Transfer Rumour Charlie Hughes (33 Viewers)

[Martw]

Could be a simple tactic of reducing the fee man City are seeking with the added bonus of Nobbling the oppo before Saturday?

My thought is much the same , I suspect this might be us saying to Man City that we are moving on elsewhere because you want too much for Doyle? Of course we don’t know but it’s surely not as daft as some of the bull shine ideas quoted on here at times

 

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[quinn1971]

its good we’re being linked with quality players, just don’t see this one happening, for the older ones I don’t think we’re in a position to be shopping in Harrods’ unless Thats mve being sold ?

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Anyone else think this reminds them of the Mowbray window where we started aiming for high quality Harrods signings and ended up signing Poundland reduced players by the end of the window?

 

[Evo1883]

I hope we’re not wasting all that money on someone whos played 26 games at Championship level, same money could get us Doyle who’s beyond 100 appearances

You'd have to trust the club if they are prepared to pay the same

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Wonder if it is a play to get Man City to lower prices.

Don’t clubs normally negotiate before bids go in. At that point if they do truly value him at £20 million why would we waste our time

 

[Evo1883]

Anyone else think this reminds them of the Mowbray window where we started aiming for high quality Harrods signings and ended up signing Poundland reduced players by the end of the window?

Not sure 9 million pound is a panic buy

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Not sure 9 million pound is a panic buy

The point I'm making is we are aiming for Hughes, it seems unlikely and then when the dust settles we realise we do need cover at CB and sign someone whos not up to scratch.

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Wonder if it is a play to get Man City to lower prices.

Don’t clubs normally negotiate before bids go in. At that point if they do truly value him at £20 million why would we waste our time

If he is valued at that price then how much is MVE ,I know he played in a different position.

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Stole from X

 

[Evo1883]

The point I'm making is we are aiming for Hughes, it seems unlikely and then when the dust settles we realise we do need cover at CB and sign someone whos not up to scratch.

Not sure that will happen under doug tbh , seems the type who would just not buy and wait until January

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

If he is valued at that price then how much is MVE ,I know he played in a different position.

No idea. Hard to compare due to differences like Age, position and English tax

 

[Ccfcisparks]

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That def duel% stat, that surely cant be success rate?

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Not sure that will happen under doug tbh

Think what’s more likely as per Kitching and EMC is Doug spends over value or agree terms to get them in

 

[TomRad85]

Why are our fans terrified of spending decent money on good players?

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Why are our fans terrified of spending decent money on good players?

Stockholm syndrome from the last 15 years under SISU

 

[shepardo01]

Anyone else think this reminds them of the Mowbray window where we started aiming for high quality Harrods signings and ended up signing Poundland reduced players by the end of the window?

Tammy Abraham >. Kwame Thomas

 

[skybluecam]

The point I'm making is we are aiming for Hughes, it seems unlikely and then when the dust settles we realise we do need cover at CB and sign someone whos not up to scratch.

Yeah does feel like we’re aiming a bit high to me. You’d hope if this deal doesn’t come off we have a decent quality secondary target.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Yeah does feel like we’re aiming a bit high to me. You’d hope if this deal doesn’t come off we have a decent quality secondary target.

Its the sort of deal you aim to make at the start of July, giving you plenty of time if it falls through.

 

[ptr]

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The pass it forward at all costs brigade when they see this.

 

[skybluecam]

Why are our fans terrified of spending decent money on good players?

It’s just the allocation of funds that wouldn’t make sense to me. Let’s say this did come off for £8m, and MVE does go. Unless we do further business we’d have spent £12m this summer but the squad still looks a bit light at RB and on the wings. That’s understandable if we didn’t have the resources but if we do…

 

[Jamesimus]

Why are our fans terrified of spending decent money on good players?

Have to admit, I am also terrified by this.

 

[SkyBlue_Adam]

Regardless of whether we get him or not, certainly adds a bit of spice to the weekend

The Hull meltdown is spectacular

 

[Deity]

Jesus now fans are worried that we are being too ambitious…. You couldn’t make it up

 

[Evo1883]

Seems likely it will take a bit more than maybe weve got to get him here

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

On a side note, maybe Doug does have the money for a 40,000 seater at the butts park?

 

[wingy]

Its the sort of deal you aim to make at the start of July, giving you plenty of time if it falls through.

But that finance wasn't there then?

 

[ptr]

Anyone else think this reminds them of the Mowbray window where we started aiming for high quality Harrods signings and ended up signing Poundland reduced players by the end of the window?

No because we had fuck all money to compete back then and somehow, even though we’d been asset stripping for years, Mowbray still believed SISU were interested in paying decent wages to out of contract players who were clearly waiting for better deals.

 

[SBAndy]

Anyone else think this reminds them of the Mowbray window where we started aiming for high quality Harrods signings and ended up signing Poundland reduced players by the end of the window?

Will come full circle when we sign Kelvin Wilson on deadline day.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

But that finance wasn't there then?

Wheres the finance now from then?

 

[Marty]

Might as well just spend the extra and get Doyle in.

 

[ptr]

Rangers when they realise we are interested in a player and their name isn’t involved as well.

 

[TomRad85]

I get it but i genuinely think we're at the point where players who will immediately improve our first team will cost very good money. I'd also expect a couple of squad players more under the 'potential' bracket to come in for significantly less.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Yeah does feel like we’re aiming a bit high to me. You’d hope if this deal doesn’t come off we have a decent quality secondary target.

Anyone else think this reminds them of the Mowbray window where we started aiming for high quality Harrods signings and ended up signing Poundland reduced players by the end of the window?

Thankfully, the squad is in a far better position than in the L1 years.

We've spent a lot of money on the squad over the last 2 seasons so Lampard will need to work with a lot of the existing squad. The starting 11 is clearly good enough for the Top 6 so we're in the privileged position where we don't need to force the issue in relation to recruitment. The clubs who sign several players early in the window tend to be ones in rebuild mode like the newly promoted/relegated teams as well as a few teams towards the bottom of the league who need to improve drastically.

We can talk about the need for 'cover' players for the likes of Thomas, Kitching and Sakamoto who are all good players, but players you'd be looking to recruit to improve upon. Cover is obviously important but every signing needs to be an improvement on what we have already.

 

[SkyBlueCharlie9]

If he’s marking Simms on Saturday least he’ll be fresh for when we sign him

We'll come back to you on that one at 3pm saturday

 

[SBAndy]

I get it but i genuinely think we're at the point where players who will immediately improve our first team will cost very good money. I'd also expect a couple of squad players more under the 'potential' bracket to come in for significantly less.

This is the situation we’re in. To upgrade on any of our starting players is going to cost more than we’re used to spending on a single player.