Exiled_Rover

That would just lengthen the Venky's stay as our owners. They're determined not to let go of control of the club, and they haven't put a penny in for a year now.

I can easily find this game for free on a stream, but having taken one look at that forward line I decided against it.

Outbid by Charlton. Bloody hell.

Difficult for them to cover RB when they're both nailed on starters elsewhere.

I think we wave the white flag when we bring him off the bench.

In that way.

Seems Hilton is nailed on as our #2 too, which means the Barrett signing was pointless.

We needed another CB regardless with Wharton out for the year. You need at least 4 senior CBs. Ideally you need 5. We currently have 3, and 1 of them only has League 2 experience.

Downing was the player of the season the year before, I believe, and had a much higher ceiling (England international).

We did the same with Downing - he looked shite that season.

We're on the verge of "if they were playing a game in my back garden I'd close the curtains" - and I've got a season ticket!

They absolutely do not have financial problems - their owner is a billionaire. I know he's making them operate on a tight L1 budget, but that's a different matter.

We were comfortably in the bottom third of the Championship for wage budget last season. I suspect we're comfortably in the bottom three now. Free Agents require more in salary to acquire. The Championship mostly doesn't have a pot to piss in on transfer fees because it all goes into wages.

Along with Burnley, Hull and Derby. He's not coming here.

I'd have blocked their number.

Ouch.

You can't even trust it when he's at Brockhall holding the shirt up for the press release.

One year deal with a one year option in the club's favour. I think it's pretty clear they're unwilling to commit to new contracts beyond 12 months because they have no idea whether the money will be there to pay them once the Wharton / Raya / Kaminski / Wahlsted / Telalovic / Szmodics transfer fees are used up. It does really feel like we're in the end times.

They're selling everything of value to maintain their hold on the club - they don't care what division the club finds itself in. Clearly they're predicting that the Indian court case is going to go against them.

It's more an indictment on the quality of Dolan and Gallagher than an endorsement of what replaces them.

To be fair I'm not sure we'd miss Dolan and Gallagher.

You saw it in the post match interview after the Leicester game with him and JRC - he was professional, but non-committal about this season. He wants to go and fair play to him.

In a vacuum it's a good deal for us. That's a massive profit. Obviously all of the money will just disappear into running costs so these scumbags can hold onto the club for a while longer.

Pretty sure Birmingham were taken over by rich Americans who give a fuck.

There's a strategy?