The Summer Transfer Thread 2021

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YorksHammer wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:33 pm What you might say, though, is that Ajax are paying four £5m instalments for Haller, so we definitely didn't get £20m cash in that deal up front.
The club sold the receivables to a bank.

https://find-and-update.company-informa ... ng-history

It is the charge registered on 24th June if you want to read the detail!

We’d probably get about 90-95% of the remaining amount so cash was “available”
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What TDD really misses these days is the ubiquitous appearance of Redknapp holding court out of his car window.
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Fair play, that’s a decent window we are only really net plus one with Karl but that for me was the most important signing, I’ve been worried flogging Declan and Tommy to death….

Re the headline numbers I don’t want to get stuck into another argument about the c**** at the top however again we have under invested for a number of windows previously and I still think we’re short.

Thank f*** for Moyes though, best thing apart from Declan that’s happened to this club in a long time.
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Up the Junction wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:31 pm
Tweety-deletey.

What was going on here? :rofl:
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YorksHammer wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:09 pm £55m, I think? Plus £5m in loan fees and something like £25m already committed to next summer for Areola and Kral if they play enough/we like them enough.

It's not much, but it's also not peanuts.
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Indeed. It's exactly the £60m the ITKs said we would spend.
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Estuary wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 4:57 pm Regardless of whether you are right about the numbers, to have that cash availability carried forward to this window assumes the pandemic never happened and our income remained constant or grew, which it didn't, we lost our share of a collective £1.5b in cash income during the lockdown.
No club budget prepared prior to March 2020 survives that.
We should be hailing the board for their foresight in selling Haller and banking the cash for this summer when they knew transfer fees would be more reasonable.

Too much? :crylol:
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I don't understand why so many people are qualifying their opinion with "yeah but we didn't spend any money in 2014 etc". We all know West Ham's transfer windows have been erratic to say the least. What matters is the here and now. Sullivan's greatest achievement has been listening to Moyes instead of going out looking for 'bargains'. Perhaps because he's got a manager who is showing concrete results. With owners like Sully, you have to be strong enough and clever enough to take him with you. Sully wants to be a successful premier league chairman. We all benefit if he is, even if we all hope it chokes him. The outlook is promising, but there's a way to go yet
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Whatever your opinions, spare a thought for Barcelona. No matter how many times you say it, Luke De Jong and Martin Braithwaite up top for them all season, ain't gonna get them much
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West Ham have a better front line than Barcelona.
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My_Sobriquet wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:51 pm Moyes and his team are doing an outstanding job of sourcing well priced quality players.

They are the ones building a golden generation squad. The Spivs are spending about the same as they always spend £30-£40m net p/a when looked at in any 5 year period as an average which is less than the club can afford.

Don’t mistake us having a very good management team for a change in the scum that own us. They’ve just lucked out on a manager (it even took them two goes to realise it).
So how much, over that period, can the club afford given it has pretty consistently operated at a loss and has long term debts around the £100m?

I would say the £30-£40m average is not far off that figure absent significant income via sales (indeed it is broadly in line with most clubs outside the “big 6”) especially given the huge wage inflation we instigated several years back, £134m or something like it one year. As important as anything is getting the wages back under control (again something you cannot do overnight) then spending the budget on deserving players. In principle the savings we make on wages can be used on fees, the greater the wages the less available for transfers.
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Does the scout from Man City get any credit or has he not started work yet?
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Georgee Paris wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:11 pm Does the scout from Man City get any credit or has he not started work yet?
Doubt it. Vlasic (ex-Everton), Zouma (Everton, Chelsea), Arreola (Fulham) and Kral (Moyes wrote about him in a national newspaper) are hardly signs he was coming up with gems outside of the manager's memory bank!
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My_Sobriquet wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:51 pm They’ve just lucked out on a manager (it even took them two goes to realise it).
This is true of a lot of fans as well to be fair
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SammyLeeWasOffside wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:34 pm This is true of a lot of fans as well to be fair
This is true Sammy :thup:
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S-H wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:05 pm West Ham have a better front line than Barcelona.
So do a few teams in the championship :eyes:
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Vlasic so far tonight 4 attempts 0 on target so far tonight
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Loadsa2000 wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:20 pm Vlasic so far tonight 4 attempts 0 on target so far tonight
Sell him.
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Bubbles Fortuna wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:22 pm Sell him.
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Loadsa2000 wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:20 pm Vlasic so far tonight 4 attempts 0 on target so far tonight
I think we should cut our losses and try to sell him on for £2.5m
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Loadsa2000 wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:20 pm Vlasic so far tonight 4 attempts 0 on target so far tonight
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