Good description of the punts from prem clubs silk. Nkeng has passed that threasehold on being in that bracket. Played for the first team, tick, got regular game time, tick, had an impact on the team, tick. This is how blooding youngsters can turn them from being in the club, to being a real asset. It all well and good to send some players out to loans at lower league (( read non-league)that does have value to the parent club in its own right) Sometimes if you are wanting to raise money a a selling club, you have to back yourself and play the youngsters to discover their potential. Not only is that inspirational for future "stars" to know of the Jack Rodoni route, but it also sells the club as a "play yourself to being your best" one. As somebody pointed out, going to a bigger club to play in the stiffs and disappear is counter intuitive, but understandably attractive given the wages paid. Staying and playing yourself into a first team squad, as Jack did, is in my view, better for the player long term, if you can ignore the risk of the one bad injury syndrome rule.

I’d be happy with a million, especially as you can lose players for peanuts If contracts not managed well. I never knew he was Spanish and graduated through Spurs! Anyway, good luck to him If off to forest

TM - yes, you are correct. Read it wrong but that is still a lot of money for an unproven player. Somewhere around a million is a fair price for NKeng. Would see a loan would already have been agreed with some club for his development. May not be us a we play 5-3-2 and Forest play in 4-2-3-1

Silk , thats incorrect, Birmingham paid 15m to Fulham, not Fulham To Birmingham

TF - a quick Google shows that Premier League clubs will pay between £500k-£2 million for unproven EFL League One prospects. Nkeng's suspected fee is at the bottom of the range. Biggest for unproven was Fulham paying £15 million for Jay Stansfield (who?) in 2024 when he was with Birmingham.

One thing to note is that Nottingham Forest will receive an estimated £137 million from being in the Premier League so the £850k investment in Nkeng does not represent 1% of this year's revenue. That fee is not a gamble but a punt from free money in a metaphorical viewpoint. That fee is not unbelievable.

Good match from 97 minutes, nice day , need a better manager ,nice to see some old faces

Aideen, I didn't like the home or away shirts and thought the third shirt was bland. I've bought the yellow GK shirt and the beautiful women's away shirt. Both in Junior XL which saved me a significant amount of money.

Anyone know why all the sponsors signage is blue and white except for cherry red ? Also first time seeing the kits in the flesh, the third one is beautiful.

Wrexham are an outlier they can afford to throw money around like one day it’s all going to go sour. Would love to know how many L1 players with as few first team appearances as Nkeng have commanded £800k fees from Premier League clubs.

6M, our treatment of Palmer was appalling. That twerp we had on player recruitment at the time explained to him that he was too old to stay with us, if I recall. Poor man looked like he was trying not to cry in the Wrexham unveiling video. At least he had a good time there.

On the flip side, Ipswich overpaid for AAH (which derailed our season so serves them right - they did it to us before with Piggott when he was a footballer) and we did well getting £1m for Assal, who was worth nothing like that.

Nkeng would go out on loan or fisappear but Wrexham paid 5 million for Danny Imray who on Friday night's performance looked a far worse player than Nkeng. Anything less than a million is really neither here nor there to a Premier Leaguue side. The price might be less than 850k but of that order. As an aside Assal was the steal for us at 1 million. I doubt a Premier League club would have looked at him and we'd have been lucky to get 500K from a Championship side. Lovely guy off the field and with a really nice family I'm told but didn't set the Qatar league on fire.

The player the club sold too cheaply and thought at the time they did well when it was clear he was destined for better things by being one of the few (only?) players on our side away at Arsenal who looked like he belonged at that level was Rudoni. He is by far and away the best player we've had and we let him go to Huddersfield for £800k, part payment of which was a giraffe masquerading a footballer.

Trigs seems like the classic 'this bloke might turn out to be good so lets just get him in case he is and he ends up somewhere else' type signing. Agree I highly doubt it is £850k but then there are some mad amounts of money being thrown about in football so who knows.

Nkeng would only go into a Premier League team’s academy and either disappear there or go out on loan. You don’t pay big money for that. You might pay inproved wages to tempt a player away knowing that, at that age, you don’t need to pay a decent amount. A tribunal wouldn’t come up with that amount - I reckon.

Anyway that was fairly abysmal and we got away with it and yes the referee was abysmal too. Why would he love Newport so much? Seems a random team to love.

Forest are desperate for new players so I heard on the radio 750k is loose change to them

There’s no way Nkeng goes for £850k. Assal went for £1m I think and was far more advanced. What did Ipswich pay for AAH? I loved watching Nkeng take the game on during our crap phase(s) last season but he wasn’t Assal or AAH (regardless of how they turned out) and the game doesn’t pay well for unknown quantities.

Airsy @ 20.41 - in my WhatsApp group, several people are "confirming" that it was the same ref.

Well thank heavens the typo was that.

“kob” should be “job” in the post below- apologies for the typo

Sad to see Nkeng leaving, though it’s his kob snd you absolutely can’t blame him for taking the ££££££ on offer, further support for the view that the role of the youth system is now really just to produce reserve team players for PL squads (and mediocre compensation for us). Very unlikely that we will ever again see a youth team player come through our system and become a first team regular for us

We need the money and Nkeng is still unproved. He looks great at times and totally naive at times (as you'd expect for someone of his age).

Thanks CW. I wouldn't want to miss out.