The happy days are here again, hopefully no more repeated arguments, transfer thread

[Beijing Wolf]

As much as I want MGW to stay £40m is insane...

He's good but not that good and sadly has to be sold...

Forest have lost the plot...

We have Forest over a barrel in terms of a negotiating position.

The owner has personally taken over getting this transfer done, his ego is getting in the way of common sense.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Context - 'we are sending him to bolster a relegation rival'

So you are assuming that we are already in a relegation battle, after one game, huh?

 

[SuperGran]

I like Gibbs-White but £40million is ridiculous. If the add-ons are achievable, such as staying in the Premier League, then I think Wolves would have to take it. We'd need to replace him though even with Guedes coming in.

It's no wonder clubs shop abroad.

40m for an unproven player is madness

 

[Bognor_Wolf]

I'd like Gibbs-White to stay but 40 million for someone who is still unproven at this level you just have to take that and run!

 

[lets all have a disco]

Thought you'd be happy about this one, I am too

Im on top of the world .....just frustrated cause I was banging his drum to replace Jota .....better late than never....

 

[Starsky]

If we sell him for that, can see Guedes and Ramos coming in.

 

[WickedWolfie]

I think we might disagree on the definition of "recent". However, since your original post didn't specify a time period regarding our 'rubbish' transfers, I simply chose 10 from the last decade.

Here's 10 quality acquisitions from my era. Bert 'the cat' Williams, Malcolm Finlayson, Eddie 'chopper' Clamp, Ron Flowers, Eddie Stuart, Jimmy Mullen, Peter Broadbent, Roy Swinborne, Bill Slater and Johnny Hancocks.

Yes, we could both easily put together a 'top 10' rubbish transfers, selecting different players. But IMV to say we're rubbish at transfers is really OTT.

Ten since Fosun took over more to the point...

Although who is Patricia??? Predictive text l assume....

 

[JamesWolves]

I didnt want MGW gone ... but for £40m ill drive him up there ****ing hell, how stupid are Forest

 

[Supadavewolf]

Ten since Fosun took over more to the point...

Although who is Patricia??? Predictive text l assume....

She's on the bench if Doris the tea lady ever strains something other than the tea.

 

[arctic rime]

40m = adios

 

[WickedWolfie]

Coady, Saiss, Doc, Diogo and of course Nuno now all gone.

Arguably Cav and Costa could be included in that lot too.

End of an era.

Ruben still here (yet!)

 

[jonesy]

40 mill and we have absolutely robbed Forrest blind.

Go get nunes and Ramos now wolves

Bat
Guedes
Hwang jo
Gonzales

40 mill for Mgw hahahhahaha

 

[Matt]

£40m?! That has to be bs. Surely?!

 

[Oh When the Wolves]

40 million is tremendous. This is more to do with forest being erratic than anything else.

The positive is we have already signed the replacement.

CM and ST still to go. Possibly 2 strikers?

The coady deal I cannot get over. Absolutle idiocy from wolves. Even if we sold for 15m with staggered payments .

 

[Hoganstolemywife]

Wow. That's too much to turn down. I like MGW but that's a silly offer

 

[WickedWolfie]

Liam Keen says it’s an option not an obligation, by the way.

If true that's crap. Conversely l remain to be convinced that Keen knows anything other than what he reads on the internet.

 

[Oh When the Wolves]

40 mill and we have absolutely robbed Forrest blind.

Go get nunes and Ramos now wolves

Bat
Guedes
Hwang jo
Gonzales

40 mill for Mgw hahahhahaha

I suspect that it will be £30m plus 10m add ons based on their previous bid

 

[lets all have a disco]

It's probably 30m with 10m add ons.....but that gives us Ramos surely.....

 

[SuperGran]

I suspect that it will be £30m plus 10m add ons based on their previous bid

Even so it’s an insane amount

 

[SmiffyWolf]

Can someone tell me please Coady gone, MGW possibly goes . Who have we signed for the 2/3 positions we needed before they left ?

40 million ridiculous. But I suppose Porto were ****ing themselves when Fabio went for 35 million. The only difference is they had far better players abd he was nowhere near the 11 . MGW started at weekend and we had **** all on the bench . Fabio doing well on loan but so did MGW .

I hope they get this right or Fulham game I will predict chanting against the board and Fosun as it's ridiculous

 

[WickedWolfie]

Why would they in a worse state than last season

Sold one of their best forwards and the other is injured for at least half of the season. Loads of other injuries too.

 

[Lobo de Ouro]

Can someone tell me please Coady gone, MGW possibly goes . Who have we signed for the 2/3 positions we needed before they left ?

40 million ridiculous. But I suppose Porto were ****ing themselves when Fabio went for 35 million. The only difference is they had far better players abd he was nowhere near the 11 . MGW started at weekend and we had **** all on the bench .

I hope they get this right or Fulham game I will predict chanting against the board and Fosun as it's ridiculous

I'll confidently state there will be no anti Fosun chanting at the Fulham game. Probably a few crap attempts at new chants though.

