The Officially Not Official Summer Transfer Thread 2023

[chicken 2,421]

9 hours ago, king canary said:

Re the defensive midfield debate- while I agree it is a bit silly to complain about the order players are signed, I do feel this is a position we want to fill early to give them a full preseason to get used to our squad and style of play. We saw how difficult that adaptation was when Normann arrive when the season was well underway. 

So I have no issue with other players arriving first but I'll be very concerned if this key building block isn't in place by mid July at the latest.

I want to say about half our summer signings that summer came either within days of the season starting or after, not just Normann. I think at least Sargent and Kabak too, possibly Tzolis?

[king canary 6,409]

37 minutes ago, chicken said:

I want to say about half our summer signings that summer came either within days of the season starting or after, not just Normann. I think at least Sargent and Kabak too, possibly Tzolis?

Kabak was very late for sure, possiblyeven deadline day. Can't remember with Sargent and Tzolis.

[Top corner 174]

47 minutes ago, dylanisabaddog said:

Hate to bring Brexit into it but how on earth did we end up in a position where they can sign our young talent and we can't sign someone like Trybull or Stieperman. I despair. 

Brexit Britain for you unfortunately, we’ll be back in the EU at some point….Anyway, back to Norwich transfers. 

[wcorkcanary 4,250]

9 hours ago, dylanisabaddog said:

@Midlandscanaryhas always rated him but he seems to have lost his way recently. 

Midlands or Dabo?

[Dr Greenthumb 683]

18 minutes ago, king canary said:

Kabak was very late for sure, possiblyeven deadline day. Can't remember with Sargent and Tzolis.

Tzolis was a few weeks before the start of the season, Sargent was before that 

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

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https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/31/minnesota-united-linked-to-former-norwich-city-striker-teemu-pukki/

[Newtopia 480]

2 minutes ago, Terminally Yellow said:

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https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/31/minnesota-united-linked-to-former-norwich-city-striker-teemu-pukki/

This move makes a lot of sense to me, although I admitted know zilch about the ‘loons’, as they are known.

[Monty13 1,702]

3 hours ago, dylanisabaddog said:

Hate to bring Brexit into it but how on earth did we end up in a position where they can sign our young talent and we can't sign someone like Trybull or Stieperman. I despair. 

Because our Govt is dumb. We can set whatever rules we want to, but it’s still ridiculously hard to bring people in. Like anyone is concerned about the immigration of professional footballers.

[chicken 2,421]

4 hours ago, Dr Greenthumb said:

Tzolis was a few weeks before the start of the season, Sargent was before that 

First game of the season was 14th August.

Sargent signed on the 9th August.
Tzolis signed on the 12th August.
Williams signed on 23 August.
Normann signed on 29th August.
Kabak signed on 30th August.

So no. Not a few weeks. 2 days and 5 days respectively. 

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

Looks like Torino is Max Johnston's likely destination now.

[Dr Greenthumb 683]

8 hours ago, chicken said:

First game of the season was 14th August.

Sargent signed on the 9th August.
Tzolis signed on the 12th August.
Williams signed on 23 August.
Normann signed on 29th August.
Kabak signed on 30th August.

So no. Not a few weeks. 2 days and 5 days respectively. 

Sorry I was wrong, I’ll just google everything next time and be perfect like you

[shefcanary 1,668]

13 hours ago, Monty13 said:

Because our Govt is dumb. We can set whatever rules we want to, but it’s still ridiculously hard to bring people in. Like anyone is concerned about the immigration of professional footballers.

Whisper it quietly, as it might upset the gammon, but in a couple of weeks the DWP will announce new rules for football clubs which will mean signing EU players becomes easier - it is based on previous season's English settled player appearances, so has a sliding scale, but in theory we can sign up to three EU players for next season when the rules are approved by parliament. 

[TheDarkKnight 445]

3 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

Looks like Torino is Max Johnston's likely destination now.

I don’t know.

It's either Torino Reading, PSV or Sporting Lisbon.

Suppose, he'll choose whichever club guarantees him a first team place. Hopefully it's Torino.

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

****ty Twitter Rumour alert!

 

[TheDarkKnight 445]

24 minutes ago, Terminally Yellow said:

****ty Twitter Rumour alert!

 

Superb player.

Right back. But he has the skillset to play anywhere in defence and midfield.

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,248]

29 minutes ago, Terminally Yellow said:

****ty Twitter Rumour alert!

 

Doesn't really make sense after signing Stacey. I'd imagine Liverpool would want Ramsay to be more-or-less a guaranteed starter.

[jaberry2 477]

27 minutes ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said:

Doesn't really make sense after signing Stacey. I'd imagine Liverpool would want Ramsay to be more-or-less a guaranteed starter.

Well it depends on his versatility and whether any truth in it or not. Looking at the source, I suspect this will be guff, but you never know.

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[Ken Hairy 3,057]

5 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

Looks like Torino is Max Johnston's likely destination now.

