I’m still wondering why the Ohashi deal hasn’t been done. It’s been a week now since we were first linked.

Is it normal for a Japanese player to be 6 ft 5! wiki says 5 11 tbf.

He posted yesterday or the day before. He’s still around and still the best of the ITK IMO 🙂

Wasn’t Gallagher always rumoured to be one of our higher earners as well? Guessing that will help if we are looking at bringing in a free transfer as the wage may be higher.

Weimann wouldn’t be a bad signing but we would still be light up front. No idea where the goals will come from in the current squad.

We’ve signed Everton’s released youth team keeper!! How dare you underestimate the power of our transfer team!!

Or maybe he hasn’t. You don’t half come out with some tosh. As if he’d agree a new contract and then us just not announce it lol. I do sometimes wonder if you’re paid to post by admin. Before you came on and started spouting your usual nonsense this morning there had been about 3 posts, since then there have been about 30. Mainly calling you out on the absolute nonsense you seem to believe .

If it’s not nailed down then it’s for sale. The club are making that clear to buying clubs by leaving players out to avoid the risk of injury.

Well it produced a player in both squads of the Euro finals this year so it’s done something right.

It’ll be the same as Carson at City, and Heaton at United. Helps with their English quota of players as they have all come through academies.

Chaddy will be back this morning with his £12m fee for Sammie based on the Nicki snippet. It’s not happening, it’s going to be around £8m as every other outlet is stating. Wouldn’t mind Cannon on loan from Leicester and would welcome Hall back. Not seen much of Dembele but has the pace that we are crying out for. Don’t actually see any of them happening though.

One more year, that’s all the Walker trust needed to keep us for. We were one year away from the new TV deal where we would have become a much more attractive opportunity to investors. Instead we’ve had years of managed decline and now appear to be edging towards some kind of endgame where they recoup as much as they can before either putting us into administration or trying to sell us.

Assuming you’re fuming at the Sammie situation Chaddy as you wanted £14m for him and we’ve ended up with £8m. Or is it another happy day in chaddy land where everything is perfect with the club?

Hopefully Waggot phoned Chaddy before the deal was done to check he was happy with it.

Not sure if an offer was made but he still has property in the north west and was happy to move back up this way. I was told that after the press had mentioned that his preference was to stay down south.

Duff info on that one. He had no issue at all with coming back up north.

I still wouldn’t be completely shocked to see Scott Hogan come in. They’ve worked together before and he fits the bill of free non scoring centre forward

Yeah I was going to comment on the Raya fee as one of those hindsight moments. His fee when he left was probably fair. He’d never played higher than the championship, and had been dropped a fair bit through the season.

Exactly this. Much rather none of this had come out about the fee until it was done and dusted.

Pot, kettle, black. Mercer is wrong on his fair share, also been right on some. I would argue that out of the two of you, you’re the one closer to fantasy land with your ‘everything is amazing’ views.

Guessing Vopotnik has been bought up due to the situation at Bordeaux. Could be interesting to see what Happens with him

I’m not keen on Batth as a signing but he could arguably be a better option than McFadzean if the wages are similar. Good few years younger but still think there will be better options out there. Cardiff have picked up Callum Chambers on a free. I’d argue that would have been a far better move but he’d probably want more than a packet of smarties a week. Also noticed that Swansea are going after one of the Burnley keepers so Andy Fisher won’t be first choice. I’ve not really followed his career since he left here but seems to have been first choice at Swansea this season.

Of course Chaddy wants him, we’ve been linked to him so if he signs he’ll be a great defender and will give us much needed experience.

O’Riordan has to push on if he’s going to make any impact on the starting 11. He’s had plenty of senior games so he’s not one we should be loaning out. If he’s not good enough then we need to get shot.

So it’s safe to say that Sammie goes now. We all know that it’s just haggling a fee. We also know that only a fraction, if anything, of any sale will be reinvested. I believe the fee will be undisclosed (shock) but will end up being around £9m. They know we are skint, everyone knows that we are skint so why offer over the odds. Our only hope is that it now starts a bidding war between interested clubs. We need a goal scorer. If we were a normal club I’d be suggesting someone like Stansfield. We aren’t a normal club though so it’s a moot point. It’ll be a free transfer at best.