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Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (17 Viewers)

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Deity

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  • Monday at 4:20 PM
  • #1,926
Blind-Faith said:
Isn’t Grimes the same age as Toff? Personally think he would be a superb signing , PL experience and a really good championship left back, an absolute wand of a left peg

no real resale value but in his prime years and would certainly make us better down the left side
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Very one paced though …. As is Kitch. Makes our left side defence quite exposed.
 
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procdoc

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  • Monday at 4:31 PM
  • #1,927
Blind-Faith said:
Isn’t Grimes the same age as Toff? Personally think he would be a superb signing , PL experience and a really good championship left back, an absolute wand of a left peg

no real resale value but in his prime years and would certainly make us better down the left side
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Grimes has played every week for god knows how many years now. If Toffolo joined us with a similar number of games played as Grimes I’d have no issue.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Monday at 4:40 PM
  • #1,928
Trueskyblue20 said:
Have seen quite a few Sheff Utd fans saying he’s nailed on to go there so looks like he will be going.
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Toffolo?

Doubt it, they have Harrison Burrows and Sam McCallum already
 
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Trueskyblue20

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  • Monday at 4:47 PM
  • #1,929
Saddlebrains said:
Toffolo?

Doubt it, they have Harrison Burrows and Sam McCallum already
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No mate, Jimmy Dunne. They seem to think it’s more or less signed


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SkyBlueStallion_89

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  • Monday at 4:49 PM
  • #1,930
Trueskyblue20 said:
Have seen quite a few Sheff Utd fans saying he’s nailed on to go there so looks like he will be going.
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Shame really he's a good defender
 
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procdoc

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  • Monday at 4:50 PM
  • #1,931
I would have liked Dunne here, always looked decent
 
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Jamesimus

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  • Monday at 5:05 PM
  • #1,932
Ccfcisparks said:
I struggle to believe DCL
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Saddlebrains said:
My understanding is KKH Only happens if Milan is going

Jamal Lewis I have no idea what's happened there it was looking nailed on 6 weeks back but there were other suitors

We're in for Toffolo aswell
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No idea really if KKH is as good as MVE, but how likely is it that MVE is going? I think he’ll be a big miss.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Monday at 5:09 PM
  • #1,933
No doubt Toffollo is a good Championship defender but I don't think he's that good that it's worth his no doubt large salary, especially as he'll have not much sell on value
 
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Viktor17

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  • Monday at 5:20 PM
  • #1,934
fernandopartridge said:
No doubt Toffollo is a good Championship defender but I don't think he's that good that it's worth his no doubt large salary, especially as he'll have not much sell on value
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Tend to agree, he’d need to take big wage cut.
 

Saddlebrains

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  • Monday at 5:23 PM
  • #1,935
Jamesimus said:
No idea really if KKH is as good as MVE, but how likely is it that MVE is going? I think he’ll be a big miss.
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Milans a lot more likely to go than Haji and Rudoni

However the 'Cork in the bottle' so to speak is Sheaf. What he decides to do will set everything off i feel
 
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TomRad85

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  • Monday at 5:34 PM
  • #1,936
Saddlebrains said:
Milans a lot more likely to go than Haji and Rudoni

However the 'Cork in the bottle' so to speak is Sheaf. What he decides to do will set everything off i feel
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Feel like the money we'd get for Sheaf could offer us more than Sheaf has recently.
 
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Hincha

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  • Monday at 5:44 PM
  • #1,937
Saddlebrains said:
Milans a lot more likely to go than Haji and Rudoni

However the 'Cork in the bottle' so to speak is Sheaf. What he decides to do will set everything off i feel
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Do you have any idea if there is actually interest in Sheaf?

Not sure where the market is for him after the season he's had
 

SkyblueTexan

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  • Monday at 5:52 PM
  • #1,938
Terry Gibson's perm said:
A lot of people mention Jimmy Dunne I thought he was hopeless when we played just big but very slow, I know it’s a view of one game.
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Sheff Utd are reportedly gong all in for him
 

SBAndy

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  • Monday at 7:01 PM
  • #1,939
TomRad85 said:
Feel like the money we'd get for Sheaf could offer us more than Sheaf has recently.
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2 points on this: would you get that much for him now? And would you still expect to get the same fee if he has a decent season but only 1 year left on his contract?

