15 Aug 2025 12:13:16
Ed, can we have a poll please on waht readers think is the minimum we should accept for buying clubs for sancho, 15 20 25m Antony 30 35 40, hojla. d 35 40 45 and garncho 40 50 60 m to make sure we are not held to ransom on underpriced players and being prepared to call clubs and players bluffs and stand firm with okay, we pay your wages so sit on the bench til January whilst you amd your suitors have a rethink. I would be especially pissed if we let Chelsea away with anything less than 50 for Garnacho and frankly would insist on 60m or he's going nowhere but the reserves for an attitude readjustment.
{Ed033's Note - Please make it easy for me, for a poll, i need a question and possible options to vote.
15 Aug 2025 14:27:38
The irony that Captain Obvious was far from Obvious with his instructions for the Poll.
15 Aug 2025 14:27:40
Do we need a poll? Can people not just comment, although too many players and too many options for me.
15 Aug 2025 14:42:20
Sancho, can of beans
Anthony, 40
Rasmus, 50 (or keep or loan)
Garnacho, 45 + 20% future sale.
15 Aug 2025 14:47:45
Sancho - 20m
Antony - 35m
Hojlund - 40m, 25pc sell on
Garnacho - 45m, 25pc sell on.
15 Aug 2025 14:48:38
You do understand we can't do that captain obvious?
Unless you want to fail psr.
You can't just add a bunch of players and costs without selling some.
If we don't sell those played we will breach the psr rules.
So its not a case of 'if you don't go e will stick you in the reserves' we need to shed their wages.
Just relax and let the people in charge get on with their jobs.
They will get what they can.
Players have the power. Garnacho has boxed us into a corner and said I'll only sanction a move to Chelsea. So they will try to pay as little as possible knowing the situation.
Same with sancho he will only go where he wants.
Its a tactic we used with mbeumo and sesko but we had to pay top dollar as neither club had to sell.
15 Aug 2025 15:13:49
Dodgy is that number of cans?
15 Aug 2025 15:44:09
Sancho - afternoon date at Wigan pier.
Antony - night out in Blackpool.
Rasmus - weekend in Paris.
Garnacho - full week in Disneyland, all inclusive family ticket.
15 Aug 2025 16:15:46
Danny has it for me. Otherwise I don’t care.
15 Aug 2025 16:51:59
Garnacho 35m anything else a bonus
Sancho 20m if we’re lucky
Antony probably be a loan
Rasmus 40m if very lucky
Most think these players not good enough for one reason or another
RA made it clear to everyone he don’t want them
Why do you seriously think anyone would be stupid enough to pay more than is needed to buy them, every clubs knows we got no choice but to sell or loan them RA was very naive in dealing with these players, but that’s history, so just sell them and move on, besides none of them would be missed they not good enough.
15 Aug 2025 17:06:33
I’ll be happy if we can get rid of Sancho without losing any money (ie, we get more than we have to pay him off) . Antony €25m. Garnacho €45m. Hojlund I’d keep for another season (especially now that Baleba isn’t happening and we’re not as desperately in need of cash) .
15 Aug 2025 17:07:54
He was not very naive german. He finally is forcing the club to do what needs to be done. Finally it feels like football is becoming the priority and not money. We will be better in two years because of it. Doubters beware, we are in the way back now, it will take time, but we have finally turned the corner.
15 Aug 2025 18:10:05
I’m not arguing about what he done or doing, but to think it’s not naive telling the world you don’t want them, you can’t them moan that derisory offers come in for those same unwanted players
Do you not think other managers just think wait and offer low money or loans and we have to accept because we don’t want them back, that’s naive by anyones standards.
15 Aug 2025 18:21:09
We don't have to sell them this window, so back to OP, stick to guns and demand what we want, or they train alone for a few months and don't ay a game. Their agents will be the ones being tormented by these beats so may just do their jobs.
15 Aug 2025 21:35:25
They needed pushing out. They needed to know that they would not play so that their agents actually tried to find them a club. Otherwise they are happy to just sit tight and push the club to sack the manager in the future.
The club was backed into a corner, these players cannot stay. We are better for it.
16 Aug 2025 09:21:50
PSR is often quoted for why we don’t buy or must sell before buying. However, please correct me if wrong, I believe it relates to profits over a 3 year period and total losses must not be above a certain amount. The financial year ends 30 June, so any trades right now will be in the accounts 30 June 2026 and it would be the profit filed at that point which counts.
Therefore, providing we have a credit facility big enough we can buy players and don’t have to sell this window. It’s not the window but the financial year that counts. So in theory we could sell by the end of June 26 to have numbers recognised. That’s basic understanding, and am sure the high level accountants will figure it better.
However, that could mean we hold firm and let them think they will or can be left to rot.