Summer 2023 Transfer Window Thread

[hollo]

We can demand more money for him with a two year extension of his contract.

 

[Sussex Wolf]

We can demand more money for him with a two year extension of his contract.

That assumes anyone actually wants to buy him and pay his wages. His wages rule him out for a large number of clubs of the stature who would want him, and now we’ve just guaranteed those wages for another two years. This Celtic fanzine article tonight sums it up..

In The Know journalist reveals Daniel Podence €6m transfer fee | The Celtic Star

In The Know journalist reveals Daniel Podence €6m transfer fee for Olympiacos

thecelticstar.com

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Great deal for Daniel maybe blues will sign him when they get promoted

 

[WickedWolfie]

That assumes anyone actually wants to buy him and pay his wages. His wages rule him out for a large number of clubs of the stature who would want him, and now we’ve just guaranteed those wages for another two years. This Celtic fanzine article tonight sums it up..

In The Know journalist reveals Daniel Podence €6m transfer fee | The Celtic Star

In The Know journalist reveals Daniel Podence €6m transfer fee for Olympiacos

thecelticstar.com

He will get to play in the Europa League. If he does well that potentially increases his appeal.

 

[AndyWolves]

50,000 p/w is £2.6m. I'd back us to get more than that in the summer for him.

 

[Wolf316]

50,000 p/w is £2.6m. I'd back us to get more than that in the summer for him.

Nobody wants to pay him £50k a week though so again he’ll just sit his contract out.

 

[Ned]

Nobody wants to pay him £50k a week though so again he’ll just sit his contract out.

It’s down to what he does. If he performs well all season then somebody will take a punt hopefully but I’ve got no faith in Podence’s character in terms of rolling his sleeves up though.

 

[Wolf316]

It’s down to what he does. If he performs well all season then somebody will take a punt hopefully but I’ve got no faith in Podence’s character in terms of rolling his sleeves up though.

To be fair he’s world class at rolling.

 

[Ned]

To be fair he’s world class at rolling.

Good point!!! To be honest I’m just glad he’s out the door even if it is just kicking the can down the road for a year.

 

[wolfslair]

Pleased to see that Olympiacos are happy to have Podence back. Fingers crossed they make it permanent next summer.

https://x.com/olympiacosfc/status/1698797114434769344?s=61&t=oHKGj12hVBcK2ZfER6KcNA

They will be, he was a massive player for them, don’t you remember the abuse the chairman gave him for leaving? Him going really hurt them.

 

[wolfslair]

To be fair he’s world class at rolling.

He has a side hustle of teaching actors how to convincingly make it look like they are spitting at someone too!

Going to help up Leo’s game and get him that second Oscar!

 

[AndyWolves]

Nobody wants to pay him £50k a week though so again he’ll just sit his contract out.

Errm

 

[Titch]

Reports Saudi's have offered Liverpool £250M for Salah and wages of £2.75M a week

 

[Sussex Wolf]

Reports Saudi's have offered Liverpool £250M for Salah and wages of £2.75M a week

Said at the weekend when this approach started that with them having another week to do a deal, a laser focus on getting their man, and Salah apparently open to such a move, that eventually Liverpool would cave in. It’s simply too much money even for Liverpool to ignore. Gives them plenty of money to rebuild their team, and loads of time to select players and work on their agents.

 

[Minimalist]

Reports Saudi's have offered Liverpool £250M for Salah and wages of £2.75M a week

Think it is ONLY £215M !!!

 

[WickedWolfie]

Think it is ONLY £215M !!!

Bloody cheapskates lol....

 

[wolfslair]

Bloody cheapskates lol....

Do they not know that there is a cost of living crisis?

Make it a round £250 you tight ****ers!!!

 

[goldeneyed]

Its a pity it has gone pear-shaped with him at the club. At his best he is a real threat and can actually score goals. Something we desperately need right now. If he does well at Olympiakos we should get £10m or so for him next summer.

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Under the circumstances presented to him Podence I think he would be well within his rights to have gone on strike. I don't think only giving someone a move if they sign a 3 year contract is okay personally. We either want him or we don't.

 

[Werewolf of Wombourne]

Under the circumstances presented to him Podence I think he would be well within his rights to have gone on strike. I don't think only giving someone a move if they sign a 3 year contract is okay personally. We either want him or we don't.

I don't think we want him, we are just protecting ourselves against the possibility he has a really good season and his value increases. With a new contract we can maximise any possible sale rather than suffer the last year of contract discount

 

[wolfgar]

Said at the weekend when this approach started that with them having another week to do a deal, a laser focus on getting their man, and Salah apparently open to such a move, that eventually Liverpool would cave in. It’s simply too much money even for Liverpool to ignore. Gives them plenty of money to rebuild their team, and loads of time to select players and work on their agents.

It's not like they will win the league this year, and they'd still have a good chance of top 4. I'd sell for £200 million plus and buy 3 or 4 world class players with eyes on the next 5 years.

 

[Wolf316]

Under the circumstances presented to him Podence I think he would be well within his rights to have gone on strike. I don't think only giving someone a move if they sign a 3 year contract is okay personally. We either want him or we don't.

Nobody forced him to sign it he could have seen his contact out and gone for free next season.

 

[Minimalist]

Under the circumstances presented to him Podence I think he would be well within his rights to have gone on strike. I don't think only giving someone a move if they sign a 3 year contract is okay personally. We either want him or we don't.

Could be all sorts of details in that new contract though.
Buy out clause for a relatively low fee, effectively letting him pick his next club.

