Schu me the way to Amarillo - Summer 2025 Transfer Thread

[KeyserSoze]

In absence of transfer news, here's a recent podcast with Schumacher talking about his career. Some honest chat about the papa johns final and stuff on bolton from 1.40ish onwards. Not listened to it all so may have missed stuff.

https://youtu.be/5E80TgvX6H4?si=4zJudWv3xoPbS93U

[BorsdaneWhite]

For any fans of reading too much into social media content, there has been no sign of Lolos in any of the training videos posted by the club thus far...

This is BWFC. He'll be on the treatment table having stubbed his little toe on a piece of lego.

Tbh, that’d have me out for a year. I’d have a bedside vineyard festooned with gifted grapes.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I think it's:

A) if he qualifies for a work permit great, no issues, though it seems unlikely he would; or

B) we have two (I think) ESC spots which are basically exemptions from normal work permit rules. As far as I know Schon takes up one (you can move to a full WP if you later qualify but doubt he does) and so we have one left.

Experts have tweeted, and it seems you're right that there's two slots but (thankfully) wrong that Szabi hasn't done enough to move up to a full work permit.

https://x.com/GBEExpertHub/status/1940808367934697639

Jesper Ceesay x #Bolton Wanderers: The first League One ESC transfer of the summer?

The Swedish central midfielder is heavily linked to #Trotters with a fee reportedly agreed between Norrköping & Bolton. How is transfer allowed post-Brexit & are Bolton in a position to make it?

Ceesay gets nowhere near a GBE, which is the system implemented to recommend work permits to the Home Office. He has played less than 60% of available mins over the last 12 months in Sweden's Allsvenskan which is only a Band 5 league. This means Ceesay has only 4 GBE points.

However, the ESC legislation brought in by The FA in 2023 means that all L1 clubs have 2 slots in their squad that can be used for non-domestic players who don't fulfil the GBE criteria, but do fulfil less stringent criteria. Ceesay's appearances in Allsvenskan hit that easily.

This won't be Bolton's first foray into ESC. They signed Szabolcs Schön under this legislation last summer & actually used him enough to get him converted out of their ESC slots. This means that Bolton still had 2 slots to use this summer, but it seems like Ceesay will take one.

It is ambitious recruitment tactics for Bolton, but Ceesay was on a contract that expired in Dec, so the fee would be lower. We have been advocating this type of recruitment as Bolton will be hoping for better value for money for this type of player than they can get domestically. It will be interesting to see if Bolton go again in the foreign market to fill their other ESC slot, and if so, where they target.

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[The_Gun]

Apparently Gale was spotted on one of the training videos - walking in with Charlie Warren. So hardly cloak and dagger. Described as an Nmai-style diddy-winger

I watched a few minutes of this lad's Youtube highlights, and he somehow didn't even look very good in them.

[BWFC_Insane]

Apparently Gale was spotted on one of the training videos - walking in with Charlie Warren. So hardly cloak and dagger. Described as an Nmai-style diddy-winger

I watched a few minutes of this lad's Youtube highlights, and he somehow didn't even look very good in them.

IF he is here and was genuinely captured in a training video then presumably he’s on trial. Players don’t train for clubs under other circumstances.

[The_Gun]

Apparently Gale was spotted on one of the training videos - walking in with Charlie Warren. So hardly cloak and dagger. Described as an Nmai-style diddy-winger

I watched a few minutes of this lad's Youtube highlights, and he somehow didn't even look very good in them.

IF he is here and was genuinely captured in a training video then presumably he’s on trial. Players don’t train for clubs under other circumstances.

I’m fairly certain that was bullshit.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

https://x.com/anmargboyce/status/1940908572780458439
Barbadian sportswriter says Gale going to Bolton, Aberdeen or Dundee United.

[BWFC_Insane]

Apparently Gale was spotted on one of the training videos - walking in with Charlie Warren. So hardly cloak and dagger. Described as an Nmai-style diddy-winger

I watched a few minutes of this lad's Youtube highlights, and he somehow didn't even look very good in them.

IF he is here and was genuinely captured in a training video then presumably he’s on trial. Players don’t train for clubs under other circumstances.

I’m fairly certain that was bullshit.

I’m not on X so don’t know what it was based on but it would be weird if he was spotted or mistakenly spotted and yet we did have interest? So I guess if you are right then all the reports are based off someone misidentifying him in a photo. Otherwise….

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

https://lowertiers.co.uk/exclusive-thie ... wanderers/

Lower Tiers reporting it as a done deal and intimating the fee is north of £800,000.

[The_Gun]

Apparently Gale was spotted on one of the training videos - walking in with Charlie Warren. So hardly cloak and dagger. Described as an Nmai-style diddy-winger

I watched a few minutes of this lad's Youtube highlights, and he somehow didn't even look very good in them.

IF he is here and was genuinely captured in a training video then presumably he’s on trial. Players don’t train for clubs under other circumstances.

