Hob Nob Anyone?

Snowflake Royal wrote:

Hound wrote:

gazzer, loyal royal wrote:the problem we have with Baker and Miazga is that they are both on roughly 25k a week at Chelsea which Chelsea want paying in full to go out on loan.

We will definitely need to shift the others left behind by Gomes before we can consider Baker and/or Miazga.

yep, sure thats why it hasn't already happened.

Would another club in the champ pay that for Baker? Considering how he flopped at Boro and Leeds? I have a feeling coming beginning of August they might take the best offer, which by that time we'll be in a position to make hopefully

Mind you, I'm pretty sure the same is going to happen with our outcasts. Clubs will wait to the last minute to see what we'll accept for them.

I think last minutism about our dross is more likely to be other clubs seeing if they can get better, rather than us holding out for more... we just want shot. I reckon we'd take free and pay the wage difference on some.

Nameless wrote:

Hound wrote:

Nameless wrote:If we are under a ‘soft embargo’ which allows a one in/one out transfer policy Incan’t quite see how we are adhering to that.
Kelly has gone, Sidoel has gone although he was never a first team squad member, likewise Ward. Presumably the players we didn’t retain at the end of last season don’t count nor do players already out on loan.
So how do we bring 3 players in despite not having moved 3 out ?

we've moved 4 out - Kelly, Dadi, Sidoel and Ward.

ONLy if the Bodvarsson Deal has been confirmed. And whether you can get round the embargo by releasing low earning non first teamers in order to bring in high earners must be questionable....

Nameless wrote:

Stranded wrote:

Nameless wrote:
Pointless ‘embargo’ really then. Soft hardly does it justice really !

Well no, it was in place as our forecast for the 2018/19 season showed we were at risk of breaching FFP - putting that in place to stop us spending in that period meant that we were unlikely to have a larger loss to contend with when 18/19's figures are real and not calculated as part of next year's assessment.

But given we already knew that, had been pretty open about it and taken lots of steps to manage the situation the embargo was pointless. The supposed embargo didn’t stop us doing anything we hadn’t already decided to do for ourselves.

Maneki Neko wrote:

Nameless wrote:

Stranded wrote:
Well no, it was in place as our forecast for the 2018/19 season showed we were at risk of breaching FFP - putting that in place to stop us spending in that period meant that we were unlikely to have a larger loss to contend with when 18/19's figures are real and not calculated as part of next year's assessment.

But given we already knew that, had been pretty open about it and taken lots of steps to manage the situation the embargo was pointless. The supposed embargo didn’t stop us doing anything we hadn’t already decided to do for ourselves.

that's why its called soft. it was something that we were fully on board for, and in many ways initiated, to avoid any FFP comeback

Wallsy wrote:

Louis Stagg wrote:Are you guessing Oliviera is a done deal mate or do you know?

...Just needs rubber stamping ...

Pepe the Horseman wrote:And Miazga's in Reading. Can someone check Bracknell for Lewis Baker?

SCIAG wrote:

Pepe the Horseman wrote:And Miazga's in Reading. Can someone check Bracknell for Lewis Baker?

I went all over Bracknell and it was a complete waste of time. All I found were Jordon Mutch and Chris Martin.

SCIAG wrote:

Pepe the Horseman wrote:And Miazga's in Reading. Can someone check Bracknell for Lewis Baker?

I went all over Bracknell and it was a complete waste of time. All I found were Jordon Mutch and Chris Martin.

Stranded wrote:

Maneki Neko wrote:

Nameless wrote:
But given we already knew that, had been pretty open about it and taken lots of steps to manage the situation the embargo was pointless. The supposed embargo didn’t stop us doing anything we hadn’t already decided to do for ourselves.

that's why its called soft. it was something that we were fully on board for, and in many ways initiated, to avoid any FFP comeback

Exactly this. It wasn't a real embargo in any true sense of the word but an agreement between us and the EFL to take measures to help us out for the next FFP cycle. If we had sold Bod on June 25th we could have signed someone in June. We are likely still operating on a one in, one out basis ourselves because a) it is prudent and b) it's taken longer to shift the unwanted players than was hoped.

Royal Bison wrote:So when we said Oliveira was "100% a done deal"

LOL

blythspartan wrote:

Royal Bison wrote:So when we said Oliveira was "100% a done deal"

LOL

I assume that I should just ignore anyone claiming to be ITK on here, as most of it stems from media speculation.

Snowball wrote:I for one am glad he's not coming back

sandman wrote:

Snowball wrote:I for one am glad he's not coming back

Yeah brilliant news.

We've lost one of our strikers to a potential relegation rival and now the guy we wanted to replace him with looks to be going somewhere else, leaving us to scramble for a replacement who likely won't be as good as Oliveira or Bod.

Snowball wrote:

sandman wrote:

Snowball wrote:I for one am glad he's not coming back

Yeah brilliant news.

We've lost one of our strikers to a potential relegation rival and now the guy we wanted to replace him with looks to be going somewhere else, leaving us to scramble for a replacement who likely won't be as good as Oliveira or Bod.

I think N-O is a bad apple. We have Baldock, Meite, Nokavich, Loader, and there are other forwards out there.