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We had this concern a while ago with a big clear out, how could we survive without The Fonz, Feeney, Spearing and Gnando, sorry but how did it work out a gamble yes but required sorry but also YES
We had this concern a while ago with a big clear out, how could we survive without The Fonz, Feeney, Spearing and Gnando, sorry but how did it work out a gamble yes but required sorry but also YES
Which I think will be quite tricky when clubs know we have 3m to spend, you see it time and time again in football - if a club knows you have cash then they’ll hold out for more than the players true valueSources: Leicester City join Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth in transfer battle for EFL winger
Premier League club Leicester City are the latest club to enter the transfer battle for Blackpool winger Josh Bowler, sources have exclusively told Football League World.footballleagueworld.co.uk
Christ what a day for transfer news.
If Leicester City join then we'll certainly be able to get 3 Million minimum for him.
I've said before if he goes it wouldn't be the worst thing especially if we were able to bring in more quality, but the big "if" is if we are able to bring in quality with the money we get for him.
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Take Bowler out of this current team and who else is going to hurt the opposition? I just don't see it and we'd have to land at least 3 cracking signings to cover the loss. Given the way we've recruited so far this summer I have huge doubts that we'll suddenly be able to bring in 3 Championship standard players in a couple of week.Sources: Leicester City join Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth in transfer battle for EFL winger
Premier League club Leicester City are the latest club to enter the transfer battle for Blackpool winger Josh Bowler, sources have exclusively told Football League World.footballleagueworld.co.uk
Christ what a day for transfer news.
If Leicester City join then we'll certainly be able to get 3 Million minimum for him.
I've said before if he goes it wouldn't be the worst thing especially if we were able to bring in more quality, but the big "if" is if we are able to bring in quality with the money we get for him.
Take Bowler out of this current team and who else is going to hurt the opposition? I just don't see it and we'd have to land at least 3 cracking signings to cover the loss. Given the way we've recruited so far this summer I have huge doubts that we'll suddenly be able to bring in 3 Championship standard players in a couple of week.
is there a Leicester player we could take in part exchange?Agreed, take him out of the equation and that's our biggest threat gone and we're in trouble if we don't replace him, but the counter to the point you could argue that when he's our only source of danger we become very one dimensional and losing him could in the long run do us a world of good if (big if) we replace him with 2-3 quality players.
We've found trouble in the market, because we have a limited budget (i'd guess somwhere around 1.5 million) and the clubs we're negotiating with are being stingy, if we sold Bowler and got 3 million our budget would certainly allow us to be MUCH more aggressive and I'm very confident we could then bring in necessary replacements.
KDH,is there a Leicester player we could take in part exchange?
We've probably as much chance of getting him as these other midfielders we are making hopeful bids on!KDH,
Hence the laughing emojis.We've probably as much chance of getting him as these other midfielders we are making hopeful bids on!
I agree with this line of thinking, perhaps even asking for a good bit higher than a £5M initial fee plus add-ons. There aren't many players in the Championship with Josh Bowler's ability and thoughts of selling him for a couple of million pounds would be an unbelievable bargain for the buyer, and a massive undervaluing by us.Minimum of £5 million and a 20 per cent sell on clause.
Recruit your arse, or get your arse in the recruitment team?The whole club is flat at the moment, everybody needs a lift. Recruitment team my arse.
Right back is the least of our problems, the lack of creativity and natural goal scorer are way bigger. I guess what budget we have is trying to fill those positions.To be fair this is probably the toughest time to do any sort of transfer that there has ever been in football. The markets completely fucked. Combine that with a new management team that seem to want to make wholesale changes to the style of play and I do feel sorry for the recruitment team. You've essentially got a smaller pool of players to choose from, those players are on higher wages than ever before but there's less transfer budget around in general so everyones trying to get cheap deals and maximise their sales. I don't envy anyone in transfer negotiations in the UK especially atm.
