I was actually going to post in jest yesterday about the stalking of his mum on BRFC related media being fairly shoddy work because the poster in question hadn't checked to see if she was following SWFC sites as well. But you've actually gone and done it. And care. The world's gone.

Or even a season to "get fit". He's not even played any games to speak of.

The thing that annoys and worries me the most in equal measure Bryan is that so far there's been no mention whatsoever of any sell on clause. In the absence of any such it turns it into a desperately poor deal for us overall. If there does turn out to be the usual type of sell on clause I'm happy to be proved wrong but if not it comes over as though we had to renegotiate to waive back end add ons in favour of a bigger lump sum up front.

There'll be a token effort jim, the usual couple of cheap loanees PL Clubs are desperate to farm out for some game time. Rest of your post is probably spot on.

I see it the other way round, both have been disastrous signings albeit relatively low cost, but at least Telalovic is fit to play and theoretically there might be some improvement in him although I'm not really seeing it at the moment. You're probably right with your final paragraph though, although there's no guarantee MCGuire won't be bad punt number 3.

Thank goodness for den injecting some sanity into this thread.

Didn't realise he was playing for free.

I'm not winding people up. I find it incredible that this bloke has signed Ennis (who isn't even fit enough to play professional football) Hirst, Telalovic and Wahlstedt (which must be the biggest cock up since Souness signed George Weah's cousin) and people don't even seem to care.

Hopefully on the phone to his agent asking him to find another Club.

Except when I do blame the owners which is all the time.,...... For me they were to be tolerated when they were freely able and willing to put large amounts of cash in. The ideal scenario would have been their financial backing with a decent CEO and Manager. We never got that and now we finally have a promising coach they've managed to get themselves barred from putting similar amounts of funding in due to circumstances of their own making. The current situation is no use to anyone.

Still not officially confirmed, shame that as far as we know a bigger Club hasn't steamed in at the last minute to gazump them. As much for the player as us. It's a shocking move career wise imo.

You'll have to wheel Broughton out of the place in a wooden box with Waggott I'll wager. No way he's giving up that cushy little number with zero accountability.

I've been giving it plenty of clog all day to the point where posters have been asking how to block me.

Nah, that's post of the day.

Hmmmm...they seemed to be interested enough in the first place to stipulate that any funds had to be used for running costs only and not transfer fees. Hope you're right.

Just reporters exaggerating how close the deal was probably. I thought it had been reported that us and Sheff Wed had originally submitted equal sized offers (probably structured differently) but then that Sheff Wed had moved ahead with a slightly bigger offer. Didn't mean to shoot the messenger, sorry.

Why are they messing about? They're entitled to reject any offer they're not happy with. If we really want him we should stop pissing about, offer what they want and get the deal done. If not look elsewhere and fast.

Am I imagining things? I thought we made him permanent to much fan fare before New year and he has been paraded as a new signing even though he was already here.

Been made permanent so guess we can expect 2 loans in as a cheap and cheerful stopgap.

Will the Court not just say "You've had £22m in for Adam Wharton, you don't need to transfer any more money over" on March 12th now?

Yep. I could understand people saying I was being harsh if he'd brought in one or maybe two who'd played regularly but been a bit disappointing but he's brought in THREE who haven't scored a League goal between them! As I said the other week if he'd been deliberately signing players to fail he couldn't have done better. Sorry to hear about your daughter BTW.

Well £22m plus the potential to receive another £20m if he makes a huge move in future is good. £22m in total is a terrible deal. Has there been any word about a potential sell on clause?

Why not? He is Director of Football.

Other way round. People hate the owners so much they're reluctant to attribute any blame towards GB.

They won't have to run very fast.