Assuming he’s not on astronomical wages, I’d be tempted to keep him on for another year and use him both as cover for Grimes but also in a double pivot which we’ll no doubt play in the ‘bigger’ games.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Monday at 7:06 PM
  • #1,940
Trueskyblue20 said:
He is a really good Championship player and would be a good signing as he’s better than what we have by far.

Yes there are issues he’s hardly played in the last 2 years and he won’t be up to scratch straight away but that’s what you use pre season for.
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Agreed on this season. Last season (23/24), he appeared in 24 out of 38 Prem games which is decent. I’ve not checked if that’s full games or cameos to be honest.

Edit: checked his minutes in 23/24 and he played a decent amount of minutes in Forest’s first 2 seasons in the Prem.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Monday at 7:09 PM
  • #1,941
SBAndy said:
2 points on this: would you get that much for him now? And would you still expect to get the same fee if he has a decent season but only 1 year left on his contract?

Assuming he’s not on astronomical wages, I’d be tempted to keep him on for another year and use him both as cover for Grimes but also in a double pivot which we’ll no doubt play in the ‘bigger’ games.
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Sheaf’s best bet of Premiership football is with us and frankly, this season has been a setback for him so his value has tanked from our POV.

I don’t think he’ll leave this summer because it doesn’t suit either party imo.
 
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Deity

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  • Monday at 7:15 PM
  • #1,942
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Sheaf’s best bet of Premiership football is with us and frankly, this season has been a setback for him so his value has tanked from our POV.

I don’t think he’ll leave this summer because it doesn’t suit either party imo.
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Not sure they’d right ….

Shesf will go if he gets the right offer and the club will let him move on if a fair offer is made.

it doesn’t suit either party for him to stay and run down his contract
 
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JoshCCFC1987

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  • Monday at 7:23 PM
  • #1,943
can’t believe people are debating wether toffolo would be a good signing, he’s a clear upgrade on bidwell and whatever fee we were to get for bidwell would cover the wage difference between the two
 
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higgs

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  • Monday at 7:56 PM
  • #1,944
Trueskyblue20 said:
No mate, Jimmy Dunne. They seem to think it’s more or less signed


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Dunne deal?

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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Monday at 9:13 PM
  • #1,945
Deity said:
Not sure they’d right ….

Shesf will go if he gets the right offer and the club will let him move on if a fair offer is made.

it doesn’t suit either party for him to stay and run down his contract
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The way you describe it, then yes we would sell him.

What would the club define as ‘the right offer?’ My suspicion is that the club’s valuation probably hasn’t dropped from 23/24 when we rejected approaches from Southampton and Luton.

Without knowing figures involved, let’s assume we valued him at £10m last summer. We would be lucky to get that after his stop-start season this year. If the club believe he’s still worth that, they won’t sell this year. It’s worth the gambling on keeping him and if he has a good year, cash in and if he struggles again, we know we have to take a hit on the valuation.

The situation outlined with Sheaf applies to a few other players in the squad. Selling this year is premature.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Monday at 9:16 PM
  • #1,946
Mucca Mad Boys said:
The way you describe it, then yes we would sell him.

What would the club define as ‘the right offer?’ My suspicion is that the club’s valuation probably hasn’t dropped from 23/24 when we rejected approaches from Southampton and Luton.

Without knowing figures involved, let’s assume we valued him at £10m last summer. We would be lucky to get that after his stop-start season this year. If the club believe he’s still worth that, they won’t sell this year. It’s worth the gambling on keeping him and if he has a good year, cash in and if he struggles again, we know we have to take a hit on the valuation.

The situation outlined with Sheaf applies to a few other players in the squad. Selling this year is premature.
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There was only one offer last season and it was the player that rejected the move not the club.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Monday at 9:26 PM
  • #1,947
clint van damme said:
There was only one offer last season and it was the player that rejected the move not the club.
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I’m sure @Jimmy87 claimed we rejected an offer from Southampton and Sheaf wasn’t happy about it.

If I’m wrong, I’ll hold my hands up.
 

clint van damme

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  • Monday at 9:42 PM
  • #1,948
Mucca Mad Boys said:
I’m sure @Jimmy87 claimed we rejected an offer from Southampton and Sheaf wasn’t happy about it.

