RevidgeBlue

I'm actually looking forward to hearing what the smug bastard has to say to try and paint the window in acceptable light. I'm guessing the only thing he can say is to use the classic excuse "January is a notoriously difficult window, we're keeping our powder dry until summer".

I wonder if there's ever been another professional football Club who were that desperate not to pay a transfer fee for a player that they reneged on a permanent deal on ostensibly favourable terms to enter into a loan deal on far worse terms?

And 12x it if you wait another 6 months.

"Right then Adam, it's entirely up to you of course but there's a good probability that if we don't sell you this window, the Club will go to the wall".

I succumbed too, it's so ludicrous. 5 hours to go, unless something completely unexpected happens which hasn't previously been mooted anywhere it's impossible to believe JDT will be remotely happy.

Everything seems to come as a surprise to our management. Queries from the EFL (O Brien) Bonus entitlement (Wharton) requirements for overseas transfers (Mcguire)

Maybe but at the very least the others are complicit.

"The Club". Could be Venky's could be Suhail, could be Waggott could be Broughton or a combination of any of above.

Yes, it's looking like when the original Mcguire deal collapsed last night it was because we put a ban on any permanent deals but not loan business. Therefore we had to renegotiate a (much) worse deal for Mcguire to capture him on loan.

He was on the subs bench last night v Spurs. Not sure if he came on.

So £18m in plus Loan that won't be made permanent Loan we don't need Possible further loan and Ennis possibly out And Bayes is trying to dress it up as something impressive

It's not "back on" as such though is it? It's turned from a permanent deal to a loan we'll never make permanent. If he does well on loan, great, but after that we'll have flushed away another £500k and be back to square one.

You couldn't make this shit up. £2.3m permanent fee negotiated, we renege, then renegotiate a loan deal costing c £500k with an option to buy for a total of c£7.5m! But yeah, we'll be signing him permanently.............

Which we won't exercise. Read what I put properly.

How many times? Not exactly going to be paying it all up front for any purchases either!

We're definitely not signing him permanently then. Why would we agree to a more expensive option than the fee we originally negotiated? Madness but par for the course here I guess.

Exactly. If true. It'll never end up getting made permanent. No wonder there was a hold up if we wanted to change it from being a £2.3m permanent move into a loan.

Well yes, I think it's a commonly accepted practice and should be absolutely second nature to our senior management but...........

It's not that outlandish, why would he expect that to be paid BEFORE the Club were? They'd only have to agree the payment terms in principle and then pay him as and when the money came in. Secondly I think he would have had a lot of leverage when he signed his new deal, he's a very sought after talent. Had he stayed here 4 years and we'd got £40m plus for him we wouldnt give the bonus a second thought. It's not his fault we're shoving him out of the door to paythe bills for a few months.

Fear not Jon! Gregg (with 2 g's) is on the job!! Oooo err, hang on..........

Good if JDT has any overall say in what goes on but if no-one comes in then the 4 players rumoured are unlikely to make a lot of difference.

I take it you haven't read Andy Cole's autobiography.

You're right of course (normally) but it seems fairly obvious in this instance they have us by the knackers as we need the money to keep the lights on until summer.

It gets worse and worse. So, after forcing him out to pay the bills, we refuse to pay him a bonus to which he is contractually entitled? Classy, but that sounds like Waggott all over.

(Can't resist) And yet the Wharton deal will no doubt miraculously still go through despite these alleged "snags". And our resident local "journalist" laps it up hook line and sinker.