RevidgeBlue

At the moment unless decent money is spent before the end of the window it's looking like the transfer budget for this season is/was minus £2m. (The net position in summer) Bearing in mind we've only bought in a nil cost loan so far and seemingly had to shift Gueye before seeing any movement on the striker front.

Gone for an afternoon at the races to blow his signing on bonus.

That original post would be ideal for the LT if they had the cajones to print it - which they won't.

Well, we've no substantive transfer links to talk about so might as well carry it on. Fun fact: Gueye scored the same number of goals last season as Luke Varney did between 2014 -18. (Six) Reg Varney would have been better. "Get that bus out Butler".

Exactly. " But who would come in?" " But who would buy us?" etc.....

No idea. Scott Wharton? Gallagher?

I think it was Eddie who absolutely nailed Gestede in a podcast about there only being a limited window of opportunity to reinvest due to FFP rules. Gestede couldn't answer that and merely kept repeating a lame excuse about how the transfer budget for the year was unaffected no matter how many sales were made. Which is utterly bizarre when you think about it.

There's some mental gymnastics going on there to try and shift blame away from Ismael. So what is it that makes you think he's doing a decent job? Because we're (currently) a few points outside the relegation zone? Will you change that view if he takes us down?

But a minute ago you said we had 4 strikers. You're contradicting your own points and having lost the argument you've nothing left to fall back on but resort to insults. I still can't see what it is about this guy that makes you leap to his defence. He almost couldnt possibly be doing any worse than anyone else could he, whether it be League position, performances or the state of the squad.

How have they been pushing for Tyjon to have more minutes? He had two strikers he was prepared to use.

2 strikers. He has CHOSEN not to utilise Tyjon and clearly never rated Gueye in the first place so wasnt prepared to play him. He also CHOSE to ostracise Leonard and sell him for peanuts.

Silly argument, equally you dont know Gestede or anyone else said he couldnt bring another striker in. Im fairly sure no one would have objected if he'd spent the money incinerated on Tavares on another striker instead for example. As regards asking for 2 strikers now, as I've said previously on other threads, I think this is all complete BS to keep the fans placated. I think he knows full well it's not happening but the reason it's necessary is they all fucked up the summer window and generally wasted whatever funds we did have.

I'd say he was marginally better than Gallagher. (Which isn't a compliment but still)

Where's the source "an offer has been made?" (Apart from Mercer's post last night) No offence Merce - would just like to see some official corroboration!

Just purely on the striker point, he turned over 23 players in and out in the summer. It's his responsibility that he only left us with 2 serviceable strikers.

Not defending them but wasn't there an additional sum due of £4m or £5m after a certain period and they also assumed responsibility for the overdraft which I think stood at around £15m at the time. So the overall exposure initially was around £40m in reality I thought.

Blimey. You can argue he wasn't good enough and Id tend to agree, but he was definitely much better than those two. As we all know, Brown never even scored a goal.

Give over, he chose to go into the season with only two strikers he was prepared to use, and it wasn't beyond the realms of possibility one or both would be injured or suspended at some point. Now unsurprisingly we can't score a goal for love nor money. That's entirely on him.

And no doubt they will.

Just as a side note, what's Moreshita done? £2m and he's had a fraction of the effectiveness and output of Dolan who used to get stick on here every week. I really dont get you sticking up for Ismael. He record is abysmal, in certain respects "worst in 150 years" abysmal. There's nothing in his recent track record elsewhere to suggest he can turn things round and in my view if he stays we definitely go down. If someone else comes in they MIGHT be able to save us. It really is that simple a choice.

Whose fault is that? He clearly didnt rate Gueye and signed 11 players in summer!

It's Ismael that decimated the squad! I assume he gets input into and the final say on players coming in and in summer Id say he got 3 out of 11 right. And that's only IF Baradji comes good and signs permanently.

Can't agree with any of that. If the selling Club dont want to sell a particular player they can put whatever price tag they want on his head. It's not really up to you or me to decide if a price is unreasonable and if the interested Club dont want to pay it they dont get, unless they can reach a compromise. Now our scouts may not know exactly how much a Club wants for a player but I refuse to believe they haven't got a fairly good idea otherwise all the work they do would be completely pointless. And how long does it take us to ring up and find out what the asking price is anyway? Unearthing a player available for £5m when we only have £1m to spend isn't good scouting and having found out the asking price, we shouldn't have pursued it further by putting in a derisory offer, it just makes us look a joke. As for the more recent link - if any Club are willing to meet Barnsley's asking price they'll get him. I highly doubt it will be us so if it's not, that will be another dead end and waste of everyone's time.

I think it's fairly obvious that there has been a substantial softening in their attitude to a potential sale over the last two or three years IF a credible offer comes in. Let's hope there's some substance to the rumour and the potential buyers are serious players.

Fine. Any of them might work. The "Desperate Dan" we have at the moment definitely isnt working. Did you rail against Kean and Coyle being sacked as well? They have very similar records.