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Very good last night, as good as the weekend was bad. I'm genuinely excited about going to a tournament under Tuchel as I feel we have a genuine chance of winning under him which wasn't something I ever felt like with Southgate in charge.

Good job the FA didnt follow your advice or he'd be looking for a new job by now!

Do they not give you and Tricky any actual work to do at the Club?

Difficult to think that won't be the case.

Others have made the same point many times previously but (when allowed) it's always the same sort of amount despite numerous cost savings over the years isn't it?

It looks like the differences are mainly limited to SPL Clubs loaning 16-21 year olds to other Scottish "Partner" Clubs. (Whatever they are) I did also read something online saying Scottish Clubs could also loan players from England but I suspect that's several years out of date.

Grim reading. Only 23 players including a keeper completely out of favour and various sick notes.

Who's left to sell? Pears/ Tronstad?

I agree. Incredibly convenient. And yet.....on the face of it the timing wasn't actually the owners fault unless they can influence the Court listing process. Wonder what the excuse will be for not spending in January? Should we start a sweepstake?

Im sure I speak for everyone in thanking you for your sterling efforts in covering this saga and explaining to everyone in simple terms what it all means Wilesden. 🙂 It'll probably be a couple of weeks before the "professional" reporter over at the LT even realises there's been a hearing. So now it seems there genuinely is "no impediment" to funding - whether a serious one or merely an inconvenient one. Wonder if this will mean we see the financial handbrakes lifted a bit in January? Somehow I doubt it but if so they could start by reinstating the women's team.

I might be wrong but I thought the article reproduced on here suggested it was a Company which specialised in investing in women's football in return for taking a stake.

Just had a quick glance, the rules seem to be different in Scotland.

Never said anything different. We dont however know the full story behind this alleged offer of outside investment. Even if it existed, the terms being offered might might have been completely unrealistic. Bottom line is I dont think the owners really want to own a men's or a women's team any longer. The only job for Gestede and Pasha et al is to extract any remaining value whilst keeping themselves in lucrative employment for as long as they possibly can. Id say they're merely finishing off the process initiated and perfected by Waggott over many years personally, but like a player who's injured for a long time and who suddenly turns into Pele in the minds of the supporters in their absence, Waggott seems to have turned from public enemy number one or maybe two to Sir Stephen of Sandwich Kent on a galloping white steed or something since he was potted.

There isn't a separate loan window. Free agents can join any time as long as they were free agents before the window shut.

Very few players play forty odd games a season. I don't know what your problem is with him. You're obsessed with it.

Allegedly Waggott sourced potential backing for the women's team from a Company which in return would have wanted to acquire a stake in the same but the owners refused. As it was a good news story about Waggott which emerged more or less immediately after he got potted I'd treat it with a lorryload of salt myself but whether or not that part is true it does seem to be the general consensus he didnt want to take the blame for the women's team being binned off.

He joined slightly late, played 24 times and picked up one reasonably serious injury which kept him out for a number of games. Hardly "all the time".

Yep. Then you lose the Championship TV money and it's "How can we possibly compete with the "Boltons" or "Bradford's" of the Division. Rinse and repeat.

Ah yes, Forshaw who's mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth. What a good signing that was. Bet he's great around the dressing - I mean - treatment room

Who's the other one, Goddard? So one 18 year old kid who's miles off the first team and a guy who was only on a short term deal until the end of the season originally. And who's a clear downgrade on the guy he replaced. (Not having a go at you)

I think they were "great" for the Club at the time given the financial restrictions they had to work under. And they produced two out of the three playoff chasing seasons you seem so proud of elsewhere in your post!

Not downplaying what has happened to the women but the same thing (in essence) thats happening to the men, albeit the dismantling of the men's side is being done rather more subtly. Edit: Jackson seems to like doing fluffy PR pieces on all aspects of the Club. Perhaps he'd care to do one on the women?

I know the commentators were raving about Anderson (and trying to excuse the performance in general) but I didnt think he was that good. "Capable" was the way I'd describe his performance. I think we'd have seen a lot more from Wharton had he played against that sort of opposition but on the basis that possession is nine tenths of the law that is a worry. He needs to get himself fit and stay fit and force himself back into the reckoning.

Nail,hammer, head. For all the praise in certain quarters about "spending £12m" or "spending "£4m -£5m over the transfer budget" it had to be done simply so we could put a vaguely competitive looking side out** The transfer business this summer was about desperately trying to plug some of the holes left by outgoing players for less money. It wasn't an intentional attempt to improve the squad. It wasn't a case either of us selling one player for a huge sum and then being in a position to spend a fraction of that on a replacement and pocket the rest like when Wharton or even Szmodics were sold. **Sadly, probably not competitive enough.

Wow. Para 1) Pretending Dolan doesnt count as a player who refused to sign a new deal this summer. Classy. You yourself said you would have offered to put Dolan into our top bracket of earners on £15 k p.w. which clearly never happened Para 2) You can insist it's all down to greedy players/agents if you like but in the last few seasons we've seen at varying levels Rothwell/Lenihan/Nyambe/Brereton/Dolan/Travis/Brittain/Hyam/Batth and Weimann all refuse to commit to new deals. That's if they were ever offered anything at all. Just the odd ten players. And driven out two great Head Coaches in the process. Never the Club's fault, always the greedy players huh? Para 3) It's useless setting a wage cap if it's too low for the Division we are in Para 5) The Pears "situation" appears to be that he's been completely frozen out therefore we're paying him good money for absolutely nothing. Seems to be acknowledged by Jackson at the LT. Are you denying that's the case? Para 6) We didn't bring in a Hyam replacement so thats why there is debate. No point saying "it would have been ok if we'd done X,Y or Z". We didn't!