Transfer News and Gossip Transfer Rumours Thread 2024/25 - Time to Cook 👨‍🍳

[leeblue]

Clearly big budget constraints.
Recent history shows to get out of this league you have to spend a few quid. I appreciate the loyal players had to be rewarded well but the fact we cant/won't compete with others looking to do well should be a decent dose of expectation management. I'm all for wise financial running of the club but I fear lack of spending power will ultimately cost us.
I'm sure the whiteboard is being worked....however nothing over the line.

 

[Smiffy]

Jorge Hurtado

Would be nice!

 

[danbowen]

how much extra money do we get a year roughly if we go up?

 

[Linda Loan Shark]

If Moncur drops down two divisions from Orient to non league he will play better. So win win for us.

 

[JD]

how much extra money do we get a year roughly if we go up?

I think it’s somewhere around £1.4m? Might be a little less?

 

[Linda Loan Shark]

All my positivity is going slowly I remember boy wonders wording of the supermarket budgets. Seems even Aldi out our reach can’t see kev being happy with this hope he doesn’t walk .

Why would he walk when he had it so much worse over the last 2 years??!!!

I knew this would happen. Expectation was going to go through the roof after the takeover but we are going through a transitional period, playing catch up with a smaller budget. We finally have our club back. We are not Wrexham. It will only be a matter of time before some fans turn on the players and staff when we lose a game to a club that has smaller attendance than us.

If we can sneak into that last play off place it will be a massive achievement for us.

 

[kentblues]

how much extra money do we get a year roughly if we go up?

About £1m…and there in lies the dilemma because we will never break even in NL. To put it in context our entire turnover is £3m and ticket sales £1.5m

 

[AlfaShrimper]

Well that's a shame. But time to move onto the next target.

 

[Hadleigh-shrimper]

Why would he walk when he had it so much worse over the last 2 years??!!!

He’s been waiting and waiting for new era as we all have , I don’t know expect Wrexham spending but they’ve had the club a month or so , the budget is obviously too tight god knows what they would of done with less st.

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

Why would he walk when he had it so much worse over the last 2 years??!!!

I knew this would happen. Expectation was going to go through the roof after the takeover but we are going through a transitional period, playing catch up with a smaller budget. We finally have our club back. We are not Wrexham. It will only be a matter of time before some fans turn on the players and staff when we lose a game to a club that has smaller attendance than us.

If we can sneak into that last play off place it will be a massive achievement for us.

I love this rendition of we are not Wrexham … just wanting a team that’s good enough to compete in the national league doesn’t immediately mean you want to be Wrexham … we are not Braintree either ..

 

[Yer Blues]

Does anyone reckon will be making a kind of statement signing ie a Moncur for example as obvs i understand the consortium are going to be a lot more sensible on budget for example ..

What statement would it be making?

I think signing a 31 year old midfielder who doesn't apply himself is the sort of statement our old chairman would make.

Hardly fits in with the profile of other players who have come in either.

 

[Linda Loan Shark]

What statement would be be making?

I don't think signing a 31 year old midfielder who doesn't apply himself is the sort of statement our old chairman would make.

Hardly fits in with the profile of other players who have come in either.

He is not 31 for another 5 days :)

 

[leeblue]

how much extra money do we get a year roughly if we go up?

Central payment of around 1.4 million from efl.
Around 120k in national league

 

[Yer Blues]

He is not 31 for another 5 days :)

Oh brilliant. Let's ****ing sign him then.

 

[kentblues]

Central payment of around 1.4 million from efl.
Around 120k in national league

1.4 million now is it- that is actually the same as our ticket revenue for the season or playing budget!!!

 

[BEERMONSTER]

Pedder looked a prospect and it would seem by the offer we made him that's how he was viewed by Kev. So we aren't going to over stretch the wage bill on prospects when we're looking for arguably proven ability to be brought in! Need to have rather than nice to have, budgets permitting of course.

 

[shrimperjon]

Pedder looked a prospect and it would seem by the offer we made him that's how he was viewed by Kev. So we aren't going to over stretch the wage bill on prospects when we're looking for arguably proven ability to be brought in! Need to have rather than nice to have, budgets permitting of course.

We need to move on. Was told at the weekend that Pedder was asking for too much and we were not going to be held to ransom. We want players that want to play for the football club for the right reasons. He’s played 6 senior games and he is 22, had a bad hamstring injury back end of last season and tweaked it again pre season. As good as he looked in a few few pre season games maybe we’ve dodged a bullet here

 

[danbowen]

1.4 million now is it- that is actually the same as our ticket revenue for the season or playing budget!!!

You think if COSU could stretch the budget £100-200k that could make a huge difference if we were able to bring in Tshimanga and Moncur. Could be well worth it in the long run.

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

What statement would it be making?

I think signing a 31 year old midfielder who doesn't apply himself is the sort of statement our old chairman would make.

Hardly fits in with the profile of other players who have come in either.

I do get what you are saying and had we be potentially linked to an injury hit player, I'd really agree. However, he played 35 games in a really difficult league 1. It's harsh to say he doesn't apply himself. It may be more about him not fulfilling his full potential (being an established championship player). We could say the same about Ryan Hall. Was top quality but didn't reach his full potential. Didn't stop us seeing him play brilliantly for us though. Moncur with 80% potential fulfilled could potentially be a great signing at our current level.

I love our scouting now, I really do, but we have to couple that with some experience and quality. Signing a team full of untried, untested players won't get us in those promotion spots.

 

[GBJ]

You think if COSU could stretch the budget £100-200k that could make a huge difference if we were able to bring in Tshimanga and Moncur. Could be well worth it in the long run.

True, but at the same time it was gambling like this that got us into financial trouble to begin with.

We’re between a rock and hard place tbh.