bluebruce

The only one of those you could argue wasn't considered good enough for Championship football is Nyambe. Actually now I think on it, we tried to keep him too. Maybe not very hard but still. And Brereton we literally turned down millions for. Szmodics we sold to a Premiership club.

I'm not sure I care right now who we get. They'll be shit, and if they're not, they'll ditch us when the club fails them, leaving us back at square one. Sick of this fucking purgatory.

On top of which, he is demonstrably clueless, as well as being arrogant and allegedly bullying some key players and personnel out of the club. I think most of us could do a better job.

Are you sure? We have definitely talked about deal sheets in these threads before, and definitely talked about submitting initial paperwork and then ironing out the fine details later. With respect, I think what you and Jackson are saying is incorrect.

From the LT: A reminder that the deadline shuts at 7pm tonight but clubs can now submit dealsheets for the first time. That allows a further two hours to complete the necessary paperwork. Something Rovers could've certainly done with in the last few years... Erm hasn't this already been the case for at least last season and I think the season before?

'Best I can do is we tried but difficult market, clubs being unrealistic with their valuations and wouldn't accept our 5 mars bars bids'

I see. Well I'd never heard of Ryan Taylor and there was no link to the article so had no idea he was a real journalist. Who does he write for?

I'm not saying you're wrong, I really have no idea either way (you have had some scoops lately though). But I think this tweet, by saying 'as reported by', is just quoting you, rather than saying they have also heard this information.

I don't really want any ex player until they've cut their teeth at a level where I'd be happy to take them on even if they weren't an ex player. The sentiment is virtually meaningless to me, I want results.

He surged us to a lower position than where he found us. The statement was technically correct as we ended the season in very good form the last 5 games or whatever, but he'd already bombed us down to midtable after taking over whilst we were in the playoffs. So whilst technically correct it gives a veneer of achievement to Ismael that he didn't warrant. But absolutely Venkys out. In fact it's another reason to think so, they alienated our capable manager and replaced him with a dimwit during a promotion challenge. Now he is about to relegate us.

Well that sure doesn't make any sense. Nobody is paying 2 million for an inexperienced kid who will cost a few hundred grand in 6 months. It's not like he's going into Arsenal's first team and helping their title charge, they've zero reason to rush other than beating other suitors. Which they'll probably be able to do anyway. And if they can't, they probably won't care all that much, not to the tune of 2 mill. As for us, we aren't using him at all, so we are just throwing money down the drain. 1 mill is plenty fair at this juncture and if they've bid that it should be accepted (or at least just slightly renegotiate based on structure, sell on etc)

No I said a third of our history, not the third time in our history. To my memory we will have been down there 6 seasons? Might be 4 or 5 in which case it's worse.

Hello again League One. So Venkys will have presided over 10% of our history, and am I right in thinking it will be a third of our time in League One? And if we don't come straight back up, more.

He's been out a while and was in great form before. I worried he might not come back quite the same from the off. Still better than Pears though yeh.

I don't see why he will unless he rips it up in a League One loan. Which I'm not actually convinced he can do. Seems overvalued already to me.

I don't see him getting into their team in order to flip for a profit. Maybe if they loan him to League One and he does well there.

They'll be in the Premiership before he comes good, and I doubt he's got the potential to be any use there.

I can't see why they would want him tbh. Then again I can't see why we want him.

I'm of the belief that clubs should be banned from these stick on logos etc. They should have to be an actual part of the shirt. Given what they cost it's a joke how quickly sponsors come off. I think I still have a Time shirt somewhere that has outlasted the company who sponsored it, because the Time logo was woven into the actual shirt. This should be mandatory. Clubs don't do it because it costs them a bit more and they want your shirt to look tatty in a year or two so they can flog you another overpriced one.

Ok seriously, what is wrong with us? Lad comes in, performs better than De Neve, we are short at LWB and we send him off on loan...to Barrow. So he can have himself a League Two relegation fight, if it doesn't just end with him not playing like most of our loans.

That's impressive...we had tons of supply issues with these guys (allegedly anyway, if it wasn't our fault in reality) and yet we're managing to be sued by them for breach of contract. 👏 that's impressive incompetence

I see what you mean, there's no point taking him early for more money because he can develop the same here and will be nowhere near their first team. I kinda wondered why they were bothering to buy him ahead of time even in the summer, and my guess is either because otherwise they might lose out on him to someone else, or because they wanted support in their youth team. Interest in him seems to have increased, Villa and Manure have been linked since the summer and I don't think they were previously. No surprise as he's now coming to the end of his contract so is on the verge of being just training compo. If anyone were serious about him they'd just pay a bit more now to steal a march on their rivals. I suspect nobody is all that fussed about him, including Arsenal, or surely they'd have a go at getting him now for 500k which I bet we'd accept, so that nobody else does.

Fair enough, I'm used to betting decimal.

Why? It'll be 250 quid by the end of the season.

You'd be wasting your money. He was very poor last time he came to us on loan, and that was 15 years ago.