Nah, it's totally on the owners imo. You don't understand why we would bring in 11 players, am because we needed them? As for Pickering, not ideal, but Douglas didnt work out and Crewe might not have done the deal without us loaning him back. Pears is on peanuts, but ya he doesn't look great. Small fry really though. Downing wasn't a crucial signing at all, but the owners ended up complicating that deal and leaving a bad taste. Would you not have given Dack a new deal?? I don't understand that point... What could we do about Mulgrew? His form disintegrated. It happens. Ayala has been arguably our best player when fit, no issue with him being top earner. Lenihan must want more though and not paying that isn't Mowbrays choice.

We spent that money pre-covid. Surely you see that will impact and spending won't be the same? In fact it could be non-existent going off the fact we can't get key players to sign new deals. He might get players to fit his style of play, but far, far from guaranteed that would get us anywhere unfortunately , particularly if we lose keep players and don't reinvest. In fact , it could be very bad. For all Mowbrays faults and even with Ainsworths links to the club, the reality id Mowbray is possibly the one who would keep us up in the division For me to be positive , we need to start signing key players to new contracts

We don't know if they will have anything to spend and most recent signs aren't good. The fact we can't tie down our best players and will end up losing money on them wouldn't look great to potential new managers? I think you over estimate our attractiveness to potential managers. We might get an Ainsworth, but could we attract a really exciting one? One who has other options. I have serious doubts.

We didn't appoint him because he's black (nor should we appoint anyone for this reason alone) We appointed him it seemed to me at least, because he had a lot of similarities to our previous and really successful manager. Unfortunately we all know what happened next

No, because it would make zero difference. He's here til the end of the season, at least.

I have a bad feeling we will rush into a lead again, only to capitulate. 2-3 Reading

He can't finish consistently enough though and his all round contribution is poor. He will end up back at a top Championship club, that's his level.

What was embarrassing last night was time wasting against QPR. Pathetic really. Mowbray saodbhe thoygtj we would win 1-0, not sure what he based that on, did we have any decent chances? Clarkson and Butterworth looked miles off the standard required and they weren't alone. This move to a back 3 or 5 ,whatever you wanna call it,does not look to suit Ayala

I thought Butterworth was useless and really didn't take his opportunity. Johnson very poor when he came on. In general we were destroyed in midfield. Completely wrong selection and thaoe that played were poor..Clarkson is so weak. I think Wharton is a lot better than Van what the Heck. He looks rash, to say the least.

Thought the same, but can see them scoring

Adoma is sensational. Great tackle by Brereton though. Would definitely take 0-0

I like Edun. Decent signing. Shit they are applying pressure...

It's up to Butterworth himself really. He had one chance and he missed, albeit it was offside. I like him and this is his chance

What is a reasonable wages to turnover ratio? Because it's difficult to see us competing if we have anything near a sensible one from a monetary viewpoint. The turnover isn't going to drastically increase. I'd say oursvis very low by league standards. You do thinks it's reasonable that he should be top earner? I suspect he thinks the same, but the club won't pay him more than some others

You don't know it hasn't cost us points. A goal scoring centre forward could have won many of the tight games

He almost scored and the earlier back the better. As for your points, Put it towards offering players a better deal? Its about a month wages for them, possibly less. £85,000 isn't going to go very far with regards signing anybody. We won't miss out on a deal because of £85,000 Ya, fair enough could go towards the stadium upkeep, but they larger projects they just need to approve. He's our main player and if he scored and we won I would say it was £85,000 well spent. He almost did and it's easy to criticize in hindsight. All speculation with the cost anyway.

That 189% figure in isolation doesn't mean much and we are only staying competitive with that. It will always be an issue with the crowds and stadium size. I would imagine it's all about money. They ain't gonna move somewhere on less than we are offering. Do you think they would? Also let's say Lenihan wants to be top earner ,is that reasonable?

Brady signed for Bournemouth. I'm not a huge fan tbh(although will always have that goal against Italy) and he has injury issues ,but it makes me wonder why we haven't signed an out of contract CF. There are surely some knocking about

I know we didn't and I think we agree it's inexcusable Ya apparently we wanted him and Obafemi at another stage. It's really poor we ended up with nobody and you would imagine it'll cost us points in the long run

Keep sharing this stuff. It's actually incredible 🤣

It sounds like he wants a new deal too 😅 Is this really am issue with all clubs? We have a serious issue here and it's a pretty dumb one to be in. You give them a few extra thousand a week and you potentially make millions. It's in our interest to sign them up. It really doesn't sound good though....Surely Waggot should be explaining the economics of this to them? Does ffp come into this? We must be offering them peanuts.

To be fair we can't force teams higher up the league to take him! His ability and profile dictates where he ends up. If he's good ,he should rip it up there

How close? We surely could have signed someone from Europe for a million or 2. Poveda and Khadra don't look to be the answers. We didn't have a winger for ages, now we have 3 who he plays centre forward Able next summer ,but let's see about willing! Do you think they will give Mowbray a new deal? I wouldn't be surprised

I always mix them up, yes Farke and yes Norwich 😅

Where are we at with regards the £39 million? How close are we?