Lol. And he'll turn down Liverpool or Manchester City too?

Our manager has said on more than one occasion that he would rather avoid loans and get permanent additions in to build on. The only reason we go down the loan route is as a money saving sticking plaster temporary solution job.

Reed is better than anything we have hence he's joined Fulham, a decent side. He is genuinely versatile rather than 'can do a job' in more than one position. Sickening to see him join them but not surprising. Another one we wasted and ensured wouldnt come back.

Very good point. Just shows the utter chaos that is our transfer policy. You don't start him as captain if you're moving him on. Relegation battle ahead. Looking for 3 clubs worse than us now. Struggling.

Correction. Almost everyone wanted a better player who is actually a CB bringing in to improve the squad. Mulgrew out and nobody in at CB no.

Been quite clear for a while that the only way we were getting arrivals was by getting shut of someone first. Venkys wont add to the wage bill. Hey presto look what happens. What about the Raya money again?

I think technically he was released in June as his contract expired and the club still hasn't confirmed that he signed anything else. All we had was that he was talking to the club about a short term deal and then Sharpe announcing that he was still recuperating from injury at Brockhall. I've tried a couple of times to get Sharpe to confirm his contract situation and find out why the club hasn't announced it. Our website, whilst still featuring most players in last season's kit, makes no reference to Gladwin at all on the squad, which it should do if he's under contract. Very odd behaviour.

The myth of 'building' By next summer we are going to be even more short on numbers as contracts expire and loans return. It.will be another rebuilding job and thats before selling people to cover losses. It never ends here hence going through the players we have done. That's what happens when you shop in the loan and short term contract market and are reactive rather than proactive. You end up with people not good enough or just passing through to get games and 'do a job' for a season.

Perhaps shows how reliable some of these rumours from Sky are. Unless they just forgot to add 'former'.

Sorry I don't understand that. Sky just said we were in talks about a loan move but on the internet it says he left QPR last summer....

Sky claim we're after Idrissa Sylla on loan from QPR.

They'll just play it without fans. They'll stop at nothing to help Bolton out and get their games in so the fans will be the ones who miss out.

Well it is as easy as that. Mowbray knows he's in trouble with the fans and this 'fighting talk' is to cover his and our pitiful transfer window. I've zero faith in him delivering the goods today and he will be judged accordingly on results moving forward. Wont be long before the January window is being referred to as our salvation until it actually arrives and nothing happens. No other club hit February with no fit CBs at the club. Most other clubs have signed defenders this summer. You would think that experience alone, along with getting shut of Magloire, Wharton, Rodwell and Downing, would see priority given to that area.

We should know how this all works by now. Mowbray knows he is in for some almighty grief if nothing changes so we'll be scrabbling around for someone to come in and 'help' the existing players. Otherwise known as a short term loan on the cheap who can sit on the bench. Mowbray will likely come out tomorrow or on Saturday and say we tried our best to add but just ran out of time and that we weren't looking for big signings but it would have been nice to get some 'help' in. As I've said before I can no longer take what Mowbray says seriously as what he says and what actually happens are usually very different.

Sunderland moving for Martin Olsson. So much for his wages being a problem. We're just not interested.

Assuming we don't sign anyone decent, which looks likely, then the only thing that will save Mowbray is if he and his coaching staff manage to forge a better defence out of a weaker selection of players than we had last season who conceded 69 goals. Hopefully once Venus has finished negotiating transfers he can get to work on the training ground. The defence was our downfall last season and could have seen us in a relegation scrap had we not stopped the rot at a crucial time. We've weakened the personnel so the only way of saving it is by some fine coaching that will organise them into greater the sum of their parts. Talk of Hart and Grayson is frankly laughable and desperation stage stuff. Mowbray has undermined a huge amount of trust and belief the fans had in him and now even his biggest fans will be short on patience unless something unexpected happens. A shame but it seems we are now in the death throes of his tenure. Unless he pulls rabbits out of the hat or works wonders on the training ground with these players then it's only a matter of time. Could have been so different too. Seems Mowbray has succumbed to the same problem that's plagued him his entire career. Stubbornness and neglect of defence.

Marc Wilson being linked to Luton. Its now at the stage I'd take him on a season long deal to provide experienced cover.

The reliable Pete O'Rourke saying Magloire to Rochdale for the season. Sharp piggybacking on saying it doesn't mean any arrivals. Utter madness after what happened in February. Now lost Rodwell and Magloire as CB cover as well as Downing and Wharton.

All probably true. But if so Mowbray shouldn't be making bold promises about things he cant deliver and should be honest about the situation. He's said even recently that the Raya money is still there and that he's in control of recruitment.

Hart is nowhere near good enough. A decent run at a poor League One club doesn't change that. I've lost count of the number of players who played for the u23s who have failed to progress at senior level. Lewis Hardcastle now at non League Barrow and Willem Tomlinson at 4th tier Mansfield.

More strange figures from Waggott. We're now up to more than 500k spent on the pitches whereas a few months ago it was 300k. He seems to think things like relaying pitches and making improvements to the training ground are unique to us and that we are ahead of the competition in doing it. Every club does it on an ongoing basis. Starting to think Waggott just tells people what they want to hear.

They've only opened the bottom tiers so won't be many there. Probably get a decent following from Coventry though. Wonder how many players they will be allowed to sign after the deadline.

Clearly a big difference between having favourable links to well connected agents who can help bring in quality like at Wolves and Leeds and then handing over the running of the club to crooks to do as they please with it.

I think we'd need international scouting to unearth someone who hasn't either played for Mowbray before or recently come up against us in a match. We've just splurged £12 million on two strikers unlikely to have much impact as they'll be spending most of their time out wide. I'd have paid £7 million for Joao, made him first choice CF and then invested the remaining £5 million on other areas. Agencies haven't done Wolves, Leeds or Forest too much harm. It's one way to quickly recruit players to the standard needed to push on rather than sitting around going nowhere because we can't get deals done.

By the sounds of things similar to what we paid for Gallagher.