CrispinLA in Texas Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: Could see them getting desperate and coming in for him, they are failing to land their targets up front. What do you think... should we keep Kelechi or sell? Is ever going to be used here or will he be benched? Edited 22 July 2022 by CrispinLA in Texas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxes96 Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 Chris Richards to Palace almost done. Could rise to £20million according to Fabrizio. Good signing for them although they do already have Guehi and Andersen so not convinced he massively improves them in the short term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 14 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: What do you think... should we keep Kelechi or sell? Is ever going to be used here or will he be benched? I've come to the difficult conclusion that I think we should sell. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 Keep, because otherwise he will bang about 6 past us. I know it, you all know it. Vardy won’t last forever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kenny Posted 22 July 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 22 July 2022 9 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: I've come to the difficult conclusion that I think we should sell. We can't afford the luxury of keeping him. £40 million and he is all thiers. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 Scamacca to West Ham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFox Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 9 minutes ago, StanSP said: Scamacca to West Ham That's a great signing. Probably about right for the fee too, considering he's expected to be Italy's number 9 for years to come. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFox Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 30 minutes ago, Foxes96 said: Chris Richards to Palace almost done. Could rise to £20million according to Fabrizio. Good signing for them although they do already have Guehi and Andersen so not convinced he massively improves them in the short term. As much as I know a number of us liked the idea of us signing him, this does remove one more competitor for Colwill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 He looks good. Big guy. They always have such a physical team. No surprise we always struggle against them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 Interested to see how he does. Not a great record of Italian forwards in the PL over recent years. Zola a rarity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grebfromgrebland Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 West Ham definitely above us now with their squad at the start of a cycle and ours at the end. Next 2 years are going to be painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 9 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Interested to see how he does. Not a great record of Italian forwards in the PL over recent years. Zola a rarity Only 16 in 41 last year so he isn't tearing it up. I've never seen him play but it's hard to see what the fuss is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Fresh Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 9 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Interested to see how he does. Not a great record of Italian forwards in the PL over recent years. Zola a rarity Harsh on Maccarone 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JimJams Posted 22 July 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 22 July 2022 59 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: What do you think... should we keep Kelechi or sell? Is ever going to be used here or will he be benched? I don't think we can entertain the idea of keeping a 3rd choice striker with a saleable value between £30-40miIl whilst fielding a right winger with a market value of about 10 pence. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyLeon Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 West Ham have been able to spend that kind of money, simply because they haven't got a huge squad. They had about 18/19 senior players at the start of the window, with three being keepers. Then when you realise we're paying Bertrand about twice what they pay Coufal, and we're paying Vestergaard the same as they pay Soucek, you begin to realise where we are going wrong financially, in terms of being able to compete on a transfer front. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grebfromgrebland Posted 22 July 2022 Share Posted 22 July 2022 20 minutes ago, FoxyLeon said: West Ham have been able to spend that kind of money, simply because they haven't got a huge squad. They had about 18/19 senior players at the start of the window, with three being keepers. Then when you realise we're paying Bertrand about twice what they pay Coufal, and we're paying Vestergaard the same as they pay Soucek, you begin to realise where we are going wrong financially, in terms of being able to compete on a transfer front. West ham are about 2 years behind us. They're now attempting to push the boat out and try and establish themselves as best of the rest.. We did really well to get 5th place twice. Let's see where they end up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergray22 Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 (edited) Jesus and zinchenko to arsenal. Probably two of the more underated, team orientated Man City players. Both have the right attitude, are young and will really help Arsenal. I’d have liked to seen either here as not only are they both good technical players but they have a lot of character, attitude, tenacity and resilience that would be useful here. Breaking into the top six has got more difficult this year with the way spurs arsenal have recruited this summer. Hope I’m wrong. Edited 23 July 2022 by Supergray22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenom Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 9 hours ago, LFox99 said: £15m offer for Brighton's Neal Maupay from Salernitana in Serie A.... Surely we could offload Kele for close to double They’re similar players. Maupay is not the reason for Brighton’s scoring woes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 7 hours ago, Tommy Fresh said: Harsh on Maccarone Ravanelli and Vialli ….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 I think our wages to turnover was something like 95% in the last set of accounts. Ideally this should be around 60 - 70 percent or lower! We’re ideally needing to drop our squad size by 5 to 6 players. This will become easier next season though, as we’ll drop some big earners off the wage bill. This is why certain contract deals are difficult. The money we’ve made in transfer has substituted the wage bill. We’ve overpaid on certain players. We need to sell assets to balance the books and back fill with youth players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 2 hours ago, Sly said: I think our wages to turnover was something like 95% in the last set of accounts. Ideally this should be around 60 - 70 percent or lower! We’re ideally needing to drop our squad size by 5 to 6 players. This will become easier next season though, as we’ll drop some big earners off the wage bill. This is why certain contract deals are difficult. The money we’ve made in transfer has substituted the wage bill. We’ve overpaid on certain players. We need to sell assets to balance the books and back fill with youth players. Getting our wages down to 70% of turnover is a nightmare and will make it very difficult to compete. You can't expect to keep successful players because every contract renewal on big wage increases will mean selling other players to fund it and then replace those with players on smaller wages. It means everything has to run so perfectly and other clubs will try and exploit that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 7 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: Getting our wages down to 70% of turnover is a nightmare and will make it very difficult to compete. You can't expect to keep successful players because every contract renewal on big wage increases will mean selling other players to fund it and then replace those with players on smaller wages. It means everything has to run so perfectly and other clubs will try and exploit that. That’s why we need more extensive outside investment, larger sponsorship deals, but not sure KP, would be keen. Like pull our first lever and sell 50% of future broadcast rights for the Correndon Cup defence… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafewayFox Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 Without stating the obvious, if the stadium extension isn’t going ahead (or quickly enough), what are our other options of a quick profit (other than player sales)? Can we not do something commercially with our state of the art training ground? Edit: just saw Dahnsouff comment - 2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said: That’s why we need more extensive outside investment, larger sponsorship deals, but not sure KP, would be keen. Like pull our first lever and sell 50% of future broadcast rights for the Correndon Cup defence… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Fresh Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 5 hours ago, Sly said: Ravanelli and Vialli ….. Di Canio, Maccarone was a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 23 July 2022 Share Posted 23 July 2022 2 hours ago, Dahnsouff said: That’s why we need more extensive outside investment, larger sponsorship deals, but not sure KP, would be keen. Like pull our first lever and sell 50% of future broadcast rights for the Correndon Cup defence… The thing is you can't really magic up over the market value commercial revenue and sponsorship unless you want to risk the microscope being on you and I guarantee a club like us wouldn't get away with it like Man City and others have. We absolutely need to increase that but if our wage bill is £180m as it stands and we pull in £200m. 70% of £200m is £140m, to lose £40m in wages is 8 players on £100k a week. It's going to be very difficult to do and compete. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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