Also incase anyones interested on the Andy Lyons front. He's been super the last 3 games in Europe, and Rovers have qualified for the Europa league playoff round so have guaranteed European group stage football. All of which probably makes a deal more expensive to do for Blackpool, its all gone a bit quiet around here about the deal though, seems like Blackpool are looking at other options, may come back to it though before the window closes.
If they bid a million for it, I'll show an interest before I turn it down. Wages probably aren't good enough to recruit my arse anyway.Recruit your arse, or get your arse in the recruitment team?
I believe the scouts have had a good look at your arse. Not the neckerchief gingangooly scouts, the actual football scouts. Your arse is on Mansfords list but he can't be arsed to get off his arse and bid for your arse. You're not a kid from Arsenal.If they bid a million for it, I'll show an interest before I turn it down. Wages probably aren't good enough to recruit my arse anyway.
George Hirst , striker scored 13 on loan at Pompey last season ?is there a Leicester player we could take in part exchange?
Good pointI wonder if Bowler wasnt brought on last night so he wouldn't cup-tied?
The money has to be reinvested in the squad but it sounds very much like you would accept panic buys just to spend the money.I was hoping he was going to stay but news of the Leicester interest and other PL clubs then he will definitely be going. I think he will go for over 3 million, somewhere between that and 5 million I would think and whoever gets him will have a bargain. That money has to be reinvested back into the squad and before the end of the transfer window.
Good shout. Would hope he can step up a level!George Hirst , striker scored 13 on loan at Pompey last season ?
Easier said than done.I was hoping he was going to stay but news of the Leicester interest and other PL clubs then he will definitely be going. I think he will go for over 3 million, somewhere between that and 5 million I would think and whoever gets him will have a bargain. That money has to be reinvested back into the squad and before the end of the transfer window.
Why are we going for this type of player for £1M++ when the bargain basement had served us so well in the past?
Not even talking about just the stains here... last season didn't have any massive transfer fees into the club, nor the one before.
Where are all the free transfers at?
What about the stains?A lot of our free transfers were due to clubs cutting salaries because of covid.
Are you sticking up for the previous regime here or just using it as an example of being able to get decent players for cheap?What about the stains?
We managed to get at least half decent players in under them for fuck all.
How can some barely proven youngsters from league 1 cost so much?
Crazy times.
What about the stains?
We managed to get at least half decent players in under them for fuck all.
How can some barely proven youngsters from league 1 cost so much?
Crazy times.
Because all international players require work permits since January 2021.
Work permits make it hard to sign players from other lower league sides in Europe.
This limits us to signing players from the UK or Ireland, so the pool of players available is tiny, which increases prices.
In the Championship you’d probably used to have seen 30/40% of the average squad being a foreign national, 20% in League 1 and then 5-10% in League 2 and tapering off going down. Foreign nationals also played in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland too. Not thinking that those markets being effectively closed and that a knock on effect has occurred is wishful thinking.Has there ever been much of an EU presence in the Championship and League 1? As far as I can remember, the league has always been dominated by British players, with only a tiny number from elsewhere, as likely to be from Africa as the EU, and only at the PL "aspirational" clubs who can usually sort out the work permit problems anyway.
Sorry, I'm not having this "it's all Brexit's fault" line here.
Has there ever been much of an EU presence in the Championship and League 1? As far as I can remember, the league has always been dominated by British players, with only a tiny number from elsewhere, as likely to be from Africa as the EU, and only at the PL "aspirational" clubs who can usually sort out the work permit problems anyway.
Sorry, I'm not having this "it's all Brexit's fault" line here.
Fuck the stains.Are you sticking up for the previous regime here or just using it as an example of being able to get decent players for cheap?
If you sign a load of of cheap players then the likelihood is you’ll drop lucky and find a couple decent players amongst the crap
Then why have him on the bench?I wonder if Bowler wasnt brought on last night so he wouldn't cup-tied?
Maybe we are pretending he's not for sale?Then why have him on the bench?
Surely we can’t match Pilleys wage structure?Nixon saying Fleetwood after Stockton from Morecambe - get ready for a last minute bid from the recruitment team