2019/20 Summer transfer rumour thread.

Shame about Sterling. Pleased with Cameron.
And now that striker is official.

Or Scum bumped their loan fee up

 Who's the incoming? Cameron?

No form at all this level and his highlights are nothing special. It's a speculative, low budget punt. Let's hope it pays off.

Brighton paid 3m quid for him a year ago mate. As such we've got to assume he's a step up from Smith who went for less than 200k.

As Westy said, you and a few others are clearly gonna complain whatever we do this window.

Tommy cannon having medical tomorrow morning.
Should be announced late tomo afternoon.
Looking forward to linking up with bobby again.

#cameronandball
#rockontommy

Heard that rumour about Rhodes a week ago, but I was told Les vetoed it. Don't even think it was gonna be an expensive loan, maybe Les knows something we don't.

Have to say apart from the loan deals for Amos and Smith the rest look bang average and look a massive punt by the manager and board

Penrice is a freelancer mate. He isn't employed by the club!

Ain't much point in extensive scouting anyway mate, not when you barely have 2 pennies to rub together. This was always going to be a window of old school wheeling and dealing. That ain't really Les' bag, so I'm not at all surprised that most of the players we've signed have been from Warburton's network!

Surely thats when we need our 'extensive scouting network' to kick in to find those 2 bob gems out there and turn them into cash cows ?

Not saying it's ideal by any stretch Stan. But it's where we are.

You have to look back at our transfer dealings over the last few seasons though. What Les has been able to do is bring in some good youngsters, and players/staff discarded by Spurs. That's about it. Last summer we saw how bad things got when the manager didn't have any transfer ideas of his own. The network at the club just didn't come up with anything other than a few out of contract players and expensive loans.

We need to take it on the chin that our DoF is never going to pipeline anywhere near enough first team players for us to be competitive. We were reasonably effective in the transfer market when Ollie first arrived and was working closely with Penrice, but we had a lot more money to work with than what we have now.

I don't think it's the worst policy in the world (given the circumstances) for the manager to leverage his prior relationships to build a squad. Warnock did exactly the same when he arrived. The club was in a state and he turned to guys he trusted to try and rebuild. The alternative of sending our scouts out into the market to find free transfers that will either have plenty of other offers, or will be an unknown quantity is far more risky.

Wait what? He's gone?

Thought as much. Heard a few things in the last week to suggest he wasn't happy and the manager didn't see him as part of his plans.

Probably also explains why we are still looking at central defenders.