Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[GoldenToffee]

West Brom need to remember we gave them an £80k a week England international defender for free this season.

 

[Rich1878]

West Brom need to remember we gave them an £80k a week England international defender for free this season.

Has he done well for them?

 

[GoldenToffee]

Has he done well for them?

Nothing special I don't think. He's not been an ever present as you'd probably expect from a relatively big name Premier League player moving down a division. Played the full 90 minutes in about half of their games. Scored one goal, scored one own goal.

@Littlesue will be able to speak more about him I think.

 

[Naylor56]

What if he doesent and its just a case of McKenna knows how to get his centre forward to get 10 goals in a season

Ings, Bamford, Calvert Lewin, Solanke

Carlton Morris got 11 PL goals last season, Elijah Adebayo got 10 both in a side worse than Ipswich have been

He is a lot younger to start with and has resale value even if he don’t bag a huge amount of goals. Even if we bought him 30m I’m sure we would recoup a fair amount of that even if he had a poor season. Look at how much championships clubs pay for players now.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Ya some mad shouts in here saying 30m is too much of a gamble on him for one good season in the PL. Is it his first full season in the PL? with a side that's getting relegated. He has another 1 or 2 seasons like that his price will rocket up further

Bowen cost West Ham 22 mil 2020...So if use that as a metric 30 mil for an actual promising talent in The Championship is the going rate.

 

[Littlesue]

Has he done well for them?

He's been awful, he only got in team recently because of injuries but he now back on bench. His 2 mistakes in the last 2 matches he played possibly cost us a promotion spot.

 

[GoldenToffee]

He's been awful, he only got in team recently because of injuries but he now back on bench. His 2 mistakes in the last 2 matches he played possibly cost us a promotion spot.

Good old 'Mase'

 

[Rich1878]

He's been awful, he only got in team recently because of injuries but he now back on bench. His 2 mistakes in the last 2 matches he played possibly cost us a promotion spot.

Once Everton has touched you...

 

[Littlesue]

This is where Fellows is spending the summer, locked in my wardrobe so you lot can't get him!!

 

[Raino85]

He is a lot younger to start with and has resale value even if he don’t bag a huge amount of goals. Even if we bought him 30m I’m sure we would recoup a fair amount of that even if he had a poor season. Look at how much championships clubs pay for players now.

So if he got 3 goals for us next season, which is entirely possible, we would recoup £30m based on him getting 12 goals this season & 8 goals the year before with Hull?

 

[Makis]

So what do you suggest? Let's wait for a few years and if he keeps scoring we buy him for 80 million?

Better yet, let's not sign anyone because they might not be worth it?

 

[toffee82]

Because they play on the wing. Wingers.

Because they play for the RS. W@*kers.

 

[jamieni]

Price has been amazing for us, if he had been here all season he would probably have been Player of the Season

I’ve seen him play for NI a couple of times this season and he’s been excellent. Scored a great goal against Switzerland.

 

[Vintage]

What if he doesent and its just a case of McKenna knows how to get his centre forward to get 10 goals in a season

Ings, Bamford, Calvert Lewin, Solanke

Carlton Morris got 11 PL goals last season, Elijah Adebayo got 10 both in a side worse than Ipswich have been

Some of those players you mention have been injury prone players for alot of their careers.
30m isn't a huge risk these days and if he didn't do particularly well the next season his price still wouldn't drop off a cliff. If he does do well you have a very good forward for 30m and his price goes up and he's still a young player.

 

[Dymak]

You always have to be a bit careful signing hyped up championship players. This time last year Jack Clarke was Sunderland's 'wonderkid' and I think he had much better stats than Grigg does at present. Clarke has spent most of this season sitting on the Ipswich substitute bench.