Ayresome7 187 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) I was told we are interested in a couple of youngsters at Sunderland who we have been watching for quite some time. Benjamin Mbunga-Kimpioka and Elliot Embleton, injury to the latter may have delayed things. Sheff Wed and Hull have shown interest in Clayton, wants to stay local to Harrogate with child on the way. Gestede may be going north of the border in January but it depends on whether we can come to an agreement with him for the remainder of his contract. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites
mendieta420 988 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 4 hours ago, DurhamRed said: Didn't Burnley want Fry in the summer. I think the club has been doing everything possible to sell him since he might be able to command a big fee due to his reputation and being young English.. But his form this season has been woeful and all of the links have disappeared.. Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Not to mention, saying this again, selling Fry does not solve the biggest problem i.e. our wage bill. Unless we're selling him for something really significant, he's not going to make much of a change to our problems. Link to post Share on other sites
TLF10 4,440 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 1 hour ago, Ayresome7 said: I was told we are interested in a couple of youngsters at Sunderland who we have been watching for quite some time. Benjamin Mbunga-Kimpioka and Elliot Embleton, injury to the latter may have delayed things. Sheff Wed and Hull have shown interest in Clayton, wants to stay local to Harrogate with child on the way. Gestede may be going north of the border in January but it depends on whether we can come to an agreement with him for the remainder of his contract. Thank you for this info @Ayresome7. Find it strange Sheff Wed want Clayton. He was not even making match day squad in Monks final games here or am i mistaken and he was back in favour towards end of Monks tenure? I can certainly see Gestedes contract being terminated by mutual consent and everyone being told about it on 1st February. Link to post Share on other sites
OldManGravz 1,311 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 1 hour ago, wilsoncgp said: Not to mention, saying this again, selling Fry does not solve the biggest problem i.e. our wage bill. Unless we're selling him for something really significant, he's not going to make much of a change to our problems. Exactamundo! While the high earners are still on the books any money from selling youngsters on low wages will only go towards the wage bill, instead of being able to be invested in players 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 It was only Burnley linked with him before wasn't it? I haven't seen much speculation linking him with a move to anyone else and I'd guess they are pretty well set for defenders at the moment. To be honest there hasn't been much speculation about any of them though. Link to post Share on other sites
Ayresome7 187 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 1 hour ago, TLF10 said: Thank you for this info @Ayresome7. Find it strange Sheff Wed want Clayton. He was not even making match day squad in Monks final games here or am i mistaken and he was back in favour towards end of Monks tenure? I can certainly see Gestedes contract being terminated by mutual consent and everyone being told about it on 1st February. We won 3 consecutive matches with Howson and Leadbitter together in the middle of the field with Forshaw on bench so Clayton missed out on those matches but played in EFL Cup. Could be a case of Wednesday wanting to strengthen squad coming for a playoff push. Hutchinson is more of a right back and they have had suspension/injuries to Odubajo and Palmer. Downing and Leadbitter were frozen out and brought back in so Monk has form for it. Link to post Share on other sites
OldManGravz 1,311 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Chelsea being linked to Josh Maja today on BBC. Weren't we in for him last year? May end up to be one of those would've could've should've signings we've see down the years like Matic, Giroud, Xavi etc Link to post Share on other sites
oldman 155 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I constantly read posts about completely overhauling the squad in the context of selling good players. Given our very patchy recruitment policy surely we should be getting rid of as many average (or below average) players as possible and retaining the better performers, Ayala being one. Keep blooding the youngsters they are definitely value for money and have not really let us down as yet. Some of the better championship teams recently have NOT been the ones with large squads of average players such as Boro, Derby etc but those with a few exceptional players. Link to post Share on other sites
mendieta420 988 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 11 hours ago, Changing Times said: It was only Burnley linked with him before wasn't it? I haven't seen much speculation linking him with a move to anyone else and I'd guess they are pretty well set for defenders at the moment. To be honest there hasn't been much speculation about any of them though. Just as he returned from injury he was linked with pretty much every top 10 team for a week. Smelt like Boro touting him around as much as they could tbh Link to post Share on other sites
Smoggydownsouth 1,621 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Think the EG quotes on the blog say it all about transfers... club want 1 or 2... in my opinion its 4 or 5 but perhaps that's knee jerk considering league position. Still see Randz out at least... Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Smoggydownsouth said: Think the EG quotes on the blog say it all about transfers... club want 1 or 2... in my opinion its 4 or 5 but perhaps that's knee jerk considering league position. Still see Randz out at least... I reckon we need 1 manager 1 assistant 1 striker 2 wingers 1 central defender And that's before replacing important players that get sold Link to post Share on other sites
Hendrie_7 1,068 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Don't know if anyone's said it on here before but it's been mentioned on FMTTM that Shotton is 1 appearance away from triggering a clause so he'll be leaving in January. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 7 hours ago, OldManGravz said: Chelsea being linked to Josh Maja today on BBC. Weren't we in for him last year? May end up to be one of those would've could've should've signings we've see down the years like Matic, Giroud, Xavi etc Yeah, Pulis didn't want him apparently. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 58 minutes ago, Hendrie_7 said: Don't know if anyone's said it on here before but it's been mentioned on FMTTM that Shotton is 1 appearance away from triggering a clause so he'll be leaving in January. Yeah I read that and the rest of the thread. I couldn't work out what the 1 appearance would be in regards to because he's played 71 league games and 76 games in total but then I looked at it and it could be for 75 appearances if you don't include play off games, but that would seem odd to me. It could be for 70 Championship starts as he's started 69 to date with 2 sub appearances. Other than that I don't really see what the clause could be for, that's if it actually exists. Link to post Share on other sites
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