Official Summer 2019 Transfer Rumours Thread

[Guest LondonOwl313]

4 hours ago, vulva said:

Norwich sold Maddison, built sensibly and got promoted. 

 

FF refuses to get on the bus, and we gave him a new contract and he’s now worth next to nothing. 

To be fair to both Chansiri and Forestieri, at the time of that incident he was 26 years old (so had his best years ahead) and was our best player coming off the back of the 2015/16 season. He genuinely looked like he'd be able to make the step up to the prem at that point. He also was probably right to feel aggrieved that we'd brought in some players (Fletcher, Jones, Abdi) that were on more money than him and they added less to the team (and in some cases nothing!). So we either had to sell him or give him the pay rise, and we chose pay rise.

 

In hindsight we'd have been better off selling him for the £10m+ we were offered but at the time that would have been a difficult thing to do as we were building for promotion. If we were to sell him now we'd get only a fraction of that, so the best hope now is that he can recapture his 2015/16 form. Showed vs Norwich that he still has it in the locker

[ZicoSterland2]

2 hours ago, Not Jon Newsome said:

 

Not exactly true, you need the quality to go with it. All those clubs you've listed had a lot of good quality players as well as being hardworking, if all you needed was 11 hard workers we could get promoted with a load of Semedos and Chris O'Gradys.

We got promoted with those players or have you forgotten. 

[Bathgate]

9 hours ago, ZicoSterland2 said:

Some on here stating we will make millions on his future potential and is premier league quality. If you see that you must be watching a different player to me. I think he has shown very little whilst here. Another Matias type poor effort living on supposed potential and was out injured for long periods. Thought we had our fill of those type of players as it has proved very costly in recent times.

Matias poor effort? Back end of this season he's worked his socks off. Not his fault about his injuries if that's what your talking about. Onomah would be a very good signing for anyone is this league in a permanent deal and they will make a fair bit of cash on him in 2/3 years 

[Guest Ash76]

For years Wednesday fans demanded Rhodes comes in, whatever the cost. Now they want him gone and are angry we're asking what they think is too much even though it's less than what we paid 

 

Morons

[Inspector Lestrade]

Just now, Ash76 said:

For years Wednesday fans demanded Rhodes comes in, whatever the cost. Now they want him gone and are angry we're asking what they think is too much even though it's less than what we paid 

 

Morons

 

Hey its always the clubs fault.   

[Swiss Toni]

1 hour ago, Groundhopping Owl said:

It's a fair point that January's dealings and the arrival of Bruce might mean change is in the offing - but if it's true that we're asking £7 million for Jordan Rhodes then we're still as naive as ever.

 

Wont be Bruce stewing that asking price though. Sales are always going to be signed off by DC and that’s the area the club still lets itself down on.

[TheEnchanter]

8 minutes ago, Ash76 said:

For years Wednesday fans demanded Rhodes comes in, whatever the cost. Now they want him gone and are angry we're asking what they think is too much even though it's less than what we paid 

 

Morons

 

I agree. Its the fans fault we signed Rhodes and he hasn't scored for us. 

[ZicoSterland2]

19 minutes ago, Bathgate said:

Matias poor effort? Back end of this season he's worked his socks off. Not his fault about his injuries if that's what your talking about. Onomah would be a very good signing for anyone is this league in a permanent deal and they will make a fair bit of cash on him in 2/3 years 

Matias after new contract puts in shift shock horror. Re Athde Nuhiu style. Onomah will make us no money. If he is premier league quality why arent premier league clubs in for him. This guy has done little here dont get why some on here think he is suddenly going to improve. His career is going backwards or he would be staying at Spurs. As likely be in league 1 plying his trade as premier league in 3 years.

Edited May 26, 2019 by ZicoSterland2

[Inspector Lestrade]

C'mon Brucie boy buy a bloody player bored bloody ridged.  

[areNOTwhatTHEYseem]

1 hour ago, Quist said:

Last week I saw a TV program on Hampstead pond swimming. Its open all year ut in winter you dedicated soles who turn out all weathers and in summer it gets packed with fair weather swimmers. Regulars do not go as gets too crowded. It reminded me of Owlstalk as you seem to get quite a few posters who only appear for summer and some of winter regulars vanish for a few months. 

 

Not a rumour but in light of other posts thought worthy of a mention.

 

Gets coat and tin hat and vanishes for summer.

 

We're an odd bunch on here at the best of times, but those who only log in during the fallow summer months are a particularly strange breed.

 

[cowl]

13 minutes ago, Ash76 said:

For years Wednesday fans demanded Rhodes comes in, whatever the cost. Now they want him gone and are angry we're asking what they think is too much even though it's less than what we paid 

 

Morons

 

There exist some Wednesday fans that 'demanded' Rhodes be signed.

 

There exist some Wednesday fans that want Rhodes gone now 'whatever the cost'.

 

The fans in group 1 must be the same as the fans in group 2.

 

The above is the reasoning of a moron.

[Bluesteel]

13 minutes ago, Ash76 said:

For years Wednesday fans demanded Rhodes comes in, whatever the cost. Now they want him gone and are angry we're asking what they think is too much even though it's less than what we paid 

 

Morons

 

To be fair not many players fetch their money back at a premium price after a couple of off years. If it’s a starting point as I suspect it is then that’s fine, but we have turned down good money for a number of players the last three years because we wanted even more or just didn’t want to sell for some reason and a bit of churn could’ve made a difference.

 

If we got 7m for Rhodes plus the loan fee and bonus then we will have covered the cost. In the real world there’s no way we’re getting our money back for him.   

[Inspector Lestrade]

8 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said:

 

We're an odd bunch on here at the best of times, but those who only log in during the fallow summer months are a particularly strange breed.

 

 

I'm an all year round dude. Hardcore, just how I roll.

[Bluesteel]

Also the notion that fans wanted Rhodes at whatever cost isn’t true. The general consensus was that Rhodes would be good if we could afford him in FFP.

[Groundhopping Owl]

29 minutes ago, Junk Smuggler said:

 

Wont be Bruce stewing that asking price though. Sales are always going to be signed off by DC and that’s the area the club still lets itself down on.

No I get that - I suspect Bruce's role is basically identifying targets and telling DC if any squad members are surplus to requirements, DC likely has full control over pricing and negotiation.

[Tea Baggins]

I'd be looking at Josh Cullen, always farmed out on loan and they gave always been successful.

Watched him a few times when he was at Bradford and very impressed.

Box to box and high energy.

23 now so good age and fits our mould.

[bladeshater]

3 minutes ago, GHS said:

I'd be looking at Josh Cullen, always farmed out on loan and they gave always been successful.

Watched him a few times when he was at Bradford and very impressed.

Box to box and high energy.

23 now so good age and fits our mould.

We need better 

[pazowl55]

11 minutes ago, bladeshater said:

We need better 

We got better his names Kieran Lee.

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

52 minutes ago, Mycroft said:

C'mon Brucie boy buy a bloody player bored bloody ridged.  

We'll be lucky

Cricket world cup starts on Wednesday...

[Woodie]

1 minute ago, pazowl55 said:

We got better his names Kieran Lee.

Didn’t have a very good season last year though did he mate.