Szmodics signed a new deal in November too, as well as the other players mentioned. It just gives the club better leverage although not much since they can just hang a year and sign for nothing.

Just read Wes foderingham is leaving Sheffield United this summer. He's a steady goalkeeper at championship level.

He was arguably the worst keeper I've seen at ewood last season. Alot of that however was down to him being expected to play out. Hes a solid keeper but would be a short term and expensive fix. As much as it pains me I'd rather use the money elsewhere and persevere with pears. As for Aaron Connolly at 24 there is certainly a chance of getting a return on any investment. Which as a free transfer you'd imagine the club would be all over. He will still have hopes of getting back to premier league and will hopefully see what Armstrong, Diaz and maybe szmodics have done here and given their career a huge boost. It will all depend on what options he has and what we can offer. But he would certainly be a player we should be looking at.

The problem is there's always going to be a core of supporters who go irregardeless. Even when they went down to league one. Who will pay whatever price because they want to go to the football. Maybe not totally for the football itself but the day out and seeing people they've sat with/near for however long. Slashing the prices even if by quite a bit won't increase sales by that much. Certainly not enough to justify it. They'll sell more yeah but not enough. Plus if they do have more fans that means more staff/security/first aid staff. All of which will eat into that money. This club is ran (terribly) as a business first and for most. Unless there was a real uptake in attendances, maybe if we were flying and playing good football there might be a slight increase. And that's usually when they do the little offers, like a couple of seasons ago. Say 3 home games in a row for £50 or whatever they were doing. This is the club trying to capitalise on the team doing well. It always annoys me how when we do rarely see a bumper crowd the team never perform and the form falls off meaning the extra fans who maybe took up the offer don't bother returning.

If we dont add and more importantly improve we will go down. And it will be ten times harder second time around. When you think we we're only up against run away winners Wigan and out of nowhere Shrewsbury. As bad as it sounds if dropping down the divisions is what it takes to get rid of the venkys, then i and I guess most fans would welcome it. Start from the bottom and work our way back up but being ran properly.

I've said it all season, we are far better without the ball and catching teams on the break (usually better sides) than we are having the ball and building out from the back. Obviously having szmodics running on behind the opposition defence was a big part of that. We always looked fairly solid and at least ajrd to break down, most of the time since Eustace came in. It was the other end we struggled so many of those draws we could've nicked if we had decent options to chip in with szmodics.

Sigurdsson had a good six weeks or so between injuries. Other than that was just as useless as the rest of the forwards, obviously excluding szmodics. We look to have sorted the defensive side out but need players to put the ball in the net to turn those draws into wins. I don't mind playing boring football under Eustace as long as we get results.

Tyrese Campbell sounds very similar to the Ennis deal last summer. On paper that deal worked out as bad as he was here. Signed for free and sold for a tidy profit six months later. All be it Campbell has been playing at a higher level, he could be a calculated risk. Unfortunately I think he'll get other, more appealing options.

Let's hope this McGuire can get a goal straight away and go on a run. We keep getting strikers who don't score haha.

If all this is true i hope we go down maybe then a few of those yes men might lose their jobs and these useless fucking owners might lose a few quid. How much more can we as fans take? I'd sooner go bust and start again then carry on like this, just existing because they won't sell up and lose face.

After the last few January deadline days I'm not going to get my hopes up. Saying that I'll be on here every chance at work tomorrow and praying for a couple of quality signings.

I'm not a massive fan of Dolan but I think he'd do well in that Luton side, they play very wide and direct and although not the quickest he is decent at picking the ball up and getting forward. Even if his end product is not brilliant (yet). I'd say cash in and get a decent return from a free transfer but again we are thin on numbers and he would need replacing. If we can get a similar fee to the kaminski transfer then I'd sell. We'd need someone who can come straight in and do a job.

Hopefully the Wharton move getting done means we can do some business. The absolute worst would've been for this to drag out and him go on deadline day leaving us scrambling. Hoping we have enough time to get a few deals done because our squad definitely needs quality additions.

As much as I'd of loved Adam to stay for longer you can't blame the club or player for accepting the offer. He's only one bad injury or dip in form off never getting a chance at the premier league. If some of the money is used to bring in a couple of decent players, which lets be honest is urgently needed then I'll be happy (not holding my breath). It is a refreshing change from the miserly 2 million we got for ash Phillips. Or the ridiculous 3 million for Raya before him.

