' Transfer Speculation Thread '

[SW4Baggie]

Meanwhile, Coventry have signed 2 attacking players on loan that already have shown they can cut it in this division.

 Cov made a decent profit in the summer (again) as well as got a big sell on from Gyokeres moving on, and are top of the league without FFP issues - amazing how much easier that makes transfer business.

Can't move forwards if you sell your best players though, we've been told that enough on here.

It almost seems if that the issue isn't letting them go, it's replacing them with shit.

Exactly - it is absolutely possible to sell your best players and still move forward using the proceeds to fund the rebuild - Coventry and Boro are showing that presently and Norwich have made it the backbone of their recent yo-yo years. Ipswich have also done it in the last 12 months following their relegation.

The big difference is if you get big fees in for your best players. We did that in 2007 and to a lesser extent in 2001 when we sold Hughes to bring in a 3 or 4 new bodies.

Our problem at the moment is that we've probably sold Fellows and Palmer for fees less than they could have potentially attracted had we not had PSR issues and needed the money.

Correct… we sold what should have been £20M of player for less than half of that, and we weren’t able to spend much of what we recouped due to PSR which gives a false narrative around how feasible it is to be successful whilst following that strategy. Of course, it does rely on having the right scouting system in place and the right pathway for youth to the first team - at the moment Nestor appears to be trying to build that system, but it won’t happen overnight and it won’t happen without some mistakes along the way.