It is, hope he’s developed a bit of a thicker skin as he’ll need it running a L2 club! 😄

The fact the elite clubs didn’t bid says how raw he still was, they didn’t fancy dropping 17 million or whatever then and there for a squad player, unlike a Phillips that was a bit of pocket money for Tottenham - so as I say a normal club wouldn’t have been selling as you aren’t getting the price his potential would obviously lead to. Parish spotted it and could offer first team PL football whilst he was at it.

Because it was too early in his development, he hadn’t even become a top week in week out performer in the Championship yet, ergo a normal club wouldn’t be selling there and then when his potential was off the scale, they’d wait and pick their opportune moment - we aren’t, so we did, end of story.

Value and worth is only based on what the market says it is, is he twice as ‘good’? Course not, but alas assets of distressed sellers just aren’t worth as much.

Maybe back JDT and try and get in the PL ourselves then, then we’d have been getting 50 mil… oh silly me, we don’t have that kind of billionaire owners of a Championship football club

Hmmm, maybe you don’t sell to them then?

Of course, it would never have been a sky high fee in January 2024, nobody said it should’ve been. He was still not a household name at this level, oh and we were a distressed seller with cash flow problems, so how could we have got anymore there and then. Obviously a normal club with billionaire owners wouldn’t have been conducting a fire sale in the first place and would have instead been selling post he had developed further and become the league’s hot prospect on their terms at some time down the line, not the buyers.

The Masher Paradox

My father in law who has been going since the late 1950s hasn’t renewed, for him it was the TV factor. He has Sky and he has a fair drive to games, so the fact he could see two thirds of our home games on TV made it a much easier decision.

The 2027 thing is a quite unbelievable stat… well, it would be anywhere else. ‘A slow build’, indeed.

I’m not, no, as it makes no material difference to the team, kind of the point of selling players.

Exactly, matters not what he went for in the first place, will matter not for his next move… doesn’t mean we can’t find the behaviour of the regime re bundling him out the door to the first bidder a fitting symbol of their chronic mismanagement.

Hmmm, err, £80million, why not. Champagne corks all round for Swag-hail.

I won’t be ‘happy’ regardless, It’s irrelevant as the team will see zero of whatever sell on fee it is.

Nothing to complain about… the lad was bundled out the door as quick as feasibly possible.

‘Anyone at Brockhall who can do it?’

Surely you should be putting in a seat request for said seat next to a mate and that could be provisionally ‘greyed out’. Why do 11,000 seats need to be off sale for a week?

I must be being dim, explain to me then why c12,000 spare seats in the open stands need to be off sale for a week, to process, what, a hundred or so seat transfers?

Surely you could just provisionally block out some seats or whatever, completely off sale for a week? Good job they aren’t all on a drive to increase revenue down there…

Obviously M-B is happy enough with a regime decision.

Yep, he thinks they are some of the best owners in football (no, really!).

Yep, not sure why this is even up for debate. If they are good enough they’ll get games, but you don’t just chuck them in to hit some arbitrary minutes target.

I’d take that advice if I had a clue what it was.

And that’s fine, we all make mistakes - but then surely you are the last person then who at the moment should be acting all high and mighty about clubs sacking managers after a much longer 6 months or 12 months…

I take it the FF that was scheduled for Monday has been re-arranged?