2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[K-Hod]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Gary Neville made a comment during the Salford's documentary series the class of 92 where he said that Wrexham's budget for league 2 was over £6m where Salford was less than half of that budget

How much do Wrexham players earn? Salary, budget, transfer fees for Ryan Reynolds' club in UK | Sporting News United Kingdom

Wrexham AFC Wages & Salaries 2024/2025: Top 10 highest-paid players per week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ryan-reynolds-dreams-of-bringing-young-leeds-star-to-wrexham-in-statement-signing-spree/ar-AA1GNpib?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Wrexham are targeting Danny Ings, Aaron Cresswell and Danny Ward. All 3 of them will be after much more than we paid for players 

Wrexham eye triple Premier League transfer including ex-England duo - The Mirror

Good for them.

But, given the money we've received for players we've sold, we've got the money to match or go beyond these numbers.

It's the fault of our owners that we don't.

Wrexham are what it looks like when you try.
Rovers are what it looks like when you don't.

[chaddyrovers]

20 hours ago, Gamst said:

We have multi-billionaire owners. They can afford to match the wages that Wrexham are offering. They can afford to renew contracts of our key players and invest modestly in new signings. Owners with a fraction of their wealth invest considerably more because they actually care!  As owners they don’t have to invest, it’s entirely up to them, but what is the point of owning the club if you can’t even be willing to renew contracts? 

Wrexham owners are much more involved and across all areas of the club whether its the men team or the woman team, The Wrexham documentaries are a good insight but also what their owners are involved within the community of Wrexham and the fan base of the club. 

That what we lack as our owners, the understanding of the local area, community, fan base and the club is the biggest asset in Blackburn and it should be driven the local area and being massively involved. Driving local projects or engaging with local people

on the contracts, we need to sign up the big 3 players and get them new long term contracts. I would be offering Brittain a new 4 year contract, Tronstad 3 years contracts and Travis a 3 year contracts on around 18k to 22k each players which would pick them on being the nigher earners on the club I reckon with Todd Cantwell. 

[London blue]

9 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Wrexham are targeting Danny Ings, Aaron Cresswell and Danny Ward. All 3 of them will be after much more than we paid for players 

None of which has any bearing on the amount they would be willing to pay Travis.

[chaddyrovers]

20 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

So you arent alarmed or annoyed by our repeated inability to get our best player signed up? Or even to get contracts in front of them well before now?

You need to take each player situation into this. 

BBD didn't want to sign a new contract but JDT and GB didn't want to sell him. Similar with Dolan who Eustace and Rovers were happy to keep last season and GB tried for 18 months to get him to sign new contracts and he didn't. 

Nyambe, I wouldn't be offering him a contract and as we seen Brittain he is twice the player he was. 

Lenihan was offered good contract by us but choose to seek a move elsewhere. 

 

[roversfan99]

So no, you dont see a pattern, its just an unfortunate series of individual circumstances.

And no, there isnt any blame on the club.

And no, there isnt any blame on not getting PROPER contract offers in earlier.

And even though none of these players seem willing to sign new deals. It isnt to do with us not providing satisfactory financial offers, they wouldnt have signed anyway.

[Mercer]

23 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Gary Neville made a comment during the Salford's documentary series the class of 92 where he said that Wrexham's budget for league 2 was over £6m where Salford was less than half of that budget

How much do Wrexham players earn? Salary, budget, transfer fees for Ryan Reynolds' club in UK | Sporting News United Kingdom

Wrexham AFC Wages & Salaries 2024/2025: Top 10 highest-paid players per week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ryan-reynolds-dreams-of-bringing-young-leeds-star-to-wrexham-in-statement-signing-spree/ar-AA1GNpib?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Wrexham are targeting Danny Ings, Aaron Cresswell and Danny Ward. All 3 of them will be after much more than we paid for players 

Wrexham eye triple Premier League transfer including ex-England duo - The Mirror

It's simple, IT'S CALLED AMBITION and emanates from the ownership.

I think it's clear, Wrexham as a club are everything Rovers are currently not.

Feckin Wrexham!!!

Stop bellyaching and start accepting reality.

Jack will be spinning in his grave.

[FE123]

Saudi lad currently away in the states with the national team. They are playing in Texas on Thursday and again in Nevada on Monday. If we do have an arrangement with his club in place (he fits the bill for our recruitment policy and I think he would probably jump at the chance of the spotlight England offers) then it will most likely be the back end of next week that he becomes available.

Will be another low risk signing on low wages. He’s a good age and one decent season in the championship will see his value rise.

[DutchRover]

ESC Slots become important though, per Andy Watson, Toth and Kargbo both use a slot, as will De Neve, so we would only have one slot left, not even counting Mafoumbi, who we will surely get rid of if he is using a slot.

But surely De Keersmaecker, Al Sahafi and even Terho would all use an ESC slot, so we could only get one of them, in which case I would want De Keersmaecker.

Unless somebody knows a way to circumvent the 4 slots or one of them qualifies another way.

[Exiled_Rover]

3 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

ESC Slots become important though, per Andy Watson, Toth and Kargbo both use a slot, as will De Neve, so we would only have one slot left, not even counting Mafoumbi, who we will surely get rid of if he is using a slot.

But surely De Keersmaecker, Al Sahafi and even Terho would all use an ESC slot, so we could only get one of them, in which case I would want De Keersmaecker.

