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It can't be just Cadamarteri in and that's it...

If the current situation is indeed purely down to them not wanting to admit their mistakes, saving face, not being too much of a burden on their overall finances it still doesn't add up. We are still costing them upwards of £10 million each and every year. According to their henchman that is more towards £20 million a year. That isn't going to stop unless we get to the Premier League. We aren't going to get to the Premier League because of their cost cutting attempts and running good managers out of the door every year. We aren't going to be self-sufficient in this league, or League One, unless we get very lucky with our player development/trading. They may think they can be after the deals for Wharton and Szmodics but that isn't an annual occurrence and their pocketing of the money for running costs is now going to cost us big time. Even if we can be self-sufficient - to what end? Who gains / benefits? As above, it comes at the expense of getting promoted, which they have proven is not their priority. Now if this was a passion for them - they enjoyed football, wanted to win, basked in the glory of owning us, came to games and enjoyed lording it over everyone, or had ties to the town etc. then I could maybe understand the enjoyment of all that might be worth sucking up that sort of loss every year. But they clearly get zero - or close to zero - benefit from this at their end. At best Balaji enjoys telling people he has a football club. And then when those people realise it is a failing 2nd or soon to be 3rd division club those people probably won't be impressed - if anything that would be a source of embarrassment as you'd want a PL club to really boast about it. Especially then when anyone who looks into it would see that they are the ones responsible for putting us here. I assume that they are surrounded by an army of lawyers, accountants, advisors, many of whom they trust to advise them on all aspects of their wealth and businesses. I can't believe that those people are happy with the drain and hassle of keeping this going. I presume that competent advisors would be regularly raising this arm of their empire and strongly suggesting that they get rid of it asap. £10-20 million a year is still a lot of money. Even to someone worth £1 billion it is still 1-2% of your whole wealth in liquid cash each and every year going into a black hole for which you get no pleasure/enjoyment/benefit. A £200million+ 'investment' and growing is one hell of a dint in people even with a net worth of £1,2,3 billion. There must be something somewhere along the line - be that financial advantages to their other businesses, or activities they don't want people from finding out about upon a sale, that make it worth keeping. Not wanting to admit failure or defeat just doesn't cut it. You'd get rid and just ignore it and start spending the cash on some other more rewarding venture and just keep quiet about it if your mates ask rather than carry on stumping up that sort of money to rattle around the bottom end of the Championship.

I'll never understand how the substantial section of supporters suffering from sheer denialism could read something like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn82p32ng5vo and still think the absolute crumbs that get spent on the club on transfers/stadium/anything by our supposed billionaire owners is something to be thankful for.

That's probably closer to the truth 😉

An assault on mid-table in League One you mean?

That’s exactly what it looks like at this stage - I resigned myself to this outcome once hyam was sold

We certainly seem to be building the squad for an assault on league one next season, don’t we.

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

Always felt Cadamateri would be the striker we'd end up signing (mentioned this a while back on this thread). I can see that one happening. Low fee, low wages, poor scoring record, and little interest in him elsewhere (aside from the Scottish lge).

You'd be wasting your money. He was very poor last time he came to us on loan, and that was 15 years ago.

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

Genuinely fed up of this whole thing now, anyone else going between games without a care about football anymore? Why us? Why can't we just have a normal influx like for like if not marginally better players at the least. Deflating.

Blackburn knows how to do a boycott. Tickets sold for the screening of the Melania film in Blackburn are ZERO

That rumour was doing the rounds last week.

I can’t say I’m surprised.

Putting all there eggs in the basket for that Sheffield Wednesday game. Win that and they will be banging on about it for ages.

A draw isn't good enough at this stage either. 1 win in 14 is absolutely abysmal. We can't keep limping on with the odd draw. Fails to win and the club need to get him binned. Could already be too late by this point though.

Mike McGrath (no idea on his reliability) is reporting that Derby are trying to get a deal done to bring Sammie Szmodics to Pride Park. You can see why Eustace left the circus, Derby are willing to back their manager.

I reckon a similar performance to watford. Score draw I reckon, unless hull take their chances. Just cant see when a win will come. I dont even see us beating sheff wednesday on the tuesday. Who knows... could be 6 points better off in a week, doubt it though. If I could pick from whats available Id go: Miller McLoughLin Cashin Alebiouso Tronstad Forshaw Morishita Cantwell Baraji Jorgensen

Your best mate had us believing we were prepared for the window 😂 never learn

Many thanks mate 🙏 Much appreciated 👍

Summer transfers and January transfers are different if we signed Cadamarteri in the summer following Leonard’s move to Peterborough then fine. Gives him time to settle Signing him in January once again is a massive gamble given our need. Having championship games under your belt is one thing being able to deliver in the position is another. Granted he’s in an awful team but we aren’t much better personally think it’s a poor signing (if it where to happen) was mentioned in dec so clearly wasn’t near the top of the target list

I am sure that people will pass judgement if (big if) and when he does sign. But its fair to be underwhelmed at a potential striker who has not shown that he is what we need to boost our inability to score goals.

What's different about a cat 3 academy? Do you mean because they can be poached even easier because they have less protections, so it would just have been done on the cheap?

Let's see how he performs first before passing judgment. Not my first choice either but proven strikers are a rare commodity these days. Some here have mentioned that we should've been all over Makama in the summer, after he went to Norwich for £1.3m. Easy to say in hindsight, he wasn't highly prolific in League One and Cadamarteri at least has 50 Championship games under his belt at 20 and has shown a bit of promise.