2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[bluebruce]

24 minutes ago, TimmyJimmy said:

You and Wilsden clearly have a better handle on the process. My weakness is a permanent overload of emotional intelligence rather than the garden variety type (tongue in cheek) of process intelligence. Just seems harsh on a young lad whose hopes and dreams of making it as a pro end with being wheeled out for a ritual humiliation. Ignore me, I'm just a softy.

It's not that I don't see your point, I just think it could as easily viewed as a plus for the lad as for us. And maybe he gets lucky and it lands at his feet in the 6 yard box for a chance to make his name. Ideally you do it in a game where we are winning convincingly and you can afford to give him 5 or 10 minutes to make his mark, but since this needs doing ASAP and the next game is Brum...probably not! I think Tyjon's debut was only about 30 seconds and it will have been a proud moment for him anyway. Admittedly his wasn't to clear an administrative problem.

What I know about the process btw, I probably learnt about 70-80% of it from talking to Wilsden.

Edited 3 hours ago by bluebruce

[bluebruce]

5 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

How old do players have to be to count as youth players in the ESC/GBE context? Don't tell me they made that fuzzy too 😂 I'm assuming it's the same as squad registration with players under 21.

[wilsdenrover]

4 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

How old do players have to be to count as youth players in the ESC/GBE context? Don't tell me they made that fuzzy too 😂 I'm assuming it's the same as squad registration with players under 21.

No, they’ve made that nice and simple 😁:

[bluebruce]

16 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

No, they’ve made that nice and simple 😁:

I wonder what came over them 😂