Unless somebody knows a way to circumvent the 4 slots or one of them qualifies another way.

Didn't we get 4 ESC slots on the back of how many English / home grown players we were playing?

Can't imagine we still qualify for 4 looking at the current squad. 

[TruRover]

3 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

ESC Slots become important though, per Andy Watson, Toth and Kargbo both use a slot, as will De Neve, so we would only have one slot left, not even counting Mafoumbi, who we will surely get rid of if he is using a slot.

But surely De Keersmaecker, Al Sahafi and even Terho would all use an ESC slot, so we could only get one of them, in which case I would want De Keersmaecker.

Unless somebody knows a way to circumvent the 4 slots or one of them qualifies another way.

I think I read that De Neve doesn’t need one due to how many games he played in the Belgian top division. De Keersmaecker wouldn’t need one either I believe due to his contributions in the Eredivise. 
 

I might be completely wrong! 

[davulsukur]

23 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like De Neve, this guy looks like he has some attributes to work with but will need to work hard on the technical side of things to be at Championship level.

Nothing wrong with that but that would make 2 signings that are unlikely to be up to speed until mid-way (or beyond) the season. 

I know this is the clubs plan (buy potential, get them up to speed, sell them and not reinvest the money) but it would shape up to be another season of nothing, as we'll just be developing players for the other clubs.

[MarkBRFC]

16 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

ESC Slots become important though, per Andy Watson, Toth and Kargbo both use a slot, as will De Neve, so we would only have one slot left, not even counting Mafoumbi, who we will surely get rid of if he is using a slot.

But surely De Keersmaecker, Al Sahafi and even Terho would all use an ESC slot, so we could only get one of them, in which case I would want De Keersmaecker.

Unless somebody knows a way to circumvent the 4 slots or one of them qualifies another way.

De Neve doesn't need one, and Ohashi will be converted to GBE based on minutes played last season.

Andy Watson missed out Mafoumbi who I think would still need a place, along with Toth and Kargbo.

So if that's the case it would be one spot available.

De Keersmaecker wouldn't need a spot, but Al Sahafi and Terho would need one.

[Browjd]

and not reinvest the money 🤣

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, K-Hod said:

Good for them.

But, given the money we've received for players we've sold, we've got the money to match or go beyond these numbers.

It's the fault of our owners that we don't.

Wrexham are what it looks like when you try. Rovers are what it looks like when you don't.

When does the FFP roll over?

We must quickly be approaching the point where we couldn't spend the Wharton / Szmodics money even if we wanted to because our turnover is so low (the commercial and football side of the club is running well though, no need for the new CEO to get involved with that). 

[wilsdenrover]

37 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Didn't we get 4 ESC slots on the back of how many English / home grown players we were playing?

Can't imagine we still qualify for 4 looking at the current squad. 

4 slots requires 35% of the minutes the club played to have been by English players.

Where an ESC player is unavailable through injury his pro-rata minutes are used in the calculation instead.

[wilsdenrover]

6 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

When does the FFP roll over?

We must quickly be approaching the point where we couldn't spend the Wharton / Szmodics money even if we wanted to because our turnover is so low (the commercial and football side of the club is running well though, no need for the new CEO to get involved with that). 

The Wharton money was in the 23/24 accounts so will count towards FFP up to and including the 25/26 accounts.

The Szmodics money will be in the 24/25 accounts so will count towards FFP up to and including 26/27.

Edited 5 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[davulsukur]

49 minutes ago, Browjd said:

and not reinvest the money 🤣

Indeed. 

The whole point, as they've admitted to, is to relieve the financial burden off the owners. 

The fabled Brentford model is a total myth. 

[chaddyrovers]

 

 

[MarkBRFC]

Excellent.

Now the big money is off the table, it shouldn't be a problem to get Travis signed to a new 3/4 year deal.

Unless of course now we can't compete with the East Midland powerhouses of Derby.

 

[Trinidad Rover]

Travis and Dolan will end up at Derby.

As will Weimann and Batth.

[davulsukur]

5 minutes ago, Trinidad Rover said:

Travis and Dolan will end up at Derby.

As will Weimann and Batth.

Some random X account reckoned that Weimann to Derby was all but done.

Didn't bother adding it to here because it was just a random account that's probably trying to grab a summer 25 ITK badge but it wouldn't surprise me.

[Exiled_Rover]

23 minutes ago, Trinidad Rover said:

Travis and Dolan will end up at Derby.

As will Weimann and Batth.

I'd be pretty frustrated with that as a Derby fan. Would smack of lazy scouting.

[islander200]

45 minutes ago, Trinidad Rover said:

Travis and Dolan will end up at Derby.

As will Weimann and Batth.

Dolan won't sign for them.And do they have the money to pay a transfer fee and a wage increase for Travis.Without investment I doubt it 

[harryhealless1928]

Very disappointing, if it really happens. Not too worried about Weimann

 Baath is an oldster, albeit a good one. Travis & Dolan will both be big misses and hard to replace!

It looks a bit like Eustace is trying to take the mick. He has replaced the dingles for me who have never interfered in our squad. I have no issue with Wrexham here. 

I`d feel slightly happier if we showed some real interest in this De Keersmaecker guy. Would like to see him play at Ewood.. But real intent & purpose went out of the window some years ago..

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[Tugayisgod]

Part of Jackson's article regarding transfers and contract renewals 

 Pretty much says it all in a couple of sentences :

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Tugayisgod