2026 Summer Transfer Speculation

IronHerb

ASLEFshrugged said:

Fabrizio Romano sharing information that was first reported 3 weeks ago

He's quite good at that.

steve

So am I

Ravel49

ASLEFshrugged

I don't know who Nicolo Schira is but again its something everyone has known for three weeks

And something we've been discussing on the "who will stay" thread

Some actual news from Ben Wignall at Football League World

Linked us with N Ireland 25yo Ethan Galbraith, ex-Man Utd youth, joined Swansea from Leyton Orient last summer for £1.6m, 44 appearances, 4 goals, 2 assists, 7 yellow cards, . Utility player, mostly CM/RB

Wrexham also interested

steve

Read somewhere that Saints have a 15 % sell on clause if we sell Fernandes

Ravel49

steve said:

Read somewhere that Saints have a 15 % sell on clause if we sell Fernandes

IronHerb

Can’t see he’s made the add ons somehow

DJ Hammer

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Fortuneseeker

Fernandes isn’t 22 until next month unless we get top dollar for him he could stay & still get his massive move in a few years time. Most of the squad should stay & give it a go to get us back up like in the by gone ago when players did that but football is way too big for that nowadays with all the money flying around.

claretandbluesky

I agree, there is no rush to cash in unless it's too good to turn down.

Lukerz

There are wage/squad rules in the Championship, however

thornburyiron

The rules also apply to the PL

EXETERHAMMER

Our biggest issue is that contract clause where our player wages are being cut by 50%

Sensible, but players like money.

steve

its just a clause ,Which i guess can be changed if theres money there .

thornburyiron

It’s not that simple. Our bill for wages, transfers and agent fees can’t be more than 85% of our total income.
Given that our income is going to be substantially lower next season changing the wage clause is not going to work.

Lukerz

This is the point.

Even if DK injects funding to clear some of the liquidity issues, he still has to work with rules that state that he can’t inject more than £15m per year after 1st July & the squad to cost ratio of wages are capped at 85% of revenue. Even selling Fernandes for £70m does little if the rest of the squad are still on high salaries, especially as he has stated we ‘don’t need to sell our key players’.

alderz

SCR rules are 85% of turnover can be spent on the squad, but clubs can spend up to 110% before any penalties are points related. Up to that point there are fines and that’s all. The thought is that most clubs who have money will not worry about it.

thornburyiron

The maximum is 115% before a points deduction but if you go over the 85% limit the maximum is reduced next season and so on eg 95% and the maximum the following season is 105% etc.

IronHerb

Don’t forget £44m parachute payments. 60% of ST’s were renewed in the first week of sales. Not all players will stay and those that do will likely take a wage cut, but not necessarily 50%, those who don’t we’ll get some decent fees for. Obviously SKY money reduces by c. £100m.
But now we have a savvy business man running the show.
I for one believe our financial woes are being put behind us.
Anyway, I’m off to the Positive Arms for a pint. Anyone coming?

Slacker

IronHerb said:

Don’t forget £44m parachute payments. 60% of ST’s were renewed in the first week of sales. Not all players will stay and those that do will likely take a wage cut, but not necessarily 50%, those who don’t we’ll get some decent fees for. Obviously SKY money reduces by c. £100m.
But now we have a savvy business man running the show.
I for one believe our financial woes are being put behind us.
Anyway, I’m off to the Positive Arms for a pint. Anyone coming?

Bit early for me Herb,I’ll leave the key under that plant for you.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Feel like there is enough wages to trim inthe squad without a fire sale

AWB is top 5 highest earner, he already looks likely to leave

Seems like Kilman will also go, even if its a loan

Areola is a top 3 earner i believe, expect he'll go even if for a mutual free

Thats 3 top guys off the books without really affecting the squad as AWB is repalced by KWP and Areola and Kilman aren't worth keeping

alderz

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

Feel like there is enough wages to trim inthe squad without a fire sale

AWB is top 5 highest earner, he already looks likely to leave

Seems like Kilman will also go, even if its a loan

Areola is a top 3 earner i believe, expect he'll go even if for a mutual free

Thats 3 top guys off the books without really affecting the squad as AWB is repalced by KWP and Areola and Kilman aren't worth keeping

Fullkrug (£90kpw), Alvarez (£100kpw) and Ward-Prowse (£115kpw) are also very high earners that are likely to go.

Fortuneseeker

All this "transfer talk" hopefully the news of DK investing in the club might convince a few of the vultures that we don't have to accept silly low ball offers for our top players. Rumours of a club wanting Fullkrug but on a free!

Ravel49

DJ Hammer

I wouldn’t mind Fernandes going to spuds if he turns out to be as good a buy as Kudos was for them. 😉

buffybegood

DJ Hammer said:

I wouldn’t mind Fernandes going to spuds if he turns out to be as good a buy as Kudos was for them. 😉

Fernandes is a much better player imo, so I really don't want him going to Spurs. I think he'll go to one of the Manchester clubs if he stays in England.

Fortuneseeker

DJ, Didn't Kudos got injured?

IF we are going to entertain the idea of selling Fernandes to Tottenham then after they ripped us on buying Kudos then we want £100 million for him.

MrsGrey

If he goes to Spurs, let's hope he gets his relegation hat-trick.

DJ Hammer

Fortuneseeker said:

DJ, Didn't Kudos got injured?

IF we are going to entertain the idea of selling Fernandes to Tottenham then after they ripped us on buying Kudos then we want £100 million for him.

Yeah he did get injured and was out for the majority of the season, that’s my point.

Pengeman

The difficulty is that Nuno won't know his squad until the transfer window closes on 1st September. Good players from the relegated squad are likely to be picked-off and replacements may not want to wait until WHU come knocking.