A Barnsley friend has said they have agreed a deal with a Championship club and we are the only Championship club who have enquired about him.

So back to transfers. By the looks of it, Szmodics is likely to be signed today or tomorrow and I keep being told styles will by the end of the week. Hopefully we can get a CB as well in this week. One thing that worries me is that we have not been linked with any forwards at all. I would have though with BBD likely to be leaving we would have been linked to one or two by now.

We are much improved on set pieces. Our corner taking and free kicks looked like we'd actually practiced routines in training

It seems that he thinks he can develop Gallagher and Dack at the moment doesn't fit into the game plan.

I think it will be £1.5m rising to £2.5m based on appearances etc. I wouldn't be surprised to see both signing.

I still think Styles will arrive in the next couple of weeks to solve that issue

Throughout Venky's tenure they have either been kept the same or been increased each season. Prices have never been reduced since Venky's have been here

In agreement on all of this but ask JW what Madame Venky said about his season ticket policy before he left. They don't like to devalue their product with price reductions. Sadly I don't think anything changes until Venky's leave and a new owner comes in who understands the fans, attends matches and wants to get involved and improves things. Till then it will be a death by a 1000 cuts maintaining the status quo and season ticket price rises each season

To us fans it's an issue, to Venky's it doesn't matter, they still inject £15-20m a season into the club and seem to be happy for players to leave on a free. If Venky's have agreed a wage budget and certain maximum levels for player categories in it then there will be no leeway or flexibility with it.

In an ideal world yes but this summer was always going to be difficult with the new team only just being in place. In reality JDT hasn't seen any of the players in a competitive match yet. We seem to have a plan of the system JDT wants to play and the additional players needed to make it a success which is better than most seasons. It's just going to take time to get the players in within our budget.

That's the benefit of being proactive and getting rid of the manager early, giving half a season to review the squad and decide what is required. Our issue is down to how long it took to put the new system in place.

Barnsley probably want a replacement lined up before they sell Styles.

I'd counter with Nottingham Forest, terrible first 10 games followed by promotion

We will have to wait and see on the details but player trading will be classed as turnover. We'll need to concentrate on boosting turnover and turning a sponsor down who is offering £1m a season won't be tolerable from next season

Nope at the moment I believe it excludes the cash injection. The injection is for normal running costs, maintenance and transfers and not for player wages.

Just the players

It is just accounting of how the money comes in and doesn't really effect things too much. Cash or Shares are really the same thing in this regard.

The actual detail of this is still to be released, I would expect that to be in August/September for it to be made public. Over the past 2 years the wage budget has been reduced substantially and after the departures I think we are probably now at around 75% and have a wage budget available of around £50k per week possibly more.

Yep they can increase to £20m a season without needing to sell the rest of the training ground etc. The issue will be the wage budget and keeping it under control or substantially increasing turnover in the next couple of years.

The agree new EFL rules are slightly different. From next season (not the one starting on Saturday, owners can fund £60m of losses over a 3 year period as long as injected as cash. Wages will be maxed at 90% of turnover reducing by 5% a season over 4 seasons to 70%. All of the players we have been linked to so far are paid around £5k a week and signing them is comfortable within our wage budget of up to £15k. Our transfer budget does seem to be £9m or thereabouts and we can spend on 4 year deals so long as they don't break the wage budget and there is a logic of pushing through the deal for Styles, Brannagan and Bowler but it is difficult. Now in regard to Davis he was affordable for a 12 month loan but difficult for a 4 year deal at our turnover levels. With regard to BBD with his 12 month extension and being between 2 new regulations it doesn't make any difference to our FFP regulations if we sell him this summer or he leaves for free next May.

Remember, FFP changes next summer, so a sale is not necessarily required.

It's a possibility and funds are there to do it. Although I am told by a friend at Oxford that we have made a bid for Brannagan. Still no forwards being linked though but it's nice for once to be building from the back with a plan based on what we need for a system to work

I just can't get my head around that amount per week and he's not been that good for 18 months or so.

I wouldn't rule out JPVH signing permanently by the end of the window.

Transfer fees is not the issue, transfer budget is £6-9m plus can be increased if a special case comes along. The issue is can we get them all in our wage budget. So far we are going after players who are on comfortably less than £5k a week at present club so are more than likely going to be ok on £10k or so here.