Links on incomings at all?

If anyone is interested:

Details of all 24 Championship Clubs - incoming / outgoing [£`s] - as of 26/08/2022


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Remarkable, looking at that, how few Championship clubs have actually bought players this summer. And vast majority have a zero net spend or have banked money
 
One year ago... Warnock was "desperate for another left winger" after not "no want to have to go with either of his options for Boro's opening game".

His two opening options at the time .... Djed Spence and Issiah Jones (I know they're right backs but they're in the article).

The player he wanted to replace them with ... Ciaron Brown.

One year later, Ciaron Brown's on that list.... He's just been sold to Oxford for 250k.
 
Midfielder:
Teddy Teuma: interesting out of the blue link, seems like a very Kieran Scott type move. Pretty consistently worn the number 17 shirt through his career. 7, 10 & 11 available.

Ethan Ampadu: Sassuolo, Empoli and Venezia all linked with a loan move with Spezia rumoured to be close with an option to buy.

Hannibal Mejbri: Birmingham strongly linked and close to securing a loan deal with no option to buy. FC Andora have rocked the boat with a rumoured £21m transfer deal on the table.


Striker
Jorgen Strand Larsen: our top target. can’t see anyone else coming in higher than us given that we were significantly higher than our competition who have since moved on.
€10M (£8m) is the offer €12M (£10m) is what they are holding out for.

Emil Riis: Preston need to sell and we’ve enquired. Surprise, surprise they have set the asking price at £8m the same as we offered for Larsen. They mentioned ‘players’ inferring that enquiries have been made for more than one of their players..

Viktor Gyökeres: Coventry need to sell too. All fun and games asking for £20m until you’re potentially throwing away £10m and your big transfer plans for the summer.

Larsen has worn the 10 & 11, Riis is currently 19 with Preston whilst big Vik has worn the 10 & 11 for club and country.

The Newyddion Report: August Edition

On the face of it you would think that Keiren Scott would get his first picks Teuma for around £4m and Larsen for £8m.. I think there’s more to it than that. The number 7 has been mysteriously not mentioned and Dael Fry was expected to leave for premier pastures new going on what was said last summer. Lenihan has been brought in and as much as competition is healthy I can see Fry wanting to play second fiddle if a move to the prem could be on the cards. £8m sounds about right given the low ball prem purchases of Spence and Tavernier. Barnsley I believe accepted a £1.5m bid for Michał Helik to move back to Poland (although he still hasn’t gone) I would expect this sort of fee and this sort of player to be brought in as back up to Lenihan should Dael Fry move on.

So what of the transfer fees brought in? The ‘Andraz Sporar Money’? Should he have hit that goals scoring target and we still not went up. The Siliki loan deal had an option or even an obligation to buy should certain criteria have been met. The transfer money? the Fry pot? the Sporar savings? the Siliki slush fund.. the shirt numbers 7, 10 & 11

The players enquired about at Preston?
Teddy Teuma was out of the blue.. and his shirt numbers don’t fit. I wanted us to be in for Ben Whiteman and now I’ve convinced myself we might be in for him.
THE NUMBER SEVEN
£4m for Ben Whiteman would get the ball rolling.. see a bit of movement. Plus I think they enquired about Duncan Watmore. A cash plus player deal might suit all parties?
Larsen in on £8m would wipe out most of the remaining budget one would think.

Unless we moved Dael Fry on for a frightening cheap £8m to a prem side then brought back up in on loan or on a free.

THAT would leave us with just enough to table a much needed £10m to Coventry for the services of one Viktor Gyökeres!

7 Ben Whiteman
10 Jorgen Strand Larsen
11 Victor Gyokores

I feel like I’ve just cracked the Da Vinci Code!
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What's their past shirt numbers got to do with anything?
 
What's their past shirt numbers got to do with anything?
Wilder mentioned we were gonna sign players and the shirt numbers had been kept free deliberately. It’s a show of intent and it has to do with what shirt numbers they might wear if they come here.
Agreed. This is bizarre we are hardly not going to sign a player we want because he doesn't wear the 'right' number to fit in with our current squad numbering.
an unwanted striker might feel wanted by a club if they kept the number nine say.

Semenyo made a big deal about being given the number 11 by Bristol a sign that they wanted to keep him and assurance he was part of their first team plans. (out of contract in the summer)
 
Wilder mentioned we were gonna sign players and the shirt numbers had been kept free deliberately. It’s a show of intent and it has to do with what shirt numbers they might wear if they come here.

an unwanted striker might feel wanted by a club if they kept the number nine say.

Semenyo made a big deal about being given the number 11 by Bristol a sign that they wanted to keep him and assurance he was part of their first team plans. (out of contract in the summer)
I’m sorry. Can’t work out if you’re on a wind up, fair play if so. But this stuff about shirt numbers is nonsense!
 
What's their past shirt numbers got to do with anything?
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From Gazzette/Teesside Live Today:

“Middlesbrough may have just completed their tenth summer signing this week in Matt Clarke but manager Chris Wilder is not done yet - revealing he still would like another three players before next week's transfer deadline.

He's been clear in recent weeks that he still wants another striker and also a midfielder to compete with Matt Crooks after allowing Martin Payero to leave on loan this summer. But he has now also revealed that he would also like a holding midfielder before the window shuts to compete for a place with Jonny Howson”

Bizarre nonsense anyone?
 
You know exactly what I mean 😀
Stuff about shirt numbers being nonsense?

Wilder said that shirt numbers had been left unallocated and players would be coming in to fill those shirts. He said the academy lads weren’t yet up to scratch. It suggests that rather than the initial two players coming in turns into three when you factor in Tavernier’s shirt. Something which has been confirmed today.
 
Remarkable, looking at that, how few Championship clubs have actually bought players this summer. And vast majority have a zero net spend or have banked money
Purchases

£9m- so far
£2.25m - Clarke
£4m - Teuma? Ampadu in on loan
£8m - Riis? or Larsen?
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£23.25m


Sales

£12.5m Spence
£10m Tavernier
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£22.5m

£0.75m* total net spend

not including the sales of Wood, Stojanovic and Olusanya.. probably just about covered it!

Final Squad?

Steffen/Roberts

McNair/Dijksteel
Lenihan/Fry
Clarke/Bola

Jones/Smith
Teuma/Crooks
Ampadu/Howson
Mowett/McGree
Giles/Bilongo

Muniz/Forss/Watmore
Riis/Hoppe/Akpom

Looks in decent nick!
 
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