Summer Transfer Window 2025

Some pundit or other was suggesting that Jesus and Wood could make a good striking pair. Jesus does the work dropping deep and tends to go to the near post, Wood likes to arrive at the far post.

With Jesus and Wood together the crosses gags (almost) write themselves.

Can we please sign a midfielder called Pontius?

Jimmy Nail is clearly the one we need to sign.

I personally think Igor might very well be a 10. This means, MGW and Anderson behind him? I wouldn't be against it.

Some of the players back this week. Wonder who might be missing? Anderson, jesus, jair (still think he has signed), MGW (played for England in June), Elanga (Sweden?).

This is of course that none of them have been sold.

Chicago: CHO CHO!

In a totally made up scenario, it would seem a 4-3-1-2 could work with the midfield being Anderson, Sangare, Dominguez.
Wood at the point with Jesus roaming and MGW making things happen. Full back bombing on because........

She's lying

I'm in no way averse to a 4-4-2 or similar style, but having found a system that specifically minimises Wood's weaknesses and maximises his strengths, I don't think a new model without Elanga and CHO is an immediate solution.
Definitely good to have options, of course.

Romano hwg for Elanga.

Just came here to say that. 55M. Can't really complain.

Also we apparently sold Sosa to Palmeiras for around 12M today. So PSR concerns are clearly not a thing of concern for us, but we are two wingers down now. Time to go shopping.

It seems the Elanga sell on was 15%, given we paid 15M for him that's a net profit of 34M.

I don’t think that’s particularly great money for what he brings. £65m plus for me.

But it is what it is, a great return on what we paid and hopefully it’s spent well.

Isn't the trendy way of doing this splitting the 15M we paid for him over the length of his contract, which was 5 years. We've had two years of that. So his value on our books is 9M. We've now received 55m, minus the 15% (8.25M), against the 9M on our books means we've made a profit of 37.75M.

On face value it's hard to complain, but I doubt we can sign anyone that will be able to replace his goals and assists for the money we've received. Which is concerning.

No, that's not how profit works. We've depreciated 6M of the 15M on the books, but we still paid 15M for him and the profit is still sale price minus purchase price.

Also, sell ons apply to profit and not sale price. So it's 15% of 40M, not 55M.

From Percy:

Anthony Elanga deal to #nufc agreed at £55m + around £5m in extras: a club record sale for #nffc for the 2nd time in 2 years. Forest reluctant to sell Elanga, who did not push to move, but overall package & profit (signed for £13.5m) regarded as too good to turn down . At least two wingers to be targeted this summer