January transfer window rumours.

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:14 pm

Very highly regarded player by the fans of his current club, from my investigation of their forum the other week. Perfect profile for us. I haven’t seen him play obviously, but the clips on YouTube show him to be very comfortable on the ball and seemingly pretty fast.

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:17 pm

jedi_master wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:14 pm
Very highly regarded player by the fans of his current club, from my investigation of their forum the other week. Perfect profile for us. I haven’t seen him play obviously, but the clips on YouTube show him to be very comfortable on the ball and seemingly pretty fast.

The Belgian journo, Sacha, who has broke this story just replied to someone saying

‘What's really impressive with him, it's his maturity. He has also an ability to quickness and acceleration in the 3 first meters who's really impressive too.’

Newcastleclaret93 · Post by **Newcastleclaret93** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:18 pm

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:17 pm
The Belgian journo, Sacha, who has broke this story just replied to someone saying

‘What's really impressive with him, it's his maturity. He has also an ability to quickness and acceleration in the 3 first meters who's really impressive too.’

Might get chucked straight in if THB injury is as bad we think

ClaretAL · Post by **ClaretAL** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:21 pm

Looks perfect fit for us.

https://youtu.be/Db0_NShvuDI

Newcastleclaret93 · Post by **Newcastleclaret93** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:22 pm

Anyone got Nixon patreon? News on THb

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:23 pm

Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:22 pm
Anyone got Nixon patreon? News on THb

Couple of months feared

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:28 pm

Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:17 am
Al dakhil.. Excuse spelling..... On way for medical apparently

He started out playing up front but since been converted to cb, could be handy at corners

claretandy · Post by **claretandy** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:34 pm

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:23 pm
Couple of months feared

Has he nicked that off here ?

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foo ... s-25957971

Two bids rejected for Obafemi, believed to be 2.5m

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:45 pm

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foo ... s-25957971

Two bids rejected for Obafemi, believed to be 2.5m

With him being told he can leave, I think its safe to say that this will go through, and at a much lower price than they wanted in the summer

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:46 pm

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foo ... s-25957971

Two bids rejected for Obafemi, believed to be 2.5m

They wanted 12m in the summer, I think they'll want around 6m now, our latest bid was a cheeky 2.5m, the deal will probably go through at 4.5m

Firthy · Post by **Firthy** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:56 pm

If we just get Aldakhil and Obefaml it will be a good window providing we hang to what we have.

123EasyasBFC · Post by **123EasyasBFC** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:07 pm

I was right about Harwood bellis

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:08 pm

Firthy wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:56 pm
If we just get Aldakhil and Obefaml it will be a good window providing we hang to what we have.

I think we need two centre halves. What about the Swede? Forget his name.

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:10 pm

https://twitter.com/sachatavolieri/stat ... 7JfBTbM42A

Fee could be around 5m euros (inc. bonus) for Al Dakhil.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:11 pm

Ameen Al Dakhil transfer up to £5 million euros, including bonuses

https://twitter.com/sachatavolieri/stat ... 1739999232

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:12 pm

Will he be signed in time for Saturday?

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:12 pm

gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:12 pm
Will he be signed in time for Saturday?

He's here now so I don't see why not

Anyone got any ideas for the much anticipated signing video?

Bigvince · Post by **Bigvince** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:13 pm

No way he’ll get thrown straight in

Cap · Post by **Cap** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:14 pm

gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:12 pm
Will he be signed in time for Saturday?

I think he will need to be registered by noon tomorrow to be included but would you play him straight away or rely on either McNally or Taylor?
The latter for me.

HitchinClaret · Post by **HitchinClaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:27 pm

Stoke are still onto BT to try and fix their faulty phone connection, they had expected at least 5 calls from Burnley in the past year or so....

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:27 pm

Cap wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:14 pm
I think he will need to be registered by noon tomorrow to be included but would you play him straight away or rely on either McNally or Taylor?
The latter for me.

I seem to remember Big C was thrown straight in back in '67.

123EasyasBFC · Post by **123EasyasBFC** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:35 pm

Obafemi Likely get done at 4mil

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:39 pm

No need to throw anyone straight in.
Beyer and Chas on Saturday I would guess.
McNally grew into the role, maybe he just needs minutes.
A massive blow if THB is out for a long period, but we have cover, and might have even more imminently.

If our defence starts to concede then we will just outscore the opposition.

claretandy · Post by **claretandy** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:42 pm

10am flight, so you'd think straight for a medical, should be announced later today.

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:53 pm

claretandy wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:42 pm
10am flight, so you'd think straight for a medical, should be announced later today.

Working on the video has we speak

CrosspoolClarets · Post by **CrosspoolClarets** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:02 pm

To be fair, if other clubs are saying we are “buying the league” and we then proceed to spend near £10m on two big gaps (one due to a very recent injury) then you can see what they moan about.

Feels a bit like the shoe is on the other foot for us, we’ve moaned enough about parachutes in the past.

Big Vinny K · Post by **Big Vinny K** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:05 pm

Not sure we are buying the league.
We have still bought in a hell of a lot more than we have spent and our wage bill has gone down massively.
Compare that to Sheff United, Watford and even the likes of Norwich.

LaLigaClaret · Post by **LaLigaClaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:05 pm

Stories appearing we have another defender coming in on a free in the summer. He has allegedly signed a pre-contract agreement. His name is Moufi and he is a Moroccan player.

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:07 pm

CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:02 pm
To be fair, if other clubs are saying we are “buying the league” and we then proceed to spend near £10m on two big gaps (one due to a very recent injury) then you can see what they moan about.

Feels a bit like the shoe is on the other foot for us, we’ve moaned enough about parachutes in the past.

Norwich and Watford’s wage bill will be circa 65m. Ours is circa 30m.

