Ravi
Upper Decker
I agree. Any club wanting to buy potential from the Championship is going to be far more interested in Brennan Johnson than any of our other players.
Can't edit, but equally important is shifting players we no longer want, some of who will be on quite a wedge. Jenkinson, Colback, Arter, Diallo, one of the 3x left backs we have and perhaps Figgy too.
Ideally I'd like to see a squad of:
GK: Samba, Smith, Shelvey
RB: New, Richardson
RCB: Worrall, Mbe Soh
LCB: McKenna, Blackett
LB: Ribeiro, Iannou
RCM: Yates, Sow
LCM: New, Cafu
RW: New, Lolley
AM: New, Johnson
LW: Ameobi, New
ST: New, Taylor, Murray
Five new players straight into the first eleven assuming none of the loans are retained. That's quiet a lot of activity to complete in a few weeks. There's 24 players there so space for one more player too.
Probably best to start planning them now Forest.
Depends on signings that squad, it’s incredibly weak looking at it for a promotion push as it now so the new players would have to be of a decent standard. So all depends if we can get decent players for feck all then. It can be done but it will be all on hughtons shoulders because I haven’t seen recruitment have the ability to do that.
You get Garner back is a good start to that than feck knows.
Last Jan we spent 2m on Da Costa, Diakhaby & Bong. None of whom were able to contribute in any remotely positive way to the half season playoff push which they arrived for.
This Jan we spent nothing, yet bought in Garner, Krovi and Murray, all who have contributed to a significant upturn in form, and getting us clear of a relegation fight we were well rooted in.
I agree. Any club wanting to buy potential from the Championship is going to be far more interested in Brennan Johnson than any of our other players.
The three players who revived in January won’t be playing for free, their wage-contributions (and there will be some, perhaps significantly in the case of Garner) will have added another substantial sum to the overall wage bill.
It’s all additional costs, on to the accounts of a club that has been haemorrhaging money for years (and yes, part of that is poor transfer strategy decisions that have saddled the club - and wage bill - with underperforming footballers that nobody else wants).
Again, comparatively speaking, I still think we've got far more value for money than last Jan by a million miles.
We have to pay players wages. The key is paying wages to players who actually contribute.
We'll have paid a loan fee as well. Loans usually aren't free.
Garner will probably be a couple hundred thousand, Knockaert likely nearer a couple of million, Christie maybe half a mil to a mil.
I usually reckon for contributing half a loan player's salary for the period they're with us, paid to their parent club as a loan fee.
Obviously, this will vary on the circumstances of each loan, but it's my starting point.
500k for Christie?
Honestly that makes me weep.
The cost of a decent house for a bloke who defends with the mobility and guile of a row of houses
500k for Christie?
Honestly that makes me weep.
The cost of a decent house for a bloke who defends with the mobility and guile of a row of houses
Are you ex footballer Dion Dublin from homes under the hammer?
I can't believe a "decent" house costs half a million these daysI hadn't thought about that. For my house I couldn't even loan Cyrus; woe is me.
I can't believe a "decent" house costs half a million these days
The price of the player or the house?Admittedly that was an error
A loan deal between club A (owning the player's rights) and club B (bringing the player in on loan) can be anything from club B playing a fraction of the player's wages and nothing else, to club B paying a huge loan fee to club A, plus the player's wages to the penny, plus a penalty fee if they don't use him enough (in the case of young players which big clubs loan out for playing time).
There's no way to estimate what a loan costs if the details haven't been publicized or reported.
If we end up in an ultimatum where we can sign one of Krovinovic or Knockaert i hope we snap Benficas hand off