The cash that was supposedly available to buy Duncan McGuire before it collapsed.

Yeh I highly doubt that.

I don't know why, but he does indeed seem confident. Either he knows something we don't (very possible) or he still has a bit of naivety about just how shit things are here.

But...but Forest care about him

I didn't see JDT doing it, with his big smiley face, either. He'd made a couple of cheeky remarks about the bus etc but still. And I think Eustace has far more of a temper. I think he'll see the season through as there's no reasonable clubs likely to come up, but I wouldn't rule it out if one appears, nor some choice remarks

Someone with a user name like yours should know better than making a post like that. What you said isn't even worth the dignity of a serious response.

At this point, surely criticising Venkys is basically just stating the obvious to the football community. A bit like announcing footballs are round. I'd expect most other club owners would fancy themselves to be considerably better owners than Venkys and not come in for the same treatment.

Of course, you do a great job digging out these rules and making them clearer. It's appreciated!

The GBE calculator has Ohashi on 14 points. I was talking about 15 only to say he would probably be on 15 so far if he hadn't been injured.

Oh that's a lot less than I thought, I thought it was 3 if you dropped to 75% or so, then 2 if you dropped to 50% or so, etc. Our only non-Brit players who have been used are Siggy (barely featured), Toth (2 or so appearances) Ohashi and Gueye. Ohashi has been injured for a while, both have spent a chunk of time on the bench. I'd guess we are above 80%.

Toth has 12 of the 15 needed points, but 10 of those are for being in this league so I doubt we'd be able to make the case. Ohashi has 14 which is very close to qualification, clearly he would have 15 if he hadn't had the injuries, so it's possible we could make the case (if we were signing him from another Championship club, say, he's extremely close to auto qualifying). I don't know what percent of minutes are needed for auto qualification after a year (from what Wilsden said I think that's a different thing)

Sounds like Vale will be lucky to get more than a smattering of sub appearances now. Not too fussed about him anyway, he won't make it here and his attitude has been shite when given a chance here.

Like I said before, if thay was the case I'd much rather have kept him as a squad player in an area we are weak for cover. Given how low down we are sending him, his career is probably doomed here as I outlined earlier, impressing off the bench or in an injury crisis would probably also be his last chance of impressing enough in time to make it here.

I guess if we were desperate we could try to get Ohashi qualified after the window shuts and get a freebie. So that last bit, you're saying you can try for an exceptions panel qualification after one full transfer window (ie Tuesday), but can't apply for auto qualification through minutes played for the club until a year?

We might not get the full amount of ESC slots again in the summer. You get less slots if too many minutes have been given to non-English (or might be non-British) players, regardless of whether they have a work permit. Not been a problem before, but not sure whether Ohashi, Gueye and Toth have had enough minutes to cut into it. My guess would be not quite, still got a few months to go though.

Thanks, forgot all about Kargbo taking the last slot for some reason. I do see Toth and Ohashi have enough points for the exceptions panel, I think based on playing for us now...Ohashi has 14 points. I don't think you can apply for a year though? And even if you could, Swag etc don't have the nous to realise nor do it.

I'll correct myself actually, looks like he gets 15 points so he should qualify (the calculator is indicative, doesn't mean he definitely gets enough, but seems to have been right so far). 10 points from league quality, 2 from their European participation, 2 from playing 66% of European minutes, 1 from playing 68% of league minutes. https://analyticsfc.co.uk/gbe-calculator/

There is a much bigger issue than this. We can de-register the likes of Hilton, for who we could just use Michalski or someone as third choice keeper due to their age. The real problem is we would be using our last ESC slot unless he qualifies for a work permit (thinking he doesn't?), meaning our best chance of value for our budget on a striker, our key need, is unlikely to come from abroad unless they also auto qualify for a work permit.

Why do you presume that?

What if he's a total flop, costs us millions and does none of that?

Garrett won't be on enough to make a huge dent in the finances, nor will Tranmere likely pay all of that wage. He will have been kept off the bench because if he played even a minute for us he couldn't be loaned out (technically he could but he wouldn't be able to play). Yeh personally I'd definitely rather Garrett than Forshaw.

Agree, they're clearly just looking for cheap backup. Might as well keep him as backup here, I don't believe he takes up a squad space due to his age.

Leveraus morb.

Not a discussion thread remember (glib comments posted with links aside)

Yep, incompetence yet again. We are really bad at this.