Can see the Gallagher transfer being this January's what if talking point come next summer. Last year it was the O'Brien deal, the year before it was the rothwell money and who we could've got in with that money. I have little faith any money from the sale of Gallagher would be reinvested. As much as it pains me to say I'd rather have him then some money we won't get to spend on a replacement.

I think Elliot was further along in his development than Moran is even though he was younger. Elliot is brilliant but I thought he'd have progressed more than he has at Liverpool. Moran is good no doubt and better than what we have. Maybe Elliot benefited from the lockdown situation and playing Infront of empty stadiums. Elliot was brilliant here and I was excited when we got Moran. Hopefully he can kick on and produce like he was starting to before the whole squad seem to have had a slump.

I like Moran he's just a little lightweight in an already lightweight team. I think he definitely has the ability to be a good player, just a shame for us he isn't at that level consisitanly yet.

We have steadily been getting worse and replacing quality with kids or short term loans. Look at that squad that came up and maybe I'm looking through rose tinted glasses because of the promotion season. You had goals all over the pitch. Dack and Graham were excellent. Mulgrew chipping in with something like ten goals that first season back. We had a genuinely good squad and had goals all over the pitch. Since then we've been too dependent on first Armstrong, then brererton and now szmodics. We can't keep going like this and not expect it to catch up with us. If anybody else in this squad gets more than 7 goals this season I'll be seriously impressed.

He's shite same as telalovic unfortunately. People talk like they're 18/19 and learning. They're both mid 20s and should be further on by now. Dress it up however you want, take away szmodics goals this season and I dread to think where we would be in the league. We have been overachieving pretty much since we came up from league one. The owners refuse to back the manager. Despite a promising start last season and early this.

We offered more money than Plymouth were willing to. We got him on a free with the potential to sell on for a fee further down the line. It was a calculated risk but I just don't see him ever improving unfortunately. Bear in mind this deal was done very early in the summer before all the budgets got cut, because of the whole Indian tax thing. Knowing what we know now surely the club could've used the wages elsewhere.

The 10k a week we offered that they wouldn't I'd imagine. No way any club comes in for him and offers those sort of wages. Best we can hope is a loan away and whoever takes him pays a percentage.

Fucking stupid decision to loan Travis, if we aren't getting a fee then it only weakens us and strengthens them.

Not sure on the result but surely szmodics is nailed on to score? Away, in the cup and in London. Does anybody know of anywhere local ish showing the game tonight? Do the blues bar usually announce it on the day if they're showing it? Cheers

Scott was good in a back three and it decent in the air. As an actual footballer he is terrible but he is an older head and not bad back up for this level. I thought he had a much better second half but was really poor in the first. Semir was desperate to score last night but was just a yard or two off. Shows passion and was desperate to take the penalty which could've been the kick start he needed. Tronstad was excellent and actually looked alot better moving the ball forward too. Moran brilliant and should've had a hat trick. As for the draw, I keep envisioning szmodics scoring at Stamford bridge. He loves an away goal.

Best bit was all the bollocks before from the owner and the investors. Talking about how much of a feel good factor there is around the club and what a special community Burnley is. That all went to shit before kick off when they booed taking the knee and was only made worse over the course of the match. The lighter thrown from pretty much the second row on live TV 😂. As for their performance I think they did alright for the most part in the first half. But are serverly lacking up front. I think that Lyle foster might be more useless than Gallagher. Some of their new signings looked very inexperienced. If you look at player for player who they've brought in to replace the loan signings. For example o'shea for harwood-bellis and the lad playing at left back for maatsen. They looked like downgrades but most would against city. I think with how good of a season they had last season it will always take time before the feel good factor disappears. But all the talk pre season about top ten finishes at a minimum and the fact they think they're above a relegation battle is hilarious. The Luton game would've been a realistic chance at three points and it being postponed could be really bad timing for them. They've got as tough a start this season's as anybody. Hopefully a few more results like last night and the players start to doubt themselves and the fans turn on the tippy tappy football. Great start to the weekend we just need to follow it up by winning today.