Yeah seen that from Rob Dorsett on sky.He had Wharton as one of the players being dropped from the squad yesterday Clueless

Fairly surprised with Brainthwaite being left out and Dunk in.Plus Southgate said Quansah is on standby list .Can only presume Brainthwaite looked poor in training as he had an excellent season,The goalkeeper and him have a club relationship and will know each others games better and he is left footed

Congrats Adam, well deserved Just waiting for Eddie to post on here that Wharton won't see any minutes

Waggots mate? Park worked here for a year , had himself and Waggott worked at other clubs together before that?Not that I can see

He didn't even get into the under 21 squad with us , under 20 squad he was in Even when he moved to Palace he was initially called into the England under 20 squad , and then got pushed up to the under 21s when Mainoo got called into the seniors

They have brought/bringing Park in as head of recruitment which was Kimberley's role All these scouts that have left joined the summer Broughton was appointed, presumably he would have had a say in the process of appointing the recruitment team.So no real surprises to see more follow Broughton out of the door

I presume it's because he is a local lad,supporter of the club and first Blackburn born player to be involved with England senior team in 20 years. Don't see the issue with fans being proud and happy for him

Agree with the England under 21 bit but it was always going to take a move and him playing with better quality players for him to be truly recognised, different story if Venkys would have paid to bring in better quality around him but the players around him were only getting worse

Not recognised enough to receive an England under 21 call up though ,and even after a prem move it took Manoo being drafted into the seniors for Wharton to get pushed up from the under 20s The initial post I responded too on this was the suggestion he could have got an England senior call up while playing here in these Venky owned times

We turned down there first bid, I know you were told different but it was being reported by everyone, JDT commented on it, Broughton mentioned the same on the podcast. Again he hadnt even received an England under 21 call up while here so I think it is fair to believe that his talent wasn't being recognised elsewhere

I disagree it was many clubs . Many clubs in the premier league couldn't put £6 million on this year's books ? Everton, Newcastle...who else? Everton wouldn't have been paying more than palace anyway and it's widely reported that Newcastle's recruitment team felt he didn't have the stamina they wanted Many clubs could have paid that fee with no ffp concerns

We turned down their first bid .It would have been known he was available. Facts are nobody else put a bid in matching the offer from Palace.So no .No other team was willing to pay what Palace did in January It took a transfer for him to even get the recognition to be called up for England under 21s

But any club in the premier league,with the exception of one or two could have made an offer for him in January and they didn't . I don't agree with it as from day one his talent was obvious but there has to have been doubts over him by recruitment teams in the premier league, or we would have received much more interest in January when it became obvious how little h it would take to buy him

His talent was obvious correct, but still only Crystal palace paid the bargain price he was available for in January. There was obviously doubts about him for whatever reason from other premier league clubs, Iv seen the argument about other clubs being restricted due to ffp but that was one or two clubs, the rest would have had no issue putting £6 million as Wharton's first installment on this year's books He would not have got a call up whilst playing for Venky owned Championship Blackburn Rovers,the players playing alongside him getting worse and worse with our pathetic transfer business

It was Venus. Chaddy asked him about park about a week ago and Nixon replied yes

Being Cat1 will also make us more attractive to players . The academy is doing fine out.Premier league clubs also lose top talents like finnernan to other premier league clubs for next to nothing. We took Tyjon from Rochdale. I agree there should be more protection but still I wouldn't be taking us out of CAT 1 we are producing enough players to make the cost more than worthwhile

How much would Rankin-Costello, Scott Wharton , Hayden Carter,Lewis Travis ,John Buckley etc cost us to buy?A lot more than £1.5m is my guess If we didn't have an academy we wouldn't have received a record transfer fee as A.Wharton would have been in someone else's academy. It's disheartening that Finnernan will leave and what happened with Phillips but regardless the academy is the one good thing the club still has going for it ,yet you and other posters think we would be better off doing away with it? Sorry but that is madness , especially if we did do away with Cat 1 the savings wouldn't go into the first team..it would go towards running costs

Yeah and Goalscorers are the hardest to replace. Wharton and Kaminski are top players and Wharton will go on to have a better career than Szmodic but when sold they weren't bigger losses than Szmodic (if he is sold)

Well kaminski and Wharton won't be doing anything for us in the future will they? Szmodic is our Only goal scorer

When he can be arsed. Being real he had probably 12 months here where he played well, contributing goals and assists,the rest of the time we got flashes of fancy dribbles that inevitably led to nothing. Similar pattern at both Bournemouth and Southampton I presume considering he been a bench player fhe majority of the time

If we sold Szmodic last January instead of Wharton we would have been relegated. Wharton in my opinion is far more talented but he was no way near as important a player as Szmodic was last season Szmodic will be a huge loss

Id stay well clear of Rothwell Have you forgotten his non performances after being refused a move to Bournemouth the January before his summer departure? Up until then he had been excellent that season as soon as he didn't get his transfer his performances were shit He is a 1 in 3 or 4 player anyway a decent performance followed by poor performances and like you say will be on more money than any of our players

I'm not 100% but I think the recruitment people who are leaving/left joined the club the summer Mowbray left.When Broughton had come in or just before that

I hope it isn't Steve Cooper who replaces Kompany.Excellent manager/head coach at this level

Mcfadz and Flecky say what model