In relation to boro West Brom signings they can now have no excuses boro in particular but I said a couple of days back they went too top heavy they concede too many (of late anyway) that won’t do it I don’t think west brom - albeit a loan Armstrong is great business at this level and if he hits the ground running I can see them being the team that pushes away in 5th

Summary for me good deadline day but poor window overall we left it too late too many weeks/games gone within the period with such a threadbare squad dennis I touted (more in hope) a month ago didn’t think would be realistic could easily be a game changer but he would have needed the 3/4 weeks to get up to speed. Training and playing matches are totally different ribiero - like the signing personally Woodrow - thrown by this one tbh unless sigurdsson is gone or Leonard’s back injury is season ending - he can play deeper though Kargbo - as Iv stated before will judge him when seen Overall though I’m very concerned about the lack of plan/structure re windows/investment. Questions need asked of those above particularly regarding all the short term deals our players contracts running down and the potential of high squad turnover come the summer we were told venkys have the money we were told were clear of ffp we were told venkys still are interested but yet all short term deals/loans/frees suggest otherwise time will tell one thing im 100% sure on is Eustace will be gone come the summer unless we get top 6 so let’s give it a rattle

Agree in the main however a fully fit Dennis could easily be the difference

I’m going to give you chaddys reply wait until the window is closed and see where we are at

If spending time at top level means nothing then why did you back Eustace for experience? you wanted bamford to didn’t you keep going good reading of a Sunday

So you think BTA would be a quality signing for us at this level but don’t think iheanacho would be a quality loan at this level? Madness

Didn’t play a minute in the away game and the fact they are losing im pretty sure Liverpool will go full strength at home to spurs

Busy weekend Friday night was massive it’s allowed fans to ease off a touch and give the recruitment team one last roll of the dice (still believe we should have been on the ball a lot earlier) kargbo - happy to give him a chance positives - pace and relatively match fit negatives - contract length a concern and how long it’s took to get a summer target let alone Jan Mohamed - don’t think it will happen anyway but top player religious beliefs not relevant for me (refusing to play though is a massive no) danns - like the look of him match fit and decent minutes (for his age/position) at Liverpool highly thought of….loan is annoying though O’Brien - can always do with a good squad I haven’t mentioned forshaw much as I think I needed to see him - iv now seen 3 games he’s not good enough so cover at cm would be good but only at a decent wage cut for me still the recruitment team have a lot to answer for regardless of the next 48 hours but fair play to je and the team even in our worst period of the season we’re still in playoffs mentioned the other day I think 6th this season won’t get to 70 point teams all around too inconsistent so if substantially backed with fund that we DO have we have a right chance….not hopeful though

Could be but definitely a gamble hasn’t played in 2 months and been injured quite a bit this season too also not sure how he would play in a Parker team they quite frankly are a dreadful watch

Because we didn’t offer 4million for anybody

Agreed yes all or nothing for carrick now but attack isn’t the issue of late for them it’s in defence travers a good pick up but their midfield and defence been suspect of late

Very top heavy Azaz doak burgzorg Whittaker Villa lad ihneacho great options but their weakness has been conceding

We 100% do need another striker

Want more experience myself if we don’t get it would have danns over him anyway but still a valid point mowbray only in the door and can get things done straight away

Two good solid defenders in the door for fees too how it should work - sell Whittaker reinvest - no excuses - have smaller gates than us recently in league one if anybody is in any doubt re venkys etc just look at Plymouth indeed

Would you not say that is good management as opposed to like great players. As the second half season fall off happens every year because we can’t help or progress the team the above have been good signings but if we tally the amount of incomings all together the majority have been poor

It’s ok though Eddie says the signings have been fantastic and Eustace is probably to blame for all those………..

I would take your post seriously if most of your previous posts weren’t complete negativity towards Eustace - you have an agenda which you won’t let go

To be honest it’s pointless debating with chaddy because he changes the wording all the time to suit his own narrative can never admit he has been wrong or the club is wrong (not sure why Iv been wrong loads of times nothing wrong with it) It began with Eustace wants experience il trust whoever we get in as Eustace would have given the ok to it to now saying well we can’t get that experience (which plenty on here said due to clubs lack of ambition) so we’re looking overseas and Eustace will have some sort of say but not the final say now to then for 2/3 days agreeing with most on here about how poor it’s been that we haven’t even got one player in (priority position) and how we haven’t spent any money and not even a contract renewal to now going back again to say let’s judge come the 3rd all angles are covered - he can never be wrong when he agrees/disagrees with everything on here

That’s exactly it it works when you have footballing people in the hierarchy who have knowledge and ambition for the club we don’t which is why it’s not working stoke sheff w two off the top of my head also having issues according to fans so unless we have a competent owner/board this will never work for us

And that’s the jist of it for me the amount of say/control a manager has or should have - again to reiterate I’m not saying it doesn’t work I’m saying it doesn’t work for our club as the ones above have no interest at all

All football related I said - again it’s a preference of mine and only emphasised by the fact we are run by a bunch of morons

‘According to rudy’ id beg to differ given forshaw interview and johns interview himself yesterday I think as JE has mentioned before the club will pick some and he will pick some. I don’t believe he has been given a list of 5 and he has the final say on them at all

We keep saying about the Brentford model etc about having a director of football and a coach they liase in this perfect world and brilliant for Brentford that’s worked but it’s not a one glove fits all method - if it was all clubs would do it and we currently have one of the worst run clubs about secondly as per Eustace comments forshaw was again an emergency signing by Rudy pretty much admitted by the player himself in his interview - Sanderson an emergency signing that in truth made sense - Yuki Gueye were Rudy signings also - so not sure on what your basing his transfers on tbh and again this is of course my opinion it’s not fact or set in stone - my preference as a fan is that there is a football manager who oversees all football related things including contracts transfers etc it leads to accountability and no grey areas if signings are made and they aren’t good and results tail off etc it falls on the manager. This current set up there’s grey areas where a manager mightn’t get the sort of player he wants to suit him/his style of football which can lead to finger pointing so for me the manager should be the one making the calls he/his team are the ones working with the players daily - it’s old school yes

Nonsense - the individual assessment should directly involve the coach/manager to make sure their the right fit for the club