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Where's the Hyam money? 😂😂😂 Wait, where's the Wharton money? Wait, where's the Szmodics money? Wait, where's the Raya money? Wait, where's the Travis money? Wait, where's the Rankin-Costello money? Wait, where's the Harry Leonard money? Wait, where's the Gueye money? Surely not all gone on Sean McLoughlin, Axel Henriksson, Sidnei Tavares, and the rest. 🤣 Comical club with little interest in staying in the Championship.

Knowing our idiots, maybe they’d rather have £100k in next year’s accounts than £1 million in this year’s.

at least he cant score against us tomorrow then

Because the players Gestede is bringing in are cheaper...

We're not bringing anyone in are we 😂

might as well stick with VI, Bilic has no known experience of saving a club from relegation... however, someone (albeit unlikely) like Allardyce or Warnock could come in and do that.

There’s a Craig David song in there somewhere.

Pot him on a Monday, when we are due to play Wednesday on a Tuesday. Go for it, at least it makes good headlines, as below. *super Cally go ballstic Celtic are atrocious

This window is as much about us not wanting to spend a penny as per usual and the state of the club as it is how unappealing VI is as a manager. No one decent wants to play for him...

Good to see them opening supporting the Coalition and boycotting any in-ground purchases.

Everton won't be letting Patterson go according to my link at the John Dickinson Stationery

Story of our club

Is there any actual logic to not selling Tyjon for that money? We get around £100k in summer if we don't sell him now. Not as if its 1st January and can get a bidding war going. Use the extra £1m to put towards a good striker!!

Got 0-0 written all over it.

Interestingly this useless jobber was potted from West Brom precisely 4 years ago to the day. Make it happen.

Firing blanks 😂😂 Story of our season

I believe as we have seen many times before that certain players are being played, or left out, based on a financial plan/ I hate to pick on individual players and it isn't his fault, but how on earth can De Neve keep on getting game time ahead of the likes of Ribero and Pickering?

Shouldn't even need to have this conversation. A manager with just 1 win in 15 games shouldn't be given the "easiest" game of the season, in order to try and scrape a win to keep his job. Irrespective of tomorrows result, he isn't turning this around. He's relegating us if he stays in charge. A loss tomorrow and Bilic in on Wednesday, 100% take that all day.

The way I see it is this - under Ismael we are going to be relegated, and I have seen nothing to suggest that he's the man to get us promoted again from league one. There is no value in keeping him. I do think, genuinely, that we have a core of players that are good championship players in the right system - Toth, Alebiosu (assuming he's still here), Ribeiro (not going to set the world on fire but perfectly competent and a victim of the system change imo), Baradji, Tronstad, Andre, Cantwell and Ohashi (both have had poor seasons but again, it's hard to shine under the circumstances - Ohashi of last season looked a double figure goal and assist forward and this season he looked good in a partnership with Gudjohnsen). Possibly a couple of the others like Morishita might look decent under new management/tactics. Supplement with a crop of youngsters who haven't really let us down this year. What we need is a firefighting manager who can come in, assess what he's working with, hammer together a formation/tactic to get the most out of the squad, make us hard to beat and then potentially walk off into the sunset after 6 or 18 months with a big cheque for avoiding relegation/getting us promoted at the first time of asking. There are a few managers I would trust to do that, but wouldn't really want/trust long term, or wouldn't be interested in managing us long term. You know the kind of names I'm thinking of - Mowbray, Big Sam, Sparky, Warnock, Pulis etc. A competent club would have an emergency plan, some kind of roll of the dice up the sleeve. It would also buy some time for an actual managerial hunt rather than another emergency appointment of whoever is available on whatever terms they demand ala Ismael. I do think that there is a chance that if we lose to Wednesday Ismael will go - the timing is spot on for Venkys, just at the point that no more money can be spent in the window, slightly too late to definitely turn it around and providing both a cover for a bad season (managerial disruption) and deflecting a bit of the blame (ie. they tried to turn it around - they changed the manager). I don't trust them to do any of this. Or possibly I trust them to sort of try to do something a bit like this but to muck it up somehow. Give Mowbray a lifetime contract where he gets to keep Ewood Park as his personal stadium if he's ever sacked or something. I feel increasingly like that joke about the guy in the soviet union who goes to the shop to look at the front page of the newspapers. I don't the threads much any more, the firings I am after will be front page news.

As must win as they come with the gap beginning to increase to safety and this being, on paper, our best chance of three points for the reminder of the season. The more I think about it the more I’m expecting another ‘unjust’ draw - a referring nightmare or similar - with it being just enough for Ismael to limp on for another match or two.

Could then mean Everton want him more...

Owen Bailey at Doncaster is one we were supposedly looking at

Romano tweeting that Genoa are asking for Evertons Patterson on loan if that happens they won't be bidding again for Alebiosu