Summer 2022 transfer rumours (Gilbey loan confirmed p513, a signing falls through last minute p541)

Swisdom said:

Naby would like to come back - he loved it with us
we are interested and have been in touch for months but his representatives are away with the fairies at the moment

not impossible but not looking likely just yet

Fans get frustrated but since the advent of so many agents and Reps all wanting the piece of the player it so difficult now unless like Ipswich and Wigan you pay over the odds as League 1 sides and act like the SAS and get in and out quickly.  As each day goes by IF there was no Championship interest then Naby Sarr would say to his "Representatives" I would rather play football at a club which I enjoyed ( most of the time !) and have  50% of the crowd on my side with friends and colleagues off the pitch like Tracey etc helping me to settle. Don't know Sarr's thoughts on money and if he would take a pay cut on the wages he was on at Cafc the first time around under Duchâtelet when he got a long contract and decent wages 

Interesting to hear Swisdom news.

Swisdom said:

Braziliance said:

Starinnaddick said:

Braziliance said:

Just having a nose at Gills forums and slight concern, allegedly Swansea aren’t in the running as Tucker is well out of their wage structure and Hull could be a serious option as they’re loaded. 

Now if Swansea, who I believe aren’t in any financial difficulties and might still be getting parachute payments? Are saying Tucker is too pricey, I think that may rule us out

Where would you prefer to live Hull or Kent? 😂

Would he prefer to play in a higher league and double or nearly triple his wages though? 

Sounds like Swansea are out of the running but I see him going to the championship based on that forum. 

If we got him it sounds like a tribunal of around 500-700k and then his wages and signing on fee. Reckon his wages are gonna be at least 8k 

Compensation wold be nowhere near that.  Probably c£300k

Wages currently nowhere near £8k either.  If we offered £2.5 k a week it would be a hefty uplift for him I think

Not sure wqhy Swansea think he'd be so expensive

Your Charlton info is usually pretty spot on given your connections but this can't seriously be true. 2.5k a week a 'hefty uplift'? Which implies he's basically on league 2 wages.

There's no way a player who signed for us in the championship and then went to Huddersfield in the championship is on less than 2.5k a week. 

Ah ok, completely lost track.

But yes definitely not. He'd be looking for top end league 1 wages for sure.

https://twitter.com/jonathanl50/status/1536298590670409730?s=21&t=gIKxZYpA4v4EDRNclSBEkA

Reading out of the race for Tucker apparently 

according to various Reading fans, they ain’t got a pot to piss in. Think we can dismiss the idea of Tucker heading there then

JamesSeed said:

Sage said:

Henry Irving said:

Bournesnr said:

Good as Tucker may be is a right sided centre back a priority, we already have Lavelle and some promising youngsters coming through in that position, would have thought we are more in need of a left sided centre back.

Naby Sarr, a French left sided CB,  has been released by Huddersfield.

Good on the ball and dominant in the air he would be a great signing if he's willing to take a big pay cut.

Great shout. Think he could do a job and might settle in at Charlton. 

I think these posts have gone whooshing way over my head. Henry bigging up Naby? Sarcasm, or has he changed his mind? 

But I thought you were a fan Sage?
I’m lost here. [No sarky comments please 😬]

I was messing about. Big Naby fan and would love him to come home. Think he’d be exactly what we need.

Sage said:

JamesSeed said:

Sage said:

Henry Irving said:

Bournesnr said:

Good as Tucker may be is a right sided centre back a priority, we already have Lavelle and some promising youngsters coming through in that position, would have thought we are more in need of a left sided centre back.

Naby Sarr, a French left sided CB,  has been released by Huddersfield.

Good on the ball and dominant in the air he would be a great signing if he's willing to take a big pay cut.

Great shout. Think he could do a job and might settle in at Charlton. 

I think these posts have gone whooshing way over my head. Henry bigging up Naby? Sarcasm, or has he changed his mind? 

But I thought you were a fan Sage?
I’m lost here. [No sarky comments please 😬]

I was messing about. Big Naby fan and would love him to come home. Think he’d be exactly what we need.

I knew that all along 😉 😬

You should have listened to me more instead of keep crying. 

NabySarr said:

Bit biased but I would love Naby back. Can’t see it happening though as I think a lower-championship team would probably take him. Only hope we had is if JJ was still manager as they were team mates but if Purrington leaves I think only Aneke and Morgan are left that Naby actually played with so can’t see it happening unfortunately.

Would be perfect for this new style. I think people forget how good he was the second half of 2018/19 and bar the obvious Millwall game he was pretty good in the championship, playing well enough to earn another contract at that level. In my opinion he’s a lower championship player in a back 3, but in league 1 he played well in a back 4

JFC would have played with Nabby too 

Garrymanilow said:

I wonder if Naby would be the kind of ball-playing defender Garner wants. Naby isn't really what I'd call your typical player of that type, because while he's capable of some absolutely sublime passes when he wants, he's also capable of giving it directly to the opposition and falling over. Garner might be after some maverick behaviour, or he might be after the kind of defender who is decent enough with his feet, not capable of providing an incredible cross-field ball to a winger but very unlikely to ever give it away. If Garner is all about keeping the ball and probing slowly then he might feel that he'd rather miss out on Naby's broad capabilities on the ball for a bit of stability. I guess we'll see.

He did all the simple control-and-pass really pretty well; he only really lost it when attempting stuff a bit more ambitious (or trying to run past entire teams). His touch and general passing are on another level to just about any L1 centre-back you can name and if you want someone who can short-pass it around the back, he's as unlikely to give it away as any. His errors tended to stick in the mind more than others' as he's a network signing and a big lad, but I'm pretty sure his errors in possession are as low as any centre-back's we could sign

I would be all in on Naby coming back. He would solve a big problem on the left side on our defence.

Famewo has a higher ceiling than Naby my arse