The proof will be in the pudding next season let's see if the pitch holds. If the club were carrying out the work or have carried out the work that Waggott promised then the club would let it be known. The plan was to have a concert only a few weeks ago and I fail to believe in the timeframe the work which Waggott promised has been done. More money might have been spent and more may have been done but not to the extent what was promised 2 year ago

Yeah but if Mowbray had been appointed at West Brom then chances are Venus would have been following him there. I'm sorry but very hard to believe any of this that isn't a criticism of you sharing it but i just don't think that's the way things went down

RN not so long ago he wasn't signing because Venus had advised him he could join himself and Mowbray at West Brom on much better deals. That is what you were telling us not long ago, now I know you will reply that it was Rothwells dad said it but even if the case it turned out to be well wrong and are now saying it's the complete opposite that Nyambe's reluctance to initially sign a new deal here was due to bullying from Venus?

There should be a deadline not letting it go till the end of their contracts in the hope they will sign. I'm not criticising the club for not giving the players what they wanted but last summer these players should have been given a take it or leave it offer, and if they decided to leave it then they should have been offered around so we could get something for them rather than zero

Waggott? Believe it if you want put I'd put my house on Wallace not being anywhere close to signing here.

Wallace was in talks with Besiktas in January.Sorry Paul but no way I believe Wallace had agreed to come here on the wages we pay And I'm quoting the Peterborough chairman on Dembele We might have had players lined up but not in the class of Wallace.Not buying that at all

Lol Dembele and Wallace were coming in on The wages we pay?Nonsense Plus the Peterborough chairman said Dembele had no interest in joining us and wanted Bournemouth

If the players won't sign new contracts or what they want is beyond us then you try to sell them with 18 months or a year left on their deals. You keep saying they had deals on the table for 2 years well why the hell didn't the club sell them then? It's a club failing that we zero money for them.It isn't the fault of the players.

They have paid big money to dross loads of times.They have an owner who is better than ours and who cares more but to say they haven't made quite a few mistakes in the transfer market and with wages is just wrong

I heard it is around the 30k per week mark. Lenihen was on 14k per week here reportedly

They obviously have smarter people at their clubs who drive more income into the club. It also helps that they don't play on front of 12-14 thousand at home every other week And Gibson is a far better owner. At the end of the day we were running out wage bill at 180% to our turnover which couldn't continue

It's not good but last season we got Kaminski and Travis to put pen to paper so hopefully going forward the club will start acting normally(I'm not holding my breath I'm saying hopefully,) and sell players if they haven't committed to a new deal with 18-12 months left on their contracts. Rumours are Lenihen will be on 30k a week at Boro, he isn't worth that sort of money and I wouldn't have wanted the club committing to a 4 year deal on that contract

Do you think Kompany would have gone there if they selling their better players and no money to replace them?He wouldn't have Chaddy . They have already an offer in to Wallace(Although he due a medical at West Brom)They have a bid in for Twine.Bellis close to joining on loan. They will be signing quite a few players this summer

Chelsea were being linked with him 12/18 month ago https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/14316580/chelsea-transfer-blow-ahmedhodzic-atalanta/

I have.We butted heads in the January transfer window over our failure to bring in another front man. You were definitely right and hopefully we will be bringing in a couple of goalscores this window

Markanday isn't a striker if JDT plans on playing 4-2-3-1 then we will only really have Gallagher who can play the lone front man role and even if you feel Gallagher has the goals in him he still picks up an awful lot of niggles and misses quite a few games. I think it will be madness not to sign another striker if Brererton Is off. Agree defence is a priority aswell but we definitely need a goalscorer if Brererton leaves as expected.

Norwich were turning down £20 million bids from Aston Villa last summer. They had asked for 11 million from Bournemouth for a deal to be made permanent this summer. Il presume Cantwell is on more money than any of our players. I appreciate that his Value will have come down but still feel this is a deal that is very unlikely to happen.I don't believe that Cantwell will sign on here for less money just because he knew Broughton when he was 15/16

Last year some papers were saying we would accept 10 million for Arma.

Will markanday not have a start there? Like I say Cantwell is decent but we can't go spending most our budget on him. Norwich wanted 11 Million to sell him permanently to Bournemouth.Even if they were to sell him for 5 or 6 that's likely to be our whole budget.

Cantwell would be a decent signing but shouldn't be a priority.If the budget is once again minimal then be daft to blow the majority of it on Cantwell. A number 9, Centre back, Central midfield and Right back(if Nyambe leaves)should be the priority imo.

I agree that it's not the way to do things but come on we ain't the only club that does this.It happens regularly that staff are kept on at clubs after the manager departs. Ferguson at Everton being one.Parkes here and there will be many more coaching staff that have been kept on at other clubs.

Carss going to Villa as head of youth according to Nixon

Park is going at the end of this month

But surely you announce him and add subject to be a work permit being granted. I know we have seen some daft things at the club but surely after 5 weeks of a managerial search surely we have done our due diligence and know wether JDT meets the criteria for a work permit or not. Read Kompanys isn't all to do with work permit issues he was applied for citizenship apparently

Presumably all that would have been discussed in the interview and for him to agree to take the job (if he has) then he must be comfortable working with a Dof above him ? It's not like he was already in situ and a Dof has been brought in over his head.