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With all due respect you don't know what we have to spend. The owners go through periods were they do spend on recruitment. It's inconsistent but you can't say they have NEVER spent money on the team.

Maybe the Lancashire lad wants to stay in the North West long term rather than Sheffield. Do we know Sheffield United didn't ask for him back? When he played for Preston he was one of the of the better centre halves I. The division

He was quality at Preston. If signed he would be the best defender at the club without question. If he had joined us rather than Liverpool at the time i wouldn't have been grumbling at him being made highest earner. Didn't we make an ageing injury prone Ayala the highest paid player at the club. Davies is a better player than Lenihen.

Think we will get £20 for him. He plays internationally and his star status in Chile makes him more valuable than Armstrong commercially. Better all round player than Arma imo

Non taken you don't know me from Adam. But I can tell you without a shadow he has known him for years,I asked him to ask last season and Lenihen wouldn't talk about.Some other person on here posted similar has it from someone else Trying to second guess what the club will do is futile.We used pay Rhodes 35k a week.If we ain't paying a full bench or guys who didn't even make it like Davenport 10+k a week then in theory we can pay our highest earner more or better players a higher percentage of the yearly wage budget the owners had sanctioned. The wage bill has come down but a lot of that money was for guys we were overpaying for next to nothing.Johnson last season we would have been paying 10+ .We have an academy, quite a good one for this level.Garrett has looked pretty good when Iv seen him be on peanuts in comparison Davies is coming from multiple outlets now if we ain't paying more than 22 for him then would they be even having the conversation?He would get it elsewhere toward end of window

Iv no reason to disbelieve what my mate told me he isn't the type to make shit up and iv known Lenihen said when asked about the contract so going off that it shows there is flexibility in what we pay our players as 22k is more than our current highest earner. If the idea is to pad out the squad with academy prospects and concentrate our funding on more quality in the first 11 then it will be understandable why these deals are taking time. The better the player the harder it is for us to sign.We don't have an open cheque book or the flexibility to up our wages considerably due to Ffp like other clubs have. Davies would be a quality loan addition if he is supplemented by other decent players coming in Surely we can all agree if he is the first in on a loan deal, we wouldn't believe Tomosson and Broughton would be daft enough to spunk the majority of the budget on a loan of a centre half? Especially when Tomosson has spoken of our numbers in midfield

Agreed my worry is the club and owners will let him down But I'm convinced he thinks deals are happening. The Davies deal does seem to have some legs with a few places reporting on it but we do need some in quickly to give them a couple of weeks It's obviously worrying we have brought nobody in so far

Hopefully the club will hurry up and get a couple in so we can get an idea of the calibre of player we are targeting. I get what you are saying about the Championship but he strikes me as an intelligent guy and even he said he had other offers and took his time over his next club I just don't see how he possibly would have found this position attractive without some sort of promise over money to bring in decent players after all the departures For many to be deemed a success here he will have to have us up and around the playoffs from the get go or it will be "Mowbray could manage it on loans and Freebies" My worry is the club and owners will let him down

A championship club whose highest position in God knows how long is 8th in the second tier of English football. You misunderstood me , I'm not saying Tomosson is a huge name but I certainly don't think he is Stupid. The Swiss league may not be a powerhouse but I'm sure he would get enough exposure managing in the champions league. I also think he is clever enough to have done his homework and would have known what we have lost from last season so no I don't think he would have turned that down for a probable relegation battle and not go near what we did for a part of last season and finish as high as we did. I'd be fairly certain he would have wanted a bit of money to bring some players in before he would agree to come here.Now wether the club go back on that or can't get the deals over the line is another matter. The press links with Anel and Davies suggest there is some money in the pot (could be bull I know) but I'm convinced he will have been told there is more than inexperienced and cheaper loans, free transfers or £500k lower league players

Well going off the press we were in for Anel and are now talking to Liverpool about Davies. Must be something in the pot to be even going near that sort of player. Il worry there is no money if our first signing Is from league one for a few hundred grand He had other offers.A contract on the table from 1 club

