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In the top 8, 6 wins in 8,then an injury ravaged squad ,tired legs and heads and a lack of backing in the squad hit us JDT isn't faultless,some things I disagree with but up until December he had done an excellent job when you see the lack of backing from the owners and the shit show supporting him. How many death spirals did the last fella get and he's a legend for some

It's just a rumour he isn't gone yet.

He probably wouldn't be desperate enough to come here and wait for better job Rowett I think could be tempted

I don't understand why he would take the game and then leave Surely you just leave If he is gone hopefully be sensible and get Gary rowett in at least till end of the season no gambles on foreign managers from abroad or managers considered because they had a promotion 60 years ago but hoping it's just nonsense and JDT will remain

And they haven't sold one of their own for 20+ million

I just had a look on his twitter, he was asked a question and just responded by saying "I don't think he will be there much longer.But haven't heard anything about him leaving imminently" something along those lines It read to me it was just his opinion rather than any insight

Is there many championship forwards that can be signed for £300k what we bought Telalovic for? Even Hirst has done ok for Ipswich, it didn't work out here but he has shown at Ipswich he is capable of playing at this level Some of recruitment has been shite like the goalkeeper, but when more than a million has been spent then the players have done ok. Again not saying GB is the Messiah but he is working with his hands tied behind his back

Says who?Who said we were down the line with the signings of Szmodic and Hyam before GB arrived. So we had no manager/head coach or Dof but you believe the club were making bids for players? Sorry I do not believe that. Those players might have been on a list from the previous regime but there would have been many more names on those lists

It doesn't look good know but when the circumstances he is working under keep getting changed at the last minute it's understandable. Take the summer,end of season interview he was under the impression the wage budget remained the same and any transfer fee would have to be self generated.They then cut the wage budget by 15% and gave him £1 million from the sales of Kaminski and Phillips. In that interview he also outlined the need for experience to be brought to the squad and was telling supporters on the pre season tour that we were down the line with the Danny Batth signing only to be overruled by the owners I do not think he is doing an incredible job or anything but any dof would find it extremely difficult to do their job competently with that interference and circumstances changing every 5 minute

Documented by who ?Steve Waggott So we believe him when it suits our argument do we?

How do you know? They were signed while he was in situ.If he was that against signing them he would have signed other players What's the bets if this McGuire does well it won't be a GB signing either. All summer on here it was rumoured not just by mercer that Adams was GBS preferred striker target,then the budget changed and we couldn't pursue it.He moved to France for £4 million and has done well enough for his club to now value him at £20 million amid interest from premier league clubs. According to various reports we were making bids for players as late as Wednesday but once again Broughton had the rug pulled from under him and was left scouring the loans and freebies. I am in no way saying that Broughton is doing a great job but he has his hands tied behind his back.For the posters who say a more experienced man with contacts would be better ,I do agree but dofs with experience and a large contact book wouldn't work for this lot.

You realise he signed Szmodic the top scorer in the championship? Hyam our captain and both supporters and players player of the year last season ?

Yeah Szmodic doesn't count as one of Broughton's signings cus Steve Waggott said so psml

Various reports suggest he was on that much at CSKA Plus it's not a stretch to believe it, he cost them £4 million , they played champions league and the Russians paid decent wages pre war. When he went to Venezia they got an 800k loan fee And also "no way" how would you know if we are paying those wages or not? Do you think Szmodic renewed without a significant increase bearing in mind he was championship top scorer when he signed it?

Or us as fans are underestimating the cost of all the new contracts in the last 18 months. Sigurrdson for example was on 18k a week at CSKA Moscow ,surely we won't have given him that much but he will be on at least 15k per week The lads who came up through the academy Carter, JRC etc would have had a big jump from the contracts they signed when breaking through to the first team

That was the project when JDT and GB walked through the door Both GB ,JDT and Waggott have said the project changed in the summer.Numerous times JDT has referenced ,"the project totally changing" The new project is sell anyone worth anything and replace with academy loans and short term deals

I know I'm repeating myself but the let can ask GB all the questions in the world , why do you think he will have any answers? We were making cash bids to buy players permanent on Wednesday 24 hours later it was only players on deals till the end of the season we could sign. Broughton will not have a clue what his budget is for next season , and if he does by the time summer comes round the goalposts will be moved again .

How can Broughton give assurances about anything? Summertime budget cut after bringing in 2 players January making cash bids for players 24 hours later we can only sign players till the end of the season.

We were making bids for permanent signings the day before deadline before the plug was pulled and only people until the end of the season could be brought in. Nobody at the club will know what the plan is going forward after the end of the season so absolutely pointless Broughton discussing plans for the summer window.

We will sign nobody else

Yeah in for Nat Phillips he goes elsewhere and we then sign another Liverpool player, younger , cheaper/free ,less experienced

The McGuire loan option will go the same way as our last January loan that had an option zeefukin nowhere

He has no money to spend on a permanent deal why do you think McGuire has gone from a permanent to a loan?Why you think we are signing 37 year olds on 4 month deals?Taking a lad on loan from Liverpool who hasn't done much in his previous loans? It's more like 5 pence rather than £5 million Broughton has I still feel our recruitment looks poor even with the little we have but it's the owners who are the issue here nobody else

That's what happens when the owners turn around and forbid a transfer fee being paid out of the Wharton fee It's quite obvious until yesterday the people making the bids were under the impression some of the Wharton money would be available

According to Ayari he is a 6 or an 8,he said it in his interview upon joining and said that's where he had played in Sweden. I'm not suggesting he should replace Wharton or is good enough to play that role for us but he came here to play in those positions,said as much in his interview and presumably he would have discussed with the club his role before signing, so the club along with Ayari are thinking he can fill in there