Transfer News Transfer window 2020/21

bromsgroveox said:
Am I the only one who is not massively enthused about Liam Kelly signing?? Was with us for along period of time last year and hardly played. Spoke to an ex colleague of his when he was at Bath City who said he is ability but has no guts and not physical or quick enough for league one or two! Have to agree that he looked slow when he came on in any games.
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If we do sign Kelly, he needs to be given a chance/games to actually get fit and prove himself. There’s definitely a top, top L1 player in there somewhere, if he’s in shape and in a team that plays the right way, and deployed in the right position...
 
RyanioBirdio said:
We don’t want to sign permanent deals for players we can then sell for millions in some cases, and get sell-on clauses which could be worth many hundreds of thousands more, when we can just loan a limited amount of players because they’re now easier than ever to be hoarded by those higher up. Why offer good wages for Roofe, Lundstram, Brannagan and others, when you can have your budget slashed and just get some rather than all of them for a single season, before they disappear back to their parents clubs without making you a penny in sales?

That deal you offered Marcus Browne that you nearly got him to sign before Middlesbrough rocked up at the 11th hour? Well, you won’t even be able to offer him that deal he was close to signing in the first place now - you can’t afford the wages you were willing to pay him by law. And now Middlesbrough won’t even have to pay other players what they’ve been paying him to usurp you. You can only offer a player £1500 a week max, so now they only need to pay them £3000 a week to double your offer and vacuum up the asset. Previously they were having to offer double that to snatch them off you, because you yourself could offer that £3000 a week, which also meant they were more selective. So while they might have blocked you off on a Browne, they weren’t so sure on those Roofe’s and Lundstram’s and Brannagan’s that you were able to get over the line before. Now, however, they’re available for half the salary and therefore they’re cheap punts, which means the frequency with which they block you off goes up because they have to spend less than ever to blow your offer out of the water, meaning they’ve saved money on a deal that stops you being able to own your own assets. Thus making it harder for you to actually own anybody of value that hasn’t come from your own academy or some dimly lit backwater, and therefore keeping you as pinned back and restricted as possible.

But then you know all that, you’re just being silly ;)

Enjoy the transfer thread - there’s movement afoot! There will be plenty of time on the correct channels for simple, common sense economics to be broken down and explained repeatedly. I’m even considering getting some hand puppets to help!
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But but but this was needed to stop many clubs from going bust? It was the only feasible and fair way to save lower league football? And it was done purely and solely for the benefit of all L1 clubs... wasn’t it? ?
 
androidyellow2 said:
McGuane is 21, so that leaves an extra space in the team.. correct?
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I think you are right* based on this as he was 21 on 2nd Feb according to Wiki:

"Clubs will be able to name 22 players aged 21 or over (at the turn of this calendar year) in their squads for the upcoming season. That number will drop to a squad size of just 20 players aged 21 or over for the 2021/22 campaign."

www.eadt.co.uk

The devil was in the detail... Why salary cap’s ‘average’ leaves Ipswich Town with little wriggle room

More details have been emerging regarding the League One salary cap which was voted in last Friday. With the benefit of added...
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The other interesting thing from that article is suggesting you could pay a larger upfront loan fee with only a small part of their wages as a way to get around the salary cap. I haven't a clue if this is actually allowable though.

*Unless I'm reading it wrongly of course.
 
RyanioBirdio said:
And now Middlesbrough won’t even have to pay other players what they’ve been paying him to usurp you. You can only offer a player £1500 a week max, so now they only need to pay them £3000 a week to double your offer and vacuum up the asset. Previously they were having to offer double that to snatch them off you, because you yourself could offer that £3000 a week, which also meant they were more selective.
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Where does it say in the new regulations that we can only offer every incoming player the average weekly L1 salary as a maximum?
 
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Scotchegg said:
It doesn't! Unlikely, but you could have a squad of 20 years and one player on £48k a week!
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Or 10 players on £4800 a week (decent L1 salary) rest of the squad made up of under 20 year olds. Doesn't sound too bad to be honest.
 
bromsgroveox said:
Am I the only one who is not massively enthused about Liam Kelly signing?? Was with us for along period of time last year and hardly played. Spoke to an ex colleague of his when he was at Bath City who said he is ability but has no guts and not physical or quick enough for league one or two! Have to agree that he looked slow when he came on in any games.
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Must be the only one.
 
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