I haven't looked so genuine question - How many other Championship Clubs have brought either none or one in?

Yeah, Lenihan/Rothwell and even Nyambe are 100% on Mowbray and Waggott imo but the point I'd make is was that we've known for a year or more there was a strong possibility any or all of the three could be leaving and we've also known for quite some time that this was a fairly unique season with it being a winter world Cup therefore a larger proportion of the season is done and dusted this time round before the window closes and its even more advantageous to do your business early. None of this has been sprung on us by surprise at the last minute. Perhaps I'm being unfair -Waggott is only on £300 k p.a. you can't expect him to take things like that into consideration. 🙄 If we hadn't lost RN/DL/JR in the summer I wouldn't necessarily be expecting us to have added 3 or 4 additional permanent bodies at this stage either. I did however expect us as a bare minimum to replace those 3 with equivalent quality before the season started to.put us on an even keel with last season.

Hope you're right chaddy. To me you can't say that with any real confidence as if we were DEFINITELY bringing in said quality signings we would already have done so by now. Why wouldn't you?

All that is well and good, but we've known there is a strong possibility that Nyambe, Lenihan and Rothwell would leave for 12 months or more now. We knew it then, we knew it when GB arrived and we still knew it when JDT arrived, and we knew the season started a bit earlier, so to be going into the season having only replaced one of them simply isn't acceptable. Edit: Then you have to chuck in the mix that JPVH turned into a key component of the side last year as well. I really don't understand this thought process that it's OK to do our business by the end of the window. If the EFL decreed that we wouldn't play our first seven fixtures and instead would be awarded two or three points instead, then everyone would rightly be up in arms. Yet we're potentially doing it to ourselves and most seem comfortable taking that risk.

Final point, did anyone ask Waggott to clarify whether he meant permanent signings when he said we need 4 or 5 in.

Premier League football and a much better quality of product at that time though tbf.

Like everyone else I am aghast (but based on his track record to date not surprised) at Waggott's comments. Ignoring concessions you really do get the impression that if he could get away with it he would rather charge 2k fans £1600 per annum than 8k fans £400. Whereas every other CEO in the Country would surely rather fill their stadium with 16k fans at £200 per head rather than 8k at £400. Also I'm assuming the decision to snub alcohol and gambling advertising comes from the owners on religious grounds as I really don't see why these are seemingly indefensible whereas a vaping Company is OK. As a non smoker I find the latter by far the most objectionable of the 3.

Why? Any new signings might not come off. However my main concern would be that despite the arrival of JDT and Broughton we still don't seem to be able to attract players. I can only assume this is primarily because of the wage structure we're trying to implement. That won't necessarily change because we have a few extra million burning a hole in our back sack unless they allow a good deal more flexibility for the right player.

Possible, but I really hope not. That would potentially turn a desperately poor transfer window into an absolutely catastrophic one.

Hoping you're right with the last paragraph. I have to give you full marks for Chaddy style optimism as regards the rest of the post. Brittain might give us a bit more going forward than Nyambe but I would suggest won't be as good defensively. How on earth have we replaced Rothwell with "better" I.e. Buckley when they both played in the same team together for most of last season? Also disagree we're better off without players if they haven't been replaced at all, no matter how ordinary they are. Not particularly worse off maybe, but certainly not better off either. The one "addition" I would concede is Markanday - if JDT sees him as an automatic starter that is.

Seems fairly pointless then if as most people have said expenditure on infrastructure is FFP exempt anyway. So you could theoretically inject money in to buy players for large fees but you wouldn't be able to pay them?

Im as certain as I can be there was money available in January irrespective of any Rothwell sale and he knows it. Why he made and is still making claims to the contrary is anyone's guess.

As we saw from January onwards that line up is incredibly reliant on BBD showing the sort of form he did in the first half of last season and not the second because no matter how many times people try to reinvent Gallagher he simply isn't good enough imo.

I take it that if the owners choose to inject £20m p.a. then that £20m qualifies as additional "turnover" for the purposes of any calculation? Otherwise there wouldn't be much point.

Shouldn't be a problem with a dynamic and forward thinking CEO. Ooh err... hang on.....

Thanks for that. Makes a refreshing change from certain posters citing the wrong set of regulations in support of their view that we can't spend any money. So what I'm gaining overall from that is that it would give the V's considerably more flexibility IF they decided they wanted to put more money in. Based on current allowable losses only being £45m(?) over 3 years. Is that correct? Edit: Might even be back down to £39m currently now the pandemic is over.

We don't know we are, we don't know we aren't. Irrelevant if they don't actually sign, and at this stage they haven't.

And thank god we have rolled the dice!. I can't think of many who'd be a worse choice than the previous incumbent. You obviously didn't read or digest the meaning of my post properly. I said we're gambling on the new manager being something rather special (due to the lack of recruitment) . However even if he only turns out to be ordinary that would imo still make him infinitely better than Mowbray. Two separate issues entirely.

How does what Mowbray claims about BBD tally with what GB said? It directly contradicts it. FWIW I think Mowbray is talking bollux. There's money available but we still need to get the deals done.

It's all well and good the owners making money available for signings but it's relatively pointless if those on the ground at Ewood can't or won't get the deals over the line. We've been here before in January and look how that turned out.

Time for Broughton to show us what he's made of and that he has more about him than Waggott/Mowbray/Venus. When do players have to be registered by to be eligible for Saturday? You begin to wonder how Clubs in the lower leagues with a budget a fraction of ours ever manage to sign any players as we seem to find it a mystical art completely beyond us.

I can't understand why people are so relaxed about the prospect of going into the season so completely undercooked in terms of recruitment and risking making a complete horlicks of the first seven games! We won't be so relaxed about it if we get off to a desperate start and end up going down narrowly by a point or two at the end of the season. As JH says, we're gambling on the manager being a bit special and the kids doing well enough to keep us afloat. But if the manager does turn out to be special why not give him the tools to do the job and have us challenging anyway?

Cracking article Ian. Love the analogy about our transfer business starting to look like the Christmas presents being bought at the Service Station on Christmas Eve. The only bit I disagree with is the original poster saying Mowbray was hard done by. It seems quite clear from what Glen said (as I suspected) that he and the Club had an agreement to discuss his future at the end of the season but that Mowbray jumped the gun by announcing his departure before the Bournemouth game. As for Saturday, haven't a clue what to expect. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if we either win 5 nil or lose 5 nil.

Imo, Ideally we need two absolutely barnstorming signings before Saturday to get everyone, players and fans, fired up.

Surely the far more pertinent figure, which the FF SHOULD be grilling the Club about, is how the hell Preston have managed to sell over 50% more season tickets than us? I've not read the most recent FF minutes so apologies if the Club were given a hard time on the ST pricing. Edit: And they didn't have the attraction of a new manager to boost sales either!