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What I don't understand is we lose £20 million per year every year? When our top earner was Rhodes on 35k a week and had other high earners the owners had to put in £20 million to keep us afloat. Now we have the third lowest wage budget in the league and spend hardly anything in the transfer market but we still have to find £20 million,?

Why would you be buzzing if we get 20 million for Szmodic? The others would expect him to be replaced for 200k or free

Nixons gossip for the day we interested in Cannon on loan and looking to loan out O'Riordan next season

Dembele is overrated on here ,any team he has been at he spends a lot of time on the bench and his scoring record is shite too

Drameh on loan isn't he? We won't be able to afford James Dembele has spent a lot of time on the bench for a side just relegated

The bookies

Dowell is only 26 I wouldn't say that is past it? Can't say iv been following how he is doing at Rangers but looked a good championship player. We won't have the money for any of them anyway

I seen the video interview.Ayari said he was a number 6 or number 8. Just pointing out he wasn't brought in as a ten like you had said in that post

Ayari didn't come as a number ten day after he signed he said he was a number 6 or 8 and spoke with the coach about playing in that position. He didn't play 10 for Coventry either

He will meet the extras(most likely already met one by making his under 21 debut)so it's a deal worth 22.5 million rather than 18 and it's said we have a sell on so we will get a percentage of any future fee. I was gutted to see him sold and should have held on until summer but as a championship player I don't think we would have got much more for him as a championship club,he hadn't even been involved with the England under 21 squad because he played for us so just my opinion I think it's fanciful to think we would have got much more for him than we did Obviously I'm fuming that the owners have put us in the position where our most talented player is being sold to Crystal palace and Szmodic being linked with Luton

Id agree it was a small price but while playing for a championship club we wouldn't have seen anything like 40-50 million for him,and although I'm sure Wharton would have seen the season out with us he would have wanted to move up a league by summer,with more teams possibly bidding we could have got maybe 25 mill like Bournemouth got for Scott.

Olly Burke and Dion Sanderson quality players? Burke has been dog shit for years and Sanderson is alright at best

Agreed but are there many players that could have been signed for £500 k(in installments) in January and the likely low wage that O'Riordan will be on that could have had an immediate impact? We had been trying to get that O'Riordan deal done early doors in January and reported we tried last summer so was a long term target of the club and could potentially still be a good signing longer term. We didn't have a pot to piss in as evidenced by who came in in January, so agree the money could have been spent on someone that was ready to play now but I'd have no confidence they would have been any good like the rest of our January signings and the majority of our summer signings with the exception of Tronstad and to a lesser extent Hill

O'Riordan was signed with the future in mine though to be fair, bought for his potential. You don't see many under 21 centre halves coming from league 2 and straight into the action for a Championship side. Only in time will we see if that money was well spent or not .I do take the argument that the fee could have been used on a player more ready to aid us this season but what does 500k in installments get you these days

Next season and beyond?He is only contracted till 2025.I think he will be gone in the summer

Johnston only on loan with them from Celtic . Looks a real talent

Hyam is only contracted till 2025 isn't he? If that is the case then can see him moving on in the summer. No way are we in contention to sign James,Brum will be looking for good money for him and reportedly they had bids from an Italian team and Palace in January

Nixon linked us, telegraph said yesterday nothing in it

Why would we be getting McGuire on a free?He will cost a transfer fee Not sure if Sibley out of contract at end of season but he wouldn't be free either as he is only 22

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/27303565/blackburn-rovers-john-ruddy-transfer-birmingham/#Echobox=1713033602 Nixon linking us with Ruddy

It won't take 52 points to stay up in my opinion. 50 should be enough

Well we did get Tronstad on a free who is better than them both. Not advocating selling either of them as it would probably be a cheap loan or nobody with this convenient block on sending funds over ,I would have sold Travis if JDT was still manager but he will have a clean slate under Eustace,tho I don't see him playing ahead of Tronstad or JRC and being out of the team here left Travis moaning behind the scenes etc reportedly I take people's point that we probably wouldn't sign better and would keep them both but at the same in Travis case going from being a regular starter and captain to being a bench player he won't want that and will be pushing to move away and rarely an unhappy player pushing for a move is kept on at any club,they get the move

Wonder if a transfer fee clause is in it? Whatever we get for him in the summer we can be sure Peterborough will get a chunk of it.Hopefully Waggott learned his lesson and didn't agree to 40% like with Arma.

Id put JRC at RB ,Ayari in midfield and Brittain on the bench

Going into December we were placed 4th for the number of clear cut chances created in the league. Some of the football was excellent going into December