I’m fairly certain that was bullshit.

I’m not on X so don’t know what it was based on but it would be weird if he was spotted or mistakenly spotted and yet we did have interest? So I guess if you are right then all the reports are based off someone misidentifying him in a photo. Otherwise….

I don't think the rumour started with that. Rather, it seems like someone's heard his name and then confused Mark Isong with him in one of the club videos.

Why would he already be training with us prior to a deal being agreed? He's not going to have been on trial if there's a reasonably decent transfer fee involved.

[BWFC_Insane]

Apparently Gale was spotted on one of the training videos - walking in with Charlie Warren. So hardly cloak and dagger. Described as an Nmai-style diddy-winger

I watched a few minutes of this lad's Youtube highlights, and he somehow didn't even look very good in them.

IF he is here and was genuinely captured in a training video then presumably he’s on trial. Players don’t train for clubs under other circumstances.

I’m fairly certain that was bullshit.

I’m not on X so don’t know what it was based on but it would be weird if he was spotted or mistakenly spotted and yet we did have interest? So I guess if you are right then all the reports are based off someone misidentifying him in a photo. Otherwise….

I don't think the rumour started with that. Rather, it seems like someone's heard his name and then confused Mark Isong with him in one of the club videos.

Why would he already be training with us prior to a deal being agreed? He's not going to have been on trial if there's a reasonably decent transfer fee involved.

Yeah I don’t know the sequencing but hadn’t heard of him till it was mentioned he’d been spotted in the pictures on here. Was there a link before that? If there was I’d not heard it.

[The_Gun]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

[Frank Drebin]

https://x.com/anmargboyce/status/1940908572780458439
Barbadian sportswriter says Gale going to Bolton, Aberdeen or Dundee United.

The Twitter user says it’ll be a record fee. I’ve taken a brief look at record fees received by Rapid Vienna, they’re multi millions, in Euros admittedly but…

[BWFC_Insane]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

I feel there is precedent for Caribbean left wingers….though in fairness from the clip I watched just now he’s completely different to young Ricardo in more or less every way. Sounds like this is the alternative to N’Mai. Wonder if it’s from Dickinson?

[The_Gun]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

I feel there is precedent for Caribbean left wingers….though in fairness from the clip I watched just now he’s completely different to young Ricardo in more or less every way. Sounds like this is the alternative to N’Mai. Wonder if it’s from Dickinson?

Yep - right footed, doesn't look very fast, and keeps cutting inside.

[sonicthewhite]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

I feel there is precedent for Caribbean left wingers….though in fairness from the clip I watched just now he’s completely different to young Ricardo in more or less every way. Sounds like this is the alternative to N’Mai. Wonder if it’s from Dickinson?

Or maybe we're after N'Mai as well? A dedicated winger for each wing. SS definitely seems to be thoroughly overhauling the squad. As has been noted before, he'll need to earn his money by shifting the players he doesn't want, especially if they don't want to be shifted.

[Bertie Wooster]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

I feel there is precedent for Caribbean left wingers….though in fairness from the clip I watched just now he’s completely different to young Ricardo in more or less every way. Sounds like this is the alternative to N’Mai. Wonder if it’s from Dickinson?

Yes he looks to be a very similar type of winger to N'Mai, I think that he looks quite pacy & direct - I assume that the fee is less than what Salford wanted for N'Mai, unless this lad has just become available and the club think that he's a better player ?

[BWFC_Insane]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

I feel there is precedent for Caribbean left wingers….though in fairness from the clip I watched just now he’s completely different to young Ricardo in more or less every way. Sounds like this is the alternative to N’Mai. Wonder if it’s from Dickinson?

Yep - right footed, doesn't look very fast, and keeps cutting inside.

Definitely looks more ‘modern winger’ to me than Ricardo yep. Cuts inside a lot if the clips are anything to go by. Less rangy. But has at least one the face of it ten times the end product Gardner had - because when he came Gardner was rapid but generally you don’t know where the ball would end up.

Hard to really base it off clips but the bits I saw he looks about the right sort for the system I think we will be playing.

[BWFC_Insane]

Well, Nixon says we are actually signing this lad. Hopefully he's better than he looks in his videos.

I feel there is precedent for Caribbean left wingers….though in fairness from the clip I watched just now he’s completely different to young Ricardo in more or less every way. Sounds like this is the alternative to N’Mai. Wonder if it’s from Dickinson?

Yes he looks to be a very similar type of winger to N'Mai, I think that he looks quite pacy & direct - I assume that the fee is less than what Salford wanted for N'Mai, unless this lad has just become available and the club think that he's a better player ?

Heard Salford wanted close to a million quid for N’Mai and I suspect we thought that valuation was a bit rich for someone so unproven. So imagine we moved on.

[jmjhb]

Touted fees are almost always bollocks, I can't think of one they got correct.