Can you imagine 😂 'Sorry Cauley, we didn't think Dennis would actually sign the contract, and Rudy was doing his best to sit on the fax machine whilst Swag sent photocopies of his arse to the EFL, not sure how Dennis' paperwork got through.'

Signing more than one player we will own past the summer, with a bit of the 40 mill we have reaped, would help. As would a proven, prolific Championship striker like it sounds like WBA got, rather than one who is struggling at this level and one who hasn't played for nearly a year. And/or cover for CM that isn't fuckin Forshaw. It's definitely looking better than it did before today. But the striker options are firmly a gamble (yes yes, all signings are a gamble, blah blah, but it's about degrees) and if Trav and Tron don't stay fit upon their returns we are a bit of injury trouble from our strongest position becoming our weakest. It's not a disaster of a window, and with who we have in charge we may be able to scrape 6th even, but ultimately we have been in our best spending position in years and spent 800k in fees on only one player who will be here past summer. A summer in which a huge chunk of the squad are out of contract or returning to parent clubs. It's kind of amazing we brought in 6 players and didn't address that, and still have an Achilles heel in CM if injuries to two players there persist (which I suspect they will, Travis was down 3 times in the last match).

'The league didn't tell us there are no longer deal sheets in the EFL. Well, turns out they did but it went into our junk mail. So we just sent the deal in principle before 11, thinking we still had 2 hours to finalise it.'

That suggests you know it isn't true for an absolute fact. And you don't know that.

We must really think they're fit if we're pulling them off.

I think that is the technical term for someone who looks at YouTube highlight reels 😉 Perfect timing, I'd have hated to get someone on that job while they had time to add their analysis for the benefit of this crucial window.

I'd really rather he didn't. Hopefully he fails it.

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The LB, Ribeiro (not Bruno)

Watford were actually in the Prem when he scored 10 for them.

Not true.

Romano is one of the most reliable in the transfer stories game.

Yeh - this cake:

I think they meant on attacking the squad and fan base's morale, by concentrating the funds into Swag's pension.

They collapsed like a second half of a Rovers season, so it would be fitting.

What service?

Ribeiro was under contract at Braga until summer 2026. It seems odd that he has agreed to swap that for a year less of contract security. His wages would have to be triple his Braga wages for it to be worth his while financially, unless they've paid off 2/3 or so of his contract. Which is probably the going rate for contract payoffs, but I have to wonder why they were so desperate to offload him that they'd do that. Also strange we haven't put a one year extension option in there, especially given we will be down a left back in the summer.

Is Forshaw a perm until the end of the season too then? Curse my memory

I can only think it's because the final signing we are targeting is a loan and we already have 4 loanees, limit being 5.

Schlupp reportedly going on loan to Celtic

I think you're thinking of what you'd like to do to them.

I'd have thought a loan to an English club made more sense, since it's not just getting used to men's football but also England and English football.

Insetad the middle of the season would define the entire season based on injuries. It's not the January window's fault things are shit here, it's bellend chicken farmers in India.

Possibly not. @wilsdenrover will know! Ribeiro auto-qualifies according to the GBE calculator I checked. So no ESC slot needed.

A twitter post from the club confirming it higher up.