 

[Monketron]

Lopetegui agreed Wolves pay-off reduction on £8m salary as part of £145m summer cuts

Exclusive: Wolves now in a better financial position following mass summer clearout of 17 players

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Wolf in the Lions' Den]

Lopetegui agreed Wolves pay-off reduction on £8m salary as part of £145m summer cuts

Exclusive: Wolves now in a better financial position following mass summer clearout of 17 players

www.telegraph.co.uk

• Lopetegui was on £8 million a year and made a honourable gesture to reduce his settlement

#SoHonourable

Further down it says the settlement was for less than one year's wages.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

Second piece in a row where I feel Percy is in the club's pocket.

A lot of rubbish in that to pick apart, and clearly fed from the club. The fact it's come out days after the window speaks volumes about how it actually went.

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Second piece in a row where I feel Percy is in the club's pocket.

A lot of rubbish in that to pick apart, and clearly fed from the club. The fact it's come out days after the window speaks volumes about how it actually went.

The article is too kind to all parties involved. Lopetegui managed to resign after the celtic game and get a years payoff and that gets called him being generous.
We don't want to sign a striker that our scouting department hasn't scouted properly...well why haven't we been scouting strikers? Jesus wept.

And is it bad that I would rather have us spend money on a striker that hasn't been scouted by our staff than one that has? Cos I have a feeling we'll just end up not getting one and signing 3 defensive midfielders instead.

 

[Sussex Wolf]

It's not like they will win the league this year, and they'd still have a good chance of top 4. I'd sell for £200 million plus and buy 3 or 4 world class players with eyes on the next 5 years.

Me too. It’s the ideal way to rebuild the aging spine of their team.

 

[wolfgar]

Me too. It’s the ideal way to rebuild the aging spine of their team.

Short term pain and long term gain I'd have said? Think they will probably cope with Jota, Diaz, Nunez and Gakpo till Jan somehow. Salah could break his leg tomorrow anyway and they'd have to

 

[Sussex Wolf]

Lopetegui agreed Wolves pay-off reduction on £8m salary as part of £145m summer cuts

Exclusive: Wolves now in a better financial position following mass summer clearout of 17 players

www.telegraph.co.uk

Take it for what it is - the Club’s view on the summer, or at least, the view they want to share with fans. It’s interesting and useful to a degree, in sharing some data on what happened, but it can’t be read as complete and gospel since it’s clearly written by the club in all but name, and for the consumption of us fans.

Taken at face value, we should then expect a more relaxed spend in coming windows, and the signing of a striker who’s a long term target not a panic buy.

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Me too. It’s the ideal way to rebuild the aging spine of their team.

Haven't they done that already this summer though?
Only really Van Dijk and Salah left from the old guard. I don't know how you go about replacing someone as good as Salah.

 

[Sussex Wolf]

Haven't they done that already this summer though?
Only really Van Dijk and Salah left from the old guard. I don't know how you go about replacing someone as good as Salah.

I agree, but with 250m in the bank, the world is your oyster!

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

I agree, but with 250m in the bank, the world is your oyster!

Theu can use it to put in a cheeky bid for Haaland!

 

[WolfLing]

They'll probably keep him until the start of January, then sell him just before the African Cup of Nations starts.

To replace him, as far as left footed players who play off the right as Salah does, I think Bryan Mbeumo could do very well for a Liverpool, or another bigger club. Surprisingly, he's only just turned 24!

He will be missing for the Afcon too, but you'd expect they could probably pick him up for £50-60m and still have a lot of cash left over.

 

[Perton Wolf]

Reports Saudi's have offered Liverpool £250M for Salah and wages of £2.75M a week

I think they'd be daft not to sell for that much, to be honest.

 

[Perton Wolf]

Haven't they done that already this summer though?
Only really Van Dijk and Salah left from the old guard. I don't know how you go about replacing someone as good as Salah.

He is fantastic but he's also 31 now and his contract expires in 2025, if you're talking value then now is the best time to sell him and for that offer I don't see how you can turn it down.

 

[wolfgar]

Haven't they done that already this summer though?
Only really Van Dijk and Salah left from the old guard. I don't know how you go about replacing someone as good as Salah.

They'll have to before long and its much easier to do so with £200 plus million in your pocket I guess?

 

[Bacon Sandwich]

What's this complete *******s in the Percy article?

While there will not be multi-millions to spend in the winter window, Wolves would rather focus on adding a forward who has been properly researched and analysed by the recruitment team.

I thought Hobbs said we had a running list of players for each position? Three bloody years and they haven't 'properly researched' any strikers? Somebody reassure me 'cos I'm out of blood pressure tablets...

 

[so-called fan]

What's this complete *******s in the Percy article?

While there will not be multi-millions to spend in the winter window, Wolves would rather focus on adding a forward who has been properly researched and analysed by the recruitment team.

I thought Hobbs said we had a running list of players for each position? Three bloody years and they haven't 'properly researched' any strikers? Somebody reassure me 'cos I'm out of blood pressure tablets...

It might mean that the players we have researched and fancied were not available. So we put in cheap bids for what was available but when these were rejected we decided to wait for the researched players. Possibly South American players who might be available in January. Maybe.

 

[old wittonian]

It might mean that the players we have researched and fancied were not available. So we put in cheap bids for what was available but when these were rejected we decided to wait for the researched players. Possibly South American players who might be available in January. Maybe.

Who might well think "No thanks, they're Championship bound".