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The 2025-26 Summer Transfer Window Thread

Will.NFFC said:
I’ll always maintain Britt Assombalonga was destined for premier league before he got that horrific injury where he broke his knee and was out for 2 years. He was quick, skillful, strong, unbelievably clinical and great positionally.

He got that injury and came back instinctive but without most of the other qualities and was just so overweight. Huge shame for him
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He was only out for one year, just over. Injured Feb 2015 and was back in April 2016.

But agree; he was never the same player again, not even close. He would have been 20+ goals a season in the championship and we'd have been selling him for £20m to a PL team if it weren't for that injury.

He managed nearly a goal every other game in the Montanier season, but from then on he was a 10-15 goal a season striker in the second tier, nothing more.
 
the jock said:
We were singing " one decent marlon" when Harewood returned. Sadly the decent one scored for West ham
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I actually travelled up on a West Ham mini bus with a load of Hammers mates and watched from the away end that day . Lost 0-2 if memory serves me right with Marlon scoring first . That was a difficult watch :censored:
 
Pope John XXIII said:
But apparently they can't afford his wages.

Sod them- that's their problem. We shouldn't be paying anything

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941598220469022992
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...apart from his wages for another year, when a permanent transfer slips through our fingers.

I think this is the time when the club accept a lowered transfer fee, to allow Wrexham to increase their budget to LOB.
Its the only way we'll shift him.

Same is true of Sosa, Jota, Carmo, Dennis etc.
 
BlackGold said:
...apart from his wages for another year, when a permanent transfer slips through our fingers.

I think this is the time when the club accept a lowered transfer fee, to allow Wrexham to increase their budget to LOB.
Its the only way we'll shift him.

Same is true of Sosa, Jota, Carmo, Dennis etc.
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Swansea and Hull want him also
 
finbar70 said:
Swansea and Hull want him also
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I’m sure, but that’s being willing to pay the transfer fee.

Covering his salary is a whole nother affair.

Point is, if we want rid, a degree of acceptance will probably be called for in regards the ridiculous wages we (and other prem clubs pay) for not prem standard players.
In other words, the club will essentially need to give them away, so the budget a buying team has can be used to pay our deadwood.

See Worrall, as an example.
 
Pope John XXIII said:
But apparently they can't afford his wages.

Sod them- that's their problem. We shouldn't be paying anything

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941598220469022992
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But we will.

If he moves we will end up paying him off, if he does not move we will pay him regardless.

He has one year left before he leaves for nowt; we will end up covering his wages for the last year, which be in the region of 1.5m and then his signing on fee, which would be higher if he was a free agent, and then the drop in wages on his new contract.

Might as well give him the 5m
 
Pope John XXIII said:
He was only out for one year, just over. Injured Feb 2015 and was back in April 2016.

But agree; he was never the same player again, not even close. He would have been 20+ goals a season in the championship and we'd have been selling him for £20m to a PL team if it weren't for that injury.

He managed nearly a goal every other game in the Montanier season, but from then on he was a 10-15 goal a season striker in the second tier, nothing more.
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He never did it for me.

You certainly could not fault his scoring record; he was just about a one in two goalscorer for us and one in three for Middlesbrough, however, you have to question at what cost that came to the sides the played for.

In the three seasons (Two if you exclude his injury) we finished 14th, 16th and 21st and Middlesbrough managed one top 6 finish in his five seasons there, and that included a spell when they were managed by that promotion expert Colin.

One top 6 finish over 7 seasons; that is pretty poor when you have such a prolific scorer in the side.

Some may point out that he did his bit in scoring the goals, but he did absolutely nothing else.

He could not control the ball and he was fucking clueless when it came to holding up the ball, and without having a forward to do that, you never, ever take the pressure off of yourself, and the supporting players will never commit to getting forward, not when you have a centre forward who is going to give the ball way and make you look like a mug.

Its no surprise the teams he played for did so badly.

As for him being a PL class player; not while he had a hole in his fat arse.
 
mao tse tung said:
He never did it for me.

You certainly could not fault his scoring record; he was just about a one in two goalscorer for us and one in three for Middlesbrough, however, you have to question at what cost that came to the sides the played for.

In the three seasons (Two if you exclude his injury) we finished 14th, 16th and 21st and Middlesbrough managed one top 6 finish in his five seasons there, and that included a spell when they were managed by that promotion expert Colin.

One top 6 finish over 7 seasons; that is pretty poor when you have such a prolific scorer in the side.

Some may point out that he did his bit in scoring the goals, but he did absolutely nothing else.

He could not control the ball and he was fucking clueless when it came to holding up the ball, and without having a forward to do that, you never, ever take the pressure off of yourself, and the supporting players will never commit to getting forward, not when you have a centre forward who is going to give the ball way and make you look like a mug.

Its no surprise the teams he played for did so badly.

As for him being a PL class player; not while he had a hole in his fat arse.
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I was golfing at Rockliffe Hall (Middlesboroughs training centre) the weekend he was transfered. I had a Forest head cover on my driver at the time and the starter took the piss just a little bit. At the time they were expected to do it that season and us? Well we weren't. I think we got the best of that particular bit of transfer business.
 
mao tse tung said:
He never did it for me.

You certainly could not fault his scoring record; he was just about a one in two goalscorer for us and one in three for Middlesbrough, however, you have to question at what cost that came to the sides the played for.

In the three seasons (Two if you exclude his injury) we finished 14th, 16th and 21st and Middlesbrough managed one top 6 finish in his five seasons there, and that included a spell when they were managed by that promotion expert Colin.

One top 6 finish over 7 seasons; that is pretty poor when you have such a prolific scorer in the side.

Some may point out that he did his bit in scoring the goals, but he did absolutely nothing else.

He could not control the ball and he was fucking clueless when it came to holding up the ball, and without having a forward to do that, you never, ever take the pressure off of yourself, and the supporting players will never commit to getting forward, not when you have a centre forward who is going to give the ball way and make you look like a mug.

Its no surprise the teams he played for did so badly.

As for him being a PL class player; not while he had a hole in his fat arse.
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I think at the time football was moving past that era where everyone had a striker who did bugger all other than score. It was fine when everyone had that.

But the 2010s we started seeing strikers that actually did other stuff as well- they maybe didn't score as much but it meant you had 10 outfield players all playing, not 9 and a passenger who scored 1 in 3.

You started noticing the difference. You played sides that you kind of scoffed at because they had workhorses up front rather than goalscorers, and they turned you over as if they had an extra man on the field. Because they kind of did
 
chandos9 said:
Ezra Collective probably have Arsenal (and Spurs- some are from Enfield) fans as their members.
Forest can't have Jake Bugg doing it as he is a Notts County fan.
Short of getting out those members of Paper Lace that are not in prison for sex offending, it might be more difficult for Forest.
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Could see what Pitchshifter is up to these days.

Failing that Bruce Dickinson could rattle out some bars when Tim Weah is holding the scarf over his head, in the centre circle.
 
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