I think the Stacey signing made the Johnston one look unlikely. 

[Capt. Pants 3,211]

3 hours ago, Ken Hairy said:

I think the Stacey signing made the Johnston one look unlikely. 

Yes unfortunately. I would have preferred Max over Stacy, seems to be highly thought of.

It feels a bit here and now rather than building for the future, but you can't force good young players to sign for us.

Edited June 1 by Capt. Pants

[chicken 2,421]

7 hours ago, Dr Greenthumb said:

Sorry I was wrong, I’ll just google everything next time and be perfect like you

I didn't use google...

I'm not perfect either, far from it. I was just taught by my stepfather to know the position in a discussion I want to hold.

In otherwords, if you want to challenge a position you need to at least double check what reasoning you are using. That's all.

Nothing here is 'personal'.

 

[chicken 2,421]

1 hour ago, Capt. Pants said:

Yes unfortunately. I would have preferred Max over Stacy, seems to be highly thought of.

It feels a bit here and now rather than building for the future, but you can't good young players to sign for us.

We already have Mumba for the future. We have a lot of 'for the future', we have a massive gap in our squad lacking players 25-30, aka the peak time in a players career.

If last season taught us anything it's that we need consistancy and relying purely one youngsters won't give you that.

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

1 hour ago, Capt. Pants said:

Yes unfortunately. I would have preferred Max over Stacy, seems to be highly thought of.

It feels a bit here and now rather than building for the future, but you can't force good young players to sign for us.

I think when you think over what we lacked this season - in particular, experience, mentality and character - Stacey makes a lot more sense than a lad who has seemingly come onto the scene and done well in a league we all know is leagues behind even the Championship outside of Rangers and Celtic. 

Stacey will need less time to adapt, offers more from the experience, mentality and character perspective and has been exactly where we are now with Bournemouth. 

[Monty13 1,702]

6 hours ago, shefcanary said:

Whisper it quietly, as it might upset the gammon, but in a couple of weeks the DWP will announce new rules for football clubs which will mean signing EU players becomes easier - it is based on previous season's English settled player appearances, so has a sliding scale, but in theory we can sign up to three EU players for next season when the rules are approved by parliament. 

Thank god for common sense, hopefully a move in the right direction.

[cambridgeshire canary 5,452]

Chance for us to get Lansbury at long last? Does rather feel like for the past decade someone has come out and said we should get him

 

[Dr Greenthumb 683]

1 hour ago, chicken said:

I didn't use google...

I'm not perfect either, far from it. I was just taught by my stepfather to know the position in a discussion I want to hold.

In otherwords, if you want to challenge a position you need to at least double check what reasoning you are using. That's all.

Nothing here is 'personal'.

 

Really? You and canarydan are going at each other literally a few threads down with personal jibes. 

 

Edited June 1 by Dr Greenthumb

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

Sheffield Utd apparently in preliminary talks with us about a transfer for "one of our players" reports the Sheffield Star. It's a really very vague report though. 

They don't actually know who but name Giannoulis, Aarons and Ombamodiele as the likely targets. The article also details the issues the club has financially right now - so I'd suggest it's less likely to be Ombamodiele, personally.

 

Edited June 1 by Terminally Yellow

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

36 minutes ago, Dr Greenthumb said:

Really? You and canarydan are going at each other literally a few threads down with personal jibes. 

 

Canarydan is a **** though.

[Ken Hairy 3,057]

3 hours ago, Capt. Pants said:

Yes unfortunately. I would have preferred Max over Stacy, seems to be highly thought of.

It feels a bit here and now rather than building for the future, but you can't force good young players to sign for us.

I'll be honest and say I know very little about either, but the one thing I've moaned about is our signings always seem to be about the future. I'm glad we're starting to think about the now.

I had a look on Bournemouths FB page, they seem to think we've got a good signing here.

[KeiranShikari 1,277]

4 minutes ago, Terminally Yellow said:

Sheffield Utd apparently in talks with us about a transfer for "one of our players" reports the Sheffield Star.

They don't actually know who but name Giannoulis, Aarons and Ombamodiele as the likely targets. The article also details the issues the club has financially right now - so I'd suggest it's less likely to be Ombamodiele, personally.

Dimi does not strike me as a Sheffield United signing, or one that would get a Premier League move. Aarons perhaps but I'm sure he and his agent would be aiming higher. Same with Omo if it was AC Milan interested in January.

[Terminally Yellow 2,226]

4 minutes ago, KeiranShikari said:

Dimi does not strike me as a Sheffield United signing, or one that would get a Premier League move. Aarons perhaps but I'm sure he and his agent would be aiming higher. Same with Omo if it was AC Milan interested in January.

I just had a snoop on their website. They're discussing this too. Say they don't think it's a RB as they're well stocked in that position. Couple of people named Sargent as the player they'd like it to be which surprised me.