven’t got a single player that would

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