Exiled_Rover

Delighted with that. Took a chance on a bloke that had succeeded in L1 for free. It didn't work out and we washed our face within 6 months.

Sylvester has played a blinder - clicking save rather than submit was literally the only way he could f' up this transfer. I bet Broughton was breathing down his neck for the entire day. I'm genuinely impressed with his ingenuity in sabotaging this deal. As for McGuire - College is 4 years in the USA. He's clearly enjoyed every year of it and graduated with his degree before trying his hand as a professional. If it's anything like the NFL the youngest he could be, having gone to College, is 20, so he's not that far behind the curve and evidently he's hit the ground running.

So just to be clear, the man that should have been potted 12 months ago (as the only person that could submit the paperwork that was in the building and failed to notice multiple errors) has been allowed to remain in post and mess up again?

Yep, that'll solve the problem.

Imagine playing a Raumdeuter in this league of cloggers. 🤣

We wouldn't pay a £500k loan fee despite bringing in £24m+ in transfers this year - of course they're going to make JDT pay to get out of his contract.

With a sliver of the same investment.

Yeah that's poor negotiation on Broughton's part.

You mean their lawyers are laughing at another nice, easy pay day.

I heard a similar conversation when I was leaving the Jack Walker on Saturday. I was too dejected to slap them both in the face.

So the Director of Football has generated £22m in transfer fees this season and been allowed to spend £1.2m... and you think he's the problem? Ok.

So a loan-to-buy (with a multi-million £ commitment) has failed to go through twice in twelve months when we've been suffering under financial problems due to the Venky's tax fraud... and you don't think someone at the club is deliberately sabotaging deals? Ok. If I had to guess how this went down - Broughton set up the original transfer for McGuire. It got to Pune and they said "no, you can't spend any of the Wharton money". He then tries to rescue the deal (and get around that stipulation) with a loan-to-buy for the summer and generates the loan fee by selling Ennis. Obviously then someone in India says "no", but it's too late and the deal is already in motion... so they have to sabotage the paperwork AGAIN. I don't think we paid a loan fee for the French CB or Ayari. We're literally dealing exclusively in freebies and free loans. The Venkys do not know if the Indian government will ever let them put any money in again - that Wharton transfer fee is going to be swallowed up in running costs as we all predicted.

Well I'm glad you've fallen for Waggot's bullshit hook, line and sinker.

We also brought in 3 CBs in January, only to watch our stubborn manager go away from the 5 at the back formation he'd used the last 2 matches to revert to the 4-2-3-1 with the bonkers advanced WBs. I like JDT, but he was clearly making a point against QPR. Sadly for us it backfired - JDT will swan off to another club so he won't feel the pain of the relegation his ego is sleepwalking us towards.

You'd imagine they'd want him back playing for them.

I did say he was bonkers to sign a deal with Rovers after we called the deal off mid-flight...

I think you mean "Please Indian government force them to sell our club".

He doesn't seem to struggle doing the paperwork when we're selling players though. I can't believe they've tried the same trick twice.

Right, so they've deliberately sabotaged another deal. Fit and proper owners my eye.

Just like we exposed them last January? You lads are living in a fairytale. All that will happen, if the deal falls through, is that we'll be weaker until the summer when the whole circus starts up again.

What is there left to protest about? Most of our fan base has walked away.

Convenient, that, for those that dislike Broughton.

They took a chance that a promising young player could make the step up to the Championship. He couldn't and they've, at worst, washed their face. I don't see how anyone can complain about the whole situation.

I don't think the squad is weaker. We have, however, just sold our best player.

He played for the USA on 20 January (albeit 30 minutes). I wouldn't be too worried about his match fitness. He'll play as soon as he's cleared by the authorities imo.