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Some people are so desperate to look on the positive side of everything, that they just make up their own facts TGH must have really impressed Christian in those 46 minutes that he played against Rovers across 3 separate appearances in his career to date (only 15 of those minutes were for West Brom) https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/taylor-gardner-hickman/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/546944/plus/0?saison=&verein=&liga=2&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=

If ever a post showed you up for happy-clapping trolling it's that one. You know what you have put up is incorrect. Otherwise, please explain why the hell our club is selling Hyam, Travis, Brittain, Buckley and JRC for just €2.03m combined. At least Chaddy has had the sense to go into self-imposed exile for a bit rather than try to justify this window.

The posts coming out of Derby would suggest it's Batth missing Hyam rather than the other way round.

Yep,looks like the novice has been given Carte Blanche to do what he wants...so dangerous its untrue. We are on a hiding to nothing.

Don't feel this got enough credit, very subtle

Andy Bayes: "For a team that ended last season just outside of the play-off spots, the hope from the fanbase was to make some key additions over the summer to supplement what they already had could see another realistic top-six push." ...We've been basically stripped bare instead.I hate these b'stards killing our Club with a passion. Going for 1-1 at best here,its like we are starting with a new side(all be it weaker)and its going to take time to gel.

...and his head in a polythene bag...

I'd much rather see a net spend ranking.

I don't think we can - we have three CBs (McLoughlin, Carter, Wharton) and two 'full backs that can play there' (Miller, Pickering). If we're training and drilling three at the back and there's an injury or suspension, we're immediately playing a player out of position.

It's a big assumption. Spent practically his whole career in the Midlands or further south.

I'm not confident saying we've drastically regressed until I've seen the players actually play.

like Hull (not parachute level wages, but they do pay decent wages)

You could spend £50 million on transfers but if you are only willing / able to pay players £5k a week then they aren't likely to be very good and you probably won't improve as a team. Likewise you could spend £0 and bring in free agents and loans only, but if you are shelling out wages on a PL or parachute level then you're probably going to end up with a very strong side at this level. No doubt of course that this £8-9 million transfer spend estimate will enter the history books as fact once Gestede and co have told Jackson about it and then they can pretend as though there has been serious investment in the team. Anyone with sense can see we have drastically regressed off the back of it.

Aye, but who IS the club in this context? We forget at our peril that the only constant since this whole nightmare began is the shadow-man, and he has shown time and time again complete contempt for others, disdain for due process and total ignorance of the law in this country as regards the treatment of employees. His one trick pony tactic is simply to put others between him and the full scrutiny of those who question what is going on at the club. He also knows that should he step into the light, for example in a 'fans forum' type meeting, he would be rapidly exposed for the rat that he is - which is why, of course, we never hear a peep from him, because he knows he is that close to being undone. We can see RG is a knob, and perhaps that is his role and his level of capability, so he is very easily supplanted. What would happen if Suhail Pasha Shaikh was held to account and removed from the picture? - well that is a very interesting question for which it is becoming high time we had an answer. SHADOW SHAIKH OUT! INTO THE LIGHT YOU CONNIVING COCKROACH !

Transfermarkt for some reason, guess at some fees, yet have "?" for others, such as Hyam, Leonard, Brittain & Travis, which means that those 4 sales essentially count as £0 in their figures https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/transfers/wettbewerb/GB2/plus/?saison_id=2025&s_w=s&leihe=3&intern=0&intern=1 I think it may be input by users, similar to wikipedia, but that is just further reason not to believe what they publish

The lads in finance are allergic to ties and I'm not sure what a lifestyle executive is, nor why they need 3+ each with an assistant

Where do they get those figures from? e.g. even going off Transfermarkt, Derby's CF cost £6.9m and their RB £2.5m. Was Travis free? Carlton Morris free? No loan fees paid for Beck, Brereton-Diaz et al?

Indeed, however income does exceed expenditure (once again) this season. Derby, whilst selling nobody, have a very similar expenditure which is why graphics like the one I responded to have very little meaning

https://www.uniquesg.com/our-team/ Steve Hitchen in there - ex Rovers Youth team.

What has he done that makes you consider him to have been an excellent appointment?

I've been hoping for that for almost 15 years!

At the Rovers income received means nothing.

I mean he hasn't played for 9 months and it's still £40k a month at 35 when you're unemployed. He might.

Transfer expenditure means very little without comparing it to income received from transfers

They are "The one and only".