Official Summer Transfer Rumours Thread 2020-2021

[The Night-Owl]

21 minutes ago, sheffwed1 said:

Maybe. Just whenever he’s played against us recently he’s looked a shell of the player he was and that’s playing with teams who have a lot of the ball (Fulham). He wouldn’t get that with Cardiff. 

 

In the recent game when we played Cardiff, they seemed to have more of the ball than us? Yet we looked more solid and more clinical, a reversal of past games against them. I think Harris is changing their style into a more possession based team, less reliant on counter attacks but still reliant on crosses and set pieces. Whereas, we seem to becoming more like how they played in recent seasons or last season? More effective at both ends of the pitch with a solid defence, energy and hard work in the team, which allows our creative and attacking players more into the game, further up the pitch. 

[Guest wilyfox]

10mil + a sell-on is the minimum I’d hope for when you consider what other champ defenders have sold for eg. Webster and Mepham et al. 

[WalthamOwl]

Noooooo not Iorfa  hes one player I really would be gutted if we sold. We should be building the team around him. 

[Inspector Lestrade]

Just now, vulva said:

Nonsense. 

 

OK maybe a little hyperbole but the market has dropped off, and Iorfa whilst a decent defender is nothing too special.  Ten million seems too much hyperbole at the other extreme.

 

If they were to offer anything north of that I would think we wouldn't be in a position to refuse. 

 

Realistically Watford know the position we are in and would offer considerably less, Monk will be saying keep but the accountants will be saying sell. 

 

Down to DC. 

[s29wfc]

13 minutes ago, Inspector Lestrade said:

 

Will be lucky to get 2 million for him.

Absolute testicles, worse defenders have gone for 5 times that.

[WalthamOwl]

Wouldn’t leave us long to find a replacement for him. Really hope he doesn’t go. 

[stocksyuto]

Massively gutted if we sell him but money is money in this business 

[The Night-Owl]

16 minutes ago, gurujuan said:

I don’t suppose we’d be in a position to turn down a big offer, but I’d be a reluctant seller. He is integral to the way we play, the only one who has the ability to bring the ball out of defence, and the only one with any pace All the other centre backs are pretty average, on a good day, but with Iorfa’s pace to bail them out, they’ve looked OK. Don’t kid yourselves that we’d be using any of a potential fee to strengthen the team. Like the Joao fee, it will just get swallowed up. Iorfa, Brown and Bannan, are the only three players of real quality that we have, so losing any of them would be a major set back

 

Agree, that Iorfa is a key player and one of our few quality players for us, along with the likes of Brown and Bannan. However, we'd be foolish to turn down big offers for any of our players, if they're favourable, unless they have our pants down.

 

It's part of our issues, not selling players whilst they had resale value. We have shown we can bring in bargains and quality without breaking the bank, I'd hope we'd continue to be sensible like that.

 

Also to compete more within P&S, we have to be astute and at the same time sell players and reinvest sensibly, in order to progress further on and off the pitch at this level. 

Edited September 25, 2020 by The Night-Owl

[StudentOwl]

1 minute ago, WalthamOwl said:

Wouldn’t leave us long to find a replacement for him. Really hope he doesn’t go. 

Hopefully the recruitment team that Bruce bought in share a brain cell and have clocked that as Iorfa's one of our most likely players to go, they've got a couple of possible replacements in mind. If they're doing things right, they'll have clocked players of a similar style months ago and have been watching them to pick up on a shortlist we can bring in to do a similar job and style to Dom. 

 

If Watford really are interested and are willing to flash the cash for the pleasure of Iorfa's company, then we need to get as much as we can from them while disrupting us as little as possible. Time we started treating the club like a business and started 'winning' the transfer market

[Jim]

It’ll be a deadline day deal if he’s sold?

[Southie_Owl]

As others have said if we can get Sanderson on the cheap then sell Iorfa for £8m+ and that wouldn’t be too bad.

The key is also having add-ons of sell on fees, promotion bonuses, England’s appearances etc.  Be smart about it like Brighton do 

Edited September 25, 2020 by Southie_Owl

[Shetland Owl]

Would need Sanderson in and Dunkley fit. £8m +sell on clause.

[Inspector Lestrade]

I blame Football Manager.

[FinnishOwl]

Iorfa out --> Sanderson and Murphy in and some cash in the bank to get a new striker? Not the worst case scenario.

 

But not to Watford, to a PL club please.

[TheEnchanter]

Great player is Dom. Expect interest in him. Hopefully around £8M would be great and I'd hope we could reinvest some of it. 

[SallyCinnamon]

10m for Iorfa would be great business.

[beswetherick]

Anything over 10m plus add-ons seems reasonable, he’s a quality player but if the money’s right and we can get Sanderson in for a small outlay to replace him (and maybe 1-2 others) then I guess it has to be done

[Inspector Lestrade]

8 minutes ago, TheEnchanter said:

Great player is Dom. Expect interest in him. Hopefully around £8M would be great and I'd hope we could reinvest some of it. 

 

Accountants will have it

[striker]

Not surprised there is interest in Iorfa, the question is whether that interest is genuine or opportunistic.

 

I may seem hypocritical having criticised the club for seemingly silly valuations, but considering recent transfers, his value has to be around £10m

 

Good player though he is, we have Dunkley yet to come in, Lees regaining form and Sanderson on the radar as a possible replacement.

[Guest gizowl]

,Cash to Villa  16 million, pigs buy 2 young Derby players for a total of 15 million . Got to be 10mill .