Yeah but coming to a team that finished 8th in the previous season, and has lost 6 of its strongest players and if the budget only allows loans ,frees and academy to replace them then JDT would have been utterly daft to sign a contract here. He had a contract offer on the table from FC Zurich, yeah not a powerhouse league but they are in champs league and will be one of the top teams domestically. Why turn that down in preference for a team in the championship who have no money for signings and without it won't go anywhere near 8th next season?

Derby can only pay their new signings a maximum of 8k per week. It was your understanding that Ferguson would be the new gaffer. Stop trying to create a frenzy with an unsubstantiated rumour that Hourihane turned us down for Derby County.

I can't recall him mentioning it either but why would he come here without any money to spend? He surely doesn't want his managerial career to die a death and I'm sure he would have done his research and will have known how many from last year's squad have departed. A Coyle ,A Mowbray managers like that were desperate to get back in and would agree to working under those conditions.Why would a young manager like Tomosson when he had other offers?

It was Broughton himself who said they would be taking some time to assess what we have internally before moving into the market and presumably that's why he travelled to Portugal with the squad. Fingers crossed we start to see some movement over the next week

I know but he left there for a new challenge, I doubt it was his dream to come to a team that needs 6/7 first team players and can only use the academy, free transfers or loans to replace them. My point was in mentioning Malmo, he left a comfortable job to further his ambitions he would have obviously wanted some sort of guarantee over finance, the club ambition etc when choosing his next job. Could have gone to Zurich, champions league football and challenging for the title domestically

A young ambitious manager like JDT won't stand for that though.If he isn't given funds to replace what we lost from the first team last season he will be off imo. That shit might work with the likes of Mowbray , Coyle etc who were desperate to get back into the game and in the last chance saloon but not for a guy like JDT who left a comfortable job at Malmö and turned down a team in the champions league and one of the bigger teams in their domestic league to come here.

Never confident with regards to how quick we get transfers over the line since the Venkys turned up. Do think JDT would have been given some assurances over transfers to get him here though.He will know 6/7 regulars from last season won't be with us anymore, and just don't think he would have chosen to come here if he had to be reliant on the free transfer/loan Market,he had other offers

In fairness to Sharpe he said signings would be made this week, never said anything about it being Monday or Tuesday when we would see some new signings

Anything close?Have we bids in for anyone?

He might have it from somewhere else but Nixon mentioned it in a tweet earlier

Why would JDT agree to come here under those conditions? He seems like an ambitious guy had an offer on the table from Zurich and champions league football to come here with a budget that will only bring in loan players and free transfers? He will know we lost 6/7 players from last season starting line up but will come here with no money to spend and try to replicate or better last season's 8th place finish? It could be argued he might have been promised funds that won't materialize and if that's the case then his tenure will be short-lived imo.But he has to have been given Some assurances to have come here In the first place.He be on a hiding to nothing if he can only bring in frees and loans with the quality we have lost this year

Agree with that ,iv said this already and have criticized the owners and people on the ground over the way the club is run. But we couldn't carry on running the wage bill the way it was.And the amount of money wasted in Pay offs and paying players wages for hardly any contribution was scary. Il wait till the end of the window and see what buisness we do because unlike you I don't think I know beyond doubt that we won't spend any money this summer.

Well then there had to be cut backs. Maybe if Mowbray had been a bit more ruthless after the league one promotion and didn't recommend we handed out new contracts to ageing players like penny sweets we might have had a few more permanent deals this last 2 season .

Do you think we could carry on running our wage bill at 180% to turnover?

We weren't going to sign Ayala in the first place according to you.We did We weren't going to pay a fee for a goalkeeper and it would be another loan.We did This summer the Dof would be an internal appointment.It wasn't This summer Mowbray's replacement was going to a Grayson or an Adkins.It was'nt They paid the money out to bring Brererton and Gallagher in the first place, agreed to the managers demand that the ageing players from the league one promotion squad were rewarded with new deals. You cannot say with any certainty that no money will be spent this summer.Have the taps been turned off the last couple of seasons?Most definitely. Have Venkys done this before were they have spent money turned the taps off then turned them back on again. I fail to believe JDT would have agreed to come here without the promise of any funds to replace the 6/7 players from last year's starting 11 and would be reliant on the academy or loans only. I agree it's no way to run a football club but makes me laugh how you keep saying this and that won't happen only to proven wrong and then you come out with something else making out you have a better understanding of what goes on at the club and anyone who thinks they may spend some money is stupid

Only posting what was said.

I don't have his patreon but one of my Facebook friends has put on that Nixon saying Venkys are willing to back JDT to bring the Bosnian here and Tomosson knowing the player makes us hopeful he will choose us ahead of Sheffield United

Shouldn't Damo be going to the meeting seeing as you sent the email on his behalf?

And you have gotten info before that turned out to be wrong. It would have taken breaking our wage ceiling to bring in Wallace.He was being linked with Besiktas, and has now joined West Brom who will pay much more money than we do. Iv no inside info but I don't need it to know Wallace wasn't coming here on the money we pay.

Still would have required the player to agree to come here. Whatever about Dembele absolutely no chance Wallace was signing here

Wallace wasn't coming here Paul.And Dembele wanted Bournemouth from day one didn't even discuss a deal here according to the Peterborough owner

Do you really believe Jed Wallace was close to signing here?

He has gone Portugal

We haven't signed anyone and have lost Nyambe, Lenihen, Rothwell ,Van Hecke and Khadra who all played their part in getting us to second place. We are playing catch-up and if Broughton has gone to Portugal it would be sensible to believe that we ain't about to pull the trigger on bringing anyone in, he will have obviously have gone over to assess what we have at the club. Burnley are being linked with some decent players and Twine if he can make the step up which I think he can is a good start by them. Other rivals are picking up some handy players whilst we have had one half link with a defender from our new managers old club They ain't waiting around to get the players they want in The players we lost from last summer's squad majority of them weren't a miss and went to clubs below us.Armstrong and Elliott aside the rest contributed little. If Brererton goes we will have lost 6 or 7 from arguably our best 11.We need some ready made first team players in.5 subs next season the youngsters will get an opportunity but shouldn't be expecting too much Some money needs to be spent this summer to bring a bit of quality in to the first 11 Id rather that then stretching the budget to 9 hope akpans

It won't be anything I'd presume as usually those clauses work off profit