Jota

[AdiSalisbury]

We have the Ince & Hughes money to spend still and we are yet to get replacements in for them.

Hopefully, though I've a feeling some of that is to cover previous acquisitions.

[roger_ramjet]

West Ham have had a £3m offer to Brentford turned down for the Spanish right-winger and could be tempted to make another offer of £6m and could seal the deal at that price, but Brentford require £8m so £6m could not be enough for Jota's services.

We defiantly need a new winger and Jota is a top priority and we should give Brentford £8m in what they require as he could be the tip of the iceberg in making our team complete, the missing piece in the jigsaw if you like in improving our attacking play and creation when it comes to goals.

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Lets hope we bid defiantly and get him for around 5m then.

But if we are to be bidding against a member of the greed league who have only "valued" him at 3 million, he will probably go for £ 15 million to some fools.

[StensonRam]

We have the Ince & Hughes money to spend still and we are yet to get replacements in for them.

Not so sure we do, there's probably an element of truth in what Adi says, my guess is we sailed beyond the wind in terms of FFP and needed to get back in the black, bet we've only got half of those 2 transfer fees to play with

[roger_ramjet]

Agreed - our outgoings exceed incomings on other deals by a couple of million as well so we may well have spent part of those 2 fees, as well as having to discount some of it for FFP.

Additionally the wages to be paid to two "contract buy out" players in Davies and Huddlestone are probably a lot more than that which would have been paid to Christie, in a 4th year of a deal where we got him cheap to start with, and other outgoings. So a fair chunk of the Ince Hughes wage saving will have been eroded too, as Wisdom will not have come cheap in terms of wages either.

I doubt we have more than 10 million available to spend, if that, so if we spunk that all up against the wall on José Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo then that is a huge risk on a one trick pony who has played less than 70 championship games: albeit with a decent one in three goalscoring record.

[StensonRam]

Agreed - our outgoings exceed incomings on other deals by a couple of million as well so we may well have spent part of those 2 fees, as well as having to discount some of it for FFP.

Additionally the wages to be paid to two "contract buy out" players in Davies and Huddlestone are probably a lot more than that which would have been paid to Christie, in a 4th year of a deal where we got him cheap to start with, and other outgoings. So a fair chunk of the Ince Hughes wage saving will have been eroded too, as Wisdom will not have come cheap in terms of wages either.

I doubt we have more than 10 million available to spend, if that, so if we spunk that all up against the wall on José Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo then that is a huge risk on a one trick pony who has played less than 70 championship games: albeit with a decent one in three goalscoring record.

Yeah and lets not forget that we had to take a hit on camara as well, paid good money for him and we had to give him away

[Rams4Justice]

We used some of the Hughes money on Huddlestone and it has nothing do with FFP we sold Hughes cause he wanted to step up to the next level, plus we had a big enough squad as it is and we wanted to slim that down because we wanted to sort the balance of the squad out and get more players out who are not quite hacking it and want to get more play time, because they not getting it because the squad is too large.

[Rams4Justice]

Camara was bought for £1.25m from Angers hardly a big loss is it after he was released.

[StensonRam]

Ok I'll leave it there, you of course know best!

[Rams4Justice]

We see what Rowett get's in due course...

[roger_ramjet]

We used some of the Hughes money on Huddlestone and it has nothing do with FFP

...and you know this how?

The point is however not so much that we sold specific players for FFP reasons but that FFP will have a pervasive influence on what we have available today, since our past sins of spending are catching up with us. and we have not succeeding in fleeing the championship and thus absolving those sins.

Anyway neither of us know what the FFP scenario is, and the fact that we have bid £ 7m for Lawrence means we presumably have that much available: but I will warrant not much more unless we raise more by selling