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Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (19 Viewers)

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fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,421
Perennial Lurker said:
I'm not delighted by the end of the window but it is far from as terminal as some would have it
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Yes but hardly what Doug sells when he hikes ticket prices every season
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,422
fernandopartridge said:
It's good in one respect but ironically it's one of the positions we've forward planned for. Selling Sheaf looks a bit desperate now and leaves us short of the quality we need in midfield. We are still short at right and left wing.
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By signing Woolfenden it does give us the opportunity to play wing backs instead of wingers of and when injured/suspensions determine
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,423
pusbccfc said:
Lampard might call his best mate Willian tomorrow
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Not sure signing him from the Black Eyed Peas will make much of a difference to our squad
 

pusbccfc

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,424
fernandopartridge said:
It's good in one respect but ironically it's one of the positions we've forward planned for. Selling Sheaf looks a bit desperate now and leaves us short of the quality we need in midfield. We are still short at right and left wing.
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I think we were desperate. Even without the stadium purchase, I said on here 2 weeks ago that we probably don't have the funds without selling an asset.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,425
Perennial Lurker said:
By signing Woolfenden it does give us the opportunity to play wing backs instead of wingers of and when injured/suspensions determine
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Have we got enough central midfielders to do it now
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,426
pusbccfc said:
I think we were desperate. Even without the stadium purchase, I said on here 2 weeks ago that we probably don't have the funds without selling an asset.
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why did we bid £10m on hughes then?
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,427
fernandopartridge said:
Have we got enough central midfielders to do it now
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Is Dabo still a free agent ?
 
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Didge76

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,428
Are we officially done ??? If so I’m good with it.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,429
Ccfcisparks said:
why did we bid £10m on hughes then?
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None of us know how much we bid or how the bid was structured
 

blunted

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,430
SeaSeeEffCee said:
I refuse to believe he isn’t under instruction to do that. Surely Lampard would be tearing his hair out with him and would have stopped playing him there is he keeps ignoring his position to that magnitude?
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Haji sometimes appears on the wings and BTA through the centre when he plays on the wings. Pretty sure it is a fluid front three thing.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,431
Perennial Lurker said:
Not sure signing him from the Black Eyed Peas will make much of a difference to our squad
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Sorry mate, I meant Will Ferrell
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,432
Perennial Lurker said:
None of us know how much we bid or how the bid was structured
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there would have been a significant amount upfront and that was before we knew sheaf was going?
 
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David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,433
I totally get we could have had more depth but to keep the best XI together is a good thing. We have a very good team and it is 3 months until the next window.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,434
Ccfcisparks said:
why did we bid £10m on hughes then?
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Either we never actually thought we'd get him at that price, as Hull made clear. Or, we still hoped/expected to sell MVE/Sheaf.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,435
Ccfcisparks said:
there would have been a significant amount upfront and that was before we knew sheaf was going?
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True but there has been interest surrounding MvE all summer. Surely we knew we were going to lose at least one valuable player from the squad
 

David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,436
pusbccfc said:
Either we never actually thought we'd get him at that price, as Hull made clear. Or, we still hoped/expected to sell MVE/Sheaf.
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Hughes was never really on unless we made it impossible to say no which wouldn't have been a good deal for us so we got our 2nd target.
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,437
pusbccfc said:
Either we never actually thought we'd get him at that price, as Hull made clear. Or, we still hoped/expected to sell MVE/Sheaf.
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So we just bid for a laugh and weren’t serious about signing him? What was our plan if Hull accepted?
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,438
David O'Day said:
Hughes was never really on unless we made it impossible to say no which wouldn't have been a good deal for us so we got our 2nd target.
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Exactly, we were never going to pay what they wanted and we shouldn't. He's not worth that to us right now.
 

covcity4life

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,439
Fucking age till next game now ffs
 
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David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
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I'm also glad that when teams like Southampton and Wolfsburg came sniffing around our players we didn't cave in when they didn't off what we thought was the price for us.

That is a good thing.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,441
SeaSeeEffCee said:
So we just bid for a laugh and weren’t serious about signing him? What was our plan if Hull accepted?
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they’re wrapping themselves up in knots
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,442
David O'Day said:
Hughes was never really on unless we made it impossible to say no which wouldn't have been a good deal for us so we got our 2nd target.
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I get the sense Woolfenden was our first target and then when the interest in Thomas materialised we pursued Hughes
 

David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,443
pusbccfc said:
Exactly, we were never going to pay what they wanted and we shouldn't. He's not worth that to us right now.
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yep, as has been said their embargo made his cost right now far too much for anyone to pa

these things happen
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,444
Ccfcisparks said:
they’re wrapping themselves up in knots
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How ? It coincided with the Thomas interest didn't it?
 

pusbccfc

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,445
SeaSeeEffCee said:
So we just bid for a laugh and weren’t serious about signing me him? What was our plan if Hull accepted?
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We would have found the money, like we did with the stadium.

We aren't in the position to keep buying players without selling assets. If we had signed him, someone would have gone in Jan.

We've balanced the books quite nicely this window and will leave a bit of room to spend in January should we need to.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,446
is there a mongo-esque winger in the academy we can use.

the thought of brau or kkh as wingers is depressing
 

David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,447
Perennial Lurker said:
I get the sense Woolfenden was our first target and then when the interest in Thomas materialised we pursued Hughes
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could be, okay when Hughes was not worth the money required we got the other of our top 2 targets
 

Skybluedownunder

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,448
Matt smith said:
To be honest I can see Tom Lawrence haha
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I’d rather Patrick Bamford. Don’t want to see Tom Lawrence here


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pusbccfc

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,449
Skybluedownunder said:
I’d rather Patrick Bamford. Don’t want to see Tom Lawrence here


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We were tracking Lawrence in June according to the Scottish press.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,450


When I saw this I thought we’d signed Edwin Van Der Sar
 
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David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,451
SeaSeeEffCee said:
So we just bid for a laugh and weren’t serious about signing him? What was our plan if Hull accepted?
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We would of signed him but likely the money would of then had to come from the likely sale of someone like Rudi next summer who if he has another great season will attract bigger clubs than Southampton or if we somehow got promoted the increase in revenue would have covered it.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,452
Skybluedownunder said:
I’d rather Patrick Bamford. Don’t want to see Tom Lawrence here


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Bamford has been pretty rubbish for a good while and plays in a role we have 3 players in already. Lawrence for his faults does play in a 10 or on the wings which would be more valuable to us and our current squad.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,453
David O'Day said:
Bamford has been pretty rubbish for a good while and plays in a role we have 3 players in already. Lawrence for his faults does play in a 10 or on the wings which would be more valuable to us and our current squad.
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Lawrence is absolutely shite and would take until January to get fit.
 
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blunted

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,454
pusbccfc said:
We were tracking Lawrence in June according to the Scottish press.
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I know Laurence was in Lampard's Derby team that got to the playoffs.
Few years ago now. Anyone have any sensible observations why we might want him or has he gone over the hill?
Wonder why he is a free agent? Wages or is he no good now?
Must admit, I know nothing about him.
Ali is a car crash. Wrexham or Blues will probably sign the Ox
 
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David O'Day

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  • Sep 1, 2025
  • #21,455
Ccfcisparks said:
Lawrence is absolutely shite and would take until January to get fit.
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He's not that bad but you crack on fat boy, so the Norwich game yeah?
 
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