Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

GoldenToffee said:
We need a modern day Yakubu, that man could slot for fun and had the nicest smile I've seen in football. £11 million bones he was bought for. If we could find a similar kind of player for £20-30 million it would transform us. Strong, fast, boss slotter, cool, calm and collected in the box. Or a modern day Lukaku from when he joined us - he was a step up even on prime Yakubu.

I have no idea who the modern equivalents would be of those two, but they will definitely exist and the club should know of them.

Just imagine how good we could be with regens of Yakubu/Lukaku and then a Kanchelskis-type on the right wing.

It shouldn't take 5 new starting XI players to transform us from 13th to 7th-8th next season. Pickford, two of Tarkowski/Branthwaite/O'Brien, Ndiaye, Gueye, Alcaraz, even Mykolenko and Garner would be fine if we had better attacking players.
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But surely that what every single club is after?!!!
 

Clarky cat said:
Someone you have never met, someone who had no idea whatsoever of the transfer or even the first contact with Charly Alcaraz who isn’t Angus Kinnear, Billy Mckinlay, Leighton Baines, Alan Irvine or David Moyes and has NEVER sat in a room with any of them discussing players is telling you what the exact thinking of them is about strikers? A digital drug dealer has you on emotional strings and you are paying that person for the privilege. Time to go cold turkey from the grifters mate, you seem unwell.
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Be careful on here with that logic mate. You get people blindly defending these people because they see them as celebrities and hero worship them to the extent that they send them food to their studio and think they can do no wrong.

In fairness to Bobble and those from his podcast, it seems as though they will engage in a two way conversation with the fans whereas others seem to think that the only voice/opinion worth listening to is their own. Naming no names of course.
 

devon_blue said:
If transfer fees are recorded as the amortised amount per year for PSR, wouldn’t a budget of £100 million theoretically permit 5-6 players in that ballpark price range plus some loan fees?
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Depends on the type of budget. If it is a P&L/PSR budget then an increase in annual budget of £100m could be £500m worth of players amortised over 5 years (including wages). e.g. player bought for £20m (5year deal) on £2m wages is an annual cost of £6m to the club (£4m value amortisation + £2m wages)
If it is a cashflow budget then it depends on how much money is required up front (this year) in payments and wages regardless of P&L/PSR impact.
e.g. player bought for £20m but £10m up front and £10m over life of contract and £2m wages. This would use £12m (£10m payment + £2m wages) of this years budget.
 


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