RevidgeBlue

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.

Would you say Mowbray and Venus's recruitment was good? I'd say on the whole that was very poor as well but even they came up with Dack and Armstrong at bargain prices. Brereton also arguably. Broughton has made one very good signing. The rest of it has been incredibly poor. (So far)

Brittain certainly has been. Incredibly disappointing but I'll agree he looked an OK acquisition at the time.

So the Court hearing was postponed on the 23rd, the initial Wharton bid comes in "coincidentally" the same day, we don't manage to negotiate much of an upgrade and he's out of the door within seven days. We can move quickly when we want to.

Rather think she's got more taste than that. Beats me why people stick up for him. He has no previous experience as a DOF, his recruitment has been absolutely dire AND he oversaw the transfer window debacle 12 months ago. Seems as though because he isn't Venky's or Waggott people will gladly take anything short of Attilla the Hun in comparison.

I know....hence the maybe not.

Himself on loan........or maybe not.

Come on, he hasn't had a massive budget, but has signed THREE strikers who haven't scored a single Championship goal for us and blew the summer budget on Wahlstedt.