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VinceHilaire Flag London 18 Aug 22 1.48pm

90 pages - come on, surely we can break the 100 page achievement…

 
VinceHilaire Flag London 18 Aug 22 1.49pm

Originally posted by VinceHilaire

90 pages - come on, surely we can break the 100 page achievement…

Ok…so now 91 pages with this :-)

 
doombear Flag Too far from Selhurst Park 18 Aug 22 1.59pm

Originally posted by VinceHilaire

90 pages - come on, surely we can break the 100 page achievement…

easy-peasy - there's still 2 weeks of the transfer window left. In any case, We'll fill 10 pages simply moaning about the business we didn't do!

 
Stirlingsays Flag 18 Aug 22 2.10pm

Another two weeks of the Dazza war.

All in good fun.

 

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PatrickA Flag London 18 Aug 22 2.19pm

Sky are just reporting that Forest are signing Gibbs White for £44.5 million.
Last time I checked his value a week ago it was £25million.
The market has gone crazy with players like Cucerella going for more than £60 million.
Makes you wonder what Gallagher would be valued at.

 
Stirlingsays Flag 18 Aug 22 2.24pm

Originally posted by PatrickA

Sky are just reporting that Forest are signing Gibbs White for £44.5 million.
Last time I checked his value a week ago it was £25million.
The market has gone crazy with players like Cucerella going for more than £60 million.
Makes you wonder what Gallagher would be valued at.

At that price it is a massive gamble.

 

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Dubai Eagle Flag 18 Aug 22 2.34pm

And where does that leave the other players that play in that position that Forest have already signed during the window.

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

At that price it is a massive gamble.

 
Putitout Flag Oxford 18 Aug 22 2.47pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

At that price it is a massive gamble.

No disrespect to this player or any of the others Forest have signed, but Forest ,their owner/ owners must have more money than sense. It could work ,but what a gamble.

 
ambrose7 Flag Croydon 18 Aug 22 2.53pm

Originally posted by PatrickA

Sky are just reporting that Forest are signing Gibbs White for £44.5 million.
Last time I checked his value a week ago it was £25million.
The market has gone crazy with players like Cucerella going for more than £60 million.
Makes you wonder what Gallagher would be valued at.

That is the single stupidest bit of business I've heard all summer.

It's £35m up front and £45m with the add-ons taken in, but for context we got Guehi, Eze and Olise for a combined £45m.

They are a relegation away from a FFP lead balloon to League 2. Their wage bill must be eye watering at this point. Even if they stay up they're going to have to do some accounting magic over the next couple of years.

 

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Nicholas91 Flag The Democratic Republic of Kent 18 Aug 22 2.54pm

Originally posted by Putitout

No disrespect to this player or any of the others Forest have signed, but Forest ,their owner/ owners must have more money than sense. It could work ,but what a gamble.

Absolutely agree, I would have been shocked at a £25mil price tag but near £50mil really is outrageous. Wolves must be laughing themselves silly. A half decent looking English prospect in my eyes, nothing more.

 

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nead1 Flag 18 Aug 22 3.23pm

Completely agree; makes you wonder what some of Palace's rising talent must be worth. From memory, not one of them cost beyond £20m.

 
MrRobbo Flag Chaldon 18 Aug 22 3.39pm

Originally posted by ambrose7

That is the single stupidest bit of business I've heard all summer.

It's £35m up front and £45m with the add-ons taken in, but for context we got Guehi, Eze and Olise for a combined £45m.

They are a relegation away from a FFP lead balloon to League 2. Their wage bill must be eye watering at this point. Even if they stay up they're going to have to do some accounting magic over the next couple of years.


Agree, this is INSANE. If I was a forest fan I'd be really worried they really are going all in on this

 
doombear Flag Too far from Selhurst Park 18 Aug 22 4.13pm

Originally posted by Nicholas91

Absolutely agree, I would have been shocked at a £25mil price tag but near £50mil really is outrageous. Wolves must be laughing themselves silly. A half decent looking English prospect in my eyes, nothing more.


Absolutely, especially as they've just picked up Nunes from Sporting for £38m - a much better player and prospect.

 
BelfastEagle Flag 18 Aug 22 4.28pm

So that’s almost 20 players Forrest have signed in last couple
of months. Almost 150 million spent on a championship turnover of around 4.5 million almost spent as much as Chelsea. Where is this money coming from
and how does it fit with financial fair play rules ?

 
sotac464 Flag Berkshire 18 Aug 22 4.51pm

Originally posted by BelfastEagle

So that’s almost 20 players Forrest have signed in last couple
of months. Almost 150 million spent on a championship turnover of around 4.5 million almost spent as much as Chelsea. Where is this money coming from
and how does it fit with financial fair play rules ?


There owner is very rich, at the beginning when you first enter the league, you can have losses as long as the owner covers it, We know how much money clubs can earn in the Premier league, for instance £150 million in a season, the owner can then cover another £40 million in losses on top.

It could all go wrong and they still end up getting relegated, then again they could stay up, in which case they won't spend anything like that at all next summer, some clubs take the chance others don't.

Still comes down to how rich the owners are.

 

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Hudsoneagle Flag 18 Aug 22 4.52pm

I’m seeing the two most realistically correct fees for MGE are either 25m upfront with 17m add ones making it a deal worth 42m and the other I have read is 35m plus 9m add ons making it 44m.

Madness. I laugh at Forest a little, and then realise how badly this inflates the prices of the players in the same sort of market we operate in. It’s bad news for all. It’s also possible that the actual deal is worth more like 35m overall and the mistake is the add on fees have been added on twice in the reported fees.

 
BelfastEagle Flag 18 Aug 22 5.58pm

Originally posted by sotac464


There owner is very rich, at the beginning when you first enter the league, you can have losses as long as the owner covers it, We know how much money clubs can earn in the Premier league, for instance £150 million in a season, the owner can then cover another £40 million in losses on top.

It could all go wrong and they still end up getting relegated, then again they could stay up, in which case they won't spend anything like that at all next summer, some clubs take the chance others don't.

Still comes down to how rich the owners are.

Ah so effectively the financial fair play rules don’t apply to promoted clubs. If you can afford it then Forrest are doing the right think blow as much as you need to while you can.

 
Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards grumpymort Flag US/Thailand/UK 18 Aug 22 6.15pm

Originally posted by BelfastEagle

Ah so effectively the financial fair play rules don’t apply to promoted clubs. If you can afford it then Forrest are doing the right think blow as much as you need to while you can.


They do not it's 3rd year when it gets tough and the spending should stop 2nd year if stay in the league.

I mentioned it before SP had commented about it and how Palace struggled.

This is why some clubs are happy to try to up and down you can gain a lot of money if you don't spend Norwich is prime example.

Forest issue will be wages you would think but we don't know the figures because football is not transparent about them the positive is didn't a fair few of the high earners sign only one year deals I believe that is the case.

Anyway lets move away from what others have or will do and focus on palace unless its related to palace in some way.

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 18 Aug 22 6.50pm

Originally posted by Dubai Eagle

And where does that leave the other players that play in that position that Forest have already signed during the window.

On the bench and a bit peeved I guess.

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 18 Aug 22 6.53pm

Originally posted by Putitout

No disrespect to this player or any of the others Forest have signed, but Forest ,their owner/ owners must have more money than sense. It could work ,but what a gamble.

Oh to be one of those parasitic agents....probably booking his holiday as we speak.

 

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