Exiled_Rover

He's 5'8" so I assume he's being looked at as a winger.

On a very limited budget we need players that are going to improve our team in the current formation we play. I don't want to shoehorn players in because they can score goals i.e. Aasgard on the LW. I want a fast LW/RW who will open up a myriad of options to us in attack. Otherwise you're essentially just putting 'better' players (is Aasgard more of a goal scorer than Weimann?) in the same situations - someone out of position being asked to convert limited chances because the team as a whole has to play a certain way due to the physical limitations of the attack.

Honestly that seems like a fee we could pay, but it'd be lauded as a 'massive' transfer fee.

As much as I like Leonard's potential, we looked much better when Gueye came on. The ball actually stuck upfront. He's simply not physical or canny enough at the moment to lead the line in the Championship.

Where does Aasgard play in our system? Another slow wide player? We need pace.

Well that style of play has Forest 2nd in the Premier League. It can be very successful, but you need FAR more pace than we have.

Honestly not the type of player you'd want to be saddled with in the Premier League.

'Keeping our powder dry' for our big CF signing. £1.75m on an out-of-favour bloke from Coventry would pretty much tick all those boxes. We have a L1 budget.

Broughton wanted Thomas-Asante when he was at Salford. So if this is true we've clearly just dusted off an old list in the recruitment office.

It's amazing Leicester have made a PROFIT on Cannon. Bought him for £8m, just to have him, never played him, loaned him out a few times and now are making £5m+ whatever loan fees they've banked for him. Bonkers.

Do you ever watch our lot warm up at Ewood? Markanday was legit the best finisher on the team, by quite a margin (even better than Szmodics in that shooting drill). The rest are so hit and miss, it's no wonder we struggle to score goals.

Is that Leaburn fella still doing ok at Charlton? I'd go in for him for like £500k.

There won't be a club to pass on.

I might stop going if they roll out Markanday in the starting line up again.

The were willing to sell him in the summer, but couldn't agree terms with Celtic. I can't recall if it was £3m or £4m they asked for.

We should be raiding L1 and L2 for all the best talent. I'd loan most of them back too until the summer - but we're quickly approaching a situation where everyone is nearing 30 and / or the end of their contract and there's no contingency plan. What we don't need to do is pay Bamford and Wallace £20k+ a week.

WBA have no money. Also how much experience does Eustace want? We're collecting Dad's Army.

Cantwell has been good this year, he's just got very little to work with. No pace / trickery out wide and no real pace up front. He's fluffed a few opportunities with Gueye recently, so hopefully they start operating on the same wave length soon.

So why haven't they cut their losses and sold us then?

I think, sadly, we don't have the money because we've been given no guarantees that the owners will ever put money in again, so every fund raised is earmarked for running costs and has been for 18+ months.

It's always going to lose money and we have very few assets left. If they're planning to sell now is the time. They're just going to rack up larger and larger debts if they hold onto it.

I know we're biased and think this case should be prioritised - but this is at least the second time we've been waaaaaaay down the list in the court, to the extent where there was clearly no way they were going to get to us. Meanwhile a historic institution is bleeding out in Lancashire. I hate everything about this.

I think we're deep in JDT territory now with Eustace. He's using the media to complain about recruitment. Can't be too far off looking for other jobs.

Same with Liverpool.

Why does it bother you so much?