Honestly think you’ve been fed an absolute load of shite here Glen, none of it makes sense. We provisionally agreed a fee with Orlando for a player we’ve been tracking for months only then to realise that he’s a rookie who’s only played 30 professional games, information that fans will have found out after a 30 second google of his name? Even the admin girl could see whether the documentation had been sent or not but no one realised that it hadn’t for 2 hours until, coincidentally, just 4 minutes after the deadline? By all accounts the Fleck deal was done after McGuire, were they processing this whilst scoffing their curry? When they were processing it no one realised McGuire hadn’t actually been sent? Sounds like they’ve had a few days to come up with a story that blames only one person and I’m sure there will be announcement in the near future stating that this person has left their role, at which point they can say that the matter has been dealt with and we can go on as usual. Bullshit if you ask me.

David Anderson from the mirror just now Jon Dahl Tomasson’s exit from Blackburn complete, clearing the way for John Eustace to take over. Club say Tomasson has left by “mutual consent”, but the Dane quit because he was budget was repeatedly cut. #Rovers

Surely we need to get it sorted with Eustace this morning if we’re going to have a manager for our biggest game of the season so far?

I laughed at you saying that about Sigurdsson then picking Moran, one of the most spineless, cowardly players I’ve seen wear the shirt. Neither of them should be near the 11.

Announce it to pressure India into approving it?

Think this is the most likely scenario. Either Broughton & co went rogue and negotiated the deal without the prior approval from India, which never came, or they were told that the deal could be negotiated but the final approval from India didn’t arrive before the deadline (either because of incompetence or a last minute change of mind).

Someone fed Andy Bayes the line that the reason the McGuire deal fell through initially was because of an issue with the Wharton deal, most of us knew this was nonsense at the time and we’ve since found out that the actual reason was that the owners pulled the funding. This suggests that there is someone inside the club who’s covering Venky’s arse.

Anyone who actually believes this was a genuine administrative error is naive at best.

This suggests Garrett is a shoe in to play the full 90, which is simply not good enough at this level. We desperately needed first 11 quality players.

Fleck hasn’t started a game all season, played 89 minutes in total, how anyone can say he’s a genuine Wharton replacement with a straight face is beyond me. McFadzean hasn’t even played a single game since early November. McGuire is in the middle of his preseason. Don’t even get me started on the Liverpool kid. I’m not even particularly bothered about ‘the model’ that Greg’s been banging on about at this point, which these signings completely go against, we needed players who could make an immediate impact. SHITE.

Disagree, think he’s handicapped here as he’s playing with players way below his level. He’s the type of player who needs to be playing with other players on his wavelength. Honestly don’t think he’ll be uncomfortable at any level even now.

Getting into semantics but by any definition he’s currently a millionaire, after tax. Obviously moving to Palace will be attractive financially but I think moving in the summer will be just as attractive and he’s not exactly skint now. All I’m saying is that the financial pressure to move right now is probably overstated.

His current contract is worth more than £1m

He’s already a millionaire, comfortably.

Palace signed a 19 year old from Brazil in the summer for £20m who played 20 odd times over there and has only made 6 appearances for them this season, if I was Broughton I’d be telling them to stop insulting us.

I’d be shocked if we weren’t the slowest team too, probably by a distance. Tough to compete in one of the more physical leagues in the world with the smallest, weakest, slowest team.

Someone posted in the Huddersfield thread that he spoke to Buckley and he said he’s out for about 40 days, hopefully that’s true.

Or he’s just shit?

Saddos

Garrett is poor and was only in the team to give Travis a kick up the backside, Morton is poor and Wharton is out in the cold. Strongly disagree with this comment.

Just a nonsense point. Lack of signings make people angry, poor signings make people angry. That’s not contradictory. FYI I’m talking generally here, not about Thomas specifically.

Morton and Garrett are you taking the piss?

Improve or get out, I’d be running out of patience quickly.

Dack for Travis as soon as Buckley went off, and I mean as soon as. At that point we still had something to defend.

That’s not the definition of excessive force JB. Excessive means more than necessary, force means strength or energy. Buckley did not throw that ball with excessive force. Although he did give an incompetent officiating team a decision to make, which was stupid.