New signings

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Originally Posted by spaldy

I don't understand it at all. I do understand it might just be clickbait but I've seem some rather specific stories on Summerville, Gnonto (Italy), Rutter (Brighton), Kamara (Rennes). It's not like we are destitute or owned by Bates anymore. None of these listed are replaceable by who we have in the current squad.

No one seems interested in Bamford or Piroe which would have been 2 I wouldn't have minded going

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We sold Gray to service some of the transfer deal payments required by the end of June/July, nothing to do with PSR (Thanks for the figurework MT). The management haven't the remotest idea as to how to manage the clubs cashflow demands, despite them being known well in advance and any Finance director worth their money would have known what was required before the opening of the Winter transfer window.

They have launched the much anticipated fire sale in order to shrink the paybill as much as possible, knowing that the return of the likes of Aaronsson, Kristensen, Wober etc etc would have a serious impact on the clubs ability to actually pay its way.

The stories swirling around Summerville, Gnonto, Rutter, Meslier, Kamara and most recently Struijk might well be largely clickbait, but we all know that the first two of that clan were keen to depart when we were relegated and I suspect would still like to depart if the price (personal terms to the player, nothing to do with what LUFC wants) was right, so the departures will continue (in fact my original estimate of numbers leaving was under by some margin!).

And the lack of interest in Bamford and Piroe, the last 5 words of your last sentence says it all.

Other than a complete takeover by red bull ( who do have football experience) and the sacking of Farke ( who if he had been gone at Christmas, we’d be up now), we are doomed ah tell ye, doomed!

Isn't this sooooooo super exciting?

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/l...d-new-29509939

🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Seems little point getting upset at the start of the window - just need to wait to see how it pans out.

No excuses given the outgoings and the club statements. Things should start moving after the Euros.

I’m assuming that farke and the board realise we kick of in 4 weeks time and we need to be up and running with the team sorted, that means whoever’s going then go, and whoever is coming, get them here and bedded in….just saying……there can be no excuses at the start of this season, last season maybe, but not this one.

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Originally Posted by norfolk white

I’m assuming that farke and the board realise we kick of in 4 weeks time and we need to be up and running with the team sorted, that means whoever’s going then go, and whoever is coming, get them here and bedded in….just saying……there can be no excuses at the start of this season, last season maybe, but not this one.

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One unintentionally amusing aspect of the hive of inactivity is the desperate attempts the journos have to go to in order to fill the Newsnow pages with "stuff" about the youth/backroom signings, quite sad really.

Yes, we do be ground zero for filling any teams need for a player or two. If you listened to them our whole team is for sale for less than the market value. It's a if Bates still owns us.

Familiar comments circulating on here again.

Many will be happy to see Llorente gone 🤐 so i'll add my opinion on matters of alleged delays on who'll be coming in after our clear-out of the renegade PL signings.

Basically not flipping easy nowadays chasing a player for starters if we've not been sounding them out since the turn of year & certainly not easy getting rid of contracted players likewise.

Gotta realise if a club no longer wished to keep a player then they'd have to pay all his remaining wages in the contract & release him to become a free agent.

If the player wanted to leave the club (which is not willing to sell) he either has to pay his release clause (if there's one in the contract) or the club divides the fee that they'd paid for him.

This would be done per day, then be multiplyed by the number of days he'd been at the club. They'd then reduce the total by subtracting off any expenses on injuries, etc.
What's left is subtracted off the total fee they'd paid for him & the player then pays what's remaining.
This would then releases him from the contract making him a free agent to leave !

Otherwise, if a player doesn't want to leave or a club we're not willing to sell, then the player stays at the club - simples.👍

I often read the renown CIES Football Observatory reports & noted articles on transfers among many other issues of the game, for interest to share.
https://football-observatory.com/-About-

1.Generally speaking, all other things being equal, the prices of players have increased annually by 9.0% over the past decade.
This average was 13.8% between the 2013/14 & 2019/20 seasons then -0.2% during the three seasons following the pandemic.

