Summer 26 Transfer Rumours

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Welch been offered a two year deal from what I am hearing this afternoon.

Powell is 1yr heavily based on appearances would be one of the highest earners if he plays.

 

I have a feeling if he signs that Powell will have a great season for us.

 

I'm not suggesting for a minute that there's a chance of us getting him, but it's interesting that when asked yesterday about the Owen Bailey contract situation, MCann said they are no further forward with it. Last week he was saying they were very close to getting it done. I wonder if his agent is stalling things to see what interest might develop over the next couple of weeks or so.

 

I think it may be clubs weighing up their wages in line with the financial rules now that it is calculated in real time. For example, if we sign Bailey, we need to sell xxx or not offer zzz but we also need another player in another position.

Last season a club would have just signed him and figured it out before the end of August but they can't do that this season.

 

So, what I was understanding is that if a club decides to not renew it's three lowest earners and then recruits three people at the top of the wage structure, which would potentially put them over budget, they would need to declare this. I think that's in line with what you're saying.

 

So in principle, could this mean that if the assumptions a club has made in the summer turn out to be wide of the mark and they end up in breach of the SCMP limits, they end up with a transfer embargo for January?

 

Don't get your hopes up Serg, quite a few Donny fans seem to think he'll end up at Preston to replace Whiteman, others think possibly Bolton as they haven't replaced Wintle yet.

 

Wintle was Cardiff was he not?

 

There's a Paul Mullin interview in the Yorkshire Post today. It sounds like he was brought in with the idea of a formation change?

"I thought why not go and play at the top end of League One every week and chase another promotion type of thing. But then when I got there, the manager changed his mind about how he wanted to play, basically. It wasn't a fall-out or anything, he just changed his plans of what he thought once when he first brought me in and then that was it really.

I just didn't manage to establish myself there, which obviously is difficult (anyway) because halfway through the season, the team have been really successful all year at doing what they've done because they were in a play-off position. So it was always going to be (more) difficult when the gaffer didn't want to change from what he'd been doing, which was the plan at first."

I think maybe a few of us at the time mentioned going to 2 up top from memory? We did have Mullin, Wheatley, Humps, Swan, Powell and Jackson all having some time as a central striker. I guess the play might have been to move from 2 supporting mids and 1 striker, to having 1 number 10 behind 2 strikers and GA decided against it?

 

Oh yeah

 

Would anyone take Jerry Yates looks like Luton are moving him on.

 

No, we are well covered up front, especially if Powell signs on.

We need to prioritise other areas with whatever budget we have remaining

 

I would, but i cant see us bringing in another striker until one leaves now, or Powell suddenly gets a better offer elsewhere.

Luton fans think they matched his Swansea wages when he signed for £1m last summer, they believe he is on about £11k per week. Going to be hard to find many L1 clubs willing to pay close to that. Can see him back at Wednesday.

 

Surely he wasnt on that sort of money at Posh ?.