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Elanga to Newcastle finally seems to be done at £52m plus add-ons.

Might shut some of the twittering classes up, who are moaning about lack of signings and how the team managing transfers don't know what they are doing.

Not sure what Man U's share of that is going to be.

Would have preferred Mbuemo for his absolute goals contribution myself, but I guess Elanga has advantages in that he will be playing with his Swedish international team mate Isak so should be some familiarity there. Also his high energy work rate, outright pace and power and willingness to help defend, will fit in with the team ethos. Hopefully Eddie does what he has done with all the new signings and gets Elanga up to speed on the training pitch and properly integrated with the team style of play, before throwing him into competitive action.

Little bit of money will also be released as it looks like Longstaff is off to Leeds for £12m which will be pure PSR profit.

Just need to get Trafford in (and ship some of the excess keepers we have out), along with another quality central defender and a midfielder or two (one defensive, one more forward thinking - I'd take Harvey Elliott with no hesitation for the latter if the price was reasonable) to add some proper depth to the squad. I'd also like another out and out striker...not totally convinced about Will Osula's ability to fill in for Isak...watched him a couple of times in the recent Euro U-21 champs for Denmark and he looked a bit lost in terms of taking up good positions.

We've been sweeping up some kids as well 16yo's Alfie Hutchinson and Oliver Goodbrand from Rangers and possibly Isaac Moran from Liverpool....but these will be nowhere near the first team for several years and I'd say they are more likely to be part of a strategy to develop some young players and sell them on for profit in three years time.

Need to get rid of the deadwood from the squad...Vlachodimos (GK), Gillespie (GK), Hayden (MF), Lascelles (DF), Targett (DF) as well to free up some wages...not that any of them will be on vast sums but every little helps when the club is so restricted by PSR.

Hopefully the next four weeks see's a little more action on the transfer front so that players can work with the squad before the season kicks off. Frankly I'd much prefer it if the transfer window closed before the season kicks off, but most teams will have played 3 games before it closes on the 1st September.
 
nickjdavis said:
Elanga to Newcastle finally seems to be done at £52m plus add-ons.

Might shut some of the twittering classes up, who are moaning about lack of signings and how the team managing transfers don't know what they are doing.

Not sure what Man U's share of that is going to be.

Would have preferred Mbuemo for his absolute goals contribution myself, but I guess Elanga has advantages in that he will be playing with his Swedish international team mate Isak so should be some familiarity there. Also his high energy work rate, outright pace and power and willingness to help defend, will fit in with the team ethos. Hopefully Eddie does what he has done with all the new signings and gets Elanga up to speed on the training pitch and properly integrated with the team style of play, before throwing him into competitive action.

Little bit of money will also be released as it looks like Longstaff is off to Leeds for £12m which will be pure PSR profit.

Just need to get Trafford in (and ship some of the excess keepers we have out), along with another quality central defender and a midfielder or two (one defensive, one more forward thinking - I'd take Harvey Elliott with no hesitation for the latter if the price was reasonable) to add some proper depth to the squad. I'd also like another out and out striker...not totally convinced about Will Osula's ability to fill in for Isak...watched him a couple of times in the recent Euro U-21 champs for Denmark and he looked a bit lost in terms of taking up good positions.

We've been sweeping up some kids as well 16yo's Alfie Hutchinson and Oliver Goodbrand from Rangers and possibly Isaac Moran from Liverpool....but these will be nowhere near the first team for several years and I'd say they are more likely to be part of a strategy to develop some young players and sell them on for profit in three years time.

Need to get rid of the deadwood from the squad...Vlachodimos (GK), Gillespie (GK), Hayden (MF), Lascelles (DF), Targett (DF) as well to free up some wages...not that any of them will be on vast sums but every little helps when the club is so restricted by PSR.

Hopefully the next four weeks see's a little more action on the transfer front so that players can work with the squad before the season kicks off. Frankly I'd much prefer it if the transfer window closed before the season kicks off, but most teams will have played 3 games before it closes on the 1st September.
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Elanaga is a very good signing the price seems reasonable

Wouldn’t mind seeing Elliot go to Newcastle - think he would do well there - the fee I last saw was around £40-50mil ( maybe some sort of swap deal for Isak 😁)
 
nickjdavis said:
Elanga to Newcastle finally seems to be done at £52m plus add-ons.

Might shut some of the twittering classes up, who are moaning about lack of signings and how the team managing transfers don't know what they are doing.