 

[WickedWolfie]

I agree we don't want proven English premier league players or an English championship player with 12 goals a d 10 assists when we can **** 50m up the wall on Nunes with no more that 5 goal contributions in each of the last 2 years. Albeit they were achieved in a much higher league than the Prem.

You just have to be a WUM.

 

[Wolf316]

It's probably 30m with 10m add ons.....but that gives us Ramos surely.....

I’d take that.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

Can someone tell me please Coady gone, MGW possibly goes . Who have we signed for the 2/3 positions we needed before they left ?

40 million ridiculous. But I suppose Porto were ****ing themselves when Fabio went for 35 million. The only difference is they had far better players abd he was nowhere near the 11 . MGW started at weekend and we had **** all on the bench . Fabio doing well on loan but so did MGW .

I hope they get this right or Fulham game I will predict chanting against the board and Fosun as it's ridiculous

Guedes is the MGW replacement.

In truth that's maybe the one area we have decent options - and because you can change things. We went 4-2-3-1 but in the future you could go 4-3-3, so only two of Neto, Traore, Guedes, Podence & Hwang will ever be needed.

Of course, we still need at least one centre-midfielder and a striker, maybe a defender as well.

However, Guedes for a MGW who hasn't signed a new deal + profit = very good business.

 

[5150]

Absolute ****ing **** show.

Joke.

Did you read it ? Option turns into obligation if they stay up (gametime)

 

[TheConcourse]

Can’t get my head around this. £40m.

He’d have to become elite for that deal to make any kind of sense. Absolutely bonkers from Forest. Totally irresponsible ownership for a player who has a lot to do to prove he even belongs at this level.

 

[WickedWolfie]

**** it for £40m get it done. I can understand MGW reluctance to sign a new contract, but £40m (or near enough) for someone with less than 2 years on his contract and with limited PL experience is too good to pass on.

Absolutely how l see it. He remains unproven at the top level. That sort of fee puts all the risk on them.

 

[wwfc9]

Replying to myself here, the drink was talking yes but after the announcement today I may have to reign in such pessimism. Still need a couple more but it's a step in the right direction

Lol i was seething last night but hopefully we see some incomings now , tbh Leeds away was probably the hardest first game we could of had in our current state with their hostile crowd , bounce from staying up was like that of a promoted side ….

 

[JamesWolves]

It's probably 30m with 10m add ons.....but that gives us Ramos surely.....

Still an absolute insane amount for someone with barely any Prem experience

 

[WickedWolfie]

We have Forest over a barrel in terms of a negotiating position.

The owner has personally taken over getting this transfer done, his ego is getting in the way of common sense.

If they go down they'll be in real danger of going bust.

 

[Bostin]

Its still one in one out. And one of our starting 11 no less.

Need more options.

 

[Contrarian]

No we’re not.
Two 7th. place finishes, a 13th and a 10th.

In the toughest and fastest league in the world, you don’t achieve that with bad transfers.

We have been mainly dependent on the initial transfers that took us to 7th. Out of the main ones since - Semedo, Fabio, Hwang have been lacklustre and just not up to the level of Raul, Neves, Jota etc etc even Podence is hot and cold, never fully convinces. It looks like whatever drove the initial 3 seasons of excellent transfer, dried up totally after Fabio. I think Ait Nouru was signed the same window as Fabio and Semedo. Decent signing, but yet another development project - as we all saw yesterday.

Sa another decent one but don't the laws say you have to play a keeper? So they had to sign one, no choice. If only the laws said you had to play a genuine striker.

Without signing players of the level of those 3 mentioned above (and Jonny, Moutinho, Boly, Neto, all signed ages ago) , we are mathematically certain to fall far short of those 7th place finishes. 19 and 20 year olds may be solid Premier League players 5 years from now (some of them will fail, as well), but that's no use to us now. Season after season of lower half struggles while we operate as a player trading business.

 

[Contrarian]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1556311425039073280

That's rubbish about us being lowest scorers in the top 10 this season! We've scored more than Villa and Forest already.

 

[hollo]

As much as I want MGW to stay £40m is insane...

He's good but not that good and sadly has to be sold...

Forest have lost the plot...

Bruno said MGW is worth 50 million though.

 

[Contrarian]

40m. Kin hell lol

Just over a 1 £abio, in the established unit of football transfers.

 

[S G Wolves]

So he will p

Bruno said MGW is worth 50 million though.

He said it would cost £50m to replace...

 

[Axle]

So Guedes joins. I've never been a huge fan. Hope I'm massively wrong

I still hear MGW is going despite what the club is saying. Maybe I'm hearing it from people who don't know but they've been very on the ball previously

I think MGW and Coady go and Guedes and a new midfielder with a striker with an option comes in.

Can’t see how we can finance the players we need without it.

That would address the problems we have and balance the squad.

Then again, l have been wrong many times before trying to second guess this lot

 

[Has_Talisca_Signed]

Is this why we pulled the trigger on Guedes? The offer had come in 40million, we’ve “accepted” and then gone straight ahead and given Valencia what they wanted for Guedes?

 

[djmikeydickens]

Swap MGW for Guedes with £13m in the bank. Absolute no brainer. If forest go down they are gonna be in some serious trouble.