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When we did get £15m to spend on the 3 strikers, the squad we had before was one that had dropped into League 1, having been totally wiped out in the summer leading to relegation. So even that money wasnt enough to build that to a squad to get us promoted. But had Tomasson been given reasonable money on top of that, and had Venkys not repeatedly denied us the chance of selling and reinvesting, then the platform was there. But Venkys didnt seem arsed about pushing on, quite the opposite.

Im not sure hes a good Championship keeper. But hes reasonable back up. Ismael seems to be cutting his nose off to spite his face.

I just can't see it I'm sorry.

They gave that plodder 12 million quid to spunk on Brereton and Gallagher alone. If they'd have given that kind of money to JDT we'd have finished in the automatics.

The Pears thing is strange, despite the stick he gets in here he's a good championship keeper, in league 1 he'd easily be one of the best if he was prepared to drop.

Not heard a single rumour about Pears finding a club all summer but imagine he is one they are trying to push out the door today. If I had my way would be buying another striker and winger with pedigree today.

Desperately need some points here. We've had a really poor start and we need to start getting some points on the board and not just moaning about hard luck stories.

Our academy output on keepers is really disappointing. Of course you could look towards Raya who's easily the best but even he improved massively after he moved to Arsenal rather than under Benson and team.

Yep, any teams in the National League or below can sign short term loans outside of the window. Rovers sent loads out to these levels last season (20 or so over the course of the season)

Would it tire the opposition out if we played Gueye and they had to keep getting the ball for free kicks after he keeps getting caught offside?

Yeah thats right.

Outs - one 'surprise' departure (Hyam) and Pears contract terminated by mutual consent. Ins - one permanent and two loans.

I absolutely reckon that JDT/Broughton/Wharton could’ve been a perfect storm for promotion if they’d had the backing Mowbray had.

Very strange, you’ll be blaming the ref next.

I think I just worked out "the plan" In the EFL, a club can take out an emergency goalkeeper loan for up to a week, with weekly extensions, if all their senior professional goalkeepers are unavailable due to injury, suspension, or international duty. A professional goalkeeper, by EFL definition, is a non-contract player who has started a senior match five or more times. The club must apply to the league, which considers the cases individually. Goddard may throw a spanner in the works due to his games played last season during his loan in Ireland, but as cases are considered individually, I think they will be ok getting this past a panel Essentially cut costs (big surprise) and get an emergency loan in if Toth ends up injured/suspended, voila, no back up keeper wages to pay for the season

Is it not the case that National League teams can still sign loans outside the window? Or am I misremembering? That's what I had in mind when I said younger guys, because we wouldn't loan our better/older youth to that level.

If the option is to start with 11 players including Tavares or 10 players without Tavares I'm picking the latter.

Suhail said. “We didn’t know he would be that good”. I say “Go and get yourself a job elsewhere before you do any more damage”. This must be, the biggest cock up, in the 150 years of the existence of the club.

I'd say that any buy to loan deal would suggest the opposite.

If we go into this season with Goddard and Michalski as back up GKs then we are 100% screwed if Toth picks up an injury.

At the minute if we're freezing out Pears, and not including the likes of Barrett, Pratt & Leonard I make it that we have 22 players that we would need to register this season. To me that says we should be signing 2 today and keeping a spot open for January. I predict we're done now though, despite desperately needing a midfielder, and another who can play across the front line. We're an injury away from having to play Taveres and Montgomery in our central midfield which is beyond scary.

Had Venkys backed JDT, I feel we just might have 😭

Predicting a first draw of the season: 1-1 Would like Gueye to start to tire out the defence a little bit then bring on ohashi or Gudjohnsen. With morishita deliveries would be great to have a big lad up front who can get his head on them…. Big Mak has been capable

He probably wouldn't have got the job if he didnt sign up to it And if that is the case, at least they have been up front to a manager/head coach for once... Well at least until they decide to change up "project new broom" for "project clean sweep", or "project hands washed"

By that, I mean that any remaining funds should go towards getting players for now as we are still short.