Not sure what Man U's share of that is going to be.

Would have preferred Mbuemo for his absolute goals contribution myself, but I guess Elanga has advantages in that he will be playing with his Swedish international team mate Isak so should be some familiarity there. Also his high energy work rate, outright pace and power and willingness to help defend, will fit in with the team ethos. Hopefully Eddie does what he has done with all the new signings and gets Elanga up to speed on the training pitch and properly integrated with the team style of play, before throwing him into competitive action.

Little bit of money will also be released as it looks like Longstaff is off to Leeds for £12m which will be pure PSR profit.

Just need to get Trafford in (and ship some of the excess keepers we have out), along with another quality central defender and a midfielder or two (one defensive, one more forward thinking - I'd take Harvey Elliott with no hesitation for the latter if the price was reasonable) to add some proper depth to the squad. I'd also like another out and out striker...not totally convinced about Will Osula's ability to fill in for Isak...watched him a couple of times in the recent Euro U-21 champs for Denmark and he looked a bit lost in terms of taking up good positions.

We've been sweeping up some kids as well 16yo's Alfie Hutchinson and Oliver Goodbrand from Rangers and possibly Isaac Moran from Liverpool....but these will be nowhere near the first team for several years and I'd say they are more likely to be part of a strategy to develop some young players and sell them on for profit in three years time.

Need to get rid of the deadwood from the squad...Vlachodimos (GK), Gillespie (GK), Hayden (MF), Lascelles (DF), Targett (DF) as well to free up some wages...not that any of them will be on vast sums but every little helps when the club is so restricted by PSR.

Hopefully the next four weeks see's a little more action on the transfer front so that players can work with the squad before the season kicks off. Frankly I'd much prefer it if the transfer window closed before the season kicks off, but most teams will have played 3 games before it closes on the 1st September.
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Bit glum about letting Elanga go for that fee, but he goes with my thanks and good wishes. Hope he does very well there, except for when it’s against us! Not just a great player but a massive presence in the dressing room as well, he’ll be missed.

Appreciate players move on etc, but I’d have been happier if it was £60m+ as he’s easily worth that. I’d expect we have a sell on clause written in there and I guess you can’t argue with almost quadrupling your money in two seasons.

Half the Forest Twitter fanbase are (predictably) in meltdown about it. But I’ve seen enough from our recruitment team to trust that they’ll have identified some good replacements. 🤞 Getting it done early in the window is good too, so that we have plenty of time and aren’t rushing to sign someone at the last minute who has missed pre-season.

And of course, the money generated is very helpful towards obeying the rules that 70% of EPL teams have to worry about 😉
 
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Arthur Wedge said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1942511866053341343

Not heard much about him tbh
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We are buying a possible, a maybe. Done okay in Spain, he is young, we are hoping he will fit in and progress. Could be a clever buy, we could be selling him back to Spain for £12m in 2 years time 🤷‍♀️ .

We need to bring in quite a few bodies in this window. We can not go big one player, we are going to have to take a few risks, and hope we can pull off a Brighton / Brentford
 
Don Barzini said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Football Governance Bill: MPs vote to make Bill law

MPs vote to back the Football Governance Bill and establish an independent regulator to oversee the men's game in England's top five divisions.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Be interested to see what this actually means in practical terms.
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Will be more financial restrictions to try and protect clubs in some way

And also hopefully a stronger and better fit and proper test for owners
 
Arthur Wedge said:
Will be more financial restrictions to try and protect clubs in some way

And also hopefully a stronger and better fit and proper test for owners
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Like football needs the first one! Whatever they do will end up not being fit for purpose, like the current set of rules surrounding this kind of thing.

The second one though, certainly. Hopefully it will be more about that one than the first.
 
Don Barzini said:
Like football needs the first one! Whatever they do will end up not being fit for purpose, like the current set of rules surrounding this kind of thing.

The second one though, certainly. Hopefully it will be more about that one than the first.
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Think the second one will be linked to the first one

There needs to be either financial rules in place or none at all

The finances in the game have caused huge issues to multiple clubs and a number have disappeared

The winners shouldn’t be the club with the owner with the most disposable income

But there needs to be limits in place to try and find a bit more leeway

Have said before

You take the amount of revenue that the highest club earns and allow all clubs to spend to that limit - if clubs don’t have that level of revenue then any shortfall is underwritten by the owner and not placed as debt on the club
 
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