If I’m wrong, I’ll hold my hands up.
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Just what I was told.
Jimmy87 is a reliable source and I have no contact in the club at all but I posted this and I posted we'd be signing Rudoni and both bits of info came from members of the players families.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Monday at 10:05 PM
  • #1,949
Mucca Mad Boys said:
I’m sure @Jimmy87 claimed we rejected an offer from Southampton and Sheaf wasn’t happy about it.

If I’m wrong, I’ll hold my hands up.
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For some reason I can't edit my original reply to you but just found Jimmy's tweet.
He put that up in September after the summer window, I posted mine much earlier so possibly both could be true.
 
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CovLad94

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  • Tuesday at 10:10 AM
  • #1,950
Seeing Josh Coburns name being banded about on X, one city fan claiming he's heard or seen him signing a deal with Cov.
 

PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Tuesday at 10:36 AM
  • #1,951
CovLad94 said:
Seeing Josh Coburns name being banded about on X, one city fan claiming he's heard or seen him signing a deal with Cov.
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I have a mate who’s got a dog that used to be owned by Frank Lampard’s cousin who saw him having dinner in Southampton with the Redknapps
 

Grendel

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  • Tuesday at 10:44 AM
  • #1,952
Samueljames1991 said:
He's played about 2 games in 5 years
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He’s also 40
 

fatso

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  • Tuesday at 10:54 AM
  • #1,953
fernandopartridge said:
No doubt Toffollo is a good Championship defender but I don't think he's that good that it's worth his no doubt large salary, especially as he'll have not much sell on value
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What large salary?
If he's out of contract who's paying him a large salary?

What he earned last season is irrelevant, he's about to be unemployed.
 

shmmeee

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  • Tuesday at 11:00 AM
  • #1,954
fatso said:
What large salary?
If he's out of contract who's paying him a large salary?

What he earned last season is irrelevant, he's about to be unemployed.
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Do you work in HR by any chance?
 
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fatso

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  • Tuesday at 11:05 AM
  • #1,955
shmmeee said:
Do you work in HR by any chance?
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Highfield Road????

No, definitely not in HR. (Bunch of PC tossers )
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Tuesday at 11:15 AM
  • #1,956
fatso said:
What large salary?
If he's out of contract who's paying him a large salary?

What he earned last season is irrelevant, he's about to be unemployed.
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Any player who transfers club terminates their previous contract, what's the difference? He will have salary expectations that will almost certainly be towards the top of our wage bill.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Tuesday at 11:17 AM
  • #1,957
Saddlebrains said:
Milans a lot more likely to go than Haji and Rudoni

However the 'Cork in the bottle' so to speak is Sheaf. What he decides to do will set everything off i feel
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MVE & Wright are the mostly likely stars to leave this summer. We have zero pressure to sell Rudoni and I think even the player knows he needs another big season in championship before moving on.

On Sheaf, I can’t see there being many buyers for him at a price we’d find acceptable. Anything below £7m is a waste of time because we’d need to spend around that getting a replacement. Now we know he has 2 years left on his contract, the club would be better off him having a good 25/26 and cashing in Jan / summer 2026 at an inflated value.

It’s the same with Simms, Kitching and BTA - zero point in selling players with decent contracts when their values have tanked.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Tuesday at 11:18 AM
  • #1,958
shmmeee said:
Do you work in HR by any chance?
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fatso said:
Highfield Road????

No, definitely not in HR. (Bunch of PC tossers )
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Co’mon @shmmeee, does Fatso seem the type to work in HR?!

His response says it all!
 
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JSL

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  • Tuesday at 11:19 AM
  • #1,959
I think Doug, Frank and the team are realistic enough to know that we almost made it and with a few quality additions in the right places we can move onwards and that they will know that the required quality will require strong wages
 
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fatso

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  • Tuesday at 11:20 AM
  • #1,960
fernandopartridge said:
Any player who transfers club terminates their previous contract, what's the difference? He will have salary expectations that will almost certainly be towards the top of our wage bill.
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Every player will have expectations, but you tend to find reality will temper those expectations.

At the moment us and Norwich are rumoured to be in the running, so he will have to fit into the wage structure of those clubs.
Obviously being a free could give him some wiggle room for negotiation. But he won't be on PL wages at either club.
 
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