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It is coming more into the English game and the same set up is seen at quite a few clubs. Farke at Norwich was Head coach ,Webber led the way with signings. Huddersfield last season Coberan was head coach someone else led the way with signings Klopp at Liverpool, has the final say on targets(like JDT will) but Edwards came up with the lists of players for Klopp to choose from. Other clubs are going down this route and tbh I think it is the correct way to go(once a head coach doesn't have a player he doesn't want forced on him)

He has the final say

Rangers and Burnley want Davies now according to the sun and Nixon https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/19223493/ben-davies-liverpool-transfer-burnley-rangers-stoke-blackburn/

Blackpool have accepted a bid from us for Bowler?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19223405/blackburn-ben-brereton-diaz-sevilla-transfer-news/ Nixon

Do you still think we don't need any comment from Broughton?

Before that.He had agreed the Boro deal pre Broughton. I can't say 100% he was offered £22k per week but I can 100% say that is what Lenihen said despite what JB says

Another poster on here said about the 22k per week contract offer from a different source than me. My ex house mate from London has known Lenihen since childhood, was at his wedding as I was and when asked Darragh said the last offer he received was 22k per week.It was too late and he had already decided on Boro.

A championship club can't be paying their top talents what the top 6 clubs pay them.Be realistic here A city ,a Liverpool, a united can afford to pay an untested 16/17 year old 15k a week and get it wrong. Agree about Lenihen and the others. But the structure and ceiling has obviously been looked as Lenihen did get that offer. And Travis an academy graduate signed a long term deal last season and would have got a significant increase on his money

Lenihen was offered 22k per week that is from the horses mouth. Travis was happy to sign a long term deal last year. If we lose Phillips not sure how the club can be criticized for it?He is the top young talent of his age in the country and every big club in the country is looking at him. Do you honestly believe even bottom half prem teams don't lose their top talents to top 6 clubs when they come calling?It happens all the time. If he ends up at one of those clubs fair enough but if he ends up at one of the big 6 then it's unfortunate for us but not too sure what you expect the club to do put a gun to his head and force him up put pen to paper? City ,Pool, United ,Chelsea etc pay some of their under 18s 15+ grand a week

I wasn't asking for a weekly interview but considering we are 2 weeks away from the start of the season and are yet to make a signing ,it may ease a bit of worry if Broughton commented. JDT didn't really give much comment apart from "the club are working hard".

Why haven't we heard from Broughton since the JDT appointment? Iv tweeted Sharpe the same.Why ain't the local media seeking him out for comment on what's going on regarding incomings

His wages are relatively low at Brighton with most sites suggesting he is only on £4k per week

Brighton in talks with Rangers over signing Bassey. If they get that one over the line maybe Van Hecke will be available on loan or permanent. Probably be other clubs interested but he seemed to enjoy his spell here last season

Brainthwaite joining PSV Eindhoven on a season loan

He is better than Lenihen.Well was when he was regular at this level. Could have gone backward since joining the pool. If Davies was Irish he would probably have 50 Caps now not the 1 or 2 Lenihen has

The main reason giving me optimism is the fact JDT has openly said he knows the quality and experience we have lost from last season.I just really don't think he would have agreed to join if it was penny's he had to replace them. Until we get a couple in its speculation either way but IF Davies is the first to come in even on a loan deal then I think we will have a healthy enough kitty, as I don't believe Liverpool would subsidise too much of his wage(unless he is actually on £60k) as other championship clubs will pay the wages toward the end of the window.I also don't think Broughton or JDT would blow the majority of their budget on loaning in a centre back. Fingers crossed there is a healthy budget as we need it if we don't want to be stuck with 5 or 6 others toward the bottom of table

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