We also brought in 75m of player sales.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:10 pm

CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:02 pm
To be fair, if other clubs are saying we are “buying the league” and we then proceed to spend near £10m on two big gaps (one due to a very recent injury) then you can see what they moan about.

Feels a bit like the shoe is on the other foot for us, we’ve moaned enough about parachutes in the past.

Not our fault if other clubs can't spend their money wisely is it, and given we've got a lot of high earners off the books our wage bill might not even be the highest in the Championship.

I've not seen us moaning about parachutes.

HiThere · Post by **HiThere** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:13 pm

How can you buy the league with a net gain of player transfers? Buying the league is when a sugar daddy comes in and bankrolls a club to spend mega millions like it's nothing.

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:18 pm

I thought it very sensible of Kompany in the press conference just now when pressed on Al-Dakhil and Obafemi.

He simply said "We can only sign players who are willing to be a part of this club in either the Championship or the Premier League and can do a job for us in either, that makes the market we shop in small".

We are not up yet, whatever anyone says, and this is a good way of approaching business this window. We're acting like a very level-headed club here.

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:19 pm

HiThere wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:13 pm
How can you buy the league with a net gain of player transfers? Buying the league is when a sugar daddy comes in and bankrolls a club to spend mega millions like it's nothing.

Yes - like Wolves when Jorge Mendes got involved and they signed the likes of Ruben Neves and Diogo Jota in this league.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:23 pm

I have to admit, though I have some sympathy with the argument that we started off with a very good squad for this level because we had been in the premier league for six years, the fact that we then sold it, rebuilt it at less than a third of the price and chopped the wage bill to at least half (if not less) and still look far too good for everyone suggests we deserve more credit than "well, they have just bought the league"

Stockbrokerbelt · Post by **Stockbrokerbelt** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:23 pm

Moufi, what a great name, looking forward to that signing video.

AfloatinClaret · Post by **AfloatinClaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:24 pm

link on the Wout thread: https://sportwitness.co.uk/defender-agr ... -transfer/

I've watched Portimenese play a couple of times, though well before this lad would've been there - it's a grim place to watch football if you go on a (thankfully rare) wet'n'windy day in Portimao.

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:41 pm

AfloatinClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:24 pm
link on the Wout thread: https://sportwitness.co.uk/defender-agr ... -transfer/

I've watched Portimenese play a couple of times, though well before this lad would've been there - it's a grim place to watch football if you go on a (thankfully rare) wet'n'windy day in Portimao.

It is. I used to live in Lagos.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:40 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:23 pm
I have to admit, though I have some sympathy with the argument that we started off with a very good squad for this level because we had been in the premier league for six years, the fact that we then sold it, rebuilt it at less than a third of the price and chopped the wage bill to at least half (if not less) and still look far too good for everyone suggests we deserve more credit than "well, they have just bought the league"

Well put LC, I sometimes think even among our own fanbase Bellamy, Kompany, and all the rest of our backroom staff aren't given the credit they deserve for engineering such a rapid turnaround in our fortunes, while also having to practically build a whole new squad from scratch.

Our net spend at a guess will be among the lowest in the league due to the revenues we've raised in players sales, hardly comparable to simply buying the league, and if it was so easy for relegated sides in receipt of Parachute Payments to stroll back to the PL at the 1st time of asking then all the relegated Prem clubs would do so, however although many do achieve this feat many equally go in the other direction.

Nori1958 · Post by **Nori1958** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:58 pm

Not sure we need one, but now being linked to a RB from Anderlecht for 5m

Belgianclaret · Post by **Belgianclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:59 pm

Ric_C wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:16 am
Ameen AlDakhil deal close

https://twitter.com/sachatavolieri/stat ... 2C2U-W8Svg

Another astute signing in the VK mode

Now just who was carpering on about all the cheap talents in Belgium 5 years ago?

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:10 pm

and another link

MDWat · Post by **MDWat** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:15 pm

How many right backs? Is Roberts off?

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:15 pm

Murillo is a 26 year old Panamanian right back. Yeah let's sign him...Pretty sure we've never had a player from Panama before !

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:16 pm

About time we had another Panama's in the town

Selby Claret · Post by **Selby Claret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:18 pm

MDWat wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:15 pm
How many right backs? Is Roberts off?

Vitinho injury worse than first thought?

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:18 pm

The Moroccan player we have allegedly got a pre-contract agreement in place for the summer from Portugal is also a right back.

I can't see the Murillo thing being true - the source appears to be a Panamanian journalist giving an opinion based on Kompany previously managing him as opposed to anything substantive.

NottsClaret · Post by **NottsClaret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:20 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:23 pm
I have to admit, though I have some sympathy with the argument that we started off with a very good squad for this level because we had been in the premier league for six years, the fact that we then sold it, rebuilt it at less than a third of the price and chopped the wage bill to at least half (if not less) and still look far too good for everyone suggests we deserve more credit than "well, they have just bought the league"

Honestly thought we'd be lower mid-table at the start of the season when we'd signed a load of farmers on the cheap and all the 'stars' had left. It's got to the point now, I don't even question us spending £4m on some Iraqi kid nobody has ever heard of.

colne-claret · Post by **colne-claret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:26 pm

Selby Claret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:18 pm
Vitinho injury worse than first thought?

I thought he’d posted a photo back in training this week. Might be wrong.

Cleveleys_claret · Post by **Cleveleys_claret** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:32 pm

Vitinho whether we think so or not believes his best position to be left wing back, so maybe in time that's where Vincent Kompany sees him. At the moment we have Charlie Taylor and Maatsen who can play on the left. Come summer both of them may not be here so Vitinho may slip back into his favoured position as one of the two we would need there