When you sign on for the day and there is over 200 messages, you believe there must have been a signing that was being discussed but no it’s just all about that we aren’t making signings- sigh

Wish they would separate the women’s teams news from the men’s team news, keep signing on to see rovers complete deal of villa captain only to see it’s the women’s team- who seem to be doing a lot of business. Rubbing salt into the wounds haha

Looks like the blue is the first time you put a paint roller over a wall

Hated him for both rovers and our national team, don’t see what he brings other than stupid fouls, losing out in foot races and a big square head

New away looks like an amateur teams top, I’m really not a fan

Hanley is a big stupid oaf, please to god avoid. Honestly rate him as much as Jason Lowe

These things happen mate, especially with our club, they are horrendous at getting stuff going and over the line. i mentioned a few names last season we were far down the road with, they didn’t come off and a few on here were only to glad to throw it back in my face , so I don’t give up much info here anymore. it’s a shame a few rotten apples spoil it for the rest. I was the first to report interest in rob Elliot weeks back however, I see that’s rearing up again. Would say that’s got potential

Iv not heard anything today, they are being even more covert than usual if something comes off.

Nope pure speculation, I don’t love McKenna but more highly regarded than Lindsay , probably wouldn’t be the worst idea

Wouldn’t be surprised to see us do a deal for scott McKenna at Aberdeen. Cash plus mulgrew with us subsiding a large part of his wages as Aberdeen wouldn’t be able to afford them

We are neck and neck with Preston though, in fact they have been above us in recent years. They have a better manager, better recruitment so that’s why we are looking up at them. we are leaking money like oil, hence why the chequebook has now been put away, we are relying on freebies, loans or bargains. We won’t be making any 3-4 mill signing this season. you mentioned those clubs you believe we are bigger than but still in a head to head with a signing, we will often lose. Between money, location of club, fan base etc etc we are not one of the leagues heavyweights by any means. We are where we are- slap bang in the middle of the league for finances, league position, reputation some folk need a reality pill, I’m all for optimism but really

Because we have been poorly managed for over a decade, including relegation into league one from an established premiership team. we are also an unfashionable team so we don’t have the pull of sponsorships/tv money/merchandise our fan base is relatively small and out attendances are poor yet we are still paying a fairly large squad decent championship wages - hence we don’t make what we put in. That’s why we lose money

Think your mad if you believe we are on equal footings with a good 10-12 of the clubs in the league.

In terms of finances and reputation I would say we are now looking at mid table of the champ, so any team from our position upwards from the table last season and the three that came down and you have a pretty good marker. when we go toe to toe with a transfer with one of them we usually don’t come out on top we are where we are, we need to get some luck with recruitment and pluck some gems from abroad or down the league chain or have a manager that’s way more savvy than other champs managers to get out this league- currently we don’t look to have either weapon in our arsenal

Unfortunately in our position with finances, we are a move behind getting the likes of kipre. We should’ve been getting him from Motherwell, not 2 years later when he is an established good quality champ centre back with prospect of going higher. We can’t compete with the top half of the champ/bottom half of the prem so we need to box more clever. Our recruitment team is currently pretty poor imo as the goalkeeping saga shows

Kipre is decent, can’t comment on the keeper as I don’t know him, looks decent on YouTube but concerning pushing ball back into danger in a few clips. its a decent start but I’m still 3-4 signings short of being optimistic about promotion

We lost out on mcginn but his replacement is pretty decent- Stevie Mallan. If we managed to offload one of ours

Agree , we don’t have enough goals with current lot. It might be bluster with somebody lined up though

For the points I mentioned, we gave him a good and respectful deal last season, he could show the same back. From what Iv heard he has been offered same terms as last year but he is hoping for something better or a return to boro. We need to know if we have a position to fill and wages to use up, of course I’m thinking about the clubs view, no room for sentiment in this business and this time of year

Sign or say your not signing, rodwell all over again. We don’t have time to pee about

Downing can do one as far as I’m concerned. Giving the fingers to the club and fans, there wasn’t a clamour to sign him last season, there will be even less now, we have gave him good game time, fan support and a decent wage, if he wanted to sign again he would’ve by now. He was ok last season, I wouldn’t say set the place alight , you can be replaced with a younger model as far as I’m concerned, see ya

Technically not true it’s just we play forwards out there instead of actual wide men but I think we are looking at a few players that can give us width

My info isn’t that reliable these days, Covid playing havoc. Free’s and cheap European I believe is what we will see. We are still short in a lot of areas, all across defence, wingers and a replacement for graham. I expect another 4, 2 loans

No, was just told that it was more than likely our next keeper would be coming from abroad and cheap. Mentioned that Russian lad from the Swiss league so not surprised it’s a European league keeper. Would not be surprised if our second keeper was someone experienced and free - like rob Elliot

Likes a dribble this lad, Tony will have a heart attack