Interesting, didn't expect that. We must want that ESC slot back. Assuming it does that?

Because we are getting utterly fucking desperate?

Which is ironic, because if today doesn't improve they're probably going to lose about that many too...

Fuck all really. Not sure when your last status check was, but... Ribeiro likely to come in as our LB signing. Hilton being sold to Bradford. Eustace seemingly confident we will get a couple in (one of which is surely Ribeiro) and was surprisingly smiley in the interview when asked about it. Tons of Championship rivals having no problems signing players, including ones that have already done far better than us this window prior to today.

Yet for some reason has daily back and forth with RF99, who doesn't agree with anything he says either 🤷‍♂️ I don't get it.

There are too many people still doing that for them all to have ulterior motives. Other reasons include: ignorance of the information, chronic positivity-in-spite-of-facts syndrome, and sheer stupidity.

JDT was on record repeatedly as saying he offered to resign and was refused. If you resign, I believe you are financially penalised as you are under contract. Otherwise managers would resign and go to another club instead of that club receiving compensation.

Hence why I said supposedly. Reports did also say we were trying to buy him at first then changed our mind. Obviously I don't believe it was ever happening, but certainly seems like the sort of thing our clowns would tell Eustace.

You don't know that, you just saw a report, and frankly I can't see why we would pay 2 million for a 6 month loan when we are such skinflints. Half of that would be enough of a surprise. Even if such a figure was correct it would definitely be inclusive of covering his wages. After he didn't come here, they then had to rush a deal through to the MLS because they hadn't registered him, so their bargaining power will have been low, and outside of superstars MLS teams aren't going to pay those sorts of loan fees. His stock has only dipped since. There's no way they've recouped anything like 8 million in loan fees.

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.