So who will be in our squad come 2nd September?
These are the requirements:
Each club’s squad must contain no more than 17 players who do not fulfil the "Home Grown Player" (HGP) criteria. The rest of the squad, up to a total of 25 players, must be "Home Grown".
What is a 'Home Grown Player'?
It's what you think will happen, not what you want to happen.
A "Home Grown Player" means a player who, irrespective of nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to The Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons, or 36 months, before his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).
A club’s Under-21 players are not included on the 25-man squad lists and are eligible to play in the Premier League.
What constitutes an Under-21 player?
For the 2024/25 Premier League season, Under-21 players will have been born on or after 1 January 2003.
Someone with more time on their hand will tell you which players on the books fits into which category.
It's what you think will happen not what you want to happen. Messi's not coming.
Squad 24
posted on 30/8/24
Think Johnstone may well start tomorrow, club made a point of showing him in training today on the socials.
Forbs still not announced ....
posted on 31/8/24
Forbs is a loan... transfermrkt.
Couldn't help it Goldi >laugh>
Not a bad window in my opinion. I'm sure they'll need time to settle before we see them, especially as there is an International break.
posted on 31/8/24
Terrible window in my opinion.
We’ve sold our captain and ever present in the heart of the defence, along with our most dangerous and creative striker. Sa also on his way to Saudi.
That’s three first team players gone. Replaced with a few for the future and unproven scattergun throws at the dart board.
GON has a huge task on his hands in my view.
posted on 31/8/24
I don't think it's a great window, but a reasonably solid one. 6½ out of 10 for me, agree that defensively we needed to strengthen if we could but I think Andre will make a big contribution there.
With Mosquera coming in I never really felt we were desperate for a centre back but if improvements could be made then of course they'd be welcome.
We've improved depth wise, difficult to replace Neto's quality, I know nothing about Forbs and R Gomes will need time.
As mentioned earlier we're not really making signings to help the coach, the strategy is buy to sell for profit. I guess we have to suck that up and trust that they get the balance right. But we'll never be top 7 again with this approach, bottom 7 is what we now need to get used to.
posted on 31/8/24
Would anyone care to summarise our transfer window?
Who's left? Who's arrived? Who might still leave?
Got to be honest saw most of the individual deal, but lost track of the overall picture.
posted on 31/8/24
In the absence of an experienced CB, I thought the overall window was pretty good. We probably have one of the strongest midfields in the league.
I still believe we should revert to a back 3 and hope Dawson stays injury free.
Even if Sa and Podence leave, we should be able to announce a senior squad of 22 as opposed to only 19 last season.
posted on 31/8/24
Yeah I think overall it was better than I expected.
Midfield even stronger with an eye to protecting the defence a bit more. A proper CF joined. Two interesting wingers. A few good young ones and most importantly we only lost one real star.
posted on 31/8/24
The ins for the senior squad:-
André. €22.00m
Rodrigo Gomes. €15.00
Sam Johnston. €11.90m
Pedro Lima. €10.00m
Tommy Doyle. €5.00m
Bastien Meupiyou. €5.00m
Strand Larsen Loan fee: €3.00m
Carlos Forbs. Loan fee: €2.50m
Plus 2 youngsters that will go into the U23's
posted on 2/9/24
Larsen will become a permanent signing subject to basic conditions so in most respects that’s £23m spent. And other young players we brought in like Sutherland and Lochead will have included a small fee
posted on 2/9/24
Carlos Forbs deal is a loan with a fee of £2.5m. But if he makes 10 starts for Wolves this season it becomes a permanent deal with an extra £13.5m then becoming due.
Jose Sa’s transfer to Saudi appears to be off, meaning he will be staying to compete with Johnstone for the keeper jersey
Chem Campbell has joined Reading on loan until January