The generic transfer thread

[genome]

Hmm, well, considering £11m for Ross McCormack and the fact JR is as close to a guaranteed 20 goal striker at this level as you're going to get, depressingly £14m sounds about the right value.

[TBM]

Hmm, well, considering £11m for Ross McCormack and the fact JR is as close to a guaranteed 20 goal striker at this level as you're going to get, depressingly £14m sounds about the right value.

Considering Arsenal signed Danny Welbeck for £16m (also Giroud for £9.6m), or Liverpool signing Daniel Sturridge for £12m......then £14m for a Championship striker is crazy

[Pepe the Horseman]

Fulham basically killed football.

[No Fixed Abode]

I'm so pleased we never signed Jordan Rhodes.

Yeah. TBF - Benteke is a better player.

[Nameless]

Hmm, well, considering £11m for Ross McCormack and the fact JR is as close to a guaranteed 20 goal striker at this level as you're going to get, depressingly £14m sounds about the right value.

Surely that isn't the point.
We could sign Messi for £100 million and it would probably represent the right price. But we don't have £100 million.
Boro have potentially spent £20 million just in fees here and you wonder where the cash comes from. If they are gambling on promotion then I'd say they may well be making a reasonable bet but part of FFP Was about clubs not being allowed to spend money they didn't have to chase money they might get.

[Winston Smith]

LOL, my Boro supporting colleague was questioning where the money was even going to come from for the Downing deal.

Folk on the Boro forum reckon its £1M a year for 5 years.

[TBM]

LOL, my Boro supporting colleague was questioning where the money was even going to come from for the Downing deal.

Folk on the Boro forum reckon its £1M a year for 5 years.

So £5m then....

[Nameless]

That's his wages, the fee is extra !

[WoodleyRoyal]

That's his wages, the fee is extra !

um 1mill a year is about 20k pw he will be on more than that

[Nameless]

Even worse then, 5 million fee plus twice / three times that in wages......

[Mr Angry]

Crystal Palace want Alex McCarthy, who wants to leave after getting just 4 appearances for QPR last season; QPR believe that they have made him a much better player obviously - they are holding out for £3.5M for McCarthy having paid us £2.5M, so those 4 games were - to Tony Fernandez at least - worth £250K each.........

First with the news.....

[From Despair To Where?]

Hmm, well, considering £11m for Ross McCormack and the fact JR is as close to a guaranteed 20 goal striker at this level as you're going to get, depressingly £14m sounds about the right value.

£14m for a Championship player I can maybe see but £14m being spent by a Championship club that's just mental. That's basically a full season's wage bill for the whole squad blown on a transfer fee for 1 player

[Winston Smith]

LOL, my Boro supporting colleague was questioning where the money was even going to come from for the Downing deal.

Folk on the Boro forum reckon its £1M a year for 5 years.

So £5m then....

Maths humblebragging ^

My point was that it is how the transfer fee has been made more affordable by spreading it evenly over 5 years

[sputnik]

It's usually % of profit on the sale, so if we do it'll be peanuts.

Not always. Doyle was % of sale

Wasn't Doyle's sell on clause bought out by Reading for peanuts a good few months before he left for Wolves, when Cork City were strapped for cash?

[Nameless]

In any case the difference between sell on and profit was negligible in Doyle's case.

[Winston Smith]

French media saying a deal is agreed for Di Maria to join PSG for €65M

[Vision]

Hmm, well, considering £11m for Ross McCormack and the fact JR is as close to a guaranteed 20 goal striker at this level as you're going to get, depressingly £14m sounds about the right value.

Surely that isn't the point.
We could sign Messi for £100 million and it would probably represent the right price. But we don't have £100 million.
Boro have potentially spent £20 million just in fees here and you wonder where the cash comes from. If they are gambling on promotion then I'd say they may well be making a reasonable bet but part of FFP Was about clubs not being allowed to spend money they didn't have to chase money they might get.

I think that's the debate though isn't it. I'm sure Gibson does have the money, he's been at the helm for years so he's not a guy who's going to cripple them and run away. They've also been through a 2-3 year period where they've been cutting back and cutting back until they got back to a solid foundation last season. They narrowly missed out last season so are building on a position of relative strength and added to that FFP rules have been relaxed somewhat for this season I think.

They'll certainly still fall foul of the rules but I guess he sees it as a calculated risk worth taking given how close they came last season and the fact that QPR don't appear to be suffering too much for their financial dealings.

I think the intention of FFP was just as much about stopping unscrupulous owners spending a ton of a football club's money for short term gain and then buggering off and leaving them in the shit. I don't think Gibson falls into that category anymore than Madejski did for us when we were doing the same 15 years or so ago trying to get out of the 3rd tier.

[paultheroyal]

Selling Di Maria will weaken Man Utd. All is good.

[Brosef Stalin]

Selling Di Maria will weaken Man Utd. All is good.

he ended up being benched for half the season

[paultheroyal]

Selling Di Maria will weaken Man Utd. All is good.

he ended up being benched for half the season

And United no better for it IMO.