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This is like a sickening flashback to the Kean days when he'd brag about the average age of the squad.... because we'd forced out all of the experienced pros.

Ironically I don’t think we could sign Harry Leonard within our current budget.

Those were the days when you could get a prolific striker from the old fourth division.

I see Josh Sargent refused to play for Norwich today. Big boost for the rest of the teams at the bottom if he causes disruption there.

It’s a budget, it’s just not a championship one.

Ok, let’s rephrase it, we were paying three but the Manager didn’t fancy one of them !

We didnt really have three because VI obviously made his mind up on Gueye very early on and there was talk of him being sold in the last window.

its what we will get whether we need it or not Edit - that, or a "project signing" who may be ready in 4 years, but on a 3 year contract, with an option for an extra year

Well, we had three but one is now on his way to China after the manager chose not to play him, even when Gudjonsen got injured.

It's not really "a budget" if no-one of the calibre we need will come for the wages we are offering. Dennis and Woodrow were presumably intended as short term fixes to try and keep us in and hopefully get us through the play offs. Is "a short term fix" what we need at the moment?

Made me think of Dr Seuss 😄

So apparently we have a budget. If that is the case, it won't just be a black & white '£x for transfers / £x for salaries'. It's a bit more flexible than that - they can spend a bit more on wages when needed, but it lowers the amount in the overall pot (including for fees). Signing Dennis and Wickham on loan last season was an example of this - both on (relatively) large wages, but very little paid in loan fee, as opposed to spending more on the transfer fee but being restricted by lower weekly wages.

It took longer than most other managers have to wait under Venkys, but eventually whoever you are, you will have the rug pulled from under you. Yes, I am sure that Venkys had a big chest of funds just waiting for him to spend. He repeatedly whinged that season over not having more money. They took longer to do so than anyone else, but they fucked him over like they fuck everyone over. Hence why we have never and will never prosper under them.

I can't complain too much i wanted a rest for everyone possible and wanted to see the squad men and youngsters given a good run. Also couldn't give a stuff about the cup this season nor the thousands who only turn up for a big cup game, even if we are doing ok in the league. The money is also irrelevant this season as keeping Championship status and revenue is paramount. Good also that this should see Toth regain his No1 status because the next few months are the last we will see of him. Also at the end of the day we lost because we can't score penalties.

Waggott told someone I know during "the Rothwell window" that the owners had made a healthy transfer budget available in addition to the promotion bonuses which WERE actually publicised in the LT. So either Waggott or Mowbray were lying because if Waggott was correct there was no pressing need to offload Rothwell to raise funds. If Mowbray was discouraging them from spending at that point it would be at least be consistent with his behaviour of a couple of years previously when he freely admitted he had to get the owners to "calm down" following promotion from League 1. He wouldnt have the same problem these days.

He can’t win football matches which is fairly important for a manager. Well, at any normal club it is. As an aside, we’ve scored two goals in the last 525 minutes of football. Jesus wept.

‘A brilliant performance.’ He must be taking the piss at this stage. The youngsters did themselves proud to an extent, but it was no shots on target save for a cross come shot in 120 minutes of bloody football!

Josh Sargent trying to force a move from Norwich, refused to play today. That would be good news for us as it would weaken Norwich considerably. Assume they would actually reinvest some money though.

Dragged us back into the game in our last match

Can't wait... Him and Mullin then 😉

probably that ballpark He is at least capable of running, which puts him ahead of Ennis

Somewhere between Henriksson and Telalovic ability wise? Or closer to Ennis type potential?

Huge shout for the 2 young CBs. O'Riordan & Atcheson look real good prospects. Kept hull at bay for 120 minutes with limited chances. If we only we had some threat upfront.

Agree to a point. They were fairly happy to spend for Mowbray for a while then held back a bit, I’m sure partly due to how awful BBD was before he got the D… By no means a Venkys apologist, hate the tossers, but I do think Mowbray had a very different experience to more recent managers