Am I right to assume that Cissoko would be a loan? Haven’t seen Nixon’s article

Annoying isn’t it! Teams around us, and way below us in the table are signing some top players… and we’re pissing around as usual, unwilling to pay an extra £200k for a lad who’s apparently been a target for a while (Kargbo). Shambles. They’re at it again lads, buckle up!

No wonder, poor lad doesn't have anything to report!

Absolutely no chance unfortunately. For the record, where did you see this?

Imagine he'd be well out of our price range... though I agree, he'd be a top signing.

Hoping this will be the case! Of course, provided that the initial links aren't just entirely made up.

2 spaces would need freeing up - we could drop Joe Hilton for a young academy keeper, not sure about the second but just feel like there'll be an outgoing that could accommodate it (Dolan or Sigurdsson maybe). Leonard doesn't need to be registered due to his age (though i'd still loan him out regardless).

A reasonable end to the window for me now looks something like this; LB - Harry Toffolo (Loan) CM - Dan Barlaser (Perm - £750k?) LW - Ibrahim Cissoko (Loan) LW/ST - Augustus Kargbo (Perm - £1m) ST - Marcus Forss (Perm - £2m?) With the money we've brought in, that should be very achievable and not too far out of reach... Just won't happen though, will it? We'll end up with way worse. Really hoping for a positive end to the window, though I fully expect we'll be let down!

Some lad on BlueSky says Cissoko was at the training ground - this the name you've heard?

Very true. They could easily free up a space by swapping Hilton for a young keeper, who wouldn't need to be registered to play their part due to age. There's also a likelihood that one of the LB/LW/ST will be a young loanee under the age of 21 (Jayden Danns for example) - therefore also wouldn't need to be registered.

Wouldn't mind that Barlaser link being true, he'd slot right into the squad with Sonny out and bring genuine competition for a place (for both Sonny & Trav) when he's back. With it likely to be a permanent signing, i'd probably favour this over a loan move for O'Brien. You need to have quality in depth, a good starting XI simply isn't enough.

When we lost to Bristol over the weekend and the heat started cranking up, I thought... "Well the only bright side to this, is that it should at least speed the board up in the transfer market - despite the fact that they're all useless tossers" Ever the optimist, I fancied them to have at least 1 in between then and now... but nope, 6 days before the window ends and nothing is even close. What are these clowns actually doing?

A quick skim on the web suggests his wages are pretty low, if he can keep fit he'd be a quality addition - one of those players who can make something happen out of nothing, would be a monster off the bench for the last 30 minutes.

Would be over the moon if we got him, top player.

Plymouth are about to sign a CB for £1.7m, Maksym Taloverov. They're rock bottom and have just lost their best player... their gaffer who's been there for 2 weeks is being backed more than Eustace, who's depleted squad has just dropped out of a playoff position for the first time in how long?

Personally, I think playoffs are just well out of sight now. I'd guess that 74 points does it in this particular season, we'd need 32 points from our remaining 17 games to reach that tally. That's 1.88 points per game on average, 10 wins and 2 draws required. The teams around us have all strengthened, some significantly - whilst we've actually weakened. Realistically, it's just not happening. Absolute sickener after all the hard work from Eustace and the lads. It's genuinely criminal that they haven't backed the gaffer, he worked an actual miracle getting us to where we was... they must forget that we almost got relegated last season, and lost a 33 goal attacker (Szmodics) without adequately replacing him.

That's the guy who said a swap deal was gonna happen between Dolan and Brewster... he also saw someone's Football Manager inspired suggestion of Dereck Kutesa on here, then posted on X that we were linked with him 🤣 Needless to say, stick this one under the bullshit column!

Too many tired bodies, too many injuries, and the gaffer has been incredibly let down in terms of recruitment. Preston will walk this, nailed on away win. What a shame, we'd have stuffed them a couple of months ago. Venkys Out. Suhail Out. Waggott Out. Rudy Out.

I’d be willing to bet my left nut and a grab bag of Quavers that it’s the latter!

It’s mad how casually the days just slip by with nothing happening… We needed players 4 weeks ago, and are currently dropping points like they’re going out of fashion. Other teams around us continue to strengthen, wrapping up quality deals in absolutely no time regardless of where the player is currently playing. We’re the laughing stock of the football league, being comfortably outspent by teams 2/3 divisions below us who could only dream of bringing in the kind of revenue we have over the last couple of years. Absolutely shambolic. The most successful town Club in the world, one of the few premier league winners, the pride of lancashire - systematically dismantled by disinterested, tight-fisted, chicken chokers over in India. Scum.

Oh absolutely yeah, I don’t mean we should target Suhail exclusively by any means. Suhail is the king rat, he has it far too easy.

The trick is to target Suhail specifically, things happen when he’s mentioned - JDT was gone less than a week after mentioning his name in the press, if I remember correctly. As much as I despise Waggott, it all goes through Suhail, he calls the shots. Suhail is deliberately titled below Waggott in the hierarchy too, likely an effort to keep the heat off him and to keep his name out of our mouths. Fuck the pair of them, but we need to turn the heat up on Suhail Shaikh, AKA Suhail Pasha.

Someone on X said the Nixon news is that Preston are after O’brien, with a mention that Rovers wanted him but backed away?

Keyword: Quality I’m starting to think, is this part of the hold up? Aside from our tight-fisted, negligent, piece of shit owners refusing to sign deals off - is there also a case that the over-employed morons on the board are repeatedly offering Eustace nothing but cheap tosh, instead of the quality he’s requesting? He wants quality, but that costs money… which unfortunately our billionaire owners (with their additional £40m generated from the Club via player sales) refuse to spend.

Crikey… My opinion on Brandon Thomas-Asante is improving more with every player I see linked.