I don't think he should be still manager. I also don't think Venkys are good owners and we are not a priority to them but they have provided the manager with a competitive budget the last 3 seasons.

Bowyer was under a transfer embargo and brought in Duffy who became a regular fixture, our budgets only stretch so far so yeah I do think the manager's neglected the defence and concentrated on attack. Don't see why Venkys would be against defensive signings when the club made nice money selling defenders since they bought us

The majority of our budget last year should have been spent on goalkeeper and centre half but The manager decided to spend it on Gallagher. We can debate all day about Venkys being billionaires etc and should throw endless amounts of money at us but the reality is they haven't done that and won't do that. The manager has to work to a budget and in my opinion since our return to the championship his budget has been competitive. He has made some good signings Dack and Armstrong bargains but the big money he has wasted

Because the manager decided to spend his budget on the attack and midfield.His budget wouldn't stretch to signing a player of Tosins quality. The manager wanted Gallagher and spent the majority of his budget on that so spent the million plus on Tosin rather than bringing in an inferior player for the same money on 2 or 3 year deal

1 million gets you nothing these days tho.Might pick up a bargain for that but wouldnt have faith in our lot finding them. We could have bought someone last season for a million quid and we would most likely be debating which defender we would be signing to replace that player and him still on a contract for another couple of years. Like I said I wouldn't favour loan deals in the main but for the right player that would undoubtedly improve our first 11 then I would think a signing like that would give us a better chance of promotion rather than a Sarr or Lyndsay on permanent deals. In my opinion you are smoking too strong a strain if you really believe that about Venkys not authorising defensive signings. Since being here Jones,Samba,Dann,Hanley,Duffy have brought in significant money so that just wouldn't make any sense. We have had poor managers who used the money badly spending on the wrong players and wrong positions

We don't know that we weren't enquiring/bidding for other players though do we? If the budget is as limited as many suggest then we would be hard pressed to find a player as good as Kipre.I know we desperately need new players but they need to be the best we can afford not just signing someone because they are cheap and available

I didn't want Brunt either but wouldn't be surprised if Mowbray did have a chat with him about a move here

If they did go the director of football route they would probably appoint that clown Shebby Singh

Why? What is so odd about two teams agreeing a fee for a player, and the player deciding he wanted to play at a higher level so turned us down . He wasn't West Bromwich first choice, he said in his interview that he had spoken to the sporting director of West brom weeks before.We stuck in there to see if West Brom signed their favoured target leaving us to complete the Kipre deal.

City did not let Tosin come here for nothing. Why do you make out that we haven't spent money since back in the championship? Gallagher, Brereton big transfer fees, It would have taken a nice few pound to bring in Johnson , Downing and in particular Holtby ,Tosin loan fee and wages Armstrong, Davenport etc etc. We also gave out a load of new contracts when we got promoted from league 1. In that time one outgoing of a significant player in Raya for 3 million. Also don't get why you are so against loan deals?.In the main I would prefer permanent signings but for example if we could get Tosin back for a year or sign Naby Sarr permanent on a 2 year deal which one of those do you think would give us a better chance of making the top 6 and possibly getting promoted next season?Tosin for me all day long Mawson just gone Bristol City for the year we would have a much better chance of getting top 6 with a years loan for a player of his ilk rather than signing cheap journey men just because we can get them permanently. Don't come back saying we don't know what we paid for Tosin, I know we don't but we do know City don't just give their players out on loan for nothing and it was reported we paid a million loan fee and contributed to his 25k a week wage

Yeah joined Bristol City.I just seen Mowbray leaving bargain booze on livesey with a 6 pack of super strong lager and a large bottle of whisky

Yet we reportedly paid a million pound loan fee last year for Tosin? The club is a joke when it comes to recruitment but them pretending to have money by putting bids in for players they know they won't get is just nonsense in my opinion. 900k is hardly a fortune considering we paid a 5 million fee and 7 million fee for two players

Mowbray gutted to lose out to Bristol City in the race for Chris Brunt

Of course we could sell him, my point was he is under contract till 2022, as the club have the option of a further 12 months on his contract. Sure you won't mind anyway you called it as a terrible signing when he was bought.Hopefully Buckley will prove you wrong also

Not sure it's only been said about Dack

Dack here till 2022 at least we have a years option on his deal

Whatever about Brereton(imo a Mowbray signing) ,Sam Gallagher 100 percent a Mowbray signing

He was good at Barnsley.I know you say Pinnock was the key for Barnsley but Lyndsay was very good for them also and at the time of his move to Stoke he had quite a lot of teams in for him. I'm not saying he is the answer, but just because he had a bad time at his current club doesn't make him a bad player

Yes most likely offered by an agent,he had money burning a hole in his pocket and wanted to spend it. I don't believe the theory he was forced to sign Brereton by the owners.The money should have been spent much better

He hasn't been good but he has been mismanaged aswell.The manager bought him with no clue how to use him. The squad as it is isn't good enough to go up or make play offs in my opinion nor is it bad enough to go down. I think Brereton has potential but if we are ever going to see it he will need a run of games, Armstrong had many poor games for us but was always picked the match after. I would rather Brereton,Buckley, Davenport, JRC etc be given chances this season rather than sign a bunch of journey men. If top 6 is to be a realistic target then Quality needs to be signed but some of the names mentioned as potential targets are nothing more than bog standard middle of the road championship players I'd rather go with the kids including Brereton

He has been performing in pre season for me tho,nothing extraordinary but he has done ok and is worthy of a start next weekend. And finance has to come into it unfortunately we are not in a position where we can just write 7 million off without giving the player a proper chance.He hasn't had a proper chance here

Brereton has played well overall in pre season.Like I said in a previous post plenty within the game rate Brereton added to the fact Warburton gave him plenty of starts at Forest leads me to not agree with some assumptions on here that he is talentless and has no decent attributes.Plus I saw quite a bit of him at Forest,live and on the telly and he looked exciting. I would give Rankin-Costello a start as one of the front 3 also and I rate Buckley.

Probably make signings on Monday now.He doesn't have much of a clue to be fair him and the lancs live fella. Mowbray is hopefully just keeping his trap shut now after last week's "we are close to a signing" only for nobody to sign

It was a silly signing by Mowbray in the first place that one. Palmer wanted to be playing the 10 the role we had our best player in

To be fair they were loaning us that Lamptey last January only for Brighton to buy him,that was after Palmer was here, and Chelsea soon sold Palmer who has gone on to do the square root of F all at Bristol City