You're right, it's confusing. Not like it used to be. Deals only need to be at a certain stage by then, from what I recall from last year. Some crap like that.

If we need to let someone out to bring a defender in, it would confirm we have been lied to all summer.

Forgot they have that fairly quick train between Manc and London these days. Probably do-able that way to be fair. But it's not like you need to physically be somewhere to be in talks. Could have been a phone/Skype job with us ("You've nearly finished learning from Evans and Smallwood, I reckon by January you'll be ready to learn from Johnson and Travis, and then we'll put you in around April if we're not in a promotion or relegation fight. At right back. Hello? Hello?") followed by nipping round the corner to sign for Fulham.

Yeh I doubt a footballer could afford a car.

Any idea which ones? Won't be so great for us to have played this game if we lose a future prodigy for a pittance as a result...

Physicality isn't rare at a higher level though. I suspect that will even out more as they age and we will need to see how much technicality they have. Wasn't that Irish Messi lad on Real or Barca's books at one point?

Why do they have to be free and 4th choice? Or is there a joke in there that isn't coming across too clearly?

Raya has been shipped out, Nyambe IS being treated terribly. Travis nearly ended up out on loan a full six months after being ready to play, whilst our midfield crab-passed around.

There we go.

And given our track record, we won't be bringing 2-3 centre backs in next summer, nor attempting to do this before bloating other areas of the team.

They can eat dicks as far as I'm concerned, if that's what they'll pay. If that's all we are asking, our entire management team need to go. Which they probably do anyway tbf.

Who were easily the better side? Us? Jesus...

What about him?

Careful, by this time tomorrow you might be singing the entire repertoire of Morrissey instead.

Feels like a while now since I've seen Biz post....funny that.

That'll be a good signing for Body Care's team. His stock must have really fallen though.

Thing is, I can't remember a time when the majority of this board lost faith in the manager, as has happened now, and that manager turned it around. It's always been a death knell it seems. When that sort of proportion of the board think the manager can't take us forward, we've always been proven right as far as I can think back. The closest I can recall is probably Mowbray himself. I don't remember whether we quite reached that point during the disastrous start to League One, but we were certainly pretty close in the 1 win in 11. He earned a stay of execution after following that with the run of wins, finally playing Rothwell and promising defenders. But the failure to shore up the defence yet again, followed by a defeat to an awful team which evidenced he was still making almost all the same mistakes as last season (only exception being no Evans or Smallwood) has tipped us thoroughly into the majority having no confidence. I'm not going to call for his head yet after just one game and with the window still open. It simply isn't my way (unless I'd said I wanted him gone all summer anyway). I see little point in giving a manager all summer, blowing the window opportunities somebody else could have had, to then only give them one or two games. But truthfully, it feels like the writing is on the wall and short of a shock success being made of the end of the window, I simply can't see how things will get better. I think he needs to turn this around rapidly or things could get sour with the fanbase at large rather than just the disgruntled lot here.

Sure sure, bang average shit, but not shit and bang average. Syntax is king.

You can't be both those things.

...we're in a room?

He's 35 in a few weeks. Rather not give him a 2-year deal.

Our scouting network probably doesn't extend to many of them...

He'd probably field that in reverse if he could. 9 strikers, 7 midfielders and 1 defender. "We'll have so much possession we'll never concede..."

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17819746.contracts-competition-make-rovers-departures-unlikely/ This article confirms we did pay a loan fee for both Walton and Tosin.

That's the main basis of my assumption he has gone on to be better.