CONFIRMED Tom Cannon signs until 2029, with a year option

[Gin&Juice]

Nixon saying Cannon personally wants a loan. He wants to come to us as l, we basically can blow anyone else out the water for loan wages and fees due to PP.

 

[Champagneblade]

Easy to forget about Campbell.

If we do get a forward then we have currently Gus or O’Hare plus Brooks in the current XI who are playing wide (I’d rather push O’Hare there than Gus), then we have JRS and also Campbell as options.

If we do get another forward, we will have him, Moore, Brewster and Campbell for essentially one role. Granted you could shift to 2 up top during a game and replace O’Hare as a 10 with one of them.

So maybe we get away with just Cannon?

The get Mepham and if Anel gets picked up late you still have Souttar, Mepham, Robbo, Gilchrist, possibly Souza and Shackleton and Seriki as right backs if Gilchrist has to move over.

Then it just depends if someone comes for Souza.

Simply would not sell Hamer at all today.

 

[Bell4]

Very unlikely with Wilder in charge.

Traore?

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Traore?

Heckingbottom.
And probably out of his hands also.

 

[dillis]

Loan with an option would be ideal. Don’t they want £10m?

 

[Houso]

Loan with an option would be ideal. Don’t they want £10m?

I reckon it'll end up as a loan with an obligation (if we go up.) With the end fee being pretty steep.

 

[finlaytheblade]

I actually think ATL Recs was being ironic.

I must read the signs of jest

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Does anyone actually know enough about him/care enough about this for us to be excited about him?

Nope, I don’t know where all these mainly positive opinions on him are formed from.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Easy to forget about Campbell.

If we do get a forward then we have currently Gus or O’Hare plus Brooks in the current XI who are playing wide (I’d rather push O’Hare there than Gus), then we have JRS and also Campbell as options.

If we do get another forward, we will have him, Moore, Brewster and Campbell for essentially one role. Granted you could shift to 2 up top during a game and replace O’Hare as a 10 with one of them.

So maybe we get away with just Cannon?

The get Mepham and if Anel gets picked up late you still have Souttar, Mepham, Robbo, Gilchrist, possibly Souza and Shackleton and Seriki as right backs if Gilchrist has to move over.

Then it just depends if someone comes for Souza.

Simply would not sell Hamer at all today.

My Stokie mates were clear, don't expect to get the best out of Campbell, playing him centrally. Great if it comes off, but don't bank in it. Still need a striker, IMO.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Interesting that this is his take, if true. If so, and if they are his selection criteria, you'd have to think we were an appealing option?

https://x.com/The_Bladesman/status/1829423873047044358?t=q_1GmuwDPR_w6mbPU0AN8g&s=19

 

[Wards]

Loan = doesn't need to take a drop in wages. Probably get a similar wage if we get promoted with him and he ends up signing on a perm.

 

[AnstonBlade1]

He’ll end up at Stoke or Hull

 

[NerdyBlade]

Between us and Stoke according to Nixon so assume it's a loan

 

[Stretch]

Between us and Stoke according to Nixon so assume it's a loan

Didn't T-Blade or one of the ITKers say that we were his first choice? Hope so.

Either way we need to get something sorted today.

 

[NerdyBlade]

Didn't T-Blade or one of the ITKers say that we were his first choice? Hope so.

Either way we need to get something sorted today.

I'm still not sold on him - would love to be wrong but can guarantee there will have been better options out there

 

[joe casey]

I'm still not sold on him - would love to be wrong but can guarantee there will have been better options out there

Like?

 

[Stretch]

I'm still not sold on him - would love to be wrong but can guarantee there will have been better options out there

Let's see what transpires today, but we might be at the stage now where we can't be that picky, and if he really wants to come then that is a big tick for me.

 

[NerdyBlade]

Like?

Maupay went for 4-6 (obligation after a loan), while Leicester want 7-10 for Cannon
Hell, Ings is being touted to champ clubs as a loan option - why spend 7mil (or potentially more if it's a loan to buy) on a back up striker?

 

[NerdyBlade]

I'd like to withhold any criticism of Cannon or judgement of potential fees after seeing that League 1 Birmingham have offered Fulham 10mil for Stansfield

 

[Bladeinleeds]

A deal like this can only really be judged retrospectively

Get him in perm for 7-10m permanently is only good if he hits the ground running and fires us up the league. If he’s a Brewster we’ve another waste of money to deal with that drains cash for the next 3/4 years.

Similarly - if he get him on loan and he’s great - we price ourselves out of being able to afford to keep him. (Like BBD). But if he’s shit we wave goodbye at the end of the season glad we’re not fully committed to him.

 

[BigBed]

A deal like this can only really be judged retrospectively

Get him in perm for 7-10m permanently is only good if he hits the ground running and fires us up the league. If he’s a Brewster we’ve another waste of money to deal with that drains cash for the next 3/4 years.

Similarly - if he get him on loan and he’s great - we price ourselves out of being able to afford to keep him. (Like BBD). But if he’s shit we wave goodbye at the end of the season glad we’re not fully committed to him.

Unless we go up, obviously.

 

[Aston max]

I'm still not sold on him - would love to be wrong but can guarantee there will have been better options out there

There probably is in European leagues but wilder dunt like foreigners !! I hope the new owners are sorting out our scouting network

 

[Sheffsteel]

He’ll end up at Stoke or Hull

You're always negative though and most of the time you're wrong
When will the penny drop? Based on FFP restrictions we have more money than Stoke or Hull, we're also a bigger club than those 2 with more chance of promotion. So it's no surprise that Cannon would prefer to play for us.

If he's based around Liverpool and plays at Leicester, you'd imagine that Stoke is geographically the best and Hull the worse....might make a difference.

 

[scouseblade]

Gone to Stoke. Next.

 

[Sheffsteel]

There probably is in European leagues but wilder dunt like foreigners !! I hope the new owners are sorting out our scouting network

Agree....but players from the Euro leagues are always a big risk.....for every foreign success there's usually 4 foreign failures.

 

[VEGASBLADE]

Mepham has gone to Sunderland

 

[VEGASBLADE]

i think it could be mepham and cannon and unless wilders got a right back lined up think thats us done he will continue with gilchrist there if mepham does come in

Mepham has gone to Sunderland

 

[Stretch]

FFS. This is going really well isn't it.

 

[Booker4]

Not bothered on not getting Mepham as it stands. If Anel goes though I'd have liked Mepham.

 

[Jan Age]

This is what happens when you’re open to selling any players for the right price and other clubs get to know about it.

You leave yourself open to last minute bids and no time to replace them.

We would have been better off saying ‘no one leaving’ no one coming in’

As it stands we’ve put ourselves between a rock and a hard place