I do. I think he’s a decent player and more than adequate back up to Johnson and Travis.

I don’t know mate. My feeling / hope is that at some point this season (by October) we will have settled down with the new players, including the expected two new defenders and we’ll have a bench of Leutwiler, Bennett, Mulgrew, Evans, Downing, Brereton and Graham with the likes of Buckley, Butterworth, JRC and Grayson / Magloire backing them up and a team of Walton Nyambe | Lenihan | German/Croat | Bell Travis | Johnson Armstrong | Dack | Rothwell Gallagher

But you you don’t know what they earn, who has or hasn’t enquired for them or if the club even wants rid of them? I would personally like to see Smallwood go but I’d want to keep Bennett and Evans as back up to the first team.

I wouldn’t bet on it!

Fair.

Ah, so 10 mins. Still think he prob had this one and waited until it sneaked out before going ahead. He usually says he needs to check it out first. Still can’t see many of you being happy if we do sign Ada and this guy. I’d put decent money on some grumbling if we signed Messi! “He’ll never do it on a cold Tuesday in Wigan!!” ???

Nope, tbf Sharpe tweeted around 2pm. Lyle Thomas (Of Sky) at 3pm and Sky got onto it around 4pm.

True, but he won’t have a job for long if he burns his bridges with the club. It looks like he broke the German defender story anyway.

Classic nothing. You’re making claims like you actually know what’s happening...you don’t.

Ahh I’m glad you cleared that up.

I can’t work out where this link has come from? Has Sharpe broken it?

The squad is only currently bloated in Midfield and the forward lines which effects Buckley and Butterworth. I can see the latter going out but I’m pretty sure that Buckley will be in the match day squad (bench) straight away. Grayson, Magloire and JRC are right in the mix as it stands with us losing Rodwell and Downing as well as injuries to Williams and Hart. My personal opinion is that Buckley is ready to impact the first team now. The wildcard is Grayson. All would benefit from a year in league 1 but we have to look at our own interests first.

My point was that if we had players in the first XI good enough to have those on the bench then we would be ready to go up...

We need squad players of that quality if we want to go up. If those four start regularly this season were not going up.

I did say ‘potential’ that...I also agree that Bennett and Mulgrew will start which isn’t good.

How could we possibly know? There was a lot of talk early on in the window about Hanley, Dann as well as stated interest in the Barnsley lad and of course Bauer. Latterly we’ve heard about interest in Skrtel and of course Adarabioyo as well as Mowbrays previous admission of interest in Cooper. I also know (from a coach at Rotherham) that we were interested in Ajayi. So there’s a potential that we’ve enquired on a dozen defenders? As well as probably the same amount of keepers. It’s just a case of which one drops first.

Firstly, I think your assessment of Evans, Williams and Mulgrew as ‘deadwood’ is scandalous. They don’t deserve that and are handy squad players. Smallwood, Gladwin and now probably Samuel need to be moved on as well as a few youth loans. I said to mate at the end of the season that if we got to a position where we had 3 of Williams, Mulgrew, Bennett and Evans regularly on the bench then we wouldn’t be far off a team challenging for the top 6.

What makes you think that we’re any different to any club in the land? Think back to Jack Walkers days and the autobiographies and revelations since then. How close the likes of Roy Keane, Les Ferdinand, Zinedine Zidane, Christoph Dugarry, Robert Lewandowski. They were only the high profile ones. There would’ve been 100’s more. The only reason we find anything out (and most of it is fake news) is because of social media. No one is being conned. It’s just the way it is.

What is interesting though is that surely we now have to go and get another LB?

I’m not typing Adarabioyo very time!!

Nyambe, Magloire and Grayson have potential to be excellent cb’s. However, the issue in my mind is that Mulgrews back legs have gone and Williams is average at best. Which leaves us with Lenihan. Assuming Ada comes in that gives us a safer pair of hands than the other younger lads but it’s not enough to achieve our goal of challenging the top 6 imo.

Twice sh....errr no because he just stumped up another £5m on Gallagher in the same position!? I really appreciate your info and attempts to keep us updated but you’re making no sense. Spending over £1m in transfer fees (never mind wages) in League 1 is not ‘keeping himself safe’ or dampening expectation. It’s the opposite. Likewise spending £7m on a 19yr old in your first season back in the championship and then spending a further £5m on another striker this summer, are not the actions of a reluctant manager.

Yup, that’s exactly what he did in League 1!!...Errr nope he bought Dack and Samuel for over a million pounds in fees thus applying pressure to himself! As many have said, he had the biggest budget and therefore expectation on himself that year. But then surely he executed your plan last season didn’t he? Yeeee-no!! He spent £7m on a 19yr Old which heaped pressure on him.

Fiver!!? You’re confident then? ???

You’re right. I fully expect us to sign two defenders and challenge for the top 6.