Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer Thread 21/22

That's a brilliant move for them, Linfield play at Windsor Park, which is NI's home ground and they get 2,500 a game on average, which is about bottom end League Two level.

They're also managed by David Healy, so they'll get great experience working with somebody like him who played at a high level for a number of years.

 

Why don't you also ask if Billy Chadwick's a Catholic or a Protestant?

 

Why ask at all about either players religion

 

Whoosh!

 

Sheff Massive have completed the signing of Dennis Adeniran from Everton on a free, City were supposed to be interested in him. Everton paid £4m to Fulham to sign him but it didn't work out for them.

 

Fortunately he is a Muslim...but is he a Catholic Muslim or a Protestant Muslim?

 

Someone who has heard the old joke!

 

He was one of the alternatives to Slater, who we can’t sign even if Sheffield Utd let him go because we can’t spend transfer fees.

 

It's troubling that we haven't paid back the loan, given that we're "self sustaining".

 

All that money...

 

How can any club be self-sustaining when there's been no revenue for 18 months? We'll have lost out on £5m at least and we've come out of it with a far superior squad, a number of big assets and our first title since 66.

I don't get how a rumoured £500k interest-free loan can be considered troubling at all. Nor do I understand where people think we get the money from to pay it back until crowds are back.

Man Utd took out a £140m loan last May to purchase players and that was considered 'ambitious'

 

The loan makes business sense. Thats why we took it.

'self sustaining' is boardroom speak for 'no more investment'.

Thats where we are.

 

Tbf that’s a sensible move
We’d all do that in their shoes

 

Baaed on what OLM has said.... I just wonder what the manager has made of all this, or, as in the past will he just keep his mouth shut and be dutiful...

 

He's not being paid to get involved in the Clubs financial affairs...He's being paid to manage onfield activities.

 

He's extremely happy ATM and genuinely excited for the new season, very happy with the players he's got in and pleased we've not let anyone move on who he didn't want to leave. He would have absolutely loved to have got slater in and the only reason we haven't is due to it being blocked by Sheffield utds new manager and not the allams not wanting to spend money or not being able to ( the grant would have been paid back prior to completion ). The money to sign Slater is still available and if the deal can be done then it will be, along with the grant paid back to the EFL. Until such time we want / need to pay a transfer fee that requires the grant paying back, why on earth would we or any business for that matter pay back a grant if they didn't have to.

 

I can only add to OLMs post that this is a three year agreement and the transfer embargo and squad size limit only covers the initial stages.

The loan is designed to keep club’s operating for the foreseeable future and we as a club would be foolish not to have taken the money.
The initial financial assistance was planned as a grant not a loan, so it is hardly surprising that there would be a time linked write off.

 

That's how I interpreted things. We can still do whatever we want, it just means we have to pay the EFL grant back to unlock the ability to do so. If we don't need to/don't end up signing anyone for a fee then we don't have to pay it back. Is it just this window or January too?

 

... and you're not being paid to defend the Allams, you're being paid to empty the bins of Glasgow.