He had a contract on the table from Zurich. I'm not suggesting he has a massive budget but he is a youngish guy at the beginning of his managerial career. Why come to a club who have lost 5 of their better players, 6 when Brererton leaves with only penny's to replace them? We finished 8th last season and unless Tomosson is daft he knows we won't be going anywhere near that position without replacements of at least similar quality. And if no money to spend pointless appointing someone like him.Nigel Adkins was available We also don't know if any of those other candidates that interviewed were actually offered the job

Then JDT wouldn't be here. Did you watch the video after the game on Saturday?He said he was well aware what we have lost from the side last season and signings are being worked on. Surely if it was the case that he was working with the players we have this season he would have been talking up the squad and downplaying the need for new players. Also if the plan is no money and further money saving then why appoint JDT and Broughton in the first place? It would have been another has been just happy to get a job no matter the conditions they had to work under

Burnley and Southampton fighting it out to take Delap on a season loan from City according to reports

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Unless he wants to play 3 at that the back.If he does we need another starter to come in along with Davies(if that deal happens)

Let's say he is on £30k per week.We were prepared to pay Lenihen £22k per week. So Liverpool would have to pay off the remaining 8k per week of his wage in a pay off or they come to some sort of agreement and he gets paid off a portion of it.If a permanent the transfer fee would cover whatever they have to pay him off. Unless he is actually on a ridiculous amount like £60k per week, is he really going to want to be loaned out to a different club every year for the next 3?

They weren't in that much of a bind as Klopp preferred Williams and Phillips to him. Its just not logical for Liverpool to have offered him 60k per week when he would have walked barefoot over broken glass to join them. At the time it was strongly rumoured he had decided to join Celtic when his contract was up, do they play signings from the Championship that much per week?I have my doubts

Someone I know from back in Ireland knows Lenihen personally.I asked him last season to ask him about the contract situation but he wouldn't talk about it whilst his future was undecided. He asked him again after he has agreed with Boro.Last contract offer was 22k but he had already decided on joining Wilder. Would have signed it earlier in the year if the offer was as high as we eventually offered

Davies is a better player than Lenihen. Lenihen last contract offer that he turned down was 22k per week.

I still don't believe they are paying him that much. Liverpool ain't daft.He was on less than 20k at Preston. Why would Liverpool pay a player who was never going to play much 3x+ his wage? It's not like other clubs were offering 60k a week to a 25 year old CB who had never played above championship level. Iv seen other places suggest his wage is £30k per week which is far more likely

Well he does have a point . Not many non parachute payment clubs have spent decent money since the pandemic. Similar with the loan players every club in this division uses loans.Like Forest promoted last season with 5 loans in their starting line up

Is that true that he is on £60k a week? Very surprised if so.Why would they pay him that?No chance other clubs were offering him that sort of money surely. He would have been on 20k at max at Preston and I doubt they were even paying him that much

He is better than anything we have at the back and Is one of the better defenders at this level. Only worry is he is left footed and so is Wharton

They bought Brererton for close to £8 million and let his contract go down to a year.You protect your asset.Well could be argued he wasn't an asset at the time but still 2 season ago he was showing a bit more promiseYes he was poor when playing so it shouldn't have taken that big a rise to get the player interested in extending his deal for a couple of years For the second summer running we have been backed into a corner with our current most lucrative asset.

Totally agree about FFP and I do actually think they would spend more on the playing side if FFP allowed. But even if they gave Tomosson unlimited funds we would probably still struggle to get deals over the line with the farce of a boardroom we have.Hopefully Broughton can help with this but again that will all depend on how many hoops he has to jump through to get permission to close a deal. I don't have a problem with how much money they have put in to the playing side and I genuinely believe last couple seasons been penny's in terms of transfer fees is largely down to Ffp. We couldn't have run a wage bill as big as we did with the income we have for years and not be sailing close to the wind with FFP. Sadly we are stuck because thus far hardly any effort has been put into driving income into the club, only alienating more of the few supporters we have left by making a season ticket unaffordable for many. They won't shell out for a proper CEO or nobody of any stature will come here as they won't give them the authority to make club decisions on their behalf. We should have some leeway this summer as I don't believe JDT would have come here after all those departures if he had to rely on loans and free transfers.Fingers crossed this is the beginning where we protect our younger assets with contracts, stop giving out silly contracts to the "men" in the dressing room ,start being a whole lot smarter when it comes to selling a player.