Yea kind of point I was making, to survive you either need an above average champ squad or a very good manager that knows how to, we have neither at the moment

But sheff Utd had a decent team, decent manager playing a style that suited and were top 2 pretty much all campaign. i have unfortunately saw us several times this season and we aren’t very good , quite honestly I’m surprised we aren’t in deeper trouble.

I’d say they were/are all considerably better than us currently. Unfortunately I think we are slap bang where we deserve to be currently , mid table champ team. Neither manager or squad good enough imo

I get what your saying but how many of our first team currently are prem league ready? I suggest none being brutally honest. So it puts us at an awkward position of do we put significant money to even compete at that level and potentially harm us long term should it not work out or do we accept that we are going to be relegated but we just want the money so that maybe next time we can try better. Imagine mowbray or venkys came out and said that- yea we know it’s going to result in relegation but we are thinking next time we will be stronger- wouldn’t wash with fans, go back to the protest days, which again harms our club. The gates would dwindle as the season becomes hopeless and long term we loss even more fans as happened the last time, few bad seasons and they lose interest. I get that it’s all about the money but as a fan- I want to enjoy going to ewood. Going and expecting defeat after defeat is horrible, been there and lost interest - coyle days- can do a lot of damage. of course I want us back, but I’d be much happier if we done it competently and I trusted the team/ management which I don’t just now. If we somehow snuck into playoffs and got through them it would be certainly sneaking up the back door rather than being worthy prem candidates the whole season

When we can’t even scrape 3 mill for a player these days- small change in current climate, you really think there would be a green light to strengthen considerably? Need a sheff Utd approach of getting a good core of young players and letting them grow together rather than the villa approach of sneaking up, spending big, coming straight back down with mega wages, our club would sink if we done that. granted mowbray ain’t the man to gel this team , which is why first step for promotion for me would be canning him. If he got us up he would be here forever on the back of that , no matter if he took us straight back down. Some fans still cite league 1 promotion as reason to keep him

We would all be buzzing and it is the end goal but I don’t think this team/ current structure are anywhere near ready for the prem. without significant backing and a new manager I could honestly see us near a record low points, which wouldn’t be pleasant for any of us. If we go up i want to feel like we are ready to make a decent fist of it to stay there, squeezing up through the playoffs and then getting mullered every week could cause more damage than good imo. might be unpopular opinion and of course I want to get up to prem but I don’t like this team currently, doesn’t feel ready to me

Don’t think Rhodes is what we need at all and don’t believe him to be a mowbray type. Can’t see it happening

Doncaster sniffing for a striker, Dom samuel being offered to lg1 clubs, could see that one happening before deadline. id swap Smallwood for shrews mid Laurent who was mom against Liverpool today, looked very tidy and capable of filling in evans injury

Liked you too but frankly disappointed by this, as a result I won’t be sharing info I get from inside. Was absolutely no need for this comment when I was trying to do mods a favour

Nah just what I assume

Signing one, loaning another before shut

Wrong thread , folk come here for transfer news, please use the correct thread

My source hasn’t being seeing much activity at all, somebody from the French league was in and Curtis was talked about, that’s all Iv been given. Makes me slightly suspicious of these links we are getting but hope they have some substance.

Sorry thought this was a transfer thread? There is a perfectly good mowbray thread to discuss his credentials of the job

Agreed, he doesn’t worry me at all

Got a message to say we had signed fletcher, my heart sank thinking it was Ashley fletcher, to my relief it was the woman’s team

Yea marek citko..... has a pretty funny false wiki edit at the moment

I speak to a lot of poles with my work, I would disagree with fluent, broken seems to be the most atypical. Certainly would struggle with mowbrays tones and vocabulary

Don’t think it’s a completely different style though, just more quality in champ than league one. Polish football- champ isn’t as compatible in my opinion never mind a language barrier to overcome. Don’t imaging Tony being easy to understand to a foreign ear. if I was to exercise caution it would be in the summer Newcastle had a choice of joelinton or Danny ings, massive difference in price but they thought they were buying better due to foreign stats and reputation abroad. I know who they would prefer now.

Certainly not against broadening our transfer search and the foreign market. I really like Curtis though, think he will be a prem player

Not doubting your knowledge or fact he looks good, just not sure he would fit into the mowbray way or championship. Plenty of good foreign players move to England and their talents don’t suit, we have had a few at Ewood. Just a personal choice but I’d be happier to see the league 1 lads step up that the unknown of a polish lad. Could be eating my words in a few months granted. Let’s hope so

Tbh I don’t know this lad but if the fee is 3, I’d still rather go for Curtis or Maddison , more likely to improve our sids imo just through knowing the leagues

Not from any reliable source Iv seen but then rich has just produced a new name on me

Heard a name, not taking it as gospel however so not willing to put it out there. It’s decent, not brilliant but will improve our wing

Bump in the road no doubt