We paid decent money for those 3 so in respect of the first two I wouldn't say they've pulled up any trees relatively speaking. In particular I wouldn't say Hyam's been excellent value, I'd say he's been good in parts but pretty poor in the main. I would also have said the same about Brittain prior to this season but at least he is now showing signs of the player we thought we were signing at the time. The only thing in Broughton's favour is he brought in Szmodics. That gives him about the same strike rate as Owen Coyle who brought in Charlie Mulgrew. Doubt anyone would be clamouring for him to be made DOF though. If it's true Sigurdsson is on the sort of 17-18k p.w. wages that have been alleged, he has to go down as a disastrous acquisition as well.

Whoops sorry.!

Yeah thank the lord for signings like Wahlsted, Hirst, Ennis, Telalovic, O'Riordan, Fleck, O Riordan and the deadline day debacles for O Brien, the lad from Rochdale and Mcguire. Where would we have been without them?

Yep. Good to see someone so dedicated to their craft.

Lol. Yeah I'm sure that was EXACTLY how the conversation between them went and not: "What an absolute fucking shit show gaffer. I'm off at the earliest opportunity." "Can't say I blame you Trav. Me too, me too."

You're getting very shirty with people in your responses Chaddy. It's not their fault it-s been such an abysmal window that similarly looks set to end in underwhelming fashion. Nor that your faith in the owners and management to bring in the quality we needed was so badly misplaced. Earlier in the window you were defending the bringing in of "Championship experience" because you claimed it was what the manager wanted. Now it seems we can't even manage that.

Think he meant the other guy.

No. Been tenuously linked with a few though.

Can anyone explain why we should be going for the guy from Hibs? Doesn't seem to have anything much going for him at all.

Taking the cheapest available option eh?

They only want 1.2 m E for him! Is the budget that bad?

Plus they could just leave Hilton out. No doubt the excuses would go down well with those that don't know any better though.

That would be wery wery bad.

"I've heard" = "I've read it somewhere else on the internet". It's sad how a lot of people are so desperate to make it sound as though they're in the loop.

Wouldn't break the bank to be fair. Loan and E1.2m. Edit: Them two and Adebayo on loan would be quite decent - albeit four weeks too late. I predict we'll end up with one of the two wide men and no striker.

Ah OK. Good luck.

Stop it, you're talking too much sense.

I suggested Adebayo a fee weeks ago as the calibre of player we should be aiming at if we wished to make a statement. As his estimated market value is £8m - £9m can't see there being too much in that link. The lad that's been on loan to Plymouth sound more promising than Kargbo imo if fit , but do we not really need some permanent signings in?

The manager and players worked miracles to get us to the position we were in at the start of January. They needed a bit of help but were hung out to dry by Waggott, Pasha and the owners and now look completely demoralised.

Wonder how long it will be before we don't own ANY senior players?

I'd rather give him his chance than sign Kargbo tbh. Put the money saved towards an even more stellar striker than the one that was already coming in..........

Don't know about anyone else but I'm struggling to raise any enthusiasm for this game seeing as the season has gone over the last 5 weeks or so and we did nothing to address it at the start of January.

Stand to be corrected but don't think any fee was ever mentioned. Only that Boro were interested in him. It was someone on here who said they'd sell him for £5m I think. If there was any genuine interest I'd imagine the bidding would be starting at around one fifth that. Imo, whatever you think of Pears, if we were to sell our first choice keeper at this stage of the window it'd be a final "fuck you" to the supporters and the coup de grace to this abysmal window.

"A medical?" What's one of those? Lol.

Jackson's sort of trying to dress it up a bit there there by insinuating that the only reason the squad is weaker than before the window started is because of injuries. I think you can make out a very decent case that even disregarding injuries the squad is weaker than before. Forshaw is clearly a massive downgrade on Baker whereas I think it's arguable that Sanderson is much of an improvement on Mcfadzean. Given the chance we had at the start of the month, It's absolutely intolerable that our only two bits of activity this month have been reactive rather than proactive. Forshaw only came in as a result of Baker being unexpectedly recalled and Sanderson only came in because Mcfadzean wanted to find minutes elsewhere. To me there doesn't seem to have been any intention whatsoever to strengthen this month.