The question wasn't followed up on by Yardley. It's implied that the deal fell through, rather that it was abandoned.

None of our players are good enough for me to give one single fuck about - that said I'm not the manager of a club throwing stones in a glass house.

No - in the interview he said they had a striker target on deadline day, but it wasn't followed up on by Neil Yardley.

O'Brien didn't get them there - he was a summer signing that they're now desperate to get rid of.

So he's billy-big-ball'd it with the staff (who aren't going to fire back at him), but he's sent Broughton out to face the music with the media? What a slimeball.

Who has forgiven the Venkys?

The interviewer was talking about the immediate future - i.e. there's a good chance both players have been soured on a transfer to Blackburn Rovers now so wouldn't come even if we won the appeal(s).

Shipping him out 6 months after signing him for £9m, but they like him and they'll treat him like a professional, apparently.

Pretty much. What's clearly happened is Broughton and co have done their job - convinced the players to sign, got the sign off from the CEO and then the Club Secretary has messed up the paperwork (I gather he's quite incompetent). The fact that this was such a big transfer suggests that Waggot, one of only two people that can submit the registration documents to the EFL / FA, should have been on hand to oversee the process.

I'm curious how binding that Brierley agreement is. If Sheffield United are really interested they can surely just blow our offer out of the water with their PL riches in 6 months time.

If he doesn't go out on loan he'll still be in full-time training. He'll just be turning out for the U21s rather than the first team.

It's funny isn't it - I thought the exact opposite. Credit to him having the balls to get in-front of a camera and explain (as far as he's able to given the active appeal AND the fact he'd be throwing the Club Secretary [who clearly is at fault here] under the bus) what went on and apologising to the fans.

I much prefer Forest as a club to Brentford / Brighton / Bournemouth et al... but there's a big part of me that wants them to go down this year. They've brought in 30 players this window, for about £170m. I shudder to think what the wages are - well, rumour has it they're paying Henderson and Navas a combined £250k a week in wages... for loanees. It's just wholly irresponsible management and I hope they're punished for it - cos I'm a bitter, bitter person.

It's perfectly normal for the CEO to be off-site when a £1.5m deal (in wages alone) is being concluded? Seems odd for a guy with such a 'tight' grip on finances to be absent.

They've been a embarrassment for 12 years.

When was the last time a fan protest resulted in a change in ownership? Just look at Man U - despite vigorous protesting they ended up creating a new club because the Glazer's have the kind of wealth that makes you untouchable - like apparently the Rao family does. I've no idea why the Venkys continue to own us, but we're powerless to stop it.

He'll go on loan abroad.

Also goes to show the gap between the PL and the rest. We've battled to the 5th Round of the FA Cup which, so far, has been worth £333k in prize money for us which isn't an insignificant sum. It's just over a month's salary for a player Forest deem surplus to requirements 6 months after spending £9m acquiring him. Mental.

I genuinely don't think he'll be here for the next one.

That striker hasn't scored in 11 games and has missed at least 3 sitters in that time frame. His head has gone, mentally he's in Spain already. We win the Boro and Rotherham games if someone can put the ball in the back of the net - that's 6 points without even thinking about it.

To be fair he put enough space between himself and Brockhall on Tuesday night, the turd.

As I've said multiple times in this thread, I'm bitterly disappointed that we didn't bring in a CF as that puts the end to our Playoff hopes, but even from the deals we WERE aware of it's clear where we are in the hierarchy of football right now - Undav didn't fancy it (the deal was agreed), the French lad (Konte?) was agreed, but his club sold his teammate instead and cancelled the deal. With our financial muscle and pulling power you're simply at the whims of others (thanks Venkys) - I knew we weren't signing a striker when the news broke about the French lad and he was clearly several rungs down the list of strikers on our shopping list. I like the permanent signings of Hyam, Brittain and Szmodics - they all add something to the squad and were acquired for reasonable prices. The loans have been less impressive, but I get the feeling Mola and Hirst especially were chances of the arm on players that were once standouts in the U19s.

The conspiracy theory just doesn't stack up. Waggot literally answers to the Venkys - and apparently all they're concerned about is the bottom line. All he has to say is "Sorry, Greg, but we can't afford O'Brien's wages or the financial commitment of £10m should we go up". WBA literally said that and, quite frankly, it's not an unreasonable position to take. All this failed transfer has done is shine a light on the general incompetence in our Board. Why would he want that to happen?

I had a long post typed out in reply to this, but deleted it because it's not the time or place. In summary though, he's not a miracle worker, but he's done far more good than bad in his short time here in my opinion.

Does anyone really kid themselves and think we follow a normal club? We're on life support and the Academy is our ventilator. Without that last gift from Jack Walker we'd literally be in League 2, if not liquidated. I've been hopeful since the summer that Broughton (and by extension JDT) can stem some of the bleeding by implementing a long-term plan, but their hands are tied if those above them can't even handle basic administrative tasks.