2.However, after having dropped sharply in 2021/22, the prices of footballers have now returned to grow since 2022/23, suggesting a rapid return to record levels.
The sums involved in the transfer of players by professional football clubs worldwide has strongly increased over the past decade.
The total of about €9 billion/ $9,782,820,000.00 (£7,574,592,273.30)* measured for the 2022/23 season is the second highest since the record 2019/20 season, i note. 🤑

3.It is not surprising to notice that the prices of players recruited by EPL clubs have increased more than those of footballers signed by teams outside of this championship: +12.6% as opposed to 8.0% annually.

4.FYA, i noted inflation was also particularly marked for centre backs (+12.5%), full backs (+11.1%), as well as for players aged 21 or under (+12.8%).

Concluding gems are rare & average ability costs & both come with huge risk.

Just saying 🤗

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Originally Posted by Monaco_Totty

Familiar comments circulating on here again.

Many will be happy to see Llorente gone �� so i'll add my opinion on matters of alleged delays on who'll be coming in after our clear-out of the renegade PL signings.

Basically not flipping easy nowadays chasing a player for starters if we've not been sounding them out since the turn of year & certainly not easy getting rid of contracted players likewise.

Gotta realise if a club no longer wished to keep a player then they'd have to pay all his remaining wages in the contract & release him to become a free agent.

If the player wanted to leave the club (which is not willing to sell) he either has to pay his release clause (if there's one in the contract) or the club divides the fee that they'd paid for him.

This would be done per day, then be multiplyed by the number of days he'd been at the club. They'd then reduce the total by subtracting off any expenses on injuries, etc.
What's left is subtracted off the total fee they'd paid for him & the player then pays what's remaining.
This would then releases him from the contract making him a free agent to leave !

Otherwise, if a player doesn't want to leave or a club we're not willing to sell, then the player stays at the club - simples.��

I often read the renown CIES Football Observatory reports & noted articles on transfers among many other issues of the game, for interest to share.
https://football-observatory.com/-About-

1.Generally speaking, all other things being equal, the prices of players have increased annually by 9.0% over the past decade.
This average was 13.8% between the 2013/14 & 2019/20 seasons then -0.2% during the three seasons following the pandemic.

2.However, after having dropped sharply in 2021/22, the prices of footballers have now returned to grow since 2022/23, suggesting a rapid return to record levels.
The sums involved in the transfer of players by professional football clubs worldwide has strongly increased over the past decade.
The total of about €9 billion/ $9,782,820,000.00 (£7,574,592,273.30)* measured for the 2022/23 season is the second highest since the record 2019/20 season, i note. ��

3.It is not surprising to notice that the prices of players recruited by EPL clubs have increased more than those of footballers signed by teams outside of this championship: +12.6% as opposed to 8.0% annually.

4.FYA, i noted inflation was also particularly marked for centre backs (+12.5%), full backs (+11.1%), as well as for players aged 21 or under (+12.8%).

Concluding gems are rare & average ability costs & both come with huge risk.

Just saying ��

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Not sure anyone is suggesting that running the club in general, nor the transfer in/out of players in particular is easy (if it was, everyone would be doing it well, n'est pas? (and they don't, we're not alone in that respect!)). What is depressingly familiar is that we are about six weeks, mid-way through the transfer window (and much closer to the first game of the season), with nothing of any significance having been achieved in terms of incoming players (Rodon is NOT an incoming player!). Coupled with the strong possibility (probability?) that one or (probably) more of Summerville, Gnonto, Rutter, Struijk, Meslier & Kamara will depart, it's yet another summer when the powers that be at the club seem incapable of getting out of the starting blocks with any kind of focus on the kind of rebuilding that is required.

Btw, the majority of those who have left, or been sent out on loan are not "renegade PL signings", many of whom it would appear are about to grace us with their presence once more (deep joy). Equally depressing as the lack of any incoming "activity" is the fact those who have departed include many young academy graduates, the most significant of course being Archie.

MT,

thank you for the analysis overview.

Really surprising that backs wages are growing faster than strikers or wingers! I would never have guessed that.