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Il wait until the window is shut and I see who we have brought In before I start with talk that Wigan and Derby are more ambitious than us. Again I don't believe we put a contract offer to Hourihane and even if we did Derby can pay a max of 8k per week and Hourihane if he did have championship offers it says more about hus confidence of getting enough game time at this level rather than Derby's ambitions. Again on Nyambe that depends, he can't be the fecking good if he has such reasonable wage demands but has chosen to go to Wigan.

I like Nyambe.I would have wanted to keep him.But if he does join Wigan it doesn't mean we can't compete financially with Wigan, it will mean we chose not too.As already stated we have a higher wage bill(which Broughton said was the same as last season) and we pay our higher earners more than they do. JhRover posted that within the football community Wigan are seen as a better run club and a better option than us.They haven't signed a senior player either yet and are just promoted from league 1 , last 2 months late with wages and have a squad made up of league one players.

Exactly but don't tell JHRover this Wigan are a much better run club than us and we can't compete financially with them

Derby are offering more money than us?How do you know this?Funny because they can only pay new players a max of £8k per week? What you Think and what is fact are 2 different things. On Nyambe, firstly no move to Wigan has been completed, secondly if going there it shows his demands ain't extortionate but at the same time, if he has the quality that is suggested then why is he going to a newly promoted club, suggests to me bigger clubs weren't interested enough to sign him

Well if he is as good as we think and his wages are as reasonable as suggested then why is he signing for Wigan? Surely with such reasonable wage demands and him being one of the best right backs in the league as some on here suggest then surely bigger clubs than a newly promoted Wigan would be offering him deals?

Wigan haven't signed anybody yet apart from untested young players Brennan being one of them from us who we declined to offer a new contract. When we got promoted from league one we spent considerably more than they have done. It wasn't too long ago you were wishing we were like Derby

That's exactly what I said in the post you quoted il wait and see who we sign before I criticize. It may have only been speculation that we were in for Anel and Davies but one would expect them to have some sort of idea what sort of money they would be looking for especially with JDT having been at Malmö previously if they did talk. I have no idea what budget we have, it may be healthy it may be shit.You saying we can't compete with Wigan is at the moment speculation

Wigan were Il wait and see who we actually bring in first before I criticize the decision not to give him what he wanted.I do rate him and wanted him to stay but there are players that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg that could replace him We have the same wage budget as last season and lost 50k roughly from the bill last season.I don't think we have a mega budget but IF we even entered discussions for Davies or Anel then must be something in the pot

Or the people at the club don't believe Nyambe is worth what he wants.Pretty sure we have a higher wage bill than Wigan and we pay our highest earners mor than they do

Nixon saying Wigan one of the clubs in for Nyambe

Source????

It is odd that Nyambe hasn't signed on for anyone yet.Missing pre season for whichever club he chooses to join puts him behind in claiming a place in the starting 11. Perhaps it is true that his agent is looking for a deal beyond Nyambe's ability

An 18 year old without a senior appearance for Man City signed for Southampton for £14 Million this summer. Playing for a City reserves would probably give him a better chance of playing for England u-20 or u-21s than playing for our first team.Not saying I agree with that but it's the way it is.

So if a big 6 club is offering 10-15k a week like they often give top young players then we should match it? Far more highly rated young players don't live up to their potential than the ones who actually do. Yes we should be making him a good offer and doing our utmost to get him to put pen to paper but I also don't think the club should be open to too much grief for not being able to compete with one of the top clubs for his signature

Again do you know we haven't made him a very good offer? Don't come back saying "obviously not good enough". We can't compete with the big clubs like most others including teams in the premier league

Tell me 47er what the club could have done regarding Phillips? My point on Haddow Is we werent competing with a big 6 club for his signature.But we were competing with at least one premier league club, and we won Like my post said every club outside the so called big clubs is vulnerable to losing their better youngsters because those clubs can afford to set a talent up for life we along with most other clubs can't do that.

A big six club can offer a contract that can set him and his family up for life. This happens to premier league clubs aswell, losing their prized youngsters to big 6 clubs.Even other day an 18 year old Arsenal were desperate to keep left for Chelsea. You say "our" journey to becoming the modern day Crewe like we are the only club at risk of losing its better young players to a club with far more financial clout and standing in the game. Did I see your post praising the club for convincing Haddow to sign a new deal turning down premier league interest? The problem is the rules, making it so easy for another club to poach a young player who has spent a considerable time at their current club

Yeah but we lost deadwood that were on decent enough money.Bj 10k per week and Davenport who wasn't even making the squad half the time.20 k in wages there.I honestly think there is a high probability Garrett would contribute just as much as both combined and what's he on?Couldn't the savings there go to paying a higher wage to a better player? I have to question the wisdom of Tomosson taking the job on if he doesn't even have enough money to go to the likes of Barnsley and take Styles and Brittain. He might claim to not know what's going on but by the way he is speaking specifically after the Accrington and then Dundee games about Davies etc he came across to me as someone who thought we had the finances to complete a few deals

So that reported interest in Anel that went Sheffield United wasn't true?That wouldn't have been a loan as he was out of contract next summer

He had 6 months left on his deal when Liverpool bought him. If he had been under a longer contract and a team wanted to buy him at that time Preston would have been looking for at least £5 million for him. He was one of the better defenders in the Championship at that time.

I still call bullshit on Hourihane.Only a couple are genuine itk and even they get stuff wrong. Even if (I don't believe it)Hourihane did turn us down says more about him going to play in league one rather than testing himself at the highest level available to him and the decision most likely would have been due to playing time.He wouldn't get in ahead of Buckley alongside Travis imo. And as for Cantwell...you reckon the club contacted Nixon to put a story out to fool us stupid fans into thinking we are looking at decent players?

Cantwell hasn't gone anywhere Hourihane turning us down is bullshit Apart from a couple on here saying they would like Colak has there been one legitimate link that we made an offer for him? It's enough that we haven't brought anyone in yet. We don't need to make things up to slag the club off when there are enough legitimate reasons to give the club grief over

If we were serious about Davies then the deal Should have been done last week before Rangers sold Bassey for £20 million

Nixon saying Rangers are close to an agreement for Davies

Agreed, I wasn't saying it will definitely work out for us here my post was more in response to the post I quoted were the poster said it isn't seen over here as it doesn't work.