Transfer Rumour Hayden Hackney (12 Viewers)

[long way home]

Winning the title changes the budget so id imagine Doug wants all secured and known before he moves on his options. They will have many listed targets and they will work through them if Tuesday goes to plan.

Some good players around and some that will not want to stay in the championship. Or on a bench in the prem, this summer will be an interesting one for sure.

 

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[Paxman II]

Hackney is a local lad in Boro'. Championship player who will be re;uctant to move and we don't need him in that position. Rudoni is better equiped for the premier league. If we are to add quality in that position it will be an harvey Elliott or the like. We are not getting Hackney.

 

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If Hackney was our player, we’d all be saying he can make the step the up.

There’s definitely players we can sign from this league and Hackney would be one of those players if Boro don’t go up. As you say, it can’t be a wannabe Championship super team.

Can/could/might.

Signing Hackney would most probably take about a quarter of our budget for signing players. We're not a rich club and will have to sign a fair few players to have a decent chance of staying up. We already have enough players in the 'could make it' bracket. The signing of Hackney would be more for a side like Leeds who would be looking at strengthening after staying up in the Prem.

And as for those who say about player resale values I say Grimes. Onyeka will be the same. We won't be buying to make money in the future. Staying up is worth about 100m a year. We will be after signings that give us the best chance of staying up without risking our future. Yes we will most probably lose money on a few of our signings, but we don't have the money to sign younger players who are already good enough for the Prem.

A perfect example of the kind of signing we could well be looking at would be Xhaka for Sunderland. Is now 33 but they paid an initial 13m for him. World class player coming towards the end of his career. Good chance they will lose 13m plus on him but worth every penny.