LT article said he had trained in Portugal and impressed. Personally I said yeh he will in the warm weather.

In fairness, whilst I do agree that in many ways Nixon is a chancer and often hedges his bets, that's kind of how the transfer world works generally. Most of the time, everything is in the balance. Deals can seem like they're nailed on but fall apart. Not surprising some journalists adopt this tactic, the alternative would be to be constantly making claims that things are definitely happening and getting egg on their faces, or barely sharing any stories until they're happening.

I always have it firmly in my head he was 17 when he went there, but turns out it was 18, like Goddard is. Nonetheless it's two levels higher than Bamber Bridge play (think the League One of the Conference pyramid), and he only went on one short term loan there (which he smashed) and started making limited first team appearances here the same season. I don't know what Goddard can learn from a second stint in that league that our youth coaches and the PL2 can't teach. It's not like outfield players who can learn a lot from the physical side of playing competitive games with men. At least he should get more game time than competing with our overstuffed youth goalie department. But I can only assume he either didn't do too well, to not attract someone further up the pyramid, or the club have moved him too early in the window.

I mean, I wouldn't know, but that definitely isn't what I was saying.

Yep it finally loaded. Northern Premier, same level he went to last season. I know we have too many young goalies and need to loan some out, but seems pointless to loan him to the same level again at this early stage of the summer, unless he didn't do very well I suppose, but he was quite highly rated. If he is any good you would think it makes sense to wait for a conference team to potentially sniff and I'm sure if they didn't then another club from that level would still be interested later. Pretty minor in the scheme of things of course, but I'm just not convinced we do a great job of loaning our youngsters.

This one is a transfer story about us though, and I haven't seen it posted. https://www.google.com/amp/s/footballleagueworld.co.uk/sheffield-united-qpr-bristol-city-and-blackburn-in-transfer-chase-for-aston-villa-player/amp/ In other news our young keeper Felix Goddard has gone off on loan. I can't get the actual story to load though so, dunno where!

Not a transfer story (for us) but nobody has posted for 3 hours and I dunno where else to put it.. https://www.google.com/amp/s/soccernet.ng/2022/07/id-chain-him-up-former-blackburn-boss-warns-against-cashing-in-on-chelsea-linked-super-eagles-star.html/amp Either my memory is beyond terrible and I need to see the doctor, or I've slipped into an alternate reality...this article thinks Barry Ferguson was once our caretaker manager?!

You do realise who you are talking to? All Swag has to do is talk 'positively', which he will because he is the club's CEO and a snake oil salesman, and Chaddy will be eating out of his hand.

That's money I'd already accrued though, not an extra month's pay.

If only that problem could have been dealt with in advance by changing the manager a few months ago...

Tbf, I couldn't completely rule out that being the process with our crazy chicken farmer owners.

They do get paid for an extra month but I feel like I read it was the PFA who cover them for the month? I may be misremembering. Wish I'd been entitled to extra payments and a month's added wages when I left my last gig...they wouldn't have been anything like a pro footballer's either.

We'll be putting our back out a lot if that's our spine.

I'm sure nothing could go wrong with our inexperienced, first timer DoF having full control over the budget without board oversight. Although tbf, in the case of our board, they probably should keep their beaks out...I'm just saying structurally, what he said makes sense at a normal club anyway. The stuff you've said about it going to Pune afterwards is speculation on your part, albeit plenty of chance it's accurate based on past experience.

Who said anything about size? I bet their budget is higher. We are not a top 10 club in this league in terms of our likely performance. If you're going off this season, only I think our second top 10 finish since we came down here, then Sheffield United are a top 5 club. We are a bigger club overall than them, history etc, but players want money above all else. And they're a side that, from a neutral's perspective, has more chance of going up this season than we do.

Is this you making stuff up as per the post you quoted, or is this stuff you've actually heard?

Not his first cap. Just his first in a competitive match.

I'd get used to it, whenever a club is interested that isn't lower end Championship or below, we are probably going to lose.

Absolutely we will rate different players. My point is if all our players aren't good and Preston have some that are, and had a better manager, why did we finish 5 above them? I'm suggesting your opinions on some of these players must be empirically wrong, subjectivity aside. Unless you have a different explanation for why we outperformed them?

So they've got a couple of good players, we don't have any, and we just finished 5 places above them with a poor manager in charge, even after a truly terrible second half of the season collapse. How do you think we managed that?

He already has been proving you wrong about being 'woeful', but you don't seem interested. So far I'd agree with other posters that he looks like an average Championship player. Which isn't the insult most seem to think. Seems serviceable as a squad player to me based on current evidence, after a poor start.

How many of the Preston team do you rate?

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/june/29/charlie-signs-pro-contract/ Charlie Weston signs 2-year pro deal. I again find myself questioning why Gamble only got a one-year, as U18s captain, whilst 17-year old Weston gets 2. I think some fairly kind things have been said about him in here before though. In fact pretty much everyone seems to be getting longer deals than Gamble. They can't think much of him, or his agent does and doesn't want to commit him.

Yeh I literally don't even know who that is and he plays in our league. A quick google tells me he is 2 years younger than BBD and a striker who scored 12 goals this season. Ben had done that by about November? (Yes I know he didn't score many after the new years, there were some mitigating factors there, and I know Ben was doing worse at that age) Certainly doesn't scream 16 million (seeing 20 million quoted too, probably the add ons). I'm sure there's more to his game and potential, Brentford know what they're doing in the market, but still, surely even in his last year Ben is worth more than him in the market.