12 Aug 2024 20:20:11
Alright lads. Apparently idah agreed 6.5 with 2 million in add ons 5 year contract after he completes medical.
12 Aug 2024 20:55:41
On the same day Delia Smith gave up control of Norwich City after 27 Years.
12 Aug 2024 20:57:58
Hopefully we are paying the transfer fee over 5 years. or half now, half in 3 years.
12 Aug 2024 21:18:47
Myles : posts online are saying it’s £8.5m with £1m and a 15% sell in fee.
12 Aug 2024 21:41:51
It's an £8.5m deal + £1m in addons and a 15% sell on according to reports making the boy our new transfer record.
Welcome back Adam, I hope you have a great career with us.
13 Aug 2024 05:45:07
For a player who had. 4m release agreed to an Italian club 6 months ago looks like Norwich done is and won the transfer back and forth, personally I think we should have concentrated on our 3rd striker and run this one to end window and kept fee down to 6.5 m, positives are at 23 we will get most of it back if not more on any outgoing, hopefully at that cost there’s no sell on clause either,
I know we have the money and I’m in minority but I’m happy with purse strings being tight, now we have paulo and idah secured, sorted our problem gk position our window can start, epl teams and transfers in general been slow prob driven by epl fin fair play rules, as they look to strengthen there fair play positions and move money about to have funds available we should see more movement and availability of players, problems we will see will be epl teams need to sell there younger players over loan to buys as the money is regarded as total profit,
13 Aug 2024 07:44:29
The offer in January wasn’t agreed with Verona because Norwich valued Idah much higher.
13 Aug 2024 08:34:55
It's hilarious, Idah heading our way and people still not happy.
On one hand we were tight fisted by offering only 4.5 million and we should just pay what they want and get the deal done.
Now there are people saying 8.5 million plus 1 more in add ons is more than he is worth and we should have been looking elsewhere for that amount of money.
Fans are fickle people, very difficult to please.
For me he has already proven what he can do in his loan spell and can only improve.
Will he be a moussa or Eddie, I cannot say but the potential is there, his first touch is better than Eddie and he is strong like moussa, so I am looking forward to seeing how he develops under BR.
13 Aug 2024 09:49:33
I’ve been one of those critical of the Celtic board for being tight fisted and I still stand by it, this has been going on for years and we’ve missed out on several targets who have went on to bigger things because we refused to pay it when they were worth it, John McGinn being an example.
As much as I like as being financially cautious as that’s the way you need to be in todays market, fair play if the board have indeed agreed to pay that amount if it’s true, credit where credits due. Me personally, we’ve probably overpaid by a couple of million but I think it’s a risk worth taking, Idah has proved his value and potential already.
In terms of finances, if the reported fees are reliable to go by, we’ve essentially spent 7m net. We’ve sold 3 players for 6m and spent a total of 13m.
13 Aug 2024 10:09:41
Mick, what tosh about McGinn, we offered the same as Villa but he chose them over us as their Manager promised him game time.
People need to get over the McGinn nonsense and accept, we made a good offer but HE chose them.
Tbh, I cannot sit and watch him and feel sad we didn't get him, his Euro performances were very poor. MOR is a far, far better player.
13 Aug 2024 12:47:03
He chose villa because we came in late with our bid and he had agreed to goto villa, before we bid then we matched it but he stuck to his principles and joined villa. We were too late with the bid.
13 Aug 2024 12:57:35
I honestly have no issue with any of our business so far, I think the club and those running are proving why fans shouldn’t run football clubs, can’t wait to see our squad come end of window.