25m is damn cheap. If he reduces his wages then it's a good deal.

12 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

We're paying Neto £160K a week according to Capology, so I imagine any deal for Sancho would have to be on minimum similar grounds for it to be acceptable to Sancho.

Far too much for both of them if you ask me ...

By comparison, Mudryk is on £100K, Noni is on £50K and Tyrique £7.5K

Ironically, i see Neto as a perfect fit for Man Utd, with Amorim in charge and Cunha up top. But the prospect of us trying to do some PSR rinky dink with Neto going there and Garnacho coming to us keeps me awake at night.

1 hour ago, PloKoon13 said:

Bronski Beat it is

Could do with Jimmy Somerville as our centre-forward.

1 hour ago, just said:

Could do with Jimmy Somerville as our centre-forward.

Don’t leave me this way @just, you Smalltown Boy!

Several months ago, 25 million for Sancho seemed like an absolute steal, but now I'm on the fence. His 'form', similar to quite a few other players, has just reflected the performance of the team overall. It's all about the wages now, apparently, and if he can't accept a cut and goes back to Utd, I won't be devastated. If he does agree to a cut and signs for us, then I'll welcome him as a decent addition to the squad. We can (and likely will, if he does not sign) do a lot worse for the money. He definitely is not worth f**king up our wage structure for, though.

2 hours ago, just said:

Could do with Jimmy Somerville as our centre-forward.

Doesn't sound like you feel love for Nicolas Jackson.

18 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Doesn't sound like you feel love for Nicolas Jackson.

He says that but he never can say goodbye!

1 hour ago, Mod said:

Don’t leave me this way @just, you Smalltown Boy!

Cry boy cry. Cry boy, cry boy, cry.

I can imagine a lot of our current players would take that literally!

12 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Desperate for this move not to happen, he just doesn’t improve us in any way. I’d rather pass and try signing two of Alex Baena, Semenyo & Mbuemo. Adding 2 of those to Madueke, Estevao & Neto looks better than if Granacho & Sancho are your wide additions.

On 30/05/2025 at 07:18, bluedave said:

Several months ago, 25 million for Sancho seemed like an absolute steal, but now I'm on the fence. His 'form', similar to quite a few other players, has just reflected the performance of the team overall. It's all about the wages now, apparently, and if he can't accept a cut and goes back to Utd, I won't be devastated. If he does agree to a cut and signs for us, then I'll welcome him as a decent addition to the squad. We can (and likely will, if he does not sign) do a lot worse for the money. He definitely is not worth f**king up our wage structure for, though.

Yep, this is about it. 25 million quid is still quite a steal, in that we paid 30 million for KDH and how much for Mud-Rick? He is a local lad and A Chelsea fan. He would be a decent addition to the squad.

On his way back to Utd according to Ornstein.

We are paying the penalty fee.

Edited June 3, 20251 yr by Sheva

Looks like we couldn’t reach an agreement on wages. What a shame.

Can’t say I’m sorry. Hopefully we can finally stumble across a young winger who plays well in 3 out of 4 games instead of 1 out of 14. Not holding my breath though.

12 minutes ago, Sheva said:

On his way back to Utd according to Ornstein.

We are paying the penalty fee.

Thank God! Fans were getting sentimental here, he is sh*t!

Wages the stumbling block it would seem.

Shame, I can't deny his quality but he never really did enough consistently.

Jackson back as a LW option or going for Gittens?

I'm actually pretty happy he's not staying, he started off well but eventually he just fell into the same slump he did at United.

It might explain all the Jamie Gittens noise latley.

If Mudryk is gonna be unavailable surely we'd still need another winger alongside Gittens for the LW position? Unless this means Noni is staying which I'd rather not happen.

9 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

If Mudryk is gonna be unavailable surely we'd still need another winger alongside Gittens for the LW position? Unless this means Noni is staying which I'd rather not happen.

What is the agenda a section of our fan base have against Noni? Granted all our wingers are crap, but he will be the last one out of the door in my opinion.

My fear is the club would turn around and sign Granacho & Gittens when Semenyo and Alex Baena are the 2 LW that will raise the ceiling of our squad.

1 minute ago, timetowaste said:

If Mudryk is gonna be unavailable surely we'd still need another winger alongside Gittens for the LW position? Unless this means Noni is staying which I'd rather not happen.

I heard a little whisper the other day that Mudryk might be closer to a return than some think.

Personally I can not believe that the result of the “B” test wasn’t known a couple of months ago and the fact that we haven’t had formal hearing yet suggests that it is far from straightforward.

My guess is that he will be available around November/December having served a 12 month ban.

12 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

If Mudryk is gonna be unavailable surely we'd still need another winger alongside Gittens for the LW position? Unless this means Noni is staying which I'd rather not happen.

i hope that we cash in on Noni . Turning any sort of profit would be a result. He is a player that does little to nothing for me. Watch the number of times he has the full back exposed and then….he goes backwards.

Just a thought here is it a remote possibility that Jackson could possibly be moved wider ?

Terrible bit of business, miss out on a proven PL quality winger for 25M but will now happily go and splash 50M on some punt and hope prospect like Gittens or even worse 75M+ on a lanky Jackson in Ekiteke.

This club is in the mud.

13 minutes ago, ducavis said:

What is the agenda a section of our fan base have against Noni? Granted all our wingers are crap, but he will be the last one out of the door in my opinion.

My fear is the club would turn around and sign Granacho & Gittens when Semenyo and Alex Baena are the 2 LW that will raise the ceiling of our squad.

Think if Sancho is going back and Mudryks future is unknown it would be stupid to sell Noni. However I don't think he's that hard to replace. My problem with him is his hard done by attitude. He'll stand there complaining about the grass being too long as to why he's lost the ball instead of running back and putting a tackle in. Its like the whole games is about him, doesn't come across as a team player. The one thing that Neto will do is put in a shift even if he's having a sh*t game.

Excellent decision to pay the £5m. Not a bad player but the kid has very little end product, especially given the level of salary he thinks he deserves.

He held out for 300k pw, he genuinely believes he’s C.Ronaldo & Messi rolled into one. Absolute madness.

If we’re breaking the wage structure… it would need to be a game changer.

First great decision by BlueCo.