RevidgeBlue

Helps when you can't afford/refuse to pay for an actual proper winger I suppose. If they manage to offload Travis and bring in Baradji that would surely be close to Suhail's dream window in terms of replacing the higher wage earners and bringing in cheaper ones.

According to yourself as I recall, that was only done to appease Eustace as he was unhappy last summer and threatened to walk out. I doubt VI is cut from the same material.

Great. I'd rather he could play football.

Absolutely bizarre to think that out of the team that did so well for the vast majority of last season, we've lost the manager, three out of four of the back line (Beck, Batth and Brittain) Dolan and Weimann who was a useful squad player. With no doubt more to follow. Clubs generally tend to implode when they've been relegated and get picked off. Not when they've had a generally successful season. This lot dont give a rat's arse do they. We're now unwilling to pay the going rate for decent Championship players which will only end one way. Then, when we get relegated to League 1and revenue falls off a cliff due to reduced gate receipts and loss of the Championship TV deal, how long before we're then unwilling to pay the going rate for the better players in League 1? Rinse and repeat. Happy times.

Is this the point where we find an issue with Miller's medical and that deal collapses? Lol.

As with the argument for more CB's I dont get the argument for more midfielders either. We have 4 senior CB's and 2 young lads who could deputise at a push. 6 options. If Henriksson signs we then have four main senior options in midfield plus as things stand Buckley and Forshaw. Should we have signed Forshaw? Of course not. But we did therefore VI presumably thinks he can contribute. Again 6 options - this time all senior ones. Conversely up front we only have 2 senior strikers and no RW worthy of the name. If one of Baradji or Henrikssen and also Millar sign to replace Brittain then forget any more defenders or midfielders, get some bloody firepower in! Edit: Seven in midfield. Forgot about Cantwell.

Im exactly the opposite. Thought Eustace came across as a very nice guy but not someone to cross. Can't warm to VI at all, but at the end of the day couldn't really care less about what either say. It's results on the pitch that count.

Just heard on the Talksport News that Tyler Morton is going to Lyon (I think they said) for £15m!!!!! That's at least £14m more than he's worth imo. Really poor player in my book.

If they never had any real intention of creating the role for which the Charity money was intended then I'd say it is a Police matter. Smacks of using the Charity money instead of their own to pay for another job entirely that they needed filling. Up to you. Sounds like exactly the sort of stroke the 2nd hand car salesman would have pulled.

It's only transitional because the Club CHOSE not to back Eustace and extend the contracts of himself or any key players. Any normal Club having got to the position we were in in January would have moved heaven and earth to a) Keep the manager happy b) Extend the contracts of key players and c) Make a proper push for the plays offs not bring in a load of players who weren't match fit Instead.... ..

Potential bombshell this one if anyone acts on it - as per my post above.

Got to be careful how I put this but if you have incontrovertible proof that a) The Club applied for and actually received charitable funding for the appointment of a Fan Engagement Officer but that b) No such officer was ever appointed then depending on the degree of good faith involved on the Club's behalf, that is potentially obtaining money under false pretences and fraud. Perhaps a detailed complaint to the Trustees of the Premier League Charitable fund and /or the Police would be in order?

Im not sure of the exact figures but presumably we'll be substantially in pocket once Brittain is finalised. What you've written above also presumes that it's not acceptable to ever have a positive net spend on transfers.

Thought Mimms, Livingstone and Dobson were all fairly decent at the time. Without Jack's intervention and the impetus provided by their arrival I've little doubt we'd have gone down without a whimper that season.

John Beck - former Cambridge manager. Famous and briefly extremely successful but relatively short lived long ball merchant. Players were brick out houses who'd run all day. One of the tactics was to welly the ball forward as quickly as possible towards the opposition corner flags and chase after it.

Does that credit extend if those 3 are simply straight replacements for Brittain, Travis and Tronstad? I wouldn't give too much credit for bringing in inferior players. Obviously if they did turn out to be better, credit would be due. I sort of agree that we seem to appear to know certain players are leaving and we're getting warm bodies in to replace them first. That wouldn't have happened under Waggott imo but it doesn't count for that much if the players coming in are a lot worse.

God help us. Expecting a heavy defeat, anything at all from the game will be a bonus I think.

Last time we totted up, are we on about 22 if Brittain goes and 23 if Miller comes in?

I dont see it as a change in the style of play so much as a concerted drive to replace slightly more expensive players with cheaper ones all over the pitch. I'm still not sure how VI thinks it can possibly work as I don't believe he's naive or stupid.

Yes, but if you're going to try and turn us into Harry Bassett's Wimbledon or John Beck's Cambridge the players at your disposal have to be VERY good indeed at implementing the system and style of play otherwise it doesn't work. Doubtful whether it works these days anyway imo.

Where's the picture of Broughton next to him, grinning like a Cheshire cat?

Signing the lad with Crohns sounds far riskier than signing Baradji with a stress fracture to me. In general though, am I the only one on here who's completely unenthused by the constant mention of signing players with pace and height? That's all very good IF they can play a bit as well but not if they look like they've never seen a football before when it arrives at their feet. I'd rather hear descriptors like, "very skillful player" "technically good" and "good tactical awareness" over mentions of what a good athalete they are every day. As the old saying goes - "A good big 'un will generally beat a good little 'un." However a good small 'un will generally beat a crap big'un as well!

And when it doesn't work (again) he'll steadfastly refuse to bow to demands to vary his style of play.

Pity you weren't playing then. From the sounds of it it bothered the senior pro's like Travis and Tronstad.