Ouch August could hardly be any worse.

Yup, if we got 18 million for Dack, who would be confident of it all being put back into the team? Probably get given 5 million and told to find another hidden gem or two.

I see Dack's agent is in overdrive again. Stories everywhere about how it wants to leave Rovers and that all three promoted clubs want him.

Could do with some positive news today, my Chow passed away a couple of hours ago. I know its just a dog but its never nice to be woken by a harrowing yelp/cry and then seeing your buddy of 10 years lieing on the floor with blood coming from his mouth. One final yelp of pain within 20 seconds of getting there and he was gone. Then of course I have the missus and kids all crying their eyes out. Come on TM - give me something to take my mind off.

Think i need a bit more than Ryan Shawcross saying a bids been put in. I'd think they would be aiming higher in the PL to be honest.

Link?

Alright, can we just say that for whatever reason, Bauer has signed for Preston and be done with it? None of knows whether we were still in for him, whether he simply chose them over us for whatever reason, whether they offered more money, longer contract or whether it was because as a club our window has only just started thanks to the V's. We all have opinions of what might have happened but there's far too many people claiming their opinion as fact. Guess we just wait on what TM comes out with if indeed he even bothers.

Never liked VAR, never will, no matter how much people tell me how it eliminates wrong decisions. Wrong decisions still occur anyway except now it takes 5 minutes for these mistakes to be made instead. Its just ruining games from a spectators view, ruining the flow of a game and game winning moments are not able to be celebrated in real time anymore.

Many of us went to school as well.

or we backed out ourselves, were never really that interested. None of us know how this transfer manifested, including you. It could be many different reasons tbh so you cannot really say as fact that he chose them over us for money or footballing reasons. Did he even have a choice to make?

Sharpe also backtracking from his article the other day where he said we're looking at Bauer and a younger CB. Now essentially calling him just a Downing replacement.

Well he's allegedly been guaranteed a place at Preston and while not heaps better, their defence wasnt as bad as outs last season. I dont think its ever contractual its just the word of the manager. TM is probably a little too honest for his own good sometimes and probably told him he will be down the pecking order int he beginning and will have to fight for a place while Preston probably told him everything he wanted to hear.

I used to do that as a kid actually. Start a two player game, sign all the best players i could from one team at knock down prices and sell all my dross back to them at extortionate prices. Then resign player two.

So, nothing a little dodgy about the fact that Forest have sold Hillal Soudani to Olympiakos for an 'undisclosed' fee. The common denominator between the two clubs? Owned by the same man.

I would be happy with that.

Thats what I am clinging to but a feeling in my gut makes me think we might be doing the TM trick of backing up what we have rather than replacing them. if we're looking for someone to start and Bauer was to be backup fine - if not, brace yourself for a ton more goals to be shipped next season.

We cannot guarantee you a place in a defence that shipped the most away goals in the EFL last season - hardly going to inspire anyone to sign is it.

If we're not targeting CBs that we can guarantee a starting place - it doesnt exactly fill me with hope. We need at least one CB that goes straight into the starting eleven alongside Lenihan.

Get them both in and that's CB sorted.

Have you not heard things like the shirts sales alone paid for Ronaldo or Beckham in the past?

Is Sharpe being cryptic here or something? Hanley or Fielding coming in?

We've all been there.

Yup, doubtful they pay more and then you have to consider facilities and everything else. As someone else pointed out, it might not necessarily mean he would have chosen them over us as we could have just likely decided against him (hopefully with someone with more pedigree in our sights).

Two League 1 players at the end of the day - doubt it would be meltdown. Meltdown would be if we sold them Dack and Graham for a combined fee of 500k.

No but we should be in my opinion. On a free, plenty of other Championship clubs looking at him. Has the Drogba about him.