RevidgeBlue

£25m for Wood is absolutely mental if it goes through. Think Burnley have very much got the better end of that deal, foisting one of their lumps of deadwood (pun intended) off on one of their direct rivals and pocketing a huge sum in return. No good if they don't use the money to strengthen though. If they don't, could be the deal that sends both clubs down.

Hopefully only in as back up anyway so it shouldn't really matter.

Not sure that's a good move. We need a couple of additional bodies overall, not to be losing them.

Our recruitment department seemingly don't do "getting deals over the line". Been the same way for the last several seasons.

Be a short one.

The one that's the proven performer.

The campaign to discredit him is frankly baffling. Note Forest have bought in two acquisitions already with more on the way. What is it our recruitment department actually do?

Yep, and Kaminsky et al this time next season.

And one goal. Doesn't look like we'll ever end up getting more than the £15 less Newcastle's cut out of that one unless A A shapes himself. Should still have cleared around £10m though. Should be more than adequate to reinvest £3 - £4m on someone, especially given the position we're currently in.

Given we sold Armstrong for a headline fee of £15m before Newcastle's chunk and the owners completed the exercise with the training ground, I would hope that the reluctance to meet the fee for Maja is down to concerns about his fitness rather than ones about the size of the fee per se. With our best chance of going up in years, (and quite possibly for many years to come) on offer, If we're not prepared to reinvest such a small chunk of the Armstrong proceeds on the chance of promotion it would be hard to escape the conclusion that no-one at the Club is really that serious about promotion. A gift horse has unexpectedly fallen our way, let's not look it squarely in the mouth!

Again, I agree with all that 100% but I'd still be happy to have Lenihan around.

With a second touch that's a tackle.

I agree with your respective assessments of all three players. If we went up I'd be delighted if all three signed, I don't think we'd do a lot better in our position at that stage.

Anyone know how Hilton is going on? I saw him once and thought he looked to have all the basics. You look at Pears and he immediately makes you feel nervous notwithstanding when has gone on to have a passable game. He just doesn't fill you with any confidence.

As RN has only just turned 24, is growing in stature all the time and we are 3rd in the table I'm not surprised you're loathe to name said coach as that would tend to suggest he actually knows the square root of naff all. I'd be embarrassed by a revelation like that.

None of that alters the fact Pears isn't good enough. What's the Greek lad like? Can't be any worse surely. I remember people getting quite excited when he arrived - a couple for our European scouting network apparently. Again on the basis of errrrr....... a few You Tube clips

Don't think some including myself are moaning about him coming in as initial backup, more the possibility of him coming in as a replacement for Nyambe this month. And not only are a surprisingly large number of people not moaning about it, they seemingly can't wait to wave Nyambe bye bye!

Seems to be a couple more possibly sniffing round him than round the other two! Hopefully not an issue we have to worry about until the end of the season. If he gives it his all and we go up both Club and player will be in a vastly different situation and I would hope we'd then be able to agree terms with him. If we don't, I'd have thought he'd be able to get a move to the PL. If not however and he only makes a sideways move for similar money it'd be our loss.

Agree with your last paragraph, you may be some way out on your assumed figures though as I was told Rothwell wants more than double the figure you're assuming we might have offered. I'd imagine Nyambe would (rightly) want a lot more as well and that the figure for Lenihan wouldn't be too far out. However you're right, it's now reached the stage whereby it would be batshit crazy for the Club to let anyone go with us sat third in the table and equally inadvisable for the players to sign at this precise moment knowing that they might be able to re-negotiate as Premier League players in a few months time. The only risk the players are taking is if they don't sign now, the promotion bonus only kicks in for players who are under contract just after the start of next season, we go up and then decide to look elsewhere altogether etc etc. The owners have supposedly already said no-one is going anywhere this window and Mowbray has changed his tune and said the supporters wouldn't expect us to break this team up. On the face of it I think that's fair enough and for once let's hope they're as good as their word.

What's the point for him in that?

If not there should have been!

It makes zero sense for us to be contributing towards the wage of a player we can't use either. Is it not common practice for players to go back to the parent Club and for the loan deal to be terminated in the event of a serious injury?

Yep, keep him on his toes. Ideally you'd like competent back up in every position.

Isn't it just - although tbf the loan with an option is probably the best choice for the Dutch lad for the reasons I've outlined above. What will also be interesting this window is whether we finally end up with a replacement for Armstrong. The talk seems to be that no-one will be sold this window with us sat in 3rd, and there will be a modest amount of money available to bolster the squad as if we should be grateful. Well so there bloody well should be! It seems to have been conveniently forgotten already by those at the Club and the local press already that Armstrong was sold for £15m and not replaced (even on loan) and the owners carried out the accounting exercise with the training ground to give us leeway with FFP. So there SHOULD be plenty of leeway for a permanent Armstrong replacement. I have to say it's badly needed as an injury or dip in form for BB and we're goosed with Gallagher cementing his reputation as a dud with every additional run out. Will we see it, or will it be a temporary loan soon to be forgotten about once again the minute the season ends? Doesn't matter if said loanee fires us to promotion I suppose. If he doesn't, it's another asset we once had we no longer have. Let's see if Jocky can come up with anyone this window......

Would be terrible news because if it ain't broke don't fix it. We know for a fact Nyambe is an extremely reliable option at Championship level. This other bloke may be good or he may be fairly useless. Seemingly he can't get in the Hertha side at the moment. He may adapt quickly to the English game or not, he looks quite "enthusiastic" on the clips, might be a walking Red card. He might not take to living in East Lancs. However as back up it's probably a very astute move, get him over, see how he settles in, see how good he is, see how the promotion push plays out. If we go up and agree terms with Nyambe and this guy hasn't pulled up any trees then we can send him back alternatively if we don't go up and Nyambe moves on he might have done enough